| 8:00
a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00
a.m. | Opening
Session WelcomeReynaldo
Macias
Acting
Dean, Division of Social Sciences, The UCLA College Eva
Paterson
President, Equal Justice Society Access to Contracts: The State of
MBEs and WBEs Post-209 - Robert W. Fairlie, Professor
of Economics, UC Santa Cruz
- Dave Keen, Managing Director,
BBC Research & Consulting and Consultant for Caltrans Study
- Tim Lohrentz,
Program Manager, National Economic Development and Law Center
- Bernida Reagan, Director
of Social Responsibility, Port of Oakland
- Moderator:
Maria Blanco, Executive Director, Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity &
Diversity, UC Berkeley School of Law
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11:00
a.m. | Public Employment in California Post-209:
A Case Study of the University of California - Rosina Becerra,
Associate Vice Chancellor, Office of Faculty Diversity, UCLA
- Karume James, Organizer,
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
- Mandla Kayise,
University Relations Chair, UCLA Black Alumni Association and Co-Chair, Alliance
for Equal Opportunity in Education
- Bob
Laird, Former UC Berkeley Director of Undergraduate Admission
and Author of The Case for Affirmative Action in University Admissions
- Moderator: Darnell Hunt, Director, Bunche Center for
African American Studies, UCLA
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12:30
p.m. | Lunch and Lunchtime Presentation
“Compelling
State Interest: A Contra-History of California Without Proposition 209”
John
William Templeton, President and Executive Editor
of eAccess Corp. |
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1:30
p.m. | The Opportunity Gap: Examining the
Impact of 209 on Specific Communities - Justin Marion,
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California Santa Cruz
- Monique Morris,
Senior Research Fellow, Thelton Henderson Center for Social Justice, UC Berkeley
School of Law
- Paul Ong, Professor, School of Public Affairs
and Urban Planning, UCLA
- Michael Sumner,
Research Fellow, Thelton Henderson Center for Social Justice, UC Berkeley School
of Law
- Moderator:
Ruth Milkman, Director, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
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| 3:00
p.m. | Combating 209 in the Courts: Innovative
Legal Strategies to Challenge Prop. 209 - Sumi Cho, Professor of Law, DePaul University
College of Law
- Araceli Martinez-Olguin, Women's Rights Project Fellow,
American Civil Liberties Union
- Bradley Phillips,
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
- David Oppenheimer,
Professor of Law, Golden Gate University
- Christopher Westhoff,
Los Angeles Assistant City Attorney and Public Works General Counsel
- Moderator: Cheryl Harris,
Professor, UCLA School of Law
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4:30
p.m. | Global
Responses to Affirmative Action: The State of Equal Opportunity
in Brazil, France, and the European Union - Camila Morsch,
Associate Director and Senior Researcher, African American Policy Forum
- Marie-Christine
Pauwels, Associate Professor, Research Center
on English and American Studies (CREA), University of Paris
- Sophie Robin-Olivier, Professor of Law and Co-Director
of the Center for European and Comparative Studies (CEJEC), University of Paris
- Moderator:
Paule Cruz Takash, Research Associate, UCLA North American Integration
& Development (NAID) Center
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5:30
p.m. | Reception and Screening of Documentary
Arise:
The Battle Over Affirmative Action (Firelight Media) |
| 6:00
p.m. | Closing
Session Keynote Address
Thomas Saenz
Counsel
to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, City of Los Angeles Impact
of Prop. 209: The Future of Opportunity- Greg Akili, Convener,
Alliance for Equal Opportunity in Education and Senior Political/Community
Organizer SEIU Local 1000
- Ellen Buchman,
Field Director, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
- Vincent Pan,
Executive Director, Chinese For Affirmative Action
- Thomas Saenz,
Counsel to Mayor Villaraigosa, City of Los Angeles
- Moderator:
Eva Paterson, President, Equal Justice Society
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