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| 4th Annual PEAR Conference The Whole Child, The Whole Day: Building Systems, Transforming Relationships Keynote Speakers Opening Keynote - Peter & Jonah Edelman -"Generation to Generation: Effecting Lasting Change for Children." Introduced by Milton Little, Jr. Closing Keynote - Harry Spence Peter Edelman is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and poverty law. A member of the faculty since 1982, he has served in all three branches of government. He took leave during President Clinton's first term to serve as Counselor to HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and then as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Professor Edelman has been Associate Dean of the Law Center, Director of the New York State Division for Youth, and Vice President of the University of Massachusetts. He was a Legislative Assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and was Issues Director for Senator Edward Kennedy's Presidential campaign in 1980. Prior to working for Robert Kennedy, he was a Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg and before that to Judge Henry J. Friendly on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He also worked in the U.S. Department of Justice as Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General John Douglas in the Civil Division, and was a partner in the law firm of Foley & Lardner. Mr. Edelman's book, Searching for America's Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope, is available in paperback from the Georgetown University Press. He has written extensively on poverty, constitutional law, and children and youth. His article in the Atlantic Monthly, entitled "The Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has Done," received the Harry Chapin Media Award. With Harry Holzer and the late Paul Offner, he recently co-authored Reconnecting Disconnected Young Men, published by Urban Institute Press. Professor Edelman has chaired and been a board member of numerous organizations and foundations. He is chair of the recently created District of Columbia Access to Justice Commission, and is currently board president of the New Israel Fund and board chair of the National Center for Youth Law. In addition, he is a board member of the Public Welfare Foundation, the Center for Law and Social Policy, the American Progress Action Fund, and a number of other nonprofit organizations. He is currently a member of the American Bar Association Presidential Task Force on Access to Justice. Mr. Edelman has been a United States-Japan Leadership Program Fellow, was the J. Skelly Wright Memorial Fellow at Yale Law School, and has received numerous honors and awards for his work, including the William J. Brennan, Jr. Award from the D.C. Bar in 2005. He grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Jonah Edelman is the Executive Director of Stand for Children. He was born and raised in Washington, DC, graduated from Yale University in 1992, and attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, where in three years (1992-1995) he earned masters and doctor of philosophy degrees in politics. In 1996, Jonah moved from direct service to activism, helping to organize Stand for Children Day, Stand for Children’s 300,000 person founding rally. In 1998, after closely studying the work of a range of organizations, Jonah conceptualized Stand for Children's grassroots advocacy approach and then moved to Oregon to field-test it himself. From that point, Stand for Children has grown steadily. Stand for Children's members have won 60 state and local successes, securing more than $500 million in funding for schools and other urgently needed children’s programs, and impacting the lives of more than one million children Milton Little, Jr. - Biography Milton James Little, Jr. is president and chief executive officer at United Way of Massachusetts Bay, a nonprofit organization that unites the collective resources of the community to surround kids with everything they need to grow to be healthy, productive adults, raising and guiding the investment of over $40 million dollars annually in a diverse portfolio of community based organizations. A prominent national and community leader, Mr. Little's 20-years experience in the public and private sectors includes creating workforce and education programs, building national partnerships to fund housing and developing corporate philanthropy and community involvement strategies. Prior to joining UWMB as its new president and CEO in June 2004, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and Interim President and CEO of the National Urban League in New York. In this position, he launched innovative partnerships with the US Department of Labor, US Department of Commerce, US Department of Housing and Urban Development and corporations like Verizon, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AT & T, Enterprise Rent a Car and Prudential. Prior to his tenure at the National Urban League, Mr. Little worked at Lucent Technologies, Inc., and its predecessor, AT & T. The philanthropic programs and strategies he developed during his time at Lucent and AT & T are the forerunners of many existing programs that today are reducing disparities in employment, income, education and health in communities across the United States. Mr. Little is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia in 1976 with a B.A. in Sociology. He also earned an M. A. in Urban Sociology and Social Policy from Columbia University in New York in 1978 and pursued additional post-graduate studies in Public Administration at New York University. Mr. Little's professional and board affiliations have included The Council on Foreign Relations, President Clinton and President George W. Bush's President's Committee on the Employment of People With Disabilities, JP Morgan/Chase Housing Advisory Council, the Information Technology Association of America Minority Advisory Council, New York City Outward Bound Center, One Economy Corporation, Cuban American National Council and the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education Task Force on Completion Rates in the Community Colleges. Mr. Little has been recognized for his professional and civic accomplishments by, among others, the Federal Communications Commission, LINKS (Los Angeles), National Council of Negro Women and the Mayor of the City of Portsmouth, VA. He is married to Traci Gibson Little and is the father of two boys--Milton and Taylor. Harry Spence, Commissioner of Massachusetts Department of Social Services
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| Introduction 1st Annual PEAR Conference 2nd Annual PEAR Conference 3rd Annual PEAR Conference 4th Annual PEAR Conference Schedule Keynote Speakers Panels Sponsors 5th Annual PEAR Conference Active Youth Summit 2006 About the Summit Summit Participants Papers & Resources Publication
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