Session VIII: Racially Inclusive Regional Reforms: Today’s Civil Rights Mandate
Speakers made plain the connections between regional governance, coordinated land use policies, regional affordable housing strategies, school funding, and ultimately, better opportunity outcomes for all.
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john powell, Kirwan Institute
Professor john a. powell is an internationally recognized authority in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, and issues relating to race, ethnicity, poverty and the law. He is the executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University. He also holds the Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Law. He has written extensively on a number of issues including racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, the link between housing and school segregation, opportunity-based housing, gentrification, disparities in the criminal justice system, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity and current demographic trends. |
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Carl Anthony, Ford Foundation
Carl Anthony has recently been appointed Acting Director of the Community and Resource Development Unit at the Ford Foundation. At the same time, he continues to direct the Foundation’s Sustainable Metropolitan Communities Initiative and the Regional Equity Demonstration Initiative. Prior to joining the Foundation he was a Convenor and Co-Chair of the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development (BAASD). BAASD is a multi-stakeholder collaborative building consensus on how the region of 6.5 million, and over 100 jurisdictions, should grow. He was Founder and Executive Director 12 years, of the Urban Habitat Program. From 1991 through 1997, Anthony served as President of Earth Island Institute, an international environmental organization to protect and conserve the global biosphere. |
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Rev. Kevin Turman, MOSES
The Reverend Kevin M. Turman is the senior pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Detroit and is the president of Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength (MOSES). He holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard, a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School and a Doctor of Ministry from the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH. Prior to his work in Detroit, he served as pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Boston, and before that he was associate pastor at Bethany Baptist Church in Brooklyn. Dr. Turman is the past president of the Michigan Progressive Baptist Convention, and is an organizer of the Annual Salute to African-American Veterans. |
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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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