Meet Gateway Athletes: A Live Q&A for Families and Supporters

Monday, October 19, 2026 | 4:00 PM PT / 7:00 PM ET
Live online (link sent after registration)

Gateway Athletes helps student-athletes from underserved Bay Area communities reach college and beyond. We start in middle school. The program combines athletics, academics, mentorship, and family support, and we stay with kids for the long run.

Join founder Dr. Terri Givens for a live Q&A. She was a Division I athlete at Stanford and raised two athlete sons, and she built Gateway Athletes to give families the support she couldn’t find.

It’s open to:

• Parents who want to know if Gateway is right for their child
• Volunteers and mentors looking for a way to show up for young athletes
• Sponsors and funders who want to invest in a pipeline that works

Excellence Without Exhaustion

Saturday, October 3, 2026 | Panel 1:30–3:30 PM PDT

Terri joins a panel at Nueva’s community event for Bay Area Black families. She’ll share how Gateway Athletes helps student-athletes build a path to college through sports, school, and mentorship. There’s also a keynote from USF’s Mohammed Soriano-Bilal, lunch, and activities for kids. All ages welcome.

Gateway Athletes Launch Event

Tuesday, September 15, 2026, 3:00 pm EDT 

Join founder Dr. Terri Givens — Stanford D-I track alum, former Provost at Menlo College, and author of Radical Empathy — in conversation with Mike Palmer for a live hour on why the pathway for student-athletes has to start long before college.

​Gateway Athletes is a wraparound program for rising 8th-grade student-athletes in underserved Bay Area communities: academic preparation, mentorship, family engagement, athletic development, and accountability that doesn’t end when a kid ages out of the program.

Elizabeth Dougherty and Marisa Solis with Terri Givens

Saturday, July 25, 2026, 4:00 pm

Elizabeth Dougherty and Marisa Solis are veteran editors and book coaches who have guided hundreds of non-fiction books from idea to publication. Together they cofounded Book Structure Pros and co-authored The Complete Expert-to-Author Guide, a step-by-step roadmap for turning professional expertise into a clear, compelling non-fiction book.

In this conversation at Kepler’s Books, Dougherty and Solis join Terri Givens—Professor of Political Science at UBC and author of Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides and Reckoning: Creating Positive Change through Radical Empathy—to talk through every stage of writing a non-fiction manuscript, from initial idea to finished book proposal.

Ibram X. Kendi in Conversation with Terri Givens

Monday, April 13, 2026, 7:30 pm 

Ibram X. Kendi is one of the world’s foremost historians of racism and a leading antiracist scholar. Eleven of his seventeen books have been New York Times bestsellers, including the international bestseller How to Be an Antiracist, which was named essential reading and one of the best books of the year by multiple publications. He makes a rare appearance in Vancouver for one night only with his latest pivotal work of nonfiction, Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age.

In this unmissable conversation with Terri Givens—Professor of Political Science at UBC and the author of Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides and Reckoning: Creating Positive Change through Radical Empathy—Kendi offers an unsettling but indispensable global history of how great replacement theory brought humanity into this authoritarian age—and how we can free ourselves from it.