Defining America: Dialogues across Difference
Please join Montgomery College President DeRionne P. Pollard for
the second in a series of conversations focused on American identity.
Portrait photo of Mr. Seth Goldman, CEO, Honest Tea
Mr. Seth Goldman (see video)
Rockville Campus
Science West Building, Room 301
51 Mannakee Street
Rockville, Maryland 20850
Free parking. Click here for directions.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017 7 p.m.
Seth Goldman
Co-founder, Honest Tea
How American consumers communicate their values through purchasing is a topic of increasing attention. Businesses in the US, including the Bethesda-based Honest Tea, which was co-founded by Seth Goldman in 1998, have the capacity to influence such conversations. Honest Tea—which is committed to giving back to the communities from which it sources its products—has paid more than $1.5 million in premiums since 2003 to the Fair Trade, organic tea and sugar sourcing communities around the world. Fair Trade Communities are, then, empowered to use those funds for projects such as clean cook stoves, schools and ambulances, mechanized farm equipment, and more. Goldman will speak to these issues and more as he explores what it means to be an American businessman in the global economy.

Future dialogues in 2018: February 20 and March 8. See the entire series.
About the Series
Defining America is a series dedicated to exploring identity and ideals in our nation. Challenges to traditional notions of who belongs in America have emerged in diverse, sometimes painful ways recently, revealing deep fissures in communities’ beliefs about what America represents. A series of guests will join Dr. DeRionne Pollard to explore the question of how we define ‘Americans’ and how dissent from majority opinion impacts national identity. Several experts whose work relates directly to these questions will contribute their informed perspectives, casting new light on these essential questions at the root of American democracy.
For information, call the President’s Office at 240-567-5267 or visit montgomerycollege.edu/dialogues.
For special accommodations, please contact Lori Stegeman at 240-567-7301 or lori.stegeman@montgomerycollege.edu, two weeks prior to the event.
Attendance at one or more of these events meets multicultural and diversity training criteria for Montgomery College employees.

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