Healing Our Divided Society:
Investing in American Fifty Years After the Kerner Commission
An Eisenhower Foundation Book
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