Plenary Sessions Videos

Session 1, October 11, 2012

Welcome

• Senator Patricia Torres Ray, Humphrey School of Public Affairs
• Kevin Lindsey, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights
• Paul Pribbenow, President of Augsburg College

Session 2, October 11, 2012

Keynote Address: "The Oslo Center: Building Social and Political Stability Through Collaborative Partnerships and Gender Engagement"

• Kjell Magne Bondevik, Former Prime Minister of Norway and President of the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights

Session 3, October 11, 2012

Panel Session: "Setting the Stage for Dignity and Empowerment"

Moderator: Kjell Magne Bondevik, Former Prime Minister of Norway and President of the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights

Panel:

• Ingrid Stange, Founder, Partnership for Change; Co-Founder and Philanthropy advisor, Wealth Management, Inc., Oslo Norway.
• Vigdis Vevstad, Independent consultant on international refugee- and asylum law, human rights law and EU developments.
• Denise O'Brien, Founder of Women, Food, and Agriculture Network

Session 4, October 11, 2012

Plenary Session: "Intersections of Oppression"

Panel Chair: Debra Fitzpatrick, Program Director, Center on Women and Public Policy, University of Minnesota
Panel:

• Rose M. Brewer, Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor African American & African Studies, University of Minnesota
• Dara Z. Strolovitch, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota
• Sanford (Sandy) Schram, Visiting Professor, Bryn Mawr College

Session 5, October 11, 2012

Plenary Session: "Business Models of Empowerment"

Introduced by Ingrid Stange, Founder, Partnership for Change; Co-Founder and Philanthropy advisor, Wealth Management, Inc., Oslo Norway
Panel:

• Edna Ogwangi, Manager, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, Land O'Lakes International Development
• Susan Sorensen Langer, Founder & Principal, Mosaic Mindshare, Inc.

Session 6, October 11, 2012

Roundtable: "Minority Economic Development"

• D. Craig Taylor, Director for the Office of Business and Community Economic Development at the University of Minnesota
• Inhyuck "Steve" Ha, Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the MBA Program at Western Carolina University in North Carolina
• Mary Prescott, Director for the MnDOT Office of Civil Rights
• Al McFarlane, Insight News Editor-In-Chief

Session 7, October 12, 2012

Welcome Remarks

• Senator Amy Klobuchar
• Congressman Keith Ellison
• Micah Hines, General Counsel, Office of Governor Mark Dayton and Lieutenant Governor Yvonne Prettner Solon
• Eric Schwartz, Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Session 8, October 12, 2012

Plenary Session: "Summary and Synthesis of Remedies Around the World"

Panel Chair: Samuel L. Myers, Professor, Chair of Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice, University of Minnesota
Panel:

• William A. "Sandy" Darity, Professor, Chair of Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice, University of Minnesota
• Ashwini Deshpande,Professor, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
• Graham Hingangaroa Smith, Distinguished Professor of Education, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi: indigenous-university, New Zealand

Session 9, October 12, 2012

Plenary Session: "Human Rights as Civil Rights"

Panel Chair: Eric Schwartz, Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Panel:

• Barbara Frey, Director of Human Rights Program, University of Minnesota
• Judge LaJune Lange(retired), International Leadership Institute, Senior Fellow, Roy Wilkins Center
• Juan Mendez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

Session 10, October 12, 2012

Plenary Session: "Place vs. Race"

Panel Chair: Myron Orfield, Director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, University of Minnesota
Panel:

• Katherine Kersten, Senior Fellow, Center of the American Experiment
• john powell, Director, Haas Diversity Research Center (HDRC), University of California, Berkeley
• Paul Williams, Deputy Mayor, City of Saint Paul
• Bill Wilson, Executive Director, Higher Ground Academy

Session 11, October 12, 2012

Plenary Session: "Human Capital and Early Childhood Education"

Panel Chair: Karen Kelley- Ariwoola, Children's Strategy Consultant/ Former VP, Minneapolis Foundation
Panel:

• Art Rolnick, Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Human Capital Research Collaborative at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
• Judy Temple, Associate Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs and Applied Economic Analysis, University of Minnesota
• Charles Nelson, Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School

Session 12, October 13, 2012

Plenary Session: "Community Transformation"

Co-Panel Chair:
Gary Cunningham, VP of Programs, Northwest Area Foundation
Trista Harris, Executive Director, Headwaters Foundation for Justice
Panel:

• john powell, Director, Haas Diversity Research Center (HDRC), University of California, Berkeley
• Victoria Woodards, President/CEO Tacoma Urban League (AALF—Tacoma, WA)
• Tony Hopson, President and CEO Self Enhancement, Inc. (AALF—Portland, OR)
• Teree Caldwell-Johnson, CEO, Oakridge Neighborhood and Oakridge Neighborhood Services (AALF—Des Moines, IA)
• Chris Stewart, Founder, Action For Equity (AALF—Twin Cities, MN)

Session 13, October 13, 2012

Plenary Session: "Local Economic Development"

Moderator: Hussein Samatar, African Development Center
Panel:

• Toni Carter, County Commissioner (District 4) Ramsey County, Minnesota
• Micah Hines, General Counsel, Office of Governor Mark Dayton and Lieutenant Governor Yvonne Prettner Solon
• Nekima Levy-Pounds, Associate Professor of Law, University of Saint Thomas; Director, Community Justice Project
• Angelique Kedem, Director, Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood, Wilder Foundation

Session 14, October 13, 2012

Summary and Synthesis: "Where Do We Go from Here?"

Panel Chair: Margaret Simms, Institute fellow and director of the Institute's Low-Income Working Families project, The Urban Institute
Panel:

• Ashwini Deshpande, Professor, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
• Graham Hingangaroa Smith, Distinguished Professor of Education, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi: indigenous-university, New Zealand
• Joe Soss, Professor, Cowles Chair for the Study of Public Services, University of Minnesota
• Samuel L. Myers, Jr., Professor, Chair of Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice, University of Minnesota