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<\/a>Impact! Classmate Discussions<\/strong>
\nSever Hall (second floor)<\/em>
\nThese interactive breakout sessions will be led by classmates working to improve our\u00a0communities, our nation, and our world. We will collaborate in answering, \u201cHow\u00a0can we make a difference? What can we do, in practice, to effect change?\u201d<\/p>\n

Click each session’s title for details on the topic, and for speaker bios.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Equity\/Justice\/Development Town Hall \u2013 New Ideas<\/a><\/strong>
\n2:00-2:50 PM\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sever Hall Room 213 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>
\nDayna Cunningham, Clinton Collins, Jr., Maddy DeLone, Erika (Peterson) Munson, Cecile Scoon<\/p>\n

\u2022 Silence=Death: HIV\/AIDS and the Class of 1981<\/a><\/strong>
\n2:00-2:50 PM\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sever Hall Room 214 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>
\nJeff Burack, David Margolis, Lisa Hirschhorn, Ben Schatz, Ann Stapleton<\/p>\n

\u2022 Envisioning and Contributing to the Future of Education<\/a><\/strong>
\n3:00-3:50PM\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sever Hall Room 213
\n<\/em>Judy Bigelow, Chris Gabrieli, Nancy Northrop, Chris Owens, Felisa Tibbitts<\/p>\n

\u2022 The New Global Health: It\u2019s Not Just for Doctors<\/a><\/strong>
\n3:00-3:50PM<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sever Hall Room 214
\n<\/em>Vivian Lee, Andy Pugh, Marilyn Butler, Lisa Hirschhorn, Brian Mullaney<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sustainable Cities<\/a><\/strong>
\n3:00-3:50PM<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sever Hall Room 203
\n<\/em>Cara Seiderman, Alberto Knoepfler, Roger Platt, Vince Marazita, Jennifer Hernandez<\/p>\n

\u2022 Achieving Leaps Forward in Population Health<\/a><\/strong>
\n4:00-4:50 PM<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sever Hall Room 203
\n<\/em>Karen Scott, Dayna Bowen Matthew, Jessica Banthin, Stephen Warnke, Amy Boesky, Arnold Chen<\/p>\n

\u2022 Energy, Carbon, and the Clean Pivot<\/a><\/strong>
\n4:00-4:50 PM\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sever Hall Room 214
\n<\/em>Morry Cater, Clair Mays Poumadere, Dave Smith, Bob DiMatteo, Rob Stowe<\/p>\n

Details for the Impact! sessions:<\/h2>\n

<\/a>Equity\/Justice\/Development Town Hall \u2013 New Ideas<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

2:00-2:50PM \u00a0 Sever Hall Room 213<\/em><\/p>\n

Dayna Cunningham, Clinton Collins, Jr., Maddy DeLone, Erika (Peterson) Munson, Cecile Scoon<\/p>\n

Classmates working in a variety of social justice fields invite you to join a town hall session to discuss key questions.\u00a0 On one hand we find growing inequality, record levels of incarceration, hateful political discourse; on the other, growing marriage equality and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).\u00a0 What is happening in our country?\u00a0 Is an inclusive US society even possible?\u00a0 Where do the biggest challenges lie? What new ideas are driving breakthroughs in these areas?\u00a0 What will we do, individually and collectively, to address these challenges?\u00a0 Come join the discussion, share your ideas and learn from others.<\/p>\n

Speaker Details<\/u><\/strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clinton<\/strong> Collins <\/strong>(U of Michigan Law, ’88), is Minnesota Managing Attorney, GEICO Staff Counsel and board chair, Minneapolis Urban League.\u00a0 Clinton has served as an Air Force Judge Advocate, a member of the Minneapolis Civil Rights Commission and board member, Minnesota Professional Responsibility Board.\u00a0 Clinton lives in north Minneapolis, one of the most economically and socially challenged sections of the Twin Cities, with his family.
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Maddy deLone<\/strong> (HSPH ’84; NYU-JD’94) is the Executive Director of the Innocence Project, as non-profit legal services and public policy organization that uses DNA to free innocent people from prison who were convicted of crimes they didn’t commit and works to reform the criminal justice system to prevent wrongful convictions from happening in the first place and to make it more fair and just.\u00a0 Maddy has been working in the areas of prison health, prisoners’ rights, and criminal justice reform since she started working as a health administrator at Rikers Island jail complex in NYC in 1985.<\/p>\n

Dayna L. Cunningham<\/strong> (NYU-JD \u201986; MIT Sloan\u2013MBA \u201904) Dayna L. Cunningham is Executive Director of MIT Community Innovators Lab (CoLab), a planning and development lab in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning. CoLab supports the development and use of knowledge from excluded communities to deepen civic engagement, improve community practice, inform policy, mobilize community assets, and generate shared wealth.<\/p>\n

Erika Peterson Munson<\/strong> is co-founder of Mormons Building Bridges — a community dedicated to making Latter-day Saint homes, congregations and communities safe and welcoming for LGBTQ people.\u00a0 She is Class XII Dean and member of the English Department at Waterford School, an independent K-12 school in Sandy Utah. She and her husband Shipley (’80) parent their five children to greater and lesser degrees while discovering the low-pressure, high-reward joy of spending time with their two grandchildren.<\/p>\n

Cecile Scoon <\/strong>is a small town civil rights lawyer in North Florida, commonly called \u201cL.A.,\u201d for \u201cLower Alabama.\u201d\u00a0 After graduating from U. Virginia School of Law,\u201984, she spent five years as an active-duty Air Force JAG\u00a0 prosecuting in military courts martial. She retired from the A.F. Reserves as a Major in 2005.\u00a0 Cecile attempts to protect the rights of those wronged at work due to their race, religion, age, disability, place of birth, or unwanted sexual advances made to them.\u00a0 Cecile is the President of the Bay County League of Women Voters and on the Board of Directors for the Florida League of Women Voters.<\/p>\n

When not burning the\u00a0midnight\u00a0oil drafting lengthy pleadings, Cecile enjoys parenting her three children, 20, 22, and 25 along with running, gardening, painting, and watching soccer with her best friend, husband, law partner, and LWV member, Alvin Peters.<\/p>\n

Return to\u00a0Summary of Impact!<\/a><\/p>\n

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Silence=Death:\u00a0 HIV\/AIDS and the Class of 1981<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

2:00-2:50PM\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sever Hall Room 214<\/p>\n

Jeff Burack, David Margolis, Lisa Hirschhorn, Ben Schatz, Ann Stapleton<\/p>\n

HIV emerged as a global epidemic as we completed our time at Harvard, and has since infected more than 70 million people.\u00a0 The AIDS pandemic has deeply affected the world, and shaped the lives and careers of many in the class of 1981.\u00a0 Through work spanning community activism, science, and care and treatment, much progress has been achieved.\u00a0 Now nearly 40 million people live with HIV around the world, many on effective treatment with substantial reductions in deaths and new infections.\u00a0 Work continues to improve access to effective treatment and prevention therapies, develop a preventive vaccine, and find a cure, to achieve the goal of an \u201cAIDS-free generation\u201d.<\/p>\n

This HIV\/AIDS work has influenced how we respond to other health challenges, from breast cancer to Ebola.\u00a0 We invite you to a conversation around experiences, lesson learned, and roads traveled, and hope that you will come and share your perspectives.<\/p>\n

Speaker Details<\/u><\/strong>:
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Jeff Burack <\/strong>is Medical Director of the East Bay AIDS Center, a large community hospital-based HIV clinic serving a predominantly indigent population in and around Oakland, CA.\u00a0 He supervises outpatient and inpatient care, and heads research projects on HIV prevention and treatment.\u00a0 He is Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and of Bioethics and Medical Humanities at UC Berkeley.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>David Margolis <\/strong>became interested in HIV as the pandemic emerged during his medical training. Trained at\u00a0Tufts, the New England Medical Center, the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation at the NIH, and Program in Molecular Medicine at UMass, he has cared for people with HIV and\u00a0studied the interactions between HIV and the host cell on the molecular level for his entire career. For the last 12 years, he and many collaborators have begun to develop drug and immunotherapy approaches to target persistent HIV, to develop the tools needed to cure HIV infection.\u00a0\u00a0He is\u00a0the director of the UNC HIV Cure Center, funded in part by a public-private partnership between UNC and Glaxo SmithKline,\u00a0principal investigator for the NIH-sponsored Collaboratory of AIDS Researchers for Eradication (http:\/\/www.delaneycare.org<\/a>),\u00a0and a\u00a0professor of Medicine, and Microbiology & Immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n

Lisa Hirschhorn<\/strong> trained as an HIV physician in the 1980’s and is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She works to expand and improve care and treatment in HIV and other areas of health, in resource-limited settings in the US and globally. After 9 years at Partners in Health, she now works at Ariadne Labs, an innovation partnership between Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.<\/p>\n

Ben Schatz <\/strong>founded the AIDS Civil Rights Project in 1985, the first national program dedicated to HIV-related impact litigation. \u00a0In 1991 he started a national program for HIV+ heath care workers and went on to become Exec. Director of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association. \u00a0In 1992, Ben authored then-candidate Bill Clinton\u2019s HIV and gay rights policy papers and later served on President Clinton\u2019s Presidential Advisory Committee on HIV\/AIDS, where he chaired the Discrimination Committee. \u00a0In 1993 Ben co-created The Kinsey Sicks, America\u2019s Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartert, as an antidote to homorespectability and to promote joy in the face of too many years of grieving. \u00a0Two of Ben\u2019s four co-founders went on to die HIV-related deaths. \u00a0The group, the joy and the grieving still continue.<\/p>\n

Ann Stapleton <\/strong>is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Medical Director of the Clinical Research Center at the University of Washington in Seattle. She became an HIV primary care physician in 1987, influenced by her training in HIV epicenters, first during medical school in the Bronx (Einstein), then during internal medicine residency at UCSF. She also provides inpatient HIV consultation at Harborview Medical Center, a public hospital in Seattle.<\/p>\n

Return to\u00a0Summary of Impact!<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>Envisioning and Contributing to the Future of Education<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

3:00-3:50PM\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sever Hall Room 213<\/p>\n

Judy Bigelow, Chris Gabrieli, Nancy Northrop, Chris Owens, Felisa Tibbitts
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Classmates with a variety of experience and perspectives on education invite you to join a town hall session to discuss education today and in the future.\u00a0 What will be the required knowledge base for the next 20 to 100 years \u2013 academically and technologically?\u00a0 How should education address social justice and equality issues of today and tomorrow?\u00a0 What will we do, individually and collectively, to improve public education, in particular?\u00a0 Come join the discussion, share your ideas and learn from others.<\/p>\n

Speaker Details<\/u><\/strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Judy Bigelow<\/strong>, Director, Fordham Street Foundation.\u00a0 The Foundation makes grants and supports collaborative efforts to improve public education and reduce racial disparities in academic opportunities and outcomes.<\/p>\n

Chris Gabrieli<\/strong> is CEO of Empower Schools, Chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education and a Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education<\/p>\n

Nancy Northrop<\/strong>, Co-Chair, Chancellor\u2019s Parent Advisory Council, NYC<\/p>\n

Chris Owens<\/strong>:\u00a0 Chris is the Director of The Re-Entry Bureau for the Kings County District Attorney\u2019s office (Brooklyn, NY) and also supervised youth diversion programs for 18 months.\u00a0 He is also President of the non-profit Central Brooklyn Martin Luther King Commission.\u00a0 Chris is a former community school board member and an education non-profit administrator.\u00a0 He and his wife have two sons \u2013 a college freshman and a high school sophomore.<\/p>\n

Felisa Tibbitts<\/strong>, Teachers College of Columbia University. Felisa is a faculty member in the International Education Program and her teaching and research focuses on peace, human rights and democratic citizenship education. Previously she founded and directed an international organization called Human Rights Education Associates and continues to engage with UN agencies and other organizations engaged in the international human rights movement.<\/p>\n

Return to\u00a0Summary of Impact!<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

The New Global Health:\u00a0 It\u2019s Not Just for Doctors<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

3:00-3:50PM\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sever Hall Room 214<\/em><\/p>\n

Vivian Lee, Andy Pugh, Marilyn Butler, Lisa Hirschhorn, Brian Mullaney<\/p>\n

Most of our class has been fortunate enough to have lived and worked in countries with the most advanced healthcare services, technologies and medical diagnostics, devices, drugs and vaccines.\u00a0\u00a0 Much of the world is far worse off, faced with multiple obstacles that limit their access to safe and affordable health care.\u00a0 Some of our classmates have invested their time, effort, or money toward finding solutions to these enormous global health challenges, addressing deficiencies in healthcare systems, training healthcare workers, and producing diagnostics and medicines specifically for use in developing areas of the world.<\/p>\n

Many more opportunities exist for people in our class who have strong skills in other fields to become involved, helping to address social inequities, building advocacy, and strengthening management and leadership.<\/p>\n

Come listen as panelists share their experiences, and learn how you can have an impact today, working together to make a difference in global health.<\/p>\n

Speaker Details:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Moderator
\nVivian Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n