Program

9:30am – 10:30am Conference Set-up

10:30am – 12:00pm Student Session

Sharing common concerns, interests and aspirations

Yen Ling Shek | UCLA

Career path to engaged scholarship

OiYan Poon | UCLA

12:15pm – 12:55pm Registration

1:00pm – 1:25pm Opening Session

Taeku Lee | UC Berkeley, moderator

Welcome and conference logistics

Welcome by NEA representative

Framing the larger agenda

Margery Turner | The Urban Institute

1:30pm – 2:20pm Learning from Past Collaboration — EDA Case Study

Deepa Iyer | SAALT, moderator

Lisa Hasegawa | N-CAPACD

Melany De La Cruz | UCLA

Phil Saputo | Economic Development Administration

2:25pm – 3:15pm Exploring Possibilities — Alternative Models and Approaches

Paul Watanabe | UMass Boston, moderator

Margaret Simms | Joint Center and Urban Institute

Olga Herrera | Inter-University Center for Latino Research

JD Hokoyama | LEAP-UCLA Policy Program

Mark Lopez | Pew Hispanic Center

3:15pm – 3:30pm Break

3:30pm – 4:35pm Approaches to Move the Agenda Forward

Karthick Ramakrishnan | UC Riverside, moderator

Summary and introduction of models

Group activity on models and approaches

4:40pm – 5:00pm Closing session

Final logistics and encourage long-term engagement

Tarry Hum | CUNY, moderator

5:00pm – 6:00pm Social Hour