7:30 pm
Smith-Buonano 106
“Strategic Communication in International Development” Speaker: Neill McKee
Neill McKee is an international development program manager from Canada with 38 years of experience, 17 of those years based in developing countries/emerging economies. He presently works for the Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA. In addition, McKee is lead author/editor of a number of important books and articles in the field of development communication, most recently, Strategic Communication in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Sage (2004) and over the years he has been the creator, manager or producer/director of a number of film and videos series on social development and health issues. He has worked on projects with a host of UN agencies, including UNICEF, and NGOs.
**There will be dinner with Neill at 6pm. For anyone who would like to go, please contact tushar@brown.edu.
Monday, April 7
6-8pm
Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall, Pembroke
The Brown Social Enterprise Club is holding a mixer event with Commerce, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship and the Engineering departments. We’re planning on having both faculty, social entrepreneur experts, and students at this function to just allow people of all different disciplines to interact and exchange ideas and thoughts.A taste of who’s to come:
Dean Gregory Crawford of Engineering
Dr. Maria Carkovic, Head of COE
Professor Barrett Hazeltine, Engineering
AND FREE FOOD! Mmm
Thursday, April 3, 2008
4:00PM
Barus and Holly room 751
Spend an afternoon with Paul Polack, Founder of International Development Enterprises and Expert on Sustainable Economic Development
Paul is the founder of IDE (International Development Enterprises) and an expert on sustainable economic development. In his new book, Out of Poverty – What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail, this impassioned and iconoclastic author, entrepreneur, inventor and self-identified “troublemaker,” tells why mainstream poverty eradication programs have fallen so sadly short and how he and his organization developed an alternative approach that has already succeeded in lifting 17 million people out of poverty.
Tuesday, March 4, 4 p.m., Joukowsky Forum.
“Financial Services and the Environment: Investing in our Common Future”
as Amy Davidsen ‘84, the head of JPMorgan’s Office of Environmental Affairs, talks about the challenges and opportunities that financial institutions face when they include environmental and social criteria in their investment decisions. Prior to JPMorgan, she worked at Women’s World Banking.
Amy Davidsen is the Director of the Office of Environmental Affairs responsible for establishing global policies and procedures regarding environmental issues. Ms. Davidsen has over 18 years of banking experience and, most recently, was in Global Philanthropic Services for JPMorgan’s Private Bank. Her particular areas of expertise included advising global clients on philanthropic efforts directed toward the environment, micro-credit, human rights, and venture philanthropy. Ms. Davidsen has held positions auditing the firm’s international loan portfolio, managing the banking relationships of domestic financial institutions, and advising not-for-profits, law firms, and individual clients on their financial needs. From 1988-1990, Ms. Davidsen was the Finance Manager of Women’s World Banking, an international not-for-profit dedicated to providing women access to credit. Ms. Davidsen holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Brown University.
Presented by The Next Generation of Corporate Social Responsibility Lecture Series.
Saturday, March 1, 12 —12:30 p.m., Andrews Dining Hall
Career Week Keynote by Bill Shutkin, ‘87 (Registration Required)
Bill Shutkin ‘87 A global leader for sustainability and social entrepreneurship, Bill is a Partner of the Innovation Network for Communities, a national non-profit launched in early 2007 to develop and spread scalable social innovations in areas such as economic development, energy, land use and transportation. He also currently serves as the Interim Executive Director and Trustee of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), the world’s fastest growing network of sustainable businesses. Starting July 1, he will join the faculty of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder as the inaugural director of a new, interdisciplinary program in smart growth and sustainable development housed in the Leeds’ Real Estate Center.
From 2004-2006, he was President and CEO of the Orton Family Foundation, the Vermont and Colorado-based operating foundation that seeks to transform the land use planning system as a pathway to vibrant and sustainable communities. Prior to this, Bill spent twelve years in the Boston area where he founded and led two non-profits, the acclaimed environmental justice center Alternatives for Community & Environment and New Ecology, Inc., a pioneering green development research and consulting organization. From 1998-2004, he taught in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, where he is currently a Research Affiliate, and was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Boston College Law School from 1993-2003. He is also an Associate of the Citistates Group, the nation’s foremost think-tank and speakers bureau for metropolitanism and regional development.
Bill is the author of two books, the award-winning The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century, and A Republic of Trees, Field Notes on People, Place and the Planet, a commentator for Vermont Public Radio and the web magazine TomPaine.com, a contributing writer for Northern Woodlands magazine and a published poet. He has been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, U.S. News & World Report and on National Public Radio, as well as in the book, Eco-Pioneers: Practical Visionaries Solving Today’s Environmental Problems. Bill has served on several federal and state policymaking committees and has advised governments, businesses and non-profits across the U.S. and abroad on environmental and sustainable development policy. In 2001, he was selected as one of the Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40″ most promising leaders in the Boston metropolitan area. The legendary environmentalist David Brower described Bill as “an environmental visionary creating solutions to today’s problems with a passion that would make John Muir and Martin Luther King equally proud.”
Bill earned an AB in History and Classics from Brown University, an MA in History and JD from the University of Virginia and completed doctoral studies in Jurisprudence and Social Policy as a Regents Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. He was a law clerk to Chief Judge Franklin S. Billings, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont. Bill has received numerous public service awards and fellowships and is a trustee of several organizations, including the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, Echoing Green and The Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities. He lives in Peru, Vermont with his wife Sally Handy and two children, Olivia and Shepard. He enjoys singing and playing guitar, poetry writing, backcountry and telemark skiing and flyfishing.
Thursday, Feburary 28 at 7 p.m. in MacMillan Hall, Room 117.
“Justice in the Coffeelands: The Social, Economic & Environmental Impact of Fair/Unfair Trade in the Coffee Communities of Africa, Asia and Latin America”
Presented by Dean Cycon of Dean’s Beans. Fair trade coffee tasting will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the lobby and a book signing will follow the lecture. http://envstudies.brown.edu/A Yale educated indigenous and environmental rights lawyer, activist and entrepreneur, Dean runs a certified 100% organic, fair trade and kosher coffee roasting operation in Orange, Massachusetts. With over thirty years of experience in development work and activism in indigenous communities, Dean created Dean’s Beans to prove that business can promote positive economic, social and environmental change at the third world source, and be profitable at the same time. Dean is a co-founder of Coffee Kids (non-profit development group), and of Cooperative Coffees, the world’s first fair trade roaster’s cooperative.
Tuesday, February 26, 7 -8 p.m., Petteruti Lounge
Purposeful Work: Social Entrepreneurship and Non-traditional Career Paths
Some careers start with a job offer, yet others are seeded with a vision for change that is combined with an individual’s knowledge, experience, and strengths. Our panel of accomplished social entrepreneurs will discuss their journeys from campus to their current pursuit-journeys often unexpected, winding, and challenging, but incredibly satisfying-and provide suggestions for others embarking down their own paths. Social Entrepreneurship has many definitions-come to learn from alumni who are creating those definitions.
Students are invited to join panelists at the Swearer Center for a reception immediately following the program.
Monday, February 25, 7—8 p.m., Petteruti Lounge
Environmental Sustainability: Careers for the 21st Century
The twisting threads of ecology, policy, business and culture are forging new career paths in all walks of life. This panel will introduce you to the possibilities of sustainability-focused careers in real estate, renewable energy and management, design and writing. The stories from these alumni will assist you in finding a connection between your skills and interests and the emerging “green” economy.
