National Service-Learning Confernce Update

The National Service-Learning Conference is welcoming a cadre of featured speakers to greet the service-learning community in Providence, Rhode Island, March 15-18, 2000. You can access complete conference information and register on-line on the conference web site at http://www.nylc.org

Featured Speakers include:

Harris Wofford is the CEO of the Corporation of National Service. As a powerful U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, he was a major sponsor of national service and service-learning legislation. Senator Wofford was an advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and assisted Sargent Shriver in launching the Peace Corps.

Dorothy Stoneman is founder and president of YouthBuild USA, the national non-profit intermediary and technical assistance provider for YouthBuild programs. She is also Chairman of the YouthBuild Coalition, with 650 member organizations in 49 states. Previously she spent 25 years running community-based schools, community development corporations, and youth employment programs in East Harlem.

Bernard LaFayette, Jr. is currently a Scholar in Residence at the University of Rhode Island where he has launched the Center for Peace and Nonviolence. Dr. LaFayette is also President of the American Baptist College of ABT Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee; Scholar in Residence at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia. He helped lead the American Civil Rights Movement, and is a minister, educator, lecturer, and authority on the strategy of nonviolent social change.

Kumi Naidoo is Secretary General and CEO of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation. CIVICUS is an international alliance of more than 500 organizations and individuals from 92 countries dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world. Previously he was the founding Executive Director of the South African National NGO Coalition (SANGOCO), the umbrella agency for the NGO community in South Africa. He has been active in the anti-apartheid movement since the age of fifteen.

Howard Zinn is a retired professor of history and political science. He brought the issue of revisionist history in America to the fore with his powerful account our nation’s history with his book, A People’s History. He has authored several books, articles and essays; among them are The Zinn Reader (1997), Marx in Soho (1999) and The Future of History (1999). He is the 1999 Upton Sinclair Award recipient.

James Lowen is an American Book Award-winner who taught sociology at the University of Vermont. He co-wrote the first integrated state-history textbook, Mississippi: Conflict and Change, and created The Truth About Columbus, a subversively true posterbook, which, like Lies My Teacher Told Me, stemmed from two years of research on American history textbooks at the Smithsonian Institution. His most recent book is Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong.

National Service-Learning Confernce Update

by Rebecca Cape

06 December 1999 19:07 UTC