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Cardinal Stritch’s Helen Bader Lecture Series in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Milwaukee Present:

Connie Rice, J.D.

Join Cardinal Stritch and Rotary Club of Milwaukee in welcoming Connie Rice. Connie Rice, co-director of The Advancement Project, is known for success in tackling problems of inequity and exclusion. She has received more than 50 major awards for her work in expanding opportunity and advancing multi-racial democracy. The Advancement Project is a public policy and legal action group that supports organizations working to end community problems and address racial, class and other barriers to opportunity.

Rice graduated from Harvard College in 1978. She won the Root Tilden Public Interest Scholarship to New York University School of Law, where she earned her law degree in 1984. As a litigator, Rice has filed class action civil rights cases redressing police misconduct, race and sex discrimination and unfair public policy in transportation, probation and public housing. She filed a landmark case on behalf of low-income bus riders that resulted in a mandate that more than a billion dollars be spent to improve the bus system. In 1999, Rice launched a coalition lawsuit that won $750 million for new school construction in Los Angeles-money previously slated for less crowded, more affluent suburban school districts.

In her non-litigation work in the 1990′s, Rice served as counsel to the Watts gang truce and spearheaded a statewide campaign to save equal opportunity programs. Mayors Tom Bradley and Richard Riordan appointed Rice to the governing board of Los Angeles’ Department of Water and Power where she served as president and enacted contracting reforms and environmental advances. In 1998, Rice helped lead a successful campaign to place aggressive public school reformers on the governing board for Los Angeles’ public schools.

When: May, 18, 2010
Check-in and networking: 11:30 a.m.
Luncheon keynote: Noon-1:30 p.m.
Afternoon workshop: 1:45–3:30 p.m.

Where:
University Club of Milwaukee; 924 E. Wells St.
Complimentary parking is available in the Prospect Avenue Structure

Cost:
$25 - luncheon only
$40 - luncheon and afternoon workshop
$15 - afternoon workshop only
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Registration

Registration:
Phone: (414) 410–4646
E-mail: leadership@stritch.edu

Questions?
Contact Preston Cosgrove at pbcosgrove@stritch.edu or (414) 410–4553 or visit Helen Bader Lecture Series.