Achievement Gap Committee
May 8,2009
Presenters:
Barbara Bearman, long time civil rights and desegregation activist, board member DFL Education Fund, former secretary Minneapolis NAACP;
Geneva Finn, attorney and research fellow at the Institute on Race and Poverty at the U of M Law School.
Baris Gumus-Dawes, research fellow at the Institute on Race and Poverty at the U of M, who focuses on racial change in schools and neighborhoods.
Jim Hilbert, one of the plaintiff attorneys for the NAACP (and parents) on the two desegregation lawsuits in the mid-90's, and currently executive director of the Center for Negotiation and Justice at William Mitchell College of Law.
Caty Royce, Midwest Director of the Fund for an OPEN Society, a national organization developing and implementing strategies to support integration of our nations' communities.
