BPC Session I: Running for Public Office Bootcamp (click here for Bootcamp program)
Presented by Congressional Black Caucus Institute
All around this nation, the success of Barack Obama is giving people the confidence to run for public office. This day-long boot camp will provide an intensive overview of need-to-know strategies and tools for those considering running for any level of public office
Councilmember Melvin Carter III
City Council, St Paul, MN
Jaime Harrison
Principal, Podesta Group
Rep. Alisha Thomas Morgan
House of Rep: DA-39
Pat Ford
International Executive Vice President of the SEIU
Campaign Director of Unity ’04
Angela McGlowan
CEO & Founder, Political Strategies and Insights
Republican Strategist & FOX News contributor
Shawnta Wolcott
CEO and principal analyst, Ariel & Ethan polling and market research
Jamal Simmons
Political Analyst
CNN & MSNBC Contributor
BPC
Session II: Stepping Up and Stepping Out: Making Investments into the Future of Black
Males
Sponsored by Association of Black Foundation Executives (ABFE)
Khari Milner
Young People's Project
Nicole Campbell
Vice President of Deutsche Bank America's Foundation
Karl W. Reid
Senior Vice President
United Negro College Fund
Ivory Toldson
Senior Research Analyst, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Negro Education
Moderator: Milano Harden
Principal/President of the Genius Group, Inc.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
BPC Session III:
Panel A: Educating the Black Child for Success in the 21st Century
Sponsored by the Achievement Gap Initiative
Changing demands from employers coupled with persistent academic and opportunity gaps has renewed the question as to whether Black children are prepared for the 21st Century. In response to this question, a cross-section of academics, policymakers, and practitioners have begun to unpack the systemic changes need to effectively address the needs of Black youth. It is in this context that our esteemed panel will further this significant dialogue by exploring the ways the K-college system can ensure that Black children can engage with a global economy.
Dr. Tiffany Cooper-Gueye
CEO, f Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
Keith Motley
Chancellor of UMass Boston
Dennis Walcott
Deputy Mayor of Education, NYC
Karen Mapp, moderator
Director of Education Policy & Management
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Panel B: Uniting in the Struggle: African Affairs in the Obama Administration
Sponsored by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
This panel will focus on the future of US relations with African nations under the Obama administration. Drawing on the expertise of diverse panelists, the discussion should provide participants with a prediction and critique of this Administration’s political, diplomatic, economic, and development goals in the region. Panelists are requested to draw on past experience in order forecast possible obstacles that US officials may face in the region. Furthermore, panelists will be asked to share opinions on the most important issues facing African countries, organizations, and regions, and to offer strategies to address these issues.
Ambassador Harriet L. Elam-Thomas
Director of Diplomacy Program, University of Central Florida
Former Ambassador to Senegal
Nicole Lee
Executive Director, TransAfrica Forum
Ruth C. Mufute
Director, East and Anglophone West Africa, Africare
Anglophone East/West Africa
Thabo Leshilo, Moderator
Editor inChief, Sowetan (S. Africa)
Nieman Fellow
BPC Session IV:
Panel A: Black Media: Many Voices—One Goal?
Sponsored by the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy
This year's media panel, Black Media: Many Voices, One Goal?, will bring together leading figures in the African American community from television, print, the internet and radio. With the historic rise of President Barack Obama, black media may never be the same. We will discuss the traditional role of black media, its future and the effect of the Obama phenomenon on shaping the field.
Troy Patterson
Television and Culture Critic, Slate.Com
Angela Burt-Murray
Essence, Editor-in-Chief
Danielle Belton
Black Snob.com
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Atlantic
Panel B: Achieving Total Health: Eliminating Disparities through Policy
In this context, the healthcare policy panel presentations will provide a comprehensive framework of the inherent challenges of health care disparities. The scope and history of medical disparities will be highlighted, and the impact of those disparities, especially within the black community, will be illuminated. Finally, an expert panel of healthcare policy professors and physicians will offer real and practical steps we all can collectively take NOW toward achieving total health in the black community.
Mitchell F. Rice, Ph.D
Professor, Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University
Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration
Selwyn O. Rogers, MD, MPH
Chief of Burn, Trauma, and Surgical Critical Care
Co-Director of Surgical ICU
Co-Director of Outcomes Research and Quality Improvement
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Joan Y. Reede, MD, MPH, MBA
Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership, Harvard Medical School
President and Chair, Biomedical Science Careers Program
Marilyn White, MD
Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health
Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine
State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center
Moderator: Hassan Tetteh, MD & HKS Midcareer
Division of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery
National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
Panel C: On Solid Rock: Churches Engaging in Community Development
Sponsored by Turner Construction
This panel seeks to illustrate how churches and faith-based organizations are demonstrating their compassion and commitment to the eradication of poverty as tangible expressions of their faith through the vehicle of community development. We will discuss challenges and strengths due to the new political and economical environment, successful strategies, as well as the moral and ethical dimensions behind doing community development in the Black Church tradition.
Sheena Wright
President and CEO, Abyssinian Development Corporation
(NY, NY)
Steven McCullough
President and CEO, Bethel New Life
(Chicago, IL)
Kim Drayton
Director of Metroplex Economic Development Corporation (est. by T.D. Jakes)
(Dallas, TX)
Hilton Smith
Senior Vice President of Community Affairs, Turner Construction
Moderator: Yolanda Pierce
Elmer C. Homrighausen Professor of African American Religion & Literature
Princeton Theological Seminary
