Sound It Out: A Keynote with V Spehar
Join the Student Success Center in welcoming V Spehar, LGBTQIA+ podcaster, for a story of navigating dyslexia, and overcoming learning insecurity. In this keynote V takes the audience through their journey with Dyslexia, and how they overcame their disability to become one of social media’s most trusted communicators. This story speaks to the power of resilience, asking for help, and leveraging a student mentality to achieve success later in life.
This programming is for educational purposes and all are welcome.
Date: Feb. 12, 2025
Time: 4 - 6 p.m.
Location: Stewart Library, Hetzel-Hoellein Room, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ Ogden.
Note: This is a hybrid event. V will speak virtually to an in-person audience.
Food will be provided.
Student Learning Outcomes
- IDENTIFY the power of asking for help.
- RECOGNIZE the power of leveraging a student mentality to achieve success later in life.
- LEARN about report tools and strategies from V's talk that students can use in their academic careers.
Speaker Bio: V Spehar
Pronouns: they/them
V Spehar (they/them) is a Rochester-based LGBTQIA+ podcaster, online personality and citizen journalist. Spehar launched Under the Desk News on TikTok in April 2020 with the aim to make news media less intimidating and easier to understand and rapidly amassed 2.9 million followers. Their one-minute segments (literally delivered from under a desk) have attracted a bipartisan audience. In 2022, Spehar launched V Interesting, a GLAAD-nominated long-form podcast with original reporting that tackles various topics from Gen Z voter engagement to gender-affirming surgery. Their reporting has taken them to the press room of the 2023 91¶ÌÊÓƵ State of the Union to hosting the NBC’s livestream of the Thanksgiving Day Parade to speaking at UNESCO summits. This year, V received a special achievement Webby for their concise and compassionate reporting.
For more information or to request accommodations in relation to a disability, contact Lulu Faumui-Latu-Peters lululatu@weber.edu
