Do you want to share your academic passions while developing vital teaching and public speaking skills?
ORIAS is seeking graduate student speakers interested in joining the ORIAS Speakers Bureau. This is a funded professional development opportunity to learn how to share your research with young audiences.
Each speaker will be guided through the process of creating a 45-minute interactive presentation suitable for middle and high school students. Once the presentation is ready, talks will be listed on the ORIAS website, enabling teachers to book speakers. Participants are each paid $200 to develop their talk, plus they are paid each time they deliver their talk to a class. Talks are donein-personat schools around the Bay Area.
The ORIAS Speakers Bureau aims to:
- provide students at different stages of their graduate career with transferable public speaking skills,
- train students to translate their research and specialized knowledge for broader audiences,
- bring specialized content knowledge into k-14 classrooms,
- model passionate intellectual engagement for younger students, and
- help k-14 students see connections between curiosity, scholarship, and travel.
- climate change mitigation/adaptation, climate history, transnational migration, global indigeneity, authoritarianism, art activism
- other topics that can be clearly connected to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- other topics focused on specific regions: Latin America, Middle East, Russia/Eastern Europe, or East Asia, Southeast Asia
Speakers will be compensated for creating a polished presentation AND for each time they give their talk to groups of students.