Award-winning actress, writer and stand-up comedian Maysoon Zayid will speak at CU Boulder on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 7 p.m. in the UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom. The event, hosted by the Cultural Events Board, is free and open to the public.
Zayid is the co-founder/co-executive producer of the New York Arab American Comedy Festival, and has appeared on Comedy Central, CNN, PBS, HBO, ABC, BBC and MTV. She has performed stand-up comedy in top New York clubs and toured in the US and abroad, such as Palestine and Jordan, and was a 2013 honoree of the United Cerebral Palsy of NYC’s “Woman Who Care” Awards, and currently sits on its planning committee. She will speak about her experiences as a Palestinian Muslim-American with cerebral palsy, and how these multiple identities have shaped her life.
The Cultural Events Board’s mission is to provide programming that brings culture, diversity, and social awareness to the CU Boulder campus.
If you have any questions about the event, please contact the Cultural Events Board Speakers Coordinator at Jessica.Rinard@Colorado.edu. For further information regarding the Cultural Events Board, visit http://www.colorado.edu/ceb, or look for CEB on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at Cultural Events Board.
