Social Studies Grant

Area Studies Cultural Speakers Series

The Lake Forest High School Foundation awarded a grant to the Social Studies Department to fund one speaker each semester in each of the African Studies, Asian Studies, Latin American Studies and Middle East Studies courses. These area studies courses focus on various cultural topics of their respective global regions. The personal experience of hosting a classroom speaker provides our students with better awareness of issues relating to religion, diversity and gender throughout our world today.

In early December, the LFHS Social Studies Department hosted a speaker from Ghana, Mr. Eric Peasah, to talk with over four hundred students - from a variety of social studies classes - about his experience with child trafficking.