“Social Justice, Race, and Profiling: An Intergenerational Think Tank”
This is the launch public program of the newly established, university-wide Social Justice Institute at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). The Institute aims to provide a space for promoting and supporting alliance-based social justice-related research, scholarship, and teaching; building trust with and improving our community and society; training social change leaders; and promoting broad-based conversations and solutions.
The “Intergenerational Think Tank” will provide such an opportunity by gathering national and local scholars, activists and corporate leaders for two days of intellectual exchange on the relationship between social justice and injustices manifested through the historic and ongoing profiling of racial and ethnic communities.
The CWRU Social Justice Institute Think Tank is organized in the spirit of Fisk University’s Charles S. Johnson Race Relations Institute.
Program Overview
FRIDAY, November 19
5:30 p.m.
Ford Auditorium, Allen Memorial Medical Library
11000 Euclid Ave., Cleveland
5:30 p.m.
Light Refreshments
6-6:30 p.m.
Welcome
Dr. Rhonda Y. Williams, Director, CWRU Social Justice Institute
Dr. Sheila Peters, on behalf of Provost Chris Brown, Fisk University
6:30-6:45 p.m.
History of the Charles S. Johnson Institute, Fisk University
G. Regina Nixon, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, CWRU
6:45-7:45 p.m.
Opening Plenary: Voices from the Past
Facilitator: Jacqueline Elaine Gillon, Director of Community Organization, Neighborhood Leadership Institute
History Makers:
Ms. Xernona Clayton, formerly of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Author of I’ve Been Marching All the Time, and President and CEO of Trumpet Awards Foundation.
Don Freeman, founding member, Revolutionary Action Movement; former director, League Park Community Center; Cleveland grassroots activist
SATURDAY, November 20
(All Plenary Sessions in Ford Auditorium)
(The Plenary sessions run consecutively)
8:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m.
Welcome
Barbara R. Snyder, President, Case Western Reserve University
Dr. Rhonda Y. Williams, Director, CWRU Social Justice Institute
9:30-10:45 a.m.
Plenary Session I: Immigration
Facilitator: Amrita Samaroo, Student Alumna, The Diversity Center; Junior, Cleveland State University
Presenters:
Chandra Bhatnagar, Staff Attorney, Human Rights Project, ACLU
Veronica Dahlberg, Co-founder and Executive Director of HOLA, Northeast Ohio
John Flores, Assistant Professor, Latino/Chicano/Social Justice History, CWRU
10:45 - 11:00 a.m.
Break
11:00 -12:25 p.m.
Plenary Session II: Criminal Justice
Facilitator: Shakyra Diaz, Education Director, ACLU of Ohio; CWRU Alumn
Presenters:
Heather A. Thompson, Author of Attica: Race, Rebellion, and the Rise of Law and Order in America (forthcoming), Associate Professor of History, Temple University
Lewis Katz, Professor, School of Law, CWRU
Ed Little, Criminal Justice & Re-entry Consultant, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch and Keynote Address
Thwing Ballroom, Thwing Center 2nd Floor
Welcome and Speaker Introduction
CWRU Provost W.A. “Bud” Baeslack III
Keynote Speaker:
John A. Powell,Director, Ohio State University, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
2:15-3:30 p.m.
Plenary Session III: From Redlining to Housing Foreclosure
Facilitator: Randell McShepard, Chairman and Co-Founder of PolicyBridge
Presenters:
Gregory D. Squires, Professor of Sociology & Public Administration, George Washington University
Claudia Coulton, Lillian F. Harris Professor of Urban Social Research, Co-Director, Center on Urban Poverty & Community Development, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, CWRU
Anthony Houston, Program Manager & Economic Development, City of East Cleveland, Ohio
3:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Endnotes
Facilitator:
Marilyn S. Mobley, CWRU Social Justice Institute Leadership Team Member; VP Inclusion, Diversity, and Equal Opportunity
Special Evening Presention
SATURDAY, November 20
6:30 PM
Church of the Covenant
11205 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH 44106
“An Intergenerational Evening of Art & Justice”
(with support from the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women)
6:30 p.m.
Doors Open
7-9 p.m.
Evening Keynote Presentation & Conversation
Welcome & Introduction of Speakers
Special "1960's freedom songs with commentary" Presentation
by Singer/Composer, Cultural Historian
Post-performance Dialogue with Bakari Kitwana,
Hip-Hop Cultural Critic and Author
Dialogue with Audience
Conference: Free and open to the public. Space limited; registration required.
Tickets for “An Intergenerational Evening of Art & Justice” featuring Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon and Bakari Kitwana: $25 Individuals, $50 Patrons
To register and for tickets, call (216) 368-2904.