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Current Series | Fall 2009 Series

Undergraduate Lecture Series on Race, Poverty, and Inequality

The Undergraduate Lecture Series on Race, Poverty and Inequality is a quarterly lecture series founded in 2002 that seeks to educate Northwestern students about public policy issues from a social justice standpoint. In the past, the lecture series has addressed topics including Alternative Energy and the American Worker, Universal Health Care, Income Inequality in Chicago and at Northwestern, Immigration, LGBT Rights, and Food Insecurity. The lecture series has featured speakers including Anna Burger, Secretary-Treasurer of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Chair of the Change to Win labor federation, renowned education author and activist Jonathan Kozol, Paul Vallas, Superintendent of Recovery School District in Louisiana, Madeline Talbott, lead organizer of Action Now, and Quentin Young, the Coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program.

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List of Former Keynotes and Panelists:

Mary Gallagher, of Mary Gallagher Research and Consulting Group
Debbie Hillman, co-founder of Evanston Food Policy Council
Angel la Luz, Greater Chicago Food Depository
Maura Daly, VP of Government Relations and Advocacy for Feeding America
Prof. Bill Leanard, NU Professor of Anthropology, Chair of Global Health Program
Dr. Celeste Watkins Hayes, Assistant Professor of African American Studies
Carolyn V. Lindley, NU Director of Financial Aid
Matt Schumwinger, UNITE-HERE Midwest Director of Food Services Division
Rafael Marquez, Sodexho union steward and NU employee
Dr. Ivy Wilson, Assistant Professor of English
Tom Balanoff, President of SEIU Illinois State Council
Madeline Talbott, lead organizer of Action Now, former president of ACORN
Professor Jody Kretzmann, co-director of ABCD institute
Professor Lane Fenrich
Awilda Rodriquez, De Paul Professor
Dr. Susan Popkin, Urban Institute
Alex Polikoff, attorney and visiting scholar at NU Institute For Policy Research
Kathryn Edin, Associate Professor of Sociology
James Rosenbaum, Professor of Education and Social Policy
Wendell Primus, Former Chief Economist, House Ways and Means Committee
Ron Haskins, White House Senior Advisor for Welfare Policy
Marvin Krislow, Vice President, University of Michigan
Henry Bienen, Northwestern University President
Eugene Lowe, Jr., Editor of Promise and Dilemma: Prespectives on Racial Diversity and Higher Education
Quentin Young, Coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
Paul Vallas, Superintendent of Recovery School District in Louisiana
Mary Meg McCourtney, National Immigrant Justice Center
Julian Lazalde, Community Organizer for LISC
Benjamin Page, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern
Leemore Dafny, Professor of the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern
Judith Haasis, Executive Director of CommunityHealth
Burton Weisbrod, Professor of Economics, Northwestern
Mark Iris, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern
Johnny Savory, convict and activist
Brenda Palms Barber, CEO of the North Lawndale Employment Network and Sweet Beginnings
Martha Burns, President of the Board of Education for Evanston Township High School
Bonnie Lockhart, Member, Board of Education, District 65
George Peternel, Associate Director of Center for Talent Development
Michelle Reed, Project EXCITE Coordinator
Amalia Pallares, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern
Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, Professor of Psychology, Northwestern
Dr. Ozella Phillips, Clinical Director of the Teen Living Program
Nicole Amlinng, Director of Public Policy for the Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness
Charles Hoch, Professor of Urban Planning at University of Illinois Chicago
Geoff Smith, Vice President of the Woodstock Institute
Jerry Stermer, Governor Pat Quinn’s Chief of Staff, former NU Adjunct Professor, and founding president of Voices for Illinois Children
Kathi Crowe, Director of the National Foster Care Coalition
Bernardine Dohrn: Northwestern Law School Professor and founder of the Children and Family Justice Center
Laurene Heybach: Director of the Law Project, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
Joe Hollendoner: Director of the Broadway Youth Center for Howard Brown Health Center
Natalie Smith: Training and Education Manager, National Runaway Switchboard
Robyn Gabel, Democratic nominee for the 18th legislative district of Illinois 2010
Professor Dan Lewis, Northwestern SESP Professor
Scott Bernstein, president and co-founder of Center for Neighborhood Technology
Kindy Kruller, The Delta Institute
Adrian Esquivel, Chicagoland Green Collar Jobs Initiative
Professor Mark Witte, Northwestern Economics Professor
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Environmental Activist
Pam Richart, Eco-Justice Collaborative
Lan Richart, Eco-Justice Collaborative
Tom Conway, Blue Green Alliance
Parson Brown, Topless America

Co Chairs:

Anna Kelly | annakelly2010@u.northwestern.edu
Mike Waxman | michaelwaxman2007@u.northwestern.edu

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