Symposium 2016

Conversation I: Creating and Sustaining Social Change

Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage
Conversation I: Creating and Sustaining Social Change 

Moderator: Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Journalist and Author

Panel Participants: 

  • Lee Helmken, Health Educator, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Emily Li, Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Student, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Miranda Petersen, Program and Policy Director, Protect Our Defenders
  • Jabari Simama, President, Georgia Piedmont Technical College

Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage Luncheon Celebrating Nancy Parrish

Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage
Luncheon Celebrating Nancy Parrish
  • Poetry reading, Travis Denton, 2016 McEver Visiting Chair in Writing, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
  • Remembering the legacy of Ivan Allen Jr., Jacqueline J. Royster, Dean, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. 
  • Award presentation, G.P. "Bud" Peterson, President, Georgia Institute of Technology and Nancy Parrish, CEO and Founder, Protect Our Defenders, and 2016 Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage award recipient. 

Conversation II: Courage and Ethical Leadership

Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage
Conversation II: Courage and Ethical Leadership 

Moderator: William Wepfer, Eugene C. Gwaltney Jr. School Chair and Professor, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Panel Participants: 

  • Jennifer Abrams, Public Policy Undergraduate Student, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Seletha Butler, Assistant Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Colonel Don Christensen, President, Protect Our Defenders
  • Deanna Ferree Womack, Assistant Professor of the Practice of History of Religions and Multi-Faith Relations, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology

Symposium 2016 Photos

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