Conference Agenda

9:30-10:00 AM - Registration

10:00-10:30 AM - Why Are We Here?

• Theodore Shaw, Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Law School
• Lisa Chavez, Research Analyst, Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity

Moderated by: John Brittain, Visiting Professor of Law, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law

10:30-11:45 AM - What the Federal Government Is Doing, and What It Can Do, to Reduce Racial and Socioeconomic Isolation and Promote Diversity in K-12 Schools

• Russlynn Ali, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, US Department of Education
• Anurima Bhargava, Director of the Education Practice, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
• Julie Fernandes, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice Office of Civil Rights (unable to attend)
• Roslyn Mickelson, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• Jocelyn Samuels, Senior Counselor, US Department of Justice Office of Civil Rights
• Pat Todd, Executive Director for Student Assignment, Jefferson County Public Schools

Moderated by: Derek Black, Associate Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law

12:00-1:00 PM - Federal Education Funding and Opportunities to Promote K-12 School Integration

• Susan Eaton, Research Director, The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School
• David Hinojosa, Education Staff Attorney, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
• Bill Magnotta, President-Elect, Magnet Schools of America
• Carmel Martin, Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education
• Sean Reardon, Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology, Stanford University
• Roberto Rodriguez, Special Assistant to the President, White House Domestic Policy Council

Moderated by: Lia Epperson, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

1:00-2:00 PM - Lunch

2:15-3:30 PM - Promoting Integration Through Interdistrict Programs

• Denise Forte, Committee Staff, House Education and Labor Committee (unable to attend)
• David Johns, Senior Education Advisor, Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
• Caty Royce, Director, Fund for an OPEN Society
• Don Senti, Superintendent, School District of Clayton
• William Taylor, Chair, Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights
• Amy Stuart Wells, Professor of Sociology and Education, Teachers College Columbia University

Moderated by: Dennis Parker, Director, ACLU Racial Justice Program

3:45-5:00 PM - Linking Housing Opportunity to Integrated Schools

• Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Associate Director, Institute on Urban Health Research, Northeastern University (unable to attend)
• Michelle Aronowitz, Deputy General Counsel for Fair Housing and Enforcement, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Derek Douglas, Special Assistant to President for Urban Affairs, Domestic Policy Counsel
• Demetria McCain, Director of Advocacy & Education, Inclusive Communities Project
• Myron Orfield, Executive Director, Institute on Race and Poverty at University of Minnesota Law

Moderated by: Philip Tegeler, Executive Director, Poverty & Race Research Action Council

5:00-5:30 PM - Next Steps

• Gary Orfield, Co-Director, The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA
• john powell, Executive Director, The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University

Moderated by: John Charles Boger, Dean, University of North Carolina School of Law