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Shane Gring, founder of BOULD and Program Lead at USGBC
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Gring, 27, is the founder of BOULD, an organization seeking to address the “experience gap” in the green building industry. Since launching this experiential green building education company in 2010, BOULD has provided green building opportunities for over 400 developing professionals, while also supporting over 40 LEED-certified affordable homes to low-income families across 10 states. He is a 2012 Unreasonable Institute Fellow, 2012 Hitachi Foundation Young Entrepreneur Fellow, and a 2012 Huffington Post Millennial Impact Challenge awardee and recently joined the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) as the lead on a national campaign focused on millennials, sustainability, and social justice. He will deliver a lecture on “An Unhirable Graduate’s Guide to Career Success-ish.”
“Lacrosse the Nation,” co-founder Brett Hughes
Thursday, February 6, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Hughes grew up in Ohio and moved to Virginia for college, where he played lacrosse at the University of Virginia, where he helped lead his team to win a NCAA Championship in 2003. After graduating, while he played in the MLL (Major League Lacrosse) and worked as an afterschool coordinator for a local athletic club, he realized that being around kids and using lacrosse to teach them valuable life skills above and beyond the game was something he wanted to pursue. In 2009, he co-founded Lacrosse the Nation, an organization that uses the lacrosse field as a platform to teach students valuable life skills, health and nutrition education, and offers a scholarship program, while ultimately bringing joy to their lives.
David Beckwith, Principal Consultant, Great Lakes Institute
Friday, February 7, 2014 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– As a Scholar in Residence at the Clinton School of Public Service Center on Community Philanthropy, Beckwith will present a paper on the topic of “Community Philanthropy and Public Service: Models in Giving, Civic Engagement and Leadership.” Beckwith has worked as a community organizer, trainer and consultant to community groups since 1971. He has led a national foundation, acted as a consultant for the Center for Community Change, and was a field coordinator for President Carter’s National Commission on Neighborhoods. His current work at the Great Lakes Institute focuses on organizational development, strategic planning, and community organizing, working with social justice nonprofits and philanthropy.
“Generosity Network,” philanthropist Jeffrey Walker
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall) *Book signing to follow
– For twenty five years, Walker was the CEO and Co-Founder of CCMP Capital, the $12 billion successor to JPMorgan Partners, Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co, and Chairman of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation. He was an Executive-in-Residence at Harvard Business School, focusing on social enterprises and collaboration, and a Lecturer at the Kennedy School where he developed and launched a course in exponential fundraising for nonprofit leaders. He served as the Chairman of Millennium Promise, an incubator to eliminate extreme poverty, and was the long-time Chairman of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello). Walker is co-author of “The Generosity Network,” the essential guide to the art of activating resources of every kind behind any worthy cause and attempts to show how traditional pre-scripted, money-centered, goal-oriented fund-raising techniques lead to anxiety and failure, while open-spirited, curiosity-driven, person-to-person connections lead to discovery, growth, and often amazing results.
“Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear,” Aram Goudsouzian, chair of the History Department at the University of Memphis
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall) *Book signing to follow
– On June 5, 1966, the civil rights hero James Meredith left Memphis, Tennessee, on foot. Setting off toward Jackson, Mississippi, he hoped his march would promote black voter registration and defy racism. The next day, he was shot by a mysterious white man and transferred to a hospital. What followed was one of the key dramas of the civil rights era. Goudsouzian’s “Down to the Crossroads” is the story of this last great march of the civil rights era and the first great showdown of the turbulent years that followed
Vincent Ilustre, founding executive director, Center for Public Service, Tulane University
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Ilustre is the founding Executive Director of Tulane University’s Center for Public Service. In support of Tulane University’s mission, the Center for Public Service engages the Tulane and broader communities by facilitating mutually-beneficial relationships and transformative teaching, learning, and research to address social challenges and foster responsible citizenship. Ilustre is the recipient of numerous awards including Gambit Weekly’s 40 under 40, Diversity MBA Magazines Top 100 under 50 Diverse Emerging Leaders, Tulane’s Excellence Award, and the Yvette Milner Jones Award.
“Flip your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day,” Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams
Friday, February 21, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall) *Book signing to follow
– Bergmann and Sams observed that students need their teachers to answer questions and provide help when the students get stuck on assignments, and not for the actual presentation of lectures. They decided to “flip the classroom” and had students watch recorded lectures for homework and complete assignments, labs, and tests in class while their teacher was present to assist them. The students demonstrated a deeper understanding of the material than ever before.
“Improving employment and earnings outcomes for younger workers,” part of Policy Solutions Challenge USA
Sunday, February 23, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– The Clinton School will serve as the South Region host for the Policy Solutions Challenge USA, a national competition among teams of students from U.S. schools of public policy, public affairs, and public administration to develop innovative solutions to the most important policy problems facing the country. Join us for the participating teams’ public presentations on this year’s topic, “Improving employment and earnings outcomes for younger workers.”
Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress
Monday, February 24, 2014 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Tanden is the President of the Center for American Progress and Counselor to the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Tanden has served in the Obama and Clinton administrations, as well as presidential campaigns and think tanks. Most recently, Tanden served as the Chief Operating Officer for the Center, overseeing strategic planning, operations, and fundraising. She was named one of the “Most Influential Women in Washington” by National Journal and received the India Abroad Publisher’s Award for Excellence in 2011. Tanden was recently recognized as one of Fortune magazine’s “Most Powerful Women in Politics.”
Rayid Ghani, chief data scientist for the Computation Institute’s Urban Center for Computation and Data at the University of Chicago
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Ghani was the chief scientist of the highly regarded Obama for America data analytics team. During the 2012 campaign, his team implemented applied advanced data-mining techniques and machine-learning methods to create new tools for fundraising, voter turnout, advertising, and over-all campaign strategy. Now with the Computation Institute and the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, Ghani hopes to apply those methods to address social challenges in areas of education, public safety, urban development, and health care.
“Improving Outcomes for Children and Families: A Focus on Teen Pregnancy Prevention” Sarah Brown, chief executive officer of The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Brown is the CEO of The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, a private and independent non-profit organization working to promote values, behavior, and policies that reduce both teen pregnancy and unplanned pregnancy, especially among single, young adults. The presentation will focus on teen pregnancy prevention in Arkansas and will cover recent data on trends in teen pregnancy, information on how teen pregnancy is connected to critical issues such as educational attainment, and provide concrete solutions for how individuals, organizations, policymakers and others can address this important issue.
“Two Presidents Are Better Than One,” professor David Orentlicher
Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall) *Book signing to follow
– Orentlicher, a scholar of constitutional law and a former state representative, has taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago Law School and earned degrees in law and medicine at Harvard, specializing in health care law and ethics. In “Two Presidents Are Better Than One,” Orentlicher shows how the “imperial presidency” and partisan conflict are largely the result of a deeper problem—the Constitution’s placement of a single president atop the executive branch. He argues to fix our broken political system we need to replace the one person, one-party presidency with a two-person, two-party executive branch.