Fall 2006

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LANNY DAVIS- SCANDAL: HOW “GOTCHA” POLITICS IS DESTROYING AMERICA

Sunday, September 24, 2006: 7:00 pm in Angelico Concert Hall  
FREE Lecture and Book Signing – No RSVP required

Lanny_Davis1.jpgMr. Lanny Davis, Special Counsel to the Clinton White House, will speak of how recent politics in America have been driven by a vicious scandal machine comprised of partisan politicians, extremists on the left and right, and the media.  Beginning with historical scandals like Alexander Hamilton’s extramarital affairs and moving forward to today, American politics has been reduced to the politics of personal destruction.  Davis will explain how this poisonous atmosphere is damaging not just to politics but to American society.  Disgusted with scandal culture, Davis offers hope.  He believes that we can stem the tide of scandal politics and make elections more about the real issues facing Americans, and less about Washington whispers and back room tall tales.

  • Co-sponsors: Book Passage and Dominican Department of Politics and International Studies
  • Books will be avaliable for purchase.  A book signing will follow the lecture.


Brian Copeland: A Poigniant Story of Resilience, Courage and Leadership

September 28, 2006:  7:00 pm Angelico Concert Hall.
FREE Lecture and Book Signing – No RSVP required

Brian Copeland, comedian and Broadway actor of his award winning one man show, will sharing his own experience of growing up as an outsider and how he found the resilience and courage to claim his place and take back his own identity.  The event will include excerpts from his acclaimed one man show. The presentation underscores that access to education transforms lives and that everyone should have an opportunity to go to college.

GRASS ROOTS LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE:
Communities Connecting:  Creating – Collaborating – Changing

Saturday, October 7, 2006: 9:30 am – 2:00 pm in Guzman Lecture Hall
Fee: $25 individuals / $50 organizations – includes promotion table.

The Grassroots Leadership Conference is an exploration of collaborative community leadership. It is a unique event that provides participants the opportunity to network, access tools, and increase their knowledge to have an effective participation in equitable community development that reduces poverty and improves the quality of life in under-represented communities. The workshop seeks to enhance individual skills, share resources and information, build community development skills and create partnerships.

RSVP tickets contact Denise Lucy.

Co-sponsors: Marin Grassroots Leadership Network and Urban Habitat

MAKING WAVES: THE SAVE SEAFOOD TOUR – ACHIEVING SUSTAINABILITY TOGETHER

Tuesday, October 10, 2006:  Creekside Room, Caleruega Hall

  • Environmental Issues Affecting Marine Environments”:  Dr. Vania Coelho will the lead discussion.
  • 11:00  am– 1:00 pm:  The Save Seafood Tour, a partnership between Bon Appétit Management Company Foundation and the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch Program, is coming to Dominican University of California. The purpose of the tour is to provide information about the precarious state of our oceans, the impact of over-fishing on the global environment, and to educate consumers about sustainable seafood choices.  The presentation will feature a 20-minute film, Can the Oceans Keep up with the Hunt? as well as a discussion led by one of the filmmakers.
  • Following the discussion, the Bon Appétit team Dominican will provide a reception featuring sustainable foods.  
  • FREE Lecture – RSVP required so reception can be planned. Email ILS@dominican.edu or call the ILS Events Line at 415-485-3202
  • Co-sponsors: Appétit Catering, DUC Environment Studies and A Greener Dominican Task Force

 

ELIZABETH EDWARDS – “Saving Graces”:  The Power of Community.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006: 7:30 p.m. in Shield Room of Caleruega Hall
FREE Lecture and Book signing – No RSVP required

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Ms. Edwards, author of “Saving Graces”, attorney and wife of vice-presidential candidate John Edwards, will speak of the power and importance of community in her experiences at home and in her husband’s political campaigns, to the death of her son and her own battle with breast cancer. Her descriptions of her husband’s campaigns for Senate, president and vice president offer a fascinating perspective on the groups, the great and small, that sustain our democracy. Her fight with breast cancer, which stirred an outpouring of support from women across the country, has once again affirmed Edwards’s belief in the power of community to make our lives better and richer.

 

LEADERSHIP AND WOMEN IN PUBLIC POLICY

3rd Annual Women Leading Community Change Summit with Marin Women’s Commission and Dominican’s Women and Gender Studies Program
Saturday, October 28, 2006:  9 am – Noon in Creekside

  • FREE EVENT – PLEASE RSVP (space is limited)
    Optional box lunch: $15
  • This year's Women Leading Community Change Summit will focus on women in public policy making roles.  We will explore how women identify and shape the public policy debate on issues affecting women and their families.  The partnership of the Marin Women's Commission and Dominican University of California is guided by the mutual commitment that Women's Leadership effectively impacts systems' change so that Women of all ages are Empowered, Educated and Engaged in the community. The event will include an update on Dominican's Women & Gender Studies Program with a tour of the new Women's Resource Center.
  • Stay and visit following the event. Reserve your $15 box lunch today by contacting Pat Warren at PWarren@co.marin.ca.us or call (415) 499-6195
  • Co-sponsored by: Marin Women's Commission 

 

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON - Oil, the Environment and Our Future

Turn the Tide: Next Generation’s Youth Leaders Committed to Sustainability & Peace
Sunday, October 29, 2006: 5:00 pm – 8:00 p.m. Angelico Concert Hall 

  • Advance reservation required: Adults: $15;   Youth 18 & under: $6.  For Dominican members: A block of free tickets reserved for Dominican University. Reserve your space early. Email - ILS@dominican.edu
  • Reception@ 4:00 pm in Creekside/ VIP Reception: $45 each or $75 per couple  
  • RSVP for Turn the Tide event and/or Reception: 415.459.NEXT(6398) or www.gonextgeneration.org  
  • Turn the Tide is an inspiring celebration of peace, sustainability and youth activism that benefits Next Generation, one of the Bay Area's leading youth empowerment organizations. Nationally renowned social change leader and visionary Arianna Huffington will speak about oil, war and our environment, highlighting exciting solutions to these pressing issues.
  • Hosted by: Next Generation
  • Books will be avaliable for purchase.  A book signing will follow the lecture.

 

The Women’s Leadership Revival Tour With Meg Wheatley

Wednesday November 8th   Socializing from 5:30-6:30pm  Event from 6:30 to 9:00pm at the Lodge in Union Square Kensington Park Hotel, 450 Post Street, San Francisco $125 Contribution Charge

Join Meg Wheatley and neighborhood women for a stimulating and inspiring inquiry into how women can step forward with the gift of leadership and offer it in service to our community.  The event will feature speaker Anne Firth Murray, the founder of the Global Fund for Women and author of Paradigm Found: Leading and Managing for Positive Change. Music and poetry will be part of this festive gathering and refreshments will be served.  All who attend will receive a copy of Meg’s most recent book, Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time.

  • Co-Sponsors: Bay Area OD Network, John F. Kennedy University, National Center for Lesbian Rights, Saybrook Graduate School, ASTD –Golden Gate, Dominican University of California’s Institute for Leadership Studies, Spirit Employed, SoL West, Esprit Global Learning, and South Bay OD Network.
  • Co-Host: Bev Scott, Bev Scott Consulting.

Dr. Sima Samar  - Personal Risks Overshadowed by Saving Lives – Women’s Leadership

Tuesday, November 7, 2006: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm Creekside Room   Lunch $25

Advance reservation required: space is limited

Dr. Sima Samar is an internationally recognized Human Rights/Gender Rights advocate from Afghanistan.  In the face of threats to her own safety, Dr. Samar has defied the Taliban's edicts that deny women and girls their basic rights to education, employment, mobility and medical care. An Afghan doctor, Dr. Sima Samar has been honored with a John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award and the John Humphrey Freedom Award for her efforts to strengthen the human rights of women and girls in Afghanistan and in refugee camps on the Northern border of Pakistan. Dr. Simar has been placed in charge of women's affairs in Afghanistan and is the first woman to occupy such a senior post.

  • Co-sponsored by the International Museum of Women, Marin Women’s Commission and Dominican University of California’s Women & Gender Studies Program.             
  • RSVP for $25 lunch and pay at the door- Contact Pat Warren at PWarren@co.marin.ca.us or call (415) 499-6195

 

David Suzuki – Leadership and  Change: Founding of the Green Movement

Thursday, November 9, 2006:  7:00 pm, Angelico Concert Hall

  • David Suzuki, change leader in the Green Movement acclaimed geneticist and environmentalist, the host of public television's The Nature of Things, author of more than forty books, including The Sacred Balance, Tree, and Good News for a Change, will speak with characteristic candor and passion about  his metamorphosis into a leading environmentalist, writer, and thinker, his many travels throughout the world and his meetings with international leaders, from Kaiapo chief Paiakan to Nelson Mandela to the Dalai Lama; and the abiding role of nature and family in his life.
    FREE Lecture – No RSVP required
  • Books will be avaliable for purchase.  A book signing will follow the lecture.
  • Co-sponsored by: Book Passage
  • Click Here To View David Suzuki's Lecture

 

“It’s MY Life” Forum:  Building Youth Leaders Now and For the Future: Opening the door of hope and opportunity for all youth in Marin County”“

Friday, November 17, 2006:  7:00-9:00 p.m. Reception to follow

  • Co-Sponsored by: Ambassadors of Hope and Opportunity (AHO)
  • Produced by youth leaders ages 14 to 28 from all socio-economic backgrounds in Marin County, along with political leaders committed to bringing the Marin community together to help create social and institutional change addressing the “invisible” and growing trend of youth homelessness in Marin County.
     

Youth have invited the following speakers to participate:

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will open the forum and share his personal family history that addresses the crisis of youth homelessness in Marin. Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey along with Chris Fadeff  a 22 year old Congressional staff member in Lynn’s office, San Rafael Mayor Al Boro, Jerad Huffman, and Supervisor Susan Adams. Also invited is the Award Winning Journalist and author of “All Alone in the World” Nell Bernstein and a member of Pacific News Service.