Join us at the Discovery Center for our public tour and staff chat series. Visitors will tour the galleries for 30 minutes with a Discovery Center guide and then chat with a featured staff member at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and discuss issues and developments within their focus area.  

In-person: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Virtual via Zoom: 6 to 7 p.m.
ASL & captioning services | All-ages | Free

Join us as we host author and social-impact consultant Jesse Leon for Igniting Change, Rising Together: Nurturing Intersectional Belonging, Inclusion, and Healing For A Better World. Jesse is the son of indigenous working-class Mexican immigrants whose journey took him from the harsh realities of child sex trafficking, street life, and substance abuse to reclaiming his life and eventually graduating from Harvard.

His talk will guide foundations, government agencies, universities, the criminal justice system, educators, and mental health professionals to see a new perspective on how to engage male and 2SLGBTQ+ survivors in policy and program work. Jesse will be available after his talk to sign copies of his book. View Jesse's Tedx talk Sex Trafficking: The Lost Boys.

This program is presented in partnership with the Gates Foundation employee resource group Latinos in Philanthropy.

Join us at the Discovery Center for our public tour and staff chat series. Visitors will tour the galleries for 30 minutes with a Discovery Center guide and then chat with a featured staff member at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and discuss issues and developments within their focus area.  

In-person: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. In-person only | All-ages | Free Join us with our partners Entre Hermanos and Gates Foundation Employee Resource Groups Latinos in Philanthropy and Out for Good for Drag Loteria: Glamour, Games and Guacamole featuring La Gorda. Drag Loteria is a type of bingo game that is popular in Mexican culture. Instead of calling out numbers, drag queens perform on stage and participants mark off the corresponding character or image on their loteria cards. This event will include delicious food, exciting prizes, and lots of fun.

Join us at the Discovery Center for our public tour and staff chat series. Visitors will tour the galleries for 30 minutes with a Discovery Center guide and then chat with a featured staff member at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and discuss issues and developments within their focus area.  

In person at the Discovery Center
Virtual program via Zoom: 6 to 7 p.m.
ASL & captioning services | All-ages


Join the Discovery Center and Rotary International for a hybrid event commemorating World Polio Day 2023 "Let's make polio history" This event will be an opportunity to celebrate progress in the fight against the disease and discuss the obstacles that remain to achieve a polio-free world. Learn about what gives us hope in the pathway to eradication, how polio eradication is supporting women on the frontlines, and how the program continues to innovate and adapt to changing situations. Engage with Ezra Teshome, a Rotarian who has been leading vaccination campaigns in Ethiopia for over 20 years, and Tehniyat Khan, from the Foundation's polio team in Afghanistan. Moderated by Penny Legate, former TV anchor for KIRO TV.