Voice & Advocacy:  
  Empowering Lake County  

Welcome

We invite you to participate in Voices of Lake County, a multi-year, interdisciplinary series of collaborative projects across the Communication Arts, Fine Arts and Humanities division of College of Lake County. Voices of Lake County seeks to celebrate, empower, and amplify voices from the wide range of communities located in Lake County, Illinois, especially those that have been historically silenced or underrepresented in higher education. Our goal is to showcase the diverse experiences of our region and encourage those from within and outside of Lake County to better understand and appreciate our unique neighborhoods, communities, histories, and cultures. 

Each year we will focus on a different collaborative project or theme. This theme for the 2025-2026 academic year is Voice & Advocacy: Empowering Lake County, which celebrates the power of community voices in shaping a stronger, more connected future. This year’s theme invites Lake County residents, students, and community partners to come together through the arts and humanities to explore what advocacy looks like here at home — how we can speak up, take action, and lift one another up.