BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal: Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.16.12// METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Ical BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.1377785.field_date.0@carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu DTSTAMP:20210301T011100Z DESCRIPTION:\n Please join the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy for its s ignature weekly series this fall\, \;The Fierce Urgency of Now\, \ ;featuring Black\, Indigenous\, People of Color scholars\, activists\, and community leaders\, and experts from the Global South. Hosted and facilit ated by Sushma Raman and Mathias Risse\, the series also aligns with a cou rse they will co-teach this fall at the Harvard Kennedy School on Economic Justice: Theory and Practice. \;\n\n\n\n Panelists:\n\n\n\n \n Dr. Carme n Rojas | \;President and CEO\, Marguerite Casey Foundation \;\n \n \n Dr. Maribel Morey | \;Founder\, Miami Institute of Social Sciences a nd international historian\n \n\n\n\n Dr. Carmen Rojas is the president and CEO of the Marguerite Casey Foundation. Prior to joining Marguerite Casey Foundation\, Dr. Carmen Rojas was the Co-Founder and former CEO of The Wor kers Lab\, an innovation lab that invests in entrepreneurs\, community org anizers\, and government leaders to create replicable and revenue-generati ng solutions that improve conditions for low-wage workers. For more than 2 0 years\, Carmen has worked with foundations\, financial institutions\, an d non-profits to improve the lives of working people across the United Sta tes. Prior to building The Workers Lab\, Carmen was the Acting Director of Collective Impact at Living Cities. She supported 22 of the largest found ations and financial institutions in the world to invest in improving econ omic opportunity for low-income people by supporting projects in the field s of economic and workforce development\, energy efficiency\, and asset bu ilding. From 2008 to 2011\, Carmen was the Director of Strategic Programs at the Mitchell Kapor Foundation\, where she oversaw the foundation’s Gree n Access and Civic Engagement programs. Alongside her work at the foundati on\, Carmen also taught in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to this\, Carmen was the Coordinator of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency’s Taskforce on Afric an American Out-Migration to address African American displacement from th e city.\n\n\n\n Dr. Maribel Morey is the founder of the Miami Institute for the Social Sciences\, established in the summer of 2020. She is the found er and co-editor of HistPhil\, a site on the history of philanthropy estab lished in 2015. \; She is working on two book projects. The projects a re based on extensive archival research\, which she has conducted over the span of a decade\, on the Carnegie\, Rockefeller\, and Ford foundations f rom their geneses to the late twentieth century. The first book\, White Ph ilanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order\, is forthcoming in 2021 with The University of North C arolina Press. The book details the colonial African roots to Gunnar Myrda l's An American Dilemma (1944)\, a leading work of postwar racial liberali sm in the US commissioned by Carnegie Corporation of New York. The second book details when and why elite foundations such as the Rockefeller\, Carn egie\, and Ford foundations became particularly invested in the U.S. civil rights movement.  \;\n\n\n\n Virtual Event Details: \;This event w ill be livestreamed on YouTube Live. Attendees registered for this event ( link below) will receive a reminder for the livestream fifteen minutes bef ore the event along with a link to the YouTube page where you can particip ate in the live chat and ask questions during the event.\n\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201105T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201105T143000 LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T171205Z LOCATION:Virtual Event (Registration Required) SUMMARY:Philanthropy and Inequality URL;TYPE=URI:https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/philanthropy-and-ineq uality END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR