Diversity & Inclusion Celebrations

Spring 2025
Are there any other spring celebrations or awareness occasions you observe in your family or culture? Please feel free to share! odi@johnson.cornell.edu

January
Poverty in America Awareness Month
4 UN World Braille Day
7 Coptic & Eastern Orthodox Christian Christmas
14 Mahayana New Year (Buddhism)
20 Martin Luther King Jr. Day
27 International Day of Commemoration in Memory of Victims of the Holocaust
29 Lunar New Year

February
Black History Month
1 UN World Interfaith Harmony Week
1 National Freedom Day
2 Pagan and Wiccan Imolc
4 World Cancer Day
15 Parinirvana Day
17 President’s Day
19 Day of Remembrance of Japanese American Incarceration During WWII
26 Maha Shivaratri (Hinduism)

March
Women’s History Month
Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
Greek American Heritage Month
Irish American Heritage Month
Feb 28-Mar 30 Ramadan (Islam)
Feb 28-Mar 19 The Nineteen Day Fast (Baha’i)
Mar 3-Apr 19 Great Lent (Christian Eastern Orthodox)
4 Mardi Gras/Shrove Tuesday
5 Ash Wednesday (Christianity)
Mar 5-Apr 17 Season of Lent (Christian – Western)
8 International Women’s Day
9-15 Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week
13 Fast of Esther (Judaism)
13-14 Purim (Judaism)
14 Holi (Hinduism)
14 Sikh Hola Mohalla
17 St. Patrick’s Day
20 International Nowruz Day
20 Shunbun No Hi (Vernal Equinox Day)
21 Eid al-Fitr (Islam)
25 International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and Transatlantic Slave Trade
27 Laylat al-Qatr (Islam)
31 Transgender Day of Visibility

April
World Autism Month
Arab American, Middle Eastern, North African American Heritage Month
Deaf History Month
National Volunteer Month
Scottish American Heritage Month
2 World Autism Awareness Day
11 LGBTQ+ Day of Silence
12 Jehovah’s Witnesses Memorial of Jesus’ Death
12 The Fast of the First Born (Judaism)
12-20 Passover (Judaism)
13 Palm Sunday (Christian – Western)
14 Vaisakhi (Sikhism & Hinduism)
18 Good Friday (Christian – Western)
20 Easter (Christian – Western)
23-24 Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah)

May
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Haitian Heritage Month
Indian Heritage Month
Jewish American Heritage Month
South Asian Heritage Month
Mental Health Awareness Month
Older Americans Month
Speech & Hearing Awareness Month
4 International Family Equality Day
5 National Day for Awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
12 Buddhist Vesak (Buddha Day)
15 Global Accessibility Awareness Day
17 LGBTQ+ International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia
17 Veteran’s Armed Forces Day
21 United Nations World Day for Cultural Diversity
28 Baha’i Ascension of Baha’u’llah