Session II: Race & The Suburbs: The Forces of Resegregation
Resegregation has occurred in many metropolitan regions, even after decades of integration through school desegregation programs. Panelists discussed the pattern and some of the remedies they see.
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Walter Mondale, Dorsey & Whitney
Walter F. Mondale’s record of public service includes Vice President of the United States, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, U.S. Senator and Attorney General for the State of Minnesota. He was also the Democratic Party’s nominee for President in 1984. He is currently Senior Counsel with the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney LLP, headquartered in Minneapolis with 16 offices worldwide. He serves as chair of the firm’s Asia Law Practice Group. In March 1998, serving as President Clinton’s special envoy, Mondale traveled to Indonesia to meet with then-President Suharto regarding the Asian financial crisis and economic reforms in Indonesia. |
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Myron Orfield, Institute on Race & Poverty
Myron Orfield is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. He is also the Director of the Institute on Race and Poverty and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He is an authority on civil rights, state and local government, state and local finance, land use, questions of regional governance, and the legislative process. He has undertaken research involving the legal, demographic and land use profiles of various American metropolitan areas. His second book, American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality (Brookings 2002) is a compilation of his work involving the nation's twenty-five largest regions. |
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Harold Adams, Stable Integration Governing Board
Harold M. Adams, Jr., is a business and civic leader in the township of Pennsauken, New Jersey. He is owner and operator of Fee Appraisal Services (FAS), a real estate appraisal business servicing the Delaware Valley. Harold is very active in the community and serves as Chair of the Stable Integration Governing Board (SIGB) and Vice Chair of Neighbors Empowering Pennsauken (NEP). Harold is a volunteer member of the steering committee for the New Jersey Regional Equity Coalition, which seeks to change the current growth share policies of New Jersey from one that promotes economic and racial segregation to one that promotes a fair equitable distribution of economic opportunity and is racially inclusive. |
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Laura Siena, The Integration Project
Laura Morris Siena is Principal of The Integration Project, a consulting firm which offers strategies to foster and support racially and ethnically integrated communities. From 1999 until 2004, Ms. Siena served successively as Board Member, Board Chair and Executive Director of Fund for an OPEN Society, the only national not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote racially and ethnically integrated communities. In these positions, Ms. Siena created an extensive outreach program to a wide range of constituencies. Her goal was to reintroduce racially and ethnically inclusive communities to audiences who might view them as quaint allusions to the civil rights era, rather than communities of choice all Americans might aspire to for themselves and for their children. |
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