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| American University Panel | Increasing socio-economic diversity in higher education | Wed, 21 Feb - 3:30 PM - Battelle AtriumThe Roosevelt Institution @ American University * Dialogue on Diversity Series Join some of AU's most dynamic Administrators and Faculty for a panel discussion on: Wed, 21 Feb - 3:30 PM - Battelle Atrium
Towards the end, we will open the floor to questions from the audience. Snacks and refreshments will be served.
Professor Charlene Gilbert Charlene Gilbert is an independent documentary film and videomaker whose award winning film, Homecoming, Sometimes I am haunted by memories of red dirt and clay, premiered nationally on PBS and won the NBPC Prized Pieces Award for Best Documentary. Ms. Gilbert also co-authored, with Quinn Eli, a companion book to the film entitled Homecoming: The Story of African American Farmers published by Beacon Press. Her most recent documentary, Children Will Listen premiered at the 2004 AFI Silverdocs Documentary Festival and had its national primetime PBS broadcast premiere in the fall of 2005. Her films and videos have been screened in numerous international and national festivals including: The Women in the Director's Chair Festival, the Chicago International Television Festival, FESPACO, the Athens International Film and Video Festival and the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema. Ms. Gilbert is also the recipient of several awards and fellowships including the Rockefeller Media Fellowship, Harvard University's Bunting Fellowship, and the Kellogg National Leadership Fellowship award. She is currently working on a documentary project on Juvenile Justice which she hopes to complete in 2005. Ms. Gilbert resides in Washington, DC where she is an associate professor in the School of Communication at American University. Ms. Fanta Aw Fanta Aw has over 15 years of experience in higher Education Administration. Ms Aw is Director of International Student and Scholar Services at American University and Interim Director of Multicultural Affairs. From January 1996-April 1998, Fanta served as associate director of Intercultural Services at AU. Her Portfolio included Multicultural Affairs, in addition to International Student Services, the Sexual Minority Resource Center and Kay Spiritual Life Center. Fanta was a member of the University Diversity Committee for three years and received a Special Recognition Award for Exemplary Service from Multicultural Affairs in 1996. Fanta is actively engaged in training and consulting on diversity issues and intercultural communication at AU and for outside organizations. Fanta has guest lectured on topics such as culture and race relations, multiculturalism, gender relations, and intercultural team building. She holds a certificate in Diversity training from the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication in Portland, Oregon. She has an MPA from American University with a concentration in Organization Development. She is a PhD candidate (ABD) at American University in Sociology with a concentration area in Social Stratification: Race, Ethnicity, and Class. Professor Louis Massiah Louis Massiah is an independent documentary film maker whose films often explore historical and political subjects. A MacArthur Foundation fellow, his works include W.E.B. Du Bois - a Biography in Four Voices and Louise Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words, a biography of the activist and organizer. His current project for public television, Haytian Stories, examines the complex relationship between the United States and Haiti. He has used the documentary as a tool for exploring community histories in The Bombing of Osage Avenue, on the 1985 Philadelphia police bombing, and as a producer/director of Power! and A Nation of Law?, two films for the PBS series Eyes on the Prize II. Massiah is the founder and executive director of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, a media arts organization that provides low-cost workshops and equipment access to emerging video/filmmakers. Currently, he is conducting the Precious Places Citywide Community History Project, a series of short documentaries produced collaboratively with 40 neighborhood organizations in and around Philadelphia. Massiah has received awards from Columbia-DuPont, the Global Village Documentary Festival, the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, and fellowships from the Pew Trust and the Rockefeller Foundation. Aside from teaching at Scribe, Massiah has been a lecturer and resident artist at the Princeton University Atelier, Haverford College, and the University of Pennsylvania. Professor John Willoughby John Willoughby received his B.A. in History from the University of Michigan. He received his M.A. in Economics from Cambridge University, and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He has recently returned from a two-year stay in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates where he helped create an undergraduate economics program at the new American University of Sharjah. He has also taught at the American University in Cairo as a visiting professor. Willoughby has long been active in the Union for Radical Political Economics, and is presently a member of the Review of Radical Political Economics editorial board. He is also a member of the Middle East Studies Association. AU Financial Aid Rep. TBA Moderator: Daniel Maree
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