Denison University’s Lisska Center for Scholarly Engagement welcomes Mary Turocy ’05, director of public affairs and civic engagement at the Ohio Civil Rights Commission (OCRC), who will give a lecture about the Commission at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 27, in Higley Hall Auditorium. Turocy also will speak about the cases that will be heard at the OCRC Hearing at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 29, in Knobel Hall in the Burton D. Morgan Center. Following the presentation, there will be time for questions and discussion. Both events are free and open to the public. For more information about the lecture, contact Aleksa Kaups at kaupsa@denison.edu.

Turocy, a political science major and member of the Denison class of 2005, is responsible for overseeing legislative affairs, outreach and education, and coordinating commission events like the Ohio Civil Rights Hall of Fame and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Art, Writing, and Multimedia Contest at the OCRC.