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2025 Diversity Reading Groups

Diversity Reading Groups

Join the Conversation!

Open to all students, faculty, staff, and administrators.

Our annual Diversity Reading Groups offer a range of great reading opportunities in the month of October designed to invite every member of the Loyola community into shared conversations about diversity and inclusion. In this way, the Diversity Reading Groups support and sustain ongoing conversations around racial justice, gender equality, intergroup dialogue, culture, and community—on our campus and beyond.

This year, we have groups that will meet virtually, in-person, or in a hybrid format (i.e., your choice: you can attend in person or online at your discretion).

The Office of Equity and Inclusion will provide complimentary books. We are offering participants two options:

  • Hard Copy (in-person pick up only)
  • Kindle version (e-book)

To make sure all participants receive their books on time, we encourage participants to sign up for a group by Monday, Sept. 22, 2025

To sign up, please choose one of the groups below and submit your selection. 

2025 Diversity Reading Groups
Title & Author Group facilitator(s) Group Details
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza Saima Sitwat  Thursdays at 12pm, in-person
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts by Brené Brown

Melissa Lees & Rhona Little 

Tuesdays at 12pm, Virtual 
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall Salima Clark  TBA
I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times by Mónica Guzmán Barry Dalrymple  Thursdays at 12pm, In-person
Loving Corrections by Adrienne Maree Brown

Whitney Hobson & Emalee Quickel 

Wednesdays at 4pm, In-person
Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions by Tiffany Jana & Michael Baran

Mary Ann Scully & Christina Spearman 

Fridays at 12pm, In-person
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Traci James 

Tuesdays at 12pm, Hybrid 
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Laura McCormack 

Wednesdays at 12 pm, Virtual  

Untold Truths: Exposing Slavery and Its Legacies by Loyola University Maryland

Jenny Kinniff, David Carey, & Maddy Payne 

 TBA
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Elizabeth Dahl & Terre Ryan 

Thursday at 12:15pm, Hybrid