What You “See” is What You Get
Exploring How Perception Fuels Conflict
Thursday, October 30, 2008
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Light refreshments will be served
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA.
(The address will be emailed to you in response to your registration.)
Member-Only Event!
Description:
In this evening’s session we will use a reading and a short film clip to explore the power and fallibility of our perceptions about people and situations. They will serve as a spring board to conversations about the opportunities and challenges inherent in navigating within a diverse society. Our goal is to expand and nuance our understanding of the links between perception and identity.
Presenter:
Milton Reynolds is a Senior Program Associate with Facing History and Ourselves. His background is an eclectic tapestry of experiences including consulting on diversity communications, counseling and teaching middle school youth, guiding tours, being a stand up comedian and being a research associate at Stanford University at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and at U.C. Berkeley. Milton is dedicated to improving dialogue and implementing innovative solutions to address difficult social issues such as race relations and juvenile justice and delinquency concerns. In addition to serving as a commissioner on the San Mateo Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Commission, he also is the current Governing Board Chair for Literacy for Environmental Justice, a San Francisco based environmental justice/youth development non-profit, and serves on the advisory board of The Working Group, producers of the award winning Not In Our Town, PBS series. Milton received his B.A. with distinction in Sociology from San Jose State with a minor in Communications.
Milton has a strong interest in understanding how the legacies of our collective history manifest themselves in our present society, and specifically, how the past informs our actions and decision making processes and shapes the institutions and practices that structure our society. In recent years, the American Eugenics Movement and its ideological legacies has become a subject of particular interest in Milton’s studies.
Logistics:
Time: 6:30 to 8:30p.m., Thursday, October 30, 2008
Location: Two blooks from the West Portal Muni Railway Station in San Francisco -- address of the venue to be supplied upon registration.
Cost: No charge – ADRNC members only. Not a member? Go to www.adrnc.net to sign up or renew.
Space is limited, pre-registrants only, please.
Registration: Please email STACY WATERS at adr@adrnc.net or call 650-745-3842.
