The Clinton School Center on Community Philanthropy has announced its Spring 2012 Scholars in Residence. The scholars will each spend a week at the school interacting with students and faculty and writing about a topic related to community philanthropy. This semester’s scholars are:
Ronald Richard (February 6-10) is the president and CEO of the Cleveland Foundation, the world’s second-largest community foundation with assets of $1.9 billion and 2010 grants of nearly $87 million. Early in his career, Richard was a U.S. diplomat in Osaka/Kobe, Japan and at the U.S. State Department. He chairs the Ohio Grant Makers Forum’s task force on educational reform and is on numerous boards including the Council on Foundations, Living Cities, Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology, Cleveland School of Science and Medicine and Global Cleveland. MrHe holds a master’s degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, a bachelor’s degree in history from Washington University in St. Louis, and honorary doctorates from Notre Dame College and Baldwin-Wallace College.
John A. Powell (March 26-30), J.D., is an internationally recognized scholar on race, poverty and regional equity. Powell serves as the executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, as well as the Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Law. Under his leadership, the Kirwan Institute has taken a national leadership role in researching, developing and advocating for regional solutions to problems associated with racialized space. Powell has developed an “opportunity-based” framework for thinking about how an individual’s destiny is affected by a complex and interconnected web of opportunity structures that significantly affect their quality of life. Previously, Powell founded and directed the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota. He has also served as the director of Legal Services of Greater Miami and was national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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