Lauren Louise Anderson, Author at Public Seminar

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An Insider’s Account of Starbucks’s Anti-bias Training

The coffee chain closed 8,000 stores for diversity training. But just how effective was it?

June 16, 2018 • by Lauren Louise Anderson

Most media outlets spun this event as Starbucks’s public response to an incident in a Philadelphia cafe in April when the manager called the police when two black businessmen asked to use a restroom before they had made a purchase. When the officers arrived and interrogated them, white bystanders defended ...

Say It Loud:

Iowa Rallies for Refugees

February 1, 2017 • by Lauren Louise Anderson

Then a car drove past and something shot out of the window: my artist mind took a snapshot. After I went home I felt the need to turn the snapshot into a drawing. Part of the words from the car are obscured because I felt more than heard the first ...

Today We Filled the Sidewalk

Marching Against Racism and Homophobia in Iowa

January 27, 2017 • by Lauren Louise Anderson

Perhaps in response to these concerns, in the last week, the leaders made an intentional decision to diversify the speakers. I got an invitation to speak, and so did four others I suggested. The four included two students, a Black Muslim American, and a perceived to be Black (though, as ...