special remarks by uc berkeley chancellor speakers...

FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA @HAASINSTITUTE AND #KERNER50

With support from Ford Foundation and the Spencer Foundation

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A Conference Exploring Race, Segregation, and Inequality 50 Years After the Release of the Historic Kerner Commission Report

Conference free for UC Berkeley students, except for a $4 processing fee. Must pre-register.

All information and registration at:haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/kerner50

A satellite location will be hosted by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

UC Berkeley: MLK Pauley Ballroom

VENUE:

Jitu BrownNational Director, Journey for Justice Alliance

Jay Kriegel*Former Assistant to Vice-Chairman of Kerner Commission

Camille CharlesProfessor, University of Pennsylvania

Evan BissellVisual Artist/Researcher

Thea LeePresident, Economic Policy Institute

William Julius Wilson*Harvard University

john a. powellDirector, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley

Steven C. PittsAssociate Chair, UC Berkeley Labor Center

Mitch LandrieuMayor of New Orleans

Richard RothsteinHaas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society and Economic Policy Institute

Leana S. Wen*Health Commissioner, City of Baltimore

Myron OrfieldDirector, Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity

Guillermo MayerPresident & CEO, Public Advocates Inc.

Chris MagnusPolice Chief of Tucson, Arizona

Victor PalmieriDeputy Exec. Director, Kerner Commission Staff

Sandra Susan SmithProfessor, UC Berkeley

Shantel G. BuggsFlorida State University

Ian Haney LópezProfessor, Berkeley Law, and Director, Racial Politics, Haas Institute

Christina LivingstonExecutive Director of ACCE

Mahasin S. MujahidProfessor of Public Health, UC Berkeley

Philip TegelerPresident, Poverty & Race Research Action Council

Eric TangUniversity of Texas at Austin

Elizabeth KneeboneResearch Director, UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation

Julian Zelizer*Princeton University

Sonya JosephFaith In New York, PICO National and LIVE FREE

Erica FrankenbergPennsylvania State University

Shaun DonovanFormer US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Former Senator Fred Harris*Only surviving member of the Kerner Commission

Sherrilyn IfillPresident, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

Robert SampsonProfessor, Harvard University

Speakers Include:*Indicates speaker will be in Baltimore

Ronald DavisFormer Director of the Department of Justice COPS Office; Retired Police Chief

Chris Edley, Jr.Former Dean, Berkeley Law Linda Darling-

HammondProfessor, Stanford University, and President, Learning Policy Institute

Lisa A. Cooper*Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Robert Hahn*Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta

Betsy JulianInclusive Communities Project

John KoskinenFormer head of the IRS, Former Assistant to Vice-Chairman of Kerner Commission

Bill KellerEditor in Chief, The Marshall Project

Rucker JohnsonGoldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Jack BogerFormer Dean of the University of North Carolina Law School

Damon DavisVisual Artist/Director

Sabaah FolayanDirector/Producer

Chinaka HodgePoet/PlaywrightSadie Barnette

Artist

Also featuring new work commissioned for the #Kerner50 conference by poet Chinaka Hodge, St. Louis-based artist Damon Davis, San Francisco performance collective Campo Santo, and Bay Area artist Evan Bissell, and showing work from Oakland artist Sadie Barnette’s piece Dear 1968. Plus: a student art collaborative exhibit will be premiered and a screening of the documentary Whose Streets? will take place on Feb. 28 with a discussion by co-director Sabaah Folayan.

Special remarks by UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ and Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels

Ronald J. DanielsCarol Christ