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Continental Ballroom
Marvin Center
George Washington University
800 21st Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
February 27, 2018
Welcome And Framing the Day (video) :
Michael Feuer: Dean Graduate School of Education, George Washington University
Congressman Robert “Bobby” C. Scott
Michael Feuer: Dean Graduate School of Education, George Washington University
Fred Harris: Member, 1968 Kerner Commission, Former United States Senator
Alan Curtis: President and Chief Executive Officer, Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation
Linda Darling Hammond: President and Chief Executive Officer, Learning Policy Institute
Tchanori Kone: Student, Houston Independent School District; Winner, 2018 Annual Gardere MLK Jr. Oratory Competition
Catherine Lhamon: Chair, United States Commission on Civil Rights
Panel on Economic, Health and Education Policy (video):
Moderator: Linda Darling-Hammond, President, Learning Policy Institute
Jeff Faux: Foundation President, Economic Policy Institute
Jared Bernstein: Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Herbert Smitherman: Dean for Diversity and Community Affairs, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Diane Ravitch: Research Professor, New York University
John Jackson: President, Schott Foundation for Public Education
Panel on Police, Mass Incarceration and Housing Policy (video):
Moderator: Michael Jeffries: Associate Professor of American Studies, Wellesley College
Laurie Robinson: Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Criminology, Law and Society: George Mason University
Marc Mauer: Executive Director, Sentencing Project
Michael Jeffries: Associate Professor of American Studies, Wellesley College
Panel on New Will and the Media (video):
Moderator: Dorothy Stoneman, Founder, YouthBuild USA
Julian Zelizer: Professor of History and Public Affairs, Princeton University
E.J. Dionne: Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Celinda Lake: President, Lake Research Partners
Aimee Allison: President, Democracy in Color
James Mackey
Dorothy Stoneman: Founder, YouthBuild USA
Rev. William Barber, II: President: Repairers of the Breach
Joseph Stiglitz: Professor, Columbia University