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