Thursday, April 19, 2007
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Registration, Taubman Building Nye Conference Rooms A,B and C
4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Student Job Fair, Taubman Building Nye Conference Rooms A,B and C
6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Forum Speaker- Henry Cisneros President, City View;
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
(1993 - 1997)
Followed by Reception
8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Registration in Pound Hall, 2nd Floor, Room 210 Lobby
8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Continental Breakfast
John Chipman Gray Room, near the registration desk
KSG and HLS Alumni Conference Agenda
9:45 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Welcome Plenary
Austin Hall, Austin North, 1st Floor
10:15 a.m.–11:45 a.m. Concurrent panels:
In It to Win It: Running for Elected Office Workshop
Through the
experience and expertise of elected officials and practitioners learn what it
takes to run a successful campaign. From making the decision to run, to choosing
a
campaign manager, developing your message, and
launching successful communication and fundraising
strategies, panelists will share best practices as
well as their own lessons learned from unsuccessful
efforts. In addition, panelists will provide their
insight on the role of technology is playing on
multiple campaign aspects including fundraising,
social networking, and blogging.
Pound Hall, Pound 100, 1st Floor
Hilda Zacarias the Santa Maria City Council
Michael Rodriguez, Director of Field Operations,Hispanic Leadership Institute..
Cesar Martinez, Consultant, MATT
Richard Ybarra, Senior Partner with ybarracompany
(Moderator)
12:00 p.m.–1:45 p.m. Alumni Luncheon- Joseph A. Garcia
President Colorado State University-Pueblo
Pound Hall, Ropes–Gray Room, 2nd Floor
2:15 p.m.–3:45 p.m. The Harvard Hangover: Post KSG Strategies Workshop So you have a Harvard Degree, y que? This interactive workshop will focus on strategically transitioning your hard-earned education into a career path where you can control how effectively you present yourself, maneuver the terrain of organizational politics, leverage serving on boards, and transition your networks to your professional context.
Pound Hall, Pound 100, 1st Floor
Roberto Carmona ‘03 Executive Search and Management Consultant
3:45 p.m.–4:45 p.m. Where do we go from here? KSG alumni and students meet to strategize about future collaboration.
Pound Hall, Pound 100, 1st Floor
4:45 p.m.–5:15 p.m. A Brief Discussion with Prof. Noam Chomsky
Prof. Noam Chomsky will discuss his latest research on Latin American Political History.
Pound Hall, Pound 100, 1st Floor
6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Receptions for the Hispanic Policy and Latino Law Review Journals
Pound Hall, Ropes–Gray Room, 2nd Floor
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. Keynote Dinner—R. Alexander Acosta, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Florida
Pound Hall, Ropes–Gray Room, 2nd Floor
8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Registration in Pound Hall, 2nd Floor, Room 210 Lobby
8:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast at Austin Hall
9:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m. A Conversation with Dean Joseph McCarthy
Austin Hall, Austin East, 1st Floor
Latino Law and Public Policy Conference Agenda
10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Concurrent panels:
Strategic Interventions for Latino Access to Housing, Health Insurance, and Wealth. A discussion addressing the barriers that keep Latinos from attaining housing, health insurance and wealth. Specifically, this panel will address the key decision-making moments where Latinos begin to fall into negative cycles that pull them further away from these three components of the American Dream. What types of content education need to take place in the community to prevent these cycles from beginning? What programs have been successful in helping Latinos attain these three components? What policies have proved successful interventions? What still needs to be done?
Austin Hall, Austin East, 1st Floor
Ruben Jose King-Shaw Jr., Chairman and CEO of Mansa Equity Partners, Inc
Louis Barajas, Barajas Wealth and Business Planning, Author, Los Angeles, CA
Eva M. Plaza, Chief Deputy Solicitor, City of Philadelphia, former Assistant Secretary of Housing, U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, Philadelphia, PA
Sylvia Trujillo, American Medical Association, Washington, D.C. (moderator)
Beyond Chávez: Is there a Left in Latin America? An exploration of whether a true political shift to the left has taken place in Latin America, how the political climate in Latin America affects Latinos in the United States and the whether attention political developments in Latin America deserve closer attention from Latinos in the United States.
Austin Hall, Austin North, 1st Floor
John Bonifaz ’92, founder of the National Voting Rights Institute (NVRI) and advocate of environmental preservation in the Amazon, Boston, MA
José Santana, Executive Director of the International Commission of Science and Technology and Advisor to the President of the Dominican Republic
Ana María Salazar ’89, Program Host and Newscaster, Imagen News, México, D.F. (Moderator)
Raquel Aldana ’97, Professor of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Antonio Gonzalez, William C. Velasquez Institute, Los Angeles, CA
12:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m. Alumni Luncheon
Pound Hall, Ropes–Gray Room, 2nd Floor
Keynote Address–Carolyn Curiel, New York Times Editorial Board, Former Ambassador to Belize & Clinton White House Speechwriter
3:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Concurrent panels:
The Intersection of
Organizing, Politics & Direct Action
An
in-depth look at the most pressing issues facing Latino communities today and
their relationship with issues on the broader national agenda, how to combine
community organizing strategies with lobbying and litigation efforts, and how
organizers can frame Latino concerns in public policy debates without losing
sight of the diversity of Latino communities.
How does
social mobilization in community organizing differ from that for electoral
campaigns? What are the new challenges in organizing for social mobilization?
Austin Hall, Austin East, 1st Floor
Saru Jayaraman, Founder & Executive Director of Restaurant Opportunities Center, New York, NY
Marshall Ganz, Professor Kennedy School of Government, Boston, MA (Moderator) (Invited)
María Teresa Peterson, Executive Director, Voto Latino, Chicago, IL
Rocio Saenz, UNITE, Boston, MA
Latino Leadership in the Political Sphere–Latino elected officials who have played central roles in the national debates on immigration, campaign finance and health care reform will address the dynamics of those issues in the current political context.
Austin Hall, Austin North, 1st Floor
Adolfo Carrión Jr., Bronx Borough President, NALEO Board of Directors, New York, NY
Juan García,’92 Member, Texas State Representatives (D-TX-32)
Jeffrey Sanchez, Member Massachusetts State Representatives
Andy Hernandez, Center for Policy Studies at the University of Texas San Antonio (moderator)
5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m. Closing Remarks and KSG/HLS Alumni Reception
Harkness Commons, Hark North, 2nd Floor
9:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m. Salsa Party @ HLS
Pound Hall, Ropes–Gray and John Chipman Gray Rooms, 2nd Floor