Special remarks by UC Berkeley Chancellor Speakers...
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FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA @HAASINSTITUTE AND #KERNER50
With support from Ford Foundation and the Spencer Foundation
Wheelchair Accessible, Cart Captioning Available, Email [email protected] to request disability accommodations for Berkeley location.
A Conference Exploring Race, Segregation, and Inequality 50 Years After the Release of the Historic Kerner Commission Report
Conference free for UC Berkeley students, except for a $4 processing fee. Must pre-register.
All information and registration at:haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/kerner50
A satellite location will be hosted by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
UC Berkeley: MLK Pauley Ballroom
VENUE:
Jitu BrownNational Director, Journey for Justice Alliance
Jay Kriegel*Former Assistant to Vice-Chairman of Kerner Commission
Camille CharlesProfessor, University of Pennsylvania
Evan BissellVisual Artist/Researcher
Thea LeePresident, Economic Policy Institute
William Julius Wilson*Harvard University
john a. powellDirector, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
Steven C. PittsAssociate Chair, UC Berkeley Labor Center
Mitch LandrieuMayor of New Orleans
Richard RothsteinHaas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society and Economic Policy Institute
Leana S. Wen*Health Commissioner, City of Baltimore
Myron OrfieldDirector, Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity
Guillermo MayerPresident & CEO, Public Advocates Inc.
Chris MagnusPolice Chief of Tucson, Arizona
Victor PalmieriDeputy Exec. Director, Kerner Commission Staff
Sandra Susan SmithProfessor, UC Berkeley
Shantel G. BuggsFlorida State University
Ian Haney LópezProfessor, Berkeley Law, and Director, Racial Politics, Haas Institute
Christina LivingstonExecutive Director of ACCE
Mahasin S. MujahidProfessor of Public Health, UC Berkeley
Philip TegelerPresident, Poverty & Race Research Action Council
Eric TangUniversity of Texas at Austin
Elizabeth KneeboneResearch Director, UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation
Julian Zelizer*Princeton University
Sonya JosephFaith In New York, PICO National and LIVE FREE
Erica FrankenbergPennsylvania State University
Shaun DonovanFormer US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Former Senator Fred Harris*Only surviving member of the Kerner Commission
Sherrilyn IfillPresident, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Robert SampsonProfessor, Harvard University
Speakers Include:*Indicates speaker will be in Baltimore
Ronald DavisFormer Director of the Department of Justice COPS Office; Retired Police Chief
Chris Edley, Jr.Former Dean, Berkeley Law Linda Darling-
HammondProfessor, Stanford University, and President, Learning Policy Institute
Lisa A. Cooper*Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Robert Hahn*Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta
Betsy JulianInclusive Communities Project
John KoskinenFormer head of the IRS, Former Assistant to Vice-Chairman of Kerner Commission
Bill KellerEditor in Chief, The Marshall Project
Rucker JohnsonGoldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
Jack BogerFormer Dean of the University of North Carolina Law School
Damon DavisVisual Artist/Director
Sabaah FolayanDirector/Producer
Chinaka HodgePoet/PlaywrightSadie Barnette
Artist
Also featuring new work commissioned for the #Kerner50 conference by poet Chinaka Hodge, St. Louis-based artist Damon Davis, San Francisco performance collective Campo Santo, and Bay Area artist Evan Bissell, and showing work from Oakland artist Sadie Barnette’s piece Dear 1968. Plus: a student art collaborative exhibit will be premiered and a screening of the documentary Whose Streets? will take place on Feb. 28 with a discussion by co-director Sabaah Folayan.
Special remarks by UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ and Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels
Ronald J. DanielsCarol Christ