Kaleidoscope 2011 - A Day for Women

MSU Alumni Association presents
Kaleidoscope A Day for Women
Friday, April 29, 2011
Kellogg Center

Click here to see pictures from the 2010 event

Keynote Speaker

Lisa Ling

Opening Session Speaker

ELLIOT ENGEL
SCHOLAR/AUTHOR/PLAYWRIGHT

Professor Elliot Engel is considered the most insightful, personable, and entertaining academic lecturer to come out of academia in the last fifty years. His witty, engaging speaking style imparts hard, factual information, leaving his audiences virtually spellbound, yet charmed by periods of laughter and flashes of insight. Using anecdotes, analysis, and large doses of humor, he gives new insights into the backgrounds, accomplishments, and lives of the great masters of English and American literature.

Published in both Great Britain and the US, Engel is the author of seven books including, A Dab of Dickens & A Touch of Twain: Literary Lives from Shakespeare's Old England to Frost's New England. His articles have appeared in numerous magazines, including Newsweek. As one of the most sought after and beloved speakers on literature, his mini-lecture series on his favorite literary hero, Charles Dickens, appeared on PBS stations nationwide.

As a professor, Engel has taught courses at Duke University, NC State University, and University of North Carolina. For his scholarship and teaching, he has received North Carolina’s Adult Education Award and the Victorian Society Award of Merit.

Welcome Speaker

SHERI JONES
NEWS ANCHOR

A veteran member of the Kaleidoscope Committee, Sheri Jones will serve once again as our program hostess.

An honors graduate of Michigan State University, Jones began her news career at 6 News as a news intern and soon became mid-Michigan’s first female crime beat reporter.

Jones now anchors the 5, 6 and 11 o’clock news shows and for more than a decade has lead WLNS 6 News’ exclusive affiliation with the Crimestoppers program. The program has earned her several awards, including honors from the Associated Press, the Michigan Association of Broadcasters, the Central Michigan Crime Prevention Association, and for four years in a row, the top media award from the Crime Prevention Association of Michigan. In 2002, Sheri was awarded the Crime Victim’s Rights for Michigan Outstanding Advocate. In 2006 she received the ATHENA Award for her outstanding community service by the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce.

She is currently very active in a number of community groups, including the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, YMCA, Boys & Girls Club of Lansing and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. She also is an advocate for Child and Family Services Capital Area, specifically Angel House, a temporary shelter for abused and neglected children in the greater Lansing area.