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Conference Participants

Randall K. Bartlett is professor of economics at Smith College and author of The Crisis of America's Cities. He directs Smith's urban studies and public policy programs and teaches a course on "Race and Public Policy in the United States." He has a B.A. from Occidental College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.

Mary Catherine Bateson is Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. When not teaching, she resides in New Hampshire. An anthropologist and writer, her books include With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, Composing a Life, and Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way. Random House will soon publish her latest book, Full Circles/Overlapping Lives.

Margaret Bruchac is a museum consultant, historical interpreter, and traditional storyteller of Missisquoi Abenaki Indian ancestry. She serves as an adviser to the Wampanoag Indian Program at Plimoth Plantation, a trustee for Historic Northampton and a consulting interpreter for Old Sturbridge Village. A 1999 graduate of Smith College, where she was an Ada Comstock/Smith Scholar, she is currently enrolled in an M.A. program in anthropology at the University of Massachusetts.

Betty Burkes, former president of the U.S. section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), is especially concerned with analyzing the roots of violence and organizing resistance to oppression. She graduated from Ohio State University and, after serving in the Peace Corps in Africa, studied early childhood education at the University of California and taught school in Berkeley. In the early 1980s she opened a Montessori school in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, where she now resides, and where she writes a monthly column for Cape Cod newspapers.

Ginetta Candelario is instructor in sociology and Latin American studies at Smith College. A 1990 graduate of Smith, she is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the City University of New York. Her dissertation is on Dominican racial ideologies. She has published articles in Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingue, Dominicana USA, Phoebe: A Journal of Feminist Scholarship Theory and Aesthetics and Makeshift Dwellings: Multicultural Feminism in the Age of Globalization, and co-produced the video documentary, De Welfare no vive nadie.

Gilberto Cárdenas, a sociologist, is assistant provost, Julian Samora Professor and director of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He recently moved there from the University of Texas, where he was executive director of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research. He has a B.A. from California State University at Los Angeles and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Notre Dame. His most recent book is Health and Social Service Among International Labor Migrants (co-edited with Antonio Ugalde).

Johnnetta B. Cole, the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Women's Studies and African American Studies at Emory University, was, from 1987 to 1997, the president of Spelman College. She studied at Fisk University and is a graduate of Oberlin College. She has a Ph.D. in anthropology from Northwestern and 43 honorary degrees. Her books include All American Women, Anthropology for the Nineties, Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President and Dream the Boldest Dreams-and Other Lessons of Life.

Rudoph F. Crew, chancellor of the Board of Education in New York City, is a leading proponent of performance-driven public education based upon a three-step literacy program. He has promoted many technological initiatives, including Project SMART. Prior to moving to New York, Dr. Crew was superintendent of school districts in Tacoma, Washington, and the Sacramento Unified School District in California and deputy superintendent for curriculum in Boston. He has a B.A. from Babson College and an M.Ed. and Ed.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Yvonne P. Daniel is Five College associate professor of dance anthropology. She is a specialist on Caribbean societies, cross-cultural dance and performance. She has a B.A. in music from California State University in Hayward, an M.A. in dance from Mills College, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Rumba, a study of race, gender and class in contemporary Cuba through the analysis of dance.

Evan S. Dobelle is president of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Long active in education and public service, he has been chancellor of the city college system in San Francisco and president of Middlesex Community College, mayor of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, commissioner of environmental management in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, chief of protocol in the White House, and assistant secretary of state with the rank of ambassador. He received the B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard.

Myrlie Evers-Williams is the former chairman of the National Board of Directors of the NAACP. She first studied at Alcorn A&M in Mississippi, where she met and married the civil rights leader Medgar Evers. She received a B.A. from Pomona College and a graduate certificate from Simmons College School of Management. An activist in the civil rights struggle, corporate executive, former Commissioner of Public Works in Los Angeles and winner of numerous awards and honorary degrees, she is the author of For Us the Living, a depiction of the life, death and legacy of Medgar Evers, and Watch Me Fly.

Ann Arnett Ferguson is assistant professor of Afro-American studies at Smith College. She is also a member of the women's studies program where she teaches courses in the women of color concentration. A native of Jamaica, she received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California in Berkeley, where she conducted the ethnographic research that led to her forthcoming book, Bad Boys: Public School and the Shaping of Black Masculinity.

Debra Gee, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, graduated from Smith College in 1991 with a B.A. in Government. She has a J.D. from the Arizona State University College of Law. Since 1996, she has been assistant attorney general for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, with which she is also affiliated. Licensed to practice in the courts of the Navajo Nation, Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and the states of New Mexico and Oklahoma, she focuses on domestic violence, substance abuse, and cases arising under the Indian Child Welfare Act.

Nathan Glazer is professor of education and sociology emeritus, Harvard University. He has also taught at Bennington College, Smith College and the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-editor of the quarterly, The Public Interest, and author of many books including Beyond the Melting Pot (with Daniel Patrick Moynihan), Remembering the Answers, Affirmative Discrimination, Ethnic Dilemmas, The Limits of Social Policy and, most recently, We Are All Multiculturalists Now. He is a graduate of the City College of New York and received the Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University.

Georgianna Goodman, Smith '00, is a women's studies major, concentrating on women of color. She is a co-chair for the Smith Leadership Conference and a member of several organizations devoted to social change and the empowerment of women and the black community. She hopes to begin to change the world by becoming involved in the education of children in the public schools system in her hometown, New York City.

Lani Guinier is professor of law at Harvard University and former professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been assistant counsel to the NAACP and special assistant to assistant attorney general Drew Days III. She has published widely on voting rights and affirmative action and is the author of The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy. A graduate of Radcliffe College, she holds a J.D. from Yale Law School. She has received many honorary degrees, including an L.L.D. from Smith College in 1999.

Andrea D. Hairston is associate professor of theatre at Smith College, where she directs and teaches playwriting and theater literature. A playwright, director, actor and musician, she is the artistic director of Chrysalis Theatre, a small company with which she has produced original theater with music, dance, and masks for over 20 years. A graduate of Smith College and Brown University, Ms. Hairston has received many awards, grants and fellowships in recognition of her work and her workshops in New England, New York and in Germany.

Ellen W. Kaplan is associate professor and chair of the Department of Theatre at Smith College. Most recently she directed and performed in Liturgies at Hebrew University in Israel and directed Tijeras, a one-woman show in Spanish, in Puerto Rico. She has written several plays, adapted Jane Yolen's Lost Girls for performance, and produced the video documentary, Mixed Blessings, about Jews and Gypsies (Roma) in Eastern Europe. She has a B.A. from SUNY Binghamton and an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Theresa D. Lewis graduated from Smith College in 1974. Since then she has resided in the Washington metropolitan area where she has been employed with the District of Columbia government in several capacities, including her current position as deputy director for program operations with the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs. There she manages a workforce of 400 and an annual budget of $28 million. She received CPM certification from George Washington University in 1997.

Katharine Moon, assistant professor of political science at Wellesley College, was born in California and spent her early childhood in Seoul, Korea. She graduated from Smith College in 1986 with a major in government and received her Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University in 1994. Her publications include Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations and articles on women and the U.S. military, women's human rights, and migrants workers' movements in East Asia. She is currently working on a book on culture, gender and U.S. foreign policy.

Milton D. Morris is president of Creative Futures International, a socio-demographic consulting group focused on racial and ethnic diversity. The former senior vice president of the Joint Center for Political and Economics Studies, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and associate professor of political science at South Illinois University, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. He is the author of The Politics of Black America and Immigration: The Beleaguered Bureaucracy, and co-author, with Gary Rubin, of Immigrants and African Americans: Research Findings and Policy Responses.

Maria H. Naranjo graduated from Smith College in 1991 with a B.A. in government and Latin American studies. While at Smith she was an active member of NOSOTRAS. Since her graduation, she has been a labor organizer, first with UNITE, a textile workers union in Dallas, Texas, then with the Service Employees International Union-Local 82 in Washington D.C. While in Washington, she helped lead one of the most aggressive union campaigns in the labor movement, the "Justice for Janitors" campaign.

Tom Reing is the education director for the InterAct Theatre Company in Philadelphia and director of the Neighborhood Theatre Action Project, a program that teams professional theatre artists with special needs children. He has also directed for Villanova University, Shippensburg University, the University of Pennsylvania and LaSalle University. He was recently awarded the City of Philadelphia's Human Rights Arts and Culture Award for his outreach program, InterAction.

Kathryn Rodgers is executive director of the National Organization for Women (NOW) Legal Defense and Education Fund, the nation's oldest and largest legal advocacy organization working to expand women's rights and opportunities. A graduate of Smith College and the Columbia University School of Law, she started her career in labor law with the firm of Poletti Freidin Prashker Feldman and Gartner, then moved to Barnard College as general counsel. She served as Barnard's vice president and, in 19931994, as acting president.

Peter I. Rose, conference chair, is Sophia Smith Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and director of the American Studies Diploma Program at Smith College. He is the author of They and We, The Subject is Race, Strangers in Their Midst, Mainstream and Margins, and Tempest-Tost, and is editor of Interminority Affairs, Americans from Africa, and other books on race, ethnicity, refugee policy, and the dilemmas of diversity. He received his A.B. from Syracuse University and M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University.

Gary E. Rubin is assistant executive vice president for policy of the New York Association for New Americans and adjunct professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University where he teaches courses on refugees and displaced populations. He frequently writes on immigration, intergroup relations and international affairs. Before going to NYANA is was director of national affairs for the American Jewish Committee and, for three years, was executive director of Americans for Peace Now. A graduate of Yeshiva College, he holds two master's degrees from Columbia University.

Rubén G. Rumbaut is professor of sociology at Michigan State University. He has also taught at the University of California, San Diego and at San Diego State University. A Cuban-born specialist on immigration, with a Ph.D. from Brandeis, his books and studies include Immigrant America (with Alejandro Portes), Origins and Destinies (with Silvia Pedraza), and California's Immigrant Children (with Wayne Cornelius). Two new books-Legacies: The Story of the New Second Generation and Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America-are in press.

Ruth J. Simmons became the ninth president of Smith College in 1995. A native of Texas and a 1967 graduate of Dillard University, she holds a Ph.D. in romance languages and literatures from Harvard University and a number of honorary doctorates. She has served as a faculty member and vice provost of Princeton, provost of Spelman College, and associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California and has also taught at the University of New Orleans and Cal State Northridge. A specialist on Francophone Africa and the Caribbean, she has written on the works of David Diop and Aime Cesaire and is the author of Haiti: The Study of an Educational System.

Anna Deavere Smith, playwright, actress and social critic, is the executive director of the Institute for the Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard University and Ann O'Day Maples Professor in the Arts at Stanford University. A graduate of ART, the American Repertoire Theater, she is widely acclaimed as the inventor of "performance journalism," first expressed in Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Other Identities and in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, and later in Snapshots: Glimpses of American in Change. She has received numerous awards for her 14 plays and a MacArthur "genius grant."

Elizabeth V. Spelman is professor of philosophy and womens' studies at Smith College where she offers courses examining issues of race and racism, aesthetics, and philosophy and technology. She is the author of Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought and Fruits of Sorrow: Framing Our Attention to Suffering. Her B.A. is from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. in philosophy is from The Johns Hopkins University.

Fradyn Suárez graduated from Smith College in 1998 with highest honors in government for a thesis on Cuban-American politics. She was active on campus and, as a member of the SGA cabinet, helped to design and write the proposal for a college-wide diversity education board. After graduation she worked as a special aide to the mayor of Miami and is currently employed as an executive assistant/ paralegal. She will enter the University of Florida College of Law in January, 2000.

Bob H. Suzuki, a mechanical engineer, specialist on multicultural education and civil rights activist, is president of the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He has a B.S. and M.S. from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. He spent 10 years in the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts before returning to California where he held major administrative posts at California State University, Los Angeles and California State University, Northridge. Born in Portland, Oregon, to Japanese immigrant parents, he received his earliest schooling in an internment camp in southern Idaho.

Larry Toy is president of the Foundation for California Community Colleges. Prior to this he served the California Community Colleges as director of system advancement for the chancellor's office, president of the faculty association and president of the board of governors. After receiving his B.A. from Harvard College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, he spent 28 years as professor of astronomy at Chabot College in Hayward, California.

Roberta Uno is artistic director of the New WORLD Theater and associate professor of theater at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has directed numerous plays and is the editor of Unbroken Thread: An Anthology of Plays by Asian American Women and co-editor of Contemporary Plays by Women of Color. She holds a B.A. from Hampshire College, an M.A. in dramatic literature from Smith College and an M.F.A. in directing from the University of Massachusetts.

Charles V. Willie is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education Emeritus at Harvard University where he served the Harvard Graduate School of Education for 25 years. He came to Cambridge from Syracuse, New York, where he was affiliated with Syracuse University from 1949 to 1974 as graduate student, professor of sociology, department chair and vice president. His most recent books are Black Power/White Power and Public Education (with Ralph Edwards) and Controlled Choice: A New Approach to Desegregated Education (with Michael Alves).

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