11/12/2007 ~ 11/13/2007 at  Cowin Center, Teachers College

Chief Executive Officer
PolicyLink, Inc.

Presentation Topic:

• A Vision for the Future of Equal Educational Opportunity [Summary to be posted soon]

Angela Glover Blackwell is the chief executive officer of PolicyLink, an organization she founded in 1999. A renowned community building activist and advocate, Blackwell served as senior vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation where she oversaw the Foundation''''s Domestic and Cultural divisions. Blackwell also developed Rockefeller''''s Building Democracy division, which focused on race and policy, and created the Next Generation Leadership program. A lawyer by training, she gained national recognition as founder of the Oakland (CA) Urban Strategies Council, where she pioneered new approaches to neighborhood revitalization. From 1977 to 1987, Blackwell was a partner at Public Advocates, a nationally known public interest law firm. She is the co-author of Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions on Race in America published in 2002 by W.W. Norton & Co.

Speakers:

• Frank Alvarez
  Montclair School District, New Jersey
• Anurima Bhargava
  NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
• Lee Bollinger
  Columbia University
• Linda Chen
  Principal
  P.S. 165, New York City
• Hon. Joyce Elliott
  College Board Arkansas
  Former Chair of the Arkansas House Education Committee
• Angela Glover Blackwell
  PolicyLink, Inc.
• Margaret Goertz
  Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania
• Hon. John Greaney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
• Lani Guinier
  Harvard Law School
• Eric Hanushek
  Hoover Institution, Stanford University
• Tom Hehir
  Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Jay Heubert
  Teachers College, Columbia University and Columbia Law School
• Molly Hunter
  National Access Network at Teachers College, Columbia University
• Neil Komesar
  University of Wisconsin
• Susan Perkins Weston
  
• john powell
  Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
• Michael Rebell
  Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University
• Paul Reville
  Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy
• Hon. Albert Rosenblatt
  McCabe & Mack LLP
  Former Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
• James Ryan
  University of Virginia Law School
• Rhoda Schneider
  Massachusetts Department of Education
• Robert Sexton
  Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence
• Ted Shaw
  NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
• Susan Sturm
  Columbia Law School
• Kim Sweet
  Advocates for Children of New York City, Inc.
• Pat Todd
  Gheens Academy, Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, Ky.
• Gov. Bob Wise
  Alliance for Excellent Education