Events and Lectures
Allstate Insurance Company Employees
Hosted by the NATIVE and AVETS (Allstate Veterans Engagement team and Supporters)
Keynote, Virtual Presentation
Autodesk, Inc.
Indigenous/Veterans Celebration
San Francisco, CA
Del Norte Credit Union
All Employee Meeting
Santa Fe, NM
Curtis Legacy Foundation
Annual Retreat
Gallup, NM
Colorado Defense Lawyers Association
Annual Conference
Santa Fe, NM
Association of Defense Trial Lawyers
Annual Membership & Business Meeting, Santa Fe, NM
Yakima Town Hall
The Capitol Theatre
Yakima, WA
Southern Utah University
Cedar City, UT
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)
Virtual In-House Presentation for PCAOB employees
USS Westchester County LST 1167 Association Reunion
Fort Worth Lecture Foundation
River Crest Country Club
Dallas, TX
Time listed is Eastern Standard Time.
The presentation is virtual. Closed community event.
Western Governors University
Learn about the First Twenty-Nine Navajo Code Talkers who created the initial Navajo code in 1942 and paved the way for the Navajo Code Talker program during World War II. Zonnie’s father, Carl Gorman, was a member of this special pilot group.
Time listed is Moutain Standard Time.
VIRTUAL - Open to the Public - https://www.wgu.edu/about/story/equity/advance-equity.html
In this presentation Zonnie will share the personal life story of her father, Carl Gorman, one of the original Navajo Code Talkers of World War II. Followed by Q&A.
Time is Central Standard Time.
VIRTUAL - Open to the public. To register: https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/633b32642bb1ddacec71ac69
For other presentations throughout Native American Month at the Chicago Public library visit:
https://www.chipublib.org/news/celebrate-native-american-heritage-month-2022/
Time listed is Central Standard Time.
Metropolitan Community College
In this 1 hour presentation Zonnie will share her journey to discover her father as a member of the First Twenty-Nine Navajo Code Talkers. Learn about this fascinating group who created the initial Navajo code and paved the way for the Navajo COde Talker program during World War II.
VIRTUAL - Open to the Public - To register please visit https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sfuutqzkjEtXPsJRVLYimE3i3xDBXF0aL
5th Annual Veterans in Society Conference, Office for Veteran and Military Academic Engagement
Arizona State University
Employee meeting for Sandra Laboratory Federal Credit Union
Albuquerque, NM
This is a touching and riveting multi-media story about the original famous Navajo Code Talkers. This very first group – the First Twenty-nine – was the pilot project in 1942 who created the first Navajo code.
As a recognized historian and the daughter of the oldest Navajo Code Talker, Carl Gorman, Zonnie Gorman expertly weaves her personal connection and intimate knowledge with thirty years of archival research and collected first account stories.
This special presentation by Zonnie Gorman and Larry Foster, both descendants of Navajo Code Talkers, will be held in the Navajo Nation Council Chambers as part of the celebration and remembrance of the Navajo Code Talkers during Navajo Code Talker week on the Navajo Nation.
Join Zonnie in Taos, NM at the Kit Carson Electric Cooperative as she shares the extraordinary story of her father, Carl Gorman, and the original group of Navajo Code Talkers.
Zonnie will be giving an abridged version of her signature lecture, Growing Up With Heroes, at Navajo Middle School. Zonnie loves when she can share the story of her father and the other Navajo Code Talkers with Navajo youth.
Join Zonnie Gorman in Virginia for a public lecture hosted by Radford University. Zonnie is giving her lecture, Growing Up With Heroes: The Navajo Code Talkers of World War II - A Daughter's Journey.
Zonnie shares a touching story about the Navajo Code Talkers, and particularly about her father's role as one of the First Twenty- Nine. In addition, you will experience the Navajo reservation of the 1940s, the U.S. Government policy of Assimilation to eradicate indigenous languages and cultures and learn how the code was made. Zonnie's personal insights, well researched information and wry humor combine to offer a poignant, eye-opening and stirringly patriotic presentation.
Zonnie Gorman will answer questions after the movie Windtalkers and fill in historical information at Bear Tooth Theatrepub.
Zonnie Gorman returns to her high school, Verde Valley School, to present her journey of Growing Up With Hereos. Zonnie is the daughter of Dr. Carl N. Gorman, who was one of the original First Twenty-Nine Navajo Code Talkers of World War II.
Zonnie shares a touching story about the Navajo Code Talkers, and particularly about her father's role as one of the First Twenty-Nine. In addition, you will experience the Navajo reservation of the 1940s, the U.S. Government policy of Assimilation to eradicate indigenous languages and cultures and learn how the code was made. Zonnie's personal insights, well researched information and wry humor combine to offer a poignant, eye-opening and stirringly patriotic presentation.
Zonnie will be the Keynote Speaker for the 81st Annual International Conference for The Association for Business Communication.
Zonnie Gorman, Carl's youngest daughter and a noted historian on the Navajo Code Talkers will share how the Navajo Code Talker program began with twenty-nine Navajo men, including her father, in the spring of 1942 and how Carl, following the war, emerged as an advocate for cultural understanding and dialogue through art and teaching.
Navajo Festival of Arts & Culture - Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ
This lecture tells the story of George Clinton, whose unknown identity has been the subject of a seventy-five-year-old mystery surrounding the missing volunteer from the original group of Navajo Code Talkers of World War II. Zonnie Gorman, historian and daughter of one of the original Navajo Code Talkers, will tell the incredible saga of this discovery and share the short and tragic life of this would-be Code Talker.
Navajo Festival of Arts & Culture - Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ
Carl Gorman was too old to enlist, but he did anyway. Unemployed and running away from a rocky marriage, Carl volunteered to join the Marine Corps along with several other young Navajo men in the spring of 1942. Little did any of them know their participation in a pilot group would mark the beginning of one of the most vital and successful military communications networks used during World War II. Learn about Carl and the First Twenty-Nine Navajo Code Talkers who developed the original Navajo code and helped win the war in the Pacific.
Zonnie will be speaking as a part of the Distinguished Lecture Series
A round table discussion in conjunction with the Organization of American Historians.
This event requires registration.
Join us for an evening with Zonnie M. Gorman, a recognized historian on the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II and daughter of the late Dr. Carl Gorman, one of the original "first twenty-nine" Navajo Code Talkers, the pilot group that devised the initial Navajo code.
Represented by
American Program Bureau
800.225.4575
www.apbspeakers.com
NOTE: Zonnie Gorman is available for lectures year round. However, please be aware that her busiest month is in November, "Native American Month". So book early if you're interested in Zonnie speaking in November for you.
