2nd Annual Leadership & Social Justice Conference
Sustaining Our Roots: Cultivating Our Future
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Dear community partners, staff, students, and faculty,
On Saturday, October 16, UC Berkeley and Saint Mary’s College of California will be hosting the second annual Leadership & Social Justice Conference. The conference will take place at U.C. Berkeley between 9:30am-5:00pm.
The Leadership and Social Justice Conference seeks to network and empower college students from across the Bay Area to learn skills and understand issues to create positive social change on their campuses and in their communities..
INVITATION TO FACILITATE WORKSHOP
The planning team, which includes students and staff from the above schools as well as the University of San Francisco, Sonoma State University, and Santa Clara University, invites you to facilitate an interactive workshop during this conference. Over 350 college students will attend the Leadership & Social Justice Conference and there will be over 30 interactive workshops that explore the following issue/areas:
- Education
- Sustainability/Environment
- Poverty/Homelessness
- Skills for Leadership for Social Justice
During the conference, there will be three 75 minute workshop blocks. Please see attached proposal form; the submission deadline is Friday, July 16, 2010.
Please contact the conference co-chair Ryan Lamberton at: LSJconference {at} gmail(.)com or (925) 631-4015 with questions or you can contact the staff or student who invited you to participate in this conference directly.
Sincerely,
2010 Leadership & Social Justice Conference Planning Team:
Minh Dang, UCB and Ryan Lamberton, SMC
Conference co-chairs:
Catherine Nguyen, UCB, Elizabeth Torres, SMC, Francis Villaseñor, SMC, Jenna Durney, SSU, Jodi Roth, SSU, Michael Scribner, USF, and Valerie Sarma, SCU
