This calendar provides scheduling and other information for upcoming panels, workshops, and presentations hosted by RCLA at NYU's Robert F.Wagner Graduate School of Public Service that address issues of leadership. Links to programs and other detailed information about presenters are provided where available.
Decades of research on multicultural competence in social work and other fields has found that self-knowledge and self-reflection are the foundations of skillful and respectful interactions across racial and ethnic groups. This two-day learning session will provide tools that foster self-knowledge by enabling participants to surface and reflect on their often unconscious understandings of race, how it affects them and its role in their work. As a result, participants will leave the session better equipped to engage the sometimes thorny issues of race and ethnicity.
This session is suited for anyone from front-line staff to program managers to executive directors and board members who want to enhance their cross-cultural social change work by understanding themselves better.
Special Guests: Erica Gabrielle Foldy, RCLA affiliated faculty member, will work with other presenters with many years of experience helping others address race and ethnicity in interpersonal and organizational contexts.
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Social justice organizations often work on shoestring budgets in environments of material scarcity. Collaborating with other organizations can be a way of having a bigger impact with little resources. In this session participants will explore the elements of effective coalitions and organizational alliances. Participants will also learn practices and techniques for forming collaborations that allow organizations to accomplish together what they can't do alone.
This session is best suited for executive directors, program managers and program directors who have experience working in both successful and failed collaborations. This session is ideal for people who are looking for new knowledge from peers on how to optimize existing collaborations and nurture partnerships.
Special Guests: This session will tap into the direct experiences of practitioners as well as insights from RCLA's examination of these questions. Other speakers to be announced.
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October 7, 2009
In this political moment, it is critically important to define and deepen our collective understanding of what community organizing is and how it helps achieve social justice goals. This learning session will provide the opportunity for participants to consider how different types of organizations and practitioners can best participate in organizing for justice, starting with the basics.
This session is best suited for people who work to organize constituents and stakeholders and is ideal for people who are planning a new campaign.
Special Guests: Joan Minieri (co-founder of Community Voices Heard, co-author of Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in Your Community, and RCLA consultant) and others to be announced.
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August 10, 12 and 14, 2009
How to use social networking technologies to advance social change will be explored through a series of three mini-sessions. At the first session, participants will learn about the various available social networking technologies and hear examples of the innovative ways organizations around the world use these technologies to advance and enhance their work. At the second and third sessions, participants will get hands-on experience with learning, testing, and customizing various technologies to determine what would work best in their social justice contexts.
These sessions are best suited for people who manage communications or conduct strategic outreach to constituents and stakeholders.
Special Guests: Ted Perlmutter (director of Knowledge Management at the Center for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University) and Tom Glaysier (social media consultant and PhD candidate for interdisciplinary communications at Columbia University).
Event information | Social media tools you can use
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June 25, 2009
This workshop will provide people who manage or fund leadership development programs in NYC with a framework to assess and document program results at the personal, organizational and community levels. The event is part of a Leadership Learning Circle series co-sponsored with the Leadership Learning Community.
The Learning Circle will be facilitated by Claire Reinelt, PhD, the research and evaluation director for the Leadership Learning Community. Dr. Reinelt is the co-editor of The Handbook of Leadership Development Evaluation and has worked with numerous organizations to develop evaluation models and engage in evaluation processes.
Get more event information. Learn more about the Leadership Learning Circle series.
• Joel I. Klein, Chancellor, Department of Education
• Adrian Benepe, Commissioner, Department of Parks and Recreation
• Kamal Bherwani, CIO for Health and Human Services and Executive Director, HHS-Connect
• Martin F. Horn, Commissioner, Departments of Correction and Probation
Moderator: Peter Madonia, Chief Operating Officer, Rockefeller Foundation
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Participants will explore how people learn concepts and skills differently, learn techniques for designing truly participatory trainings, and bring their own experiences to examine and practice the fundamentals of creating effective workshops and trainings.
This session is best suited for people who design and deliver trainings to others and is ideal for people who are in the early stages of developing a training program for constituents or staff members.
Special Guests: Joan Minieri (co-founder of Community Voices Heard, co-author of Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in Your Community, and RCLA consultant) and others to be announced.
This was a thoughtful conversation with Dr. Carmen Medeiros, assistant professor at NYU's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, as part of the event series on Democratic Governance and Sustainable Development in Latin America.
12:00-1:30pm
Puck Building, Rudin Family Forum
295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012
A light lunch will be served.
This session will provide the opportunity for grassroots leaders to:
-Explore questions and challenges as well as successful experiences related to multi-generational leadership;
-Explore a possible framework to understand the current landscape of multi-generational leadership in social service, advocacy, community organizing and related fields; and
-Identify possible next steps you can take to address your own personal and organizational needs regarding multi-generational leadership.
This training is suited for leaders from all generations - Traditionalists, Baby Boomers; Generation Xers; Millennials - and is especially ideal for people who are interested in exploring approaches to managing leadership transitions and a multi-generational workforce. Bring your own experiences, exchange ideas and hear from researchers and practitioners who have carefully examined the changing leadership landscape and its implications from a range of perspectives.
Special Guests: Frances Kunreuther and Robby Rodriguez (co-authors of Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership), and Esmeralda Simmons (founder and executive director of the Center for Law and Social Justice).
Session Co-Facilitators: Joan Minieri (SCLN session coordinator), Amparo Hofmann-Pinilla (RCLA deputy director and SCLN director), and AiLun Ku (RCLA programs manager).
12:00-5:00pm
Rudin Family Forum, Puck Building
295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10012
A light lunch will be served.
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Space is limited and registration is required.
Our nation is experiencing an extreme economic downturn in the context of a changed political landscape in Washington. This panel presentation by leading scholars and activists addresses how gender and race must be taken into account in economic and social policies related to economic recovery and the persistent problem of poverty.
Introduction by Suzanne E. England, Ph.D., Dean, Silver School of Social Work, NYU
Mimi Abramovitz, DSW, Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor, Hunter College School of Social Work, CUNY
C. Nicole Mason, Ph.D., Executive Director, Women of Color Policy Network, Research Center for Leadership in Action, NYU Wagner
Community Voices Heard Representative TBA
Moderated by Erica Gabrielle Foldy, Ph.D., RCLA faculty member and Assistant Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management,
NYU Wagner
6:00-8:00pm
Puck Building, Rudin Family Forum
295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor
RSVPs are required. Please RSVP by April 3.
Join us for a lively conversation with Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, as part of the event series on Democratic Governance and Sustainable Development in Latin America.
This talk will first outline some of the ways in which cultural production and consumption in Latin America become integrated into local political cultures and permit previously silenced models of governance and democratic participation to move into the cultural and political mainstream. The focus will then shift to the specific example of how several hundred women in Oaxaca City, Mexico from different types of backgrounds took over state and then commercial media for a period of several months. In the process of reprogramming television and radio they articulated specific rights they called the rights "to speak," "to be heard," and "to decide who governs." This discourse of rights was literally amplified over television and radio and then became an important part a larger social movement aimed at reconfiguring state politics, models of governance, and what it means to be a citizen of Oaxaca.
12:00-1:30pm
Puck Building, Rudin Family Forum
295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012
A light lunch will be served.
RSVPs are required. Please RSVP by April 3.
This three-day experiential learning conference is designed to help participants understand the complexity of dynamics motivating our behavior in groups and organizations so that we may transform ourselves and our organizations by becoming responsible reflective citizens of the world.
Application Deadline: March 23, 2009.
For more information, please email us.
Fifteen years ago this April, the world witnessed one of the most devastating atrocities in history - a campaign of violence so ruthless that an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of three months. More than a decade later, survivors are haunted by memories and traumatized by the daily realities of living in a society where justice has not been served.
NYU Wagner's Research Center for Leadership in Action is gathering an interdisciplinary council of experts for a unique workshop with Mary Blewitt, founder of the nonprofit Survivors Fund, which assists and advocates for Rwandan genocide survivors. The event will be a chance for experts in trauma, genocide and psychological care to serve as a sounding board on new ways to reduce the emotional and mental toll the genocide continues to take on survivors' lives, and for event attendees concerned with these issues to gain new insights.
Since the genocide in 1994, Mary Blewitt has dedicated her life to helping the survivors through the Survivors Fund, a UK-based nonprofit. In 2009, she has stepped down as founder and director of SURF to serve as a visiting fellow at the RCLA. It is an opportunity to reflect on and document her experience and to find new answers to survivors' needs.
Despite the work of the Survivors Fund to advocate for survivors and raise funds to meet practical needs, Rwandan survivors still face innumerable challenges, from poverty and lack of shelter to the effects of lost childhoods, disrupted educations and thousands of victims' skeletons still awaiting decent burial. In a society where genocide is not discussed and justice was compromised in favor of expeditious "reconciliation," survivors suffer from high levels of anxiety and fear, as well as extreme anger, the desire for revenge, and in some cases, self-destructive tendencies including suicide, particularly among young people.
9:00-11:00am
Puck Building, Rudin Family Forum
295 Lafayette St, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012
March 31, 2009
This event was a lively discussion with Denise Rousseau, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, and Bernard Birnbaum, MD, Senior Vice President and Vice Dean, Chief of Hospital Operations, NYU Langone Medical Center.
The event was moderated by Anthony R. Kovner, Professor of Public and Health Management, NYU Wagner.
5:30pm-7:30pm
The Puck Building, The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue, 2nd Floor
Join us for a lively discussion with Dr. Robert Kaufman, professor of Political Science, Rutgers University, as part of the event series on Democratic Governance and Sustainable Development in Latin America.
12:00-1:30pm
Puck Building, Rudin Family Forum
295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012
A light lunch will be served.
This briefing will focus on the City's work with its nonprofit partners and vendors in this nearly perfect storm of financial downturn. In these times of increased demand, retrenchment by government at all levels and by donors, it is critical that the City and nonprofit organizations work together to meet the complex needs of New Yorkers. This environment will necessitate an increased reliance on effective collaboration and performance based contracting. The panel includes experts from a mix of human, cultural and central agencies, cutting across key areas of City contracting with non-profits.
With opening remarks by Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs, the panel includes:
• Lilliam Barrios-Paoli, Commissioner, Department for the Aging
• Robert Doar, Commissioner, Human Resources Administration
• Kate Levin, Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs
• Marla Simpson, Director, Mayor's Office of Contract Services
Moderator: Florence Davis, Director and President, Starr Foundation
For more information about this series, please email us.
Join Irshad Manji, RCLA visiting scholar and founder of the Moral Courage Project, the Muslim reformer whom The New York Times calls "Osama bin Laden's worst nightmare" and to whom Oprah Winfrey bestowed the first "Chutzpah Award," as she talks with award-winning CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour about moral courage in journalism.
Manji is author of the international best seller The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslims Call for Reform in Her Faith, and creator of the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary, Faith Without Fear.
The Moral Courage Project, an affiliate of the Research Center for Leadership in Action at NYU Wagner, teaches us that real diversity is about different ideas, not just identities.
8:00 pm
92nd St. Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Tickets are $27.
Join Irshad Manji, NYU Wagner Adjunct and founder of the Moral Courage Project, the Muslim reformer whom The New York Times calls "Osama bin Laden's worst nightmare" and to whom Oprah Winfrey bestowed the first "Chutzpah Award," as she launches a series of public conversations about moral courage in journalism, politics, religion and beyond, engaging with leaders who will illuminate and influence the future of free expression in a fragile world.
Manji is author of the international best seller The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslims Call for Reform in Her Faith, and creator of the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary, Faith Without Fear.
The Moral Courage Project, an affiliate of the Research Center for Leadership in Action at NYU Wagner, teaches us that real diversity is about different ideas, not just identities. The Moral Courage Conversations premiere with Manji's guest, the celebrated novelist Salman Rushdie, on the 20th anniversary of Iran's fatwa against him. Salman Rushdie is the author of 10 novels, one collection of short stories and four works of nonfiction, and a winner of the Booker Prize, the Booker of Bookers and the Best of the Booker. Rushdie's most recent novel is The Enchantress of Florence.
7:30 p.m.
92nd St. Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Tickets are $27.
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