Anchor Institutions Task Force (AITF)

Agenda

 9:00 am Registration and Refreshments

10:00 am Welcome and AITF Strategic Priorities & Update

David Maurrasse, Director, Anchor Institutions Task Force; Founder & President, Marga, Inc.

10:10 am Rationale for Our Topic – AITF Chairs

Nancy Cantor, Co-chair, Anchor Institutions Task Force; President, Hunter College

David Perlstein, Co-chair, Anchor Institutions Task Force; CEO, SBH Health System

Ira Harkavy, Founding Chair, Anchor Institutions Task Force, Barbara and Edward Netter Director, Netter Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania

10:30 am Arts and Culture

Christopher Burke     

Executive Director of Community Relations, Georgia Institute of Technology

Salamishah Tillet

Henry Rutgers Professor of African American and African Studies, Rutgers University-Newark

11:25 am AITF Fellow Reflections

Xiania Foster, Senior Consultant, Marga, Inc.

Charles Ireland, Organizational Development Specialist, Main Line Health

Julie Dierberger, Chief Engagement Officer and Paul Sather Distinguished Director of the Service Learning Academy, University of Nebraska Omaha

Mary Rocco, Director of Engaged Scholarship, Community Engagement and Inclusion, Barnard College

11:55       Lunch

12:35 pm Education, Community, and Democracy

Jerry Johnson, Phoebe Moore Dail Distinguished Professor in Rural Education and Interim Director Rural Education Institute, East Carolina University

Paul C. Pribbenow, President, Augsburg University

1:30 pm Break

1:40 pm History, Justice, and Opportunity

College Unbound & Civic Partnerships:

Adam Bush, Co-founder and President of College Unbound, College Unbound with Wendell Pritchett, Presidential Professor of Law & Education, University of Pennsylvania and Board Chair, College Unbound, Michael Reaves, Director of Alumni and Board Relations, College Unbound

Near West Side Partners of Milwaukee:

Rana Altenburg, President of Near West Side Partners, Marquette University with Lindsey St. Arnold Bell, Executive Director, Near West Side Partners, Abiola Keller, Interim Associate Dean for Research, Marquette University, Patrick Kennelly, Executive Director - Center for Peacemaking, Marquette University and Kelsey Otero, Associate Director - Social Innovation, Marquette University

2:55 pm Closing

David Maurrasse, Director, Anchor Institutions Task Force; Founder & President, Marga, Inc.

3:00 pm Adjourn