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Speakers

Martha J. Kanter
Condoleezza Rice | Patricia Gándara | Eboo Patel | Jean Twenge | Joseph White & Shaun Harper | Andrew Jolivette
Sister Helen Prejean

Opening Speaker
Martha J. Kanter
Sunday, March 7
5:00 – 7:00 p.m. 

martha kanter As Under Secretary of Education, Martha J. Kanter helps oversee policies and programs related to higher education, vocational and adult education, and federal student aid. Kanter is the first community college leader to serve in the under secretary position.

Kanter has a long and distinguished career in higher education, from establishing the first program for students with learning disabilities at San Jose City College (California) to serving as a director, dean, and vice chancellor for policy and research for the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office before returning to San Jose City College as vice president of instruction and student services. Prior to her current appointment, Kanter served as chancellor of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, one of the largest community college districts in the nation.  

Kanter has served as a board member or officer in a wide variety of national, state, and local organizations, and has been recognized and honored for her work.  She has been named Woman of the Year by several organizations, including the 24th Assembly District, Santa Clara County, and the American Association of University Women (AAUW). In 2003, she received the Excellence in Education award from the National Organization for Women's California Chapter and has been recognized for diversity and community leadership.

   

Condoleezza Rice
Monday, March 8
8:30 – 9:45 a.m.

condoleezza riceCondoleezza Rice is the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University.  From January 2005 to 2009, she served as the 66th U.S. Secretary of State. Before serving as America's chief diplomat, she served as assistant to the president for national security affairs (national security advisor).

Rice has built a distinguished career in higher education, joining the Stanford University faculty as a professor of political science in 1981, and serving as provost from 1993 to 1999. As a professor, Rice won two distinguished teaching honors, and she is the author and coauthor of several books, including Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft (1995), with Philip Zelikow; and The Gorbachev Era (1986), with Alexander Dallin.

Rice has served as a member of several boards of directors and was a founding board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California.  She also served as vice president of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. She currently serves as a member of the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Patricia Gándara
Monday, March 8
10:00 – 11:15 a.m.

patricia gandara Patricia Gándara is professor of education at the University of California, Los Anglees (UCLA), Graduate School of Education and Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA. 

Throughout her career Gándara has worked as a bilingual psychologist in Los Angeles.  She has been a social scientist with the RAND Corporation and directed education research in the California legislature.  Gándara has also served as commissioner for postsecondary education for the State of California.  

Gándara's research focuses on educational equity for racial and linguistic minority students, school reform, access to higher education, the education of Latino students, and language policy.  She is the author of numerous articles and several books.  Her two most recent books are The Latino Education Crisis: The Consequences of Failed Social Policies (2009) and Forbidden Language:  English Learners and Restrictive Language Policies (January 2010).

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Eboo Patel
Monday, March 8
2:15 – 3:30 p.m.

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Eboo Patel is the founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based institution building the global interfaith youth movement.  As a member of President Obama's Advisory Council to the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Patel is working to realize the President's priority of interfaith cooperation.

As a featured speaker at the Clinton Global Initiative, the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, and at universities around the world, Patel serves as a global ambassador for interfaith collaboration and dialogue. Patel is a Young Global Leader in the World Economic Forum and an Ashoka Fellow, one of a select group of leading social entrepreneurs recognized for their innovative solutions to social problems and the potential to change patterns across society. 

He was named by Islamica Magazine as one of ten young Muslim visionaries shaping Islam in America, and chosen by Harvard's Kennedy School Review as one of five future policy leaders to watch.  Currently, he serves on the Religious Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the National Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation USA.  Additionally, Patel was selected to join the network of the World Economic Forum, and was honored as a recipient of the 2009 Roosevelt Institute's Freedom of Worship Medal.

Patel is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation and also writes "The Faith Divide," a featured blog on religion for The Washington Post. He has also contributed to the Harvard Divinity School Bulletin, the Chicago Tribune, The Review of Faith and International Affairs, The Sunday Times of India, and National Public Radio.


Jean Twenge
Tuesday, March 9
9:30 – 10:45 a.m.

jean twenge

Jean M. Twenge is associate professor of psychology at San Diego State University, and author of more than 60 scientific publications and two seminal books on the current generation of young college students.  Her recent books, Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled — and More Miserable Than Ever Before (2006) and The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement (2009) have shed light on the experience of the current generation of high school and college students. 

In her most recent research, Twenge attempts to examine narcissism in the current generation of young people by asking important questions about the symptoms, causes, and effects of narcissism.  She further investigates the influence of social networking sites and how they help shape personality.  Her research proposes treatments to address the challenges presented, as well as implications for college and universities. 

 Accounts of her research have appeared in Time, Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, and The Washington Post, and she has been featured on Today, NBC Nightly News, Fox and Friends, Dateline NBC, and National Public Radio's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Day to Day, in addition to numerous talk radio and local TV appearances.


 Joseph White & Shaun Harper
Tuesday, March 9
2:00 – 3:15 p.m.

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Joseph White has enjoyed a distinguished 48-year career in the field of psychology and mental health as a teacher, mentor, administrator, clinical supervisor, writier, consultant, and practicing psychologist.  His is currently professor emeritus of psychology and psychiatry at the University of California, Irvine, where he spent most of his career as a teacher, supervising psychologist, mentor, and director of ethnic studies, and cross-cultural programs.

White was a pioneer in the field of Black psychology and is affectionately referred to as the "Godfather" of Black psychology by his students, mentees, and younger colleagues.  His seminal article in Ebony magzine in 1970, "Toward a Black Psychology," was instrumental in beginning  th emodern era of African American and ethnic psychology.  He is author of several papers and seven books, including, The Psychology of Blacks: An African-American Perspective (1984); Black man Emerging: Facing the  Past and Seizing a future in America (1999); and Building Multicultural Competency; Development, Training, and Practice (2008).

In addition to his teaching and research, White has been a practicing psychologist and consultant, working with school districts, universities, private organizations, and government agencies.  White was appointed to the California State Psychology Licensing Board and served as chairman for three years.  He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Menninger Foundation in Houston, Texas.

On May 10, 2007, he received an honorary degree, Doctor of Laws, from the University of Minnesota, which is the highest award conferred by the University of Minnesota, recognizing individuals who have achieved acknowledged eminence in cultural affairs, in public affairs, or in a field of knowledge and scholarship.  He was also inducted into the San Francisco State University Hall of Fame as Alumnus of the Year in 2008.

shaun harper

Shaun Harper is assistant professor of higher education at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education. He formerly served in professorships and administrative capacities at Penn State University, Indiana University, and the University of Southern California, where he served as an assistant professor and executive director of the Doctor of Education Program. 

Harper is an acclaimed national expert on Black male college achievement, campus racial climates, and student engagement in higher education. He has published six books and more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and other academic publications.  

His newest book, College Men and Masculinities: Theory, Research, and Implications for Practice, was recently published by Jossey-Bass. In September of 2007, Harper's National Black Male College Achievement Study was featured in Diverse Issues in Higher Education.  His study represents the largest-ever research study on Black male undergraduates. Harper was awarded the 2008 Early Career Award by The Association for the Study of Higher Education. Few scholars have had as greater an impact on the study of Black male students in American higher education. His research has informed policy and practice on college and university campuses across the country. 


 

Andrew Jolivette
Tuesday, March 9
3:30 – 4:45 p.m.

andrew jolivetteAndrew Jolivette, is an associate professor in American Indian Studies, Educational Leadership, and Critical Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University.

An accomplished educator, writer, speaker, and social/cultural critic, Jolivette's work spans many different social and political arenas – from education reform and LGBT/Queer community of color identity issues to mixed-race identity, Native American studies, and gay marriage. He is also a mixed-race studies specialist with a particular interest in comparative race relations, the urban Indian experience, critical mixed race studies, Creole studies, and Black-Indians.

Jolivette is the author of two books: Cultural Representation in Native America (2006) and Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed Race Native American Identity (2007). He is currently working on two new books: Mixed Race Gay Men and HIV: A Community History and Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority, which seeks to understand the impact of President Obama's biracial identity on the 2008 election and the president's first 100 days in office, as well as what this historic election may mean in the current battle for a new American majority.

Jolivette has been an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of San Francisco and a researcher with the University of California, San Francisco on issues of racial violence among African American and Latino/a youth in the Bay Area.  He has done work with the Agape Foundation, a national and international peace organization, and the Louisiana Creole Heritage Center. He also served on the San Francisco Human Rights Commission's Special Task Force on the Status of Native Americans, and currently serves as the tribal historian for the Atakapa-Ishak Nation located between southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas.  He is the board president of Speak Out – the Institute for Democratic Education and Culture; a current board member of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco; and the former board president of iPride, an organization for mixed heritage and transracially adopted youth and their families.


 

Closing Speaker
Sister Helen Prejean
Wednesday, March 10
10:00 – 11:15 a.m.

sister helen prejean

Sister Helen Prejean is one of America's leading advocates for the abolition of the death penalty. A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Prejean joined the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille in 1957 and began her prison ministry in 1981 when she dedicated her life to the poor of New Orleans. Currently, she dedicates her time to coordinating The Death Penalty Discourse Network.

Prejean recorded what she learned about the Louisiana execution process through her role as a spiritual adviser in Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, which was nominated for a 1993 Pulitzer Prize and was number one on the New York Times Best Seller List for 31 weeks. An international best seller, the book has been translated into ten different languages and received the Christopher Award for "artistic excellence affirming the highest value of the human spirit." In 1996, her book was developed into a major motion picture that received four Oscar nominations. Susan Sarandon took home the Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of Prejean.    

Prejean and Dead Man Walking have been the subject of numerous media stories and reviews in more than eight countries.  Fifteen years after beginning her crusade, she has witnessed numerous executions and today educates the public about the death penalty by lecturing, organizing, and writing.  As the founder of "Survive," a victim's advocacy group in New Orleans, she continues to counsel not only inmates on death row, but the families of murder victims, as well. Prejean has served in leadership positions within multiple organizations working to abolish the death penalty nationally and internationally – work that has garnered her numerous prizes, honors and recognitions throughout her career.