EmPower Hour: Fostering Civic Engagement and Dialogue in a Time of Political Polarization

UCLA Alumni Diversity Programs & Initiatives (DPI) invites you to participate in our upcoming signature program, EmPower Hour: Fostering Civic Engagement and Dialogue in a Time of Political Polarization.

Co-hosted by DPI, Coro Southern California and the Western Justice Center, this program will include a panel discussion featuring alumni speakers who will offer insights and strategies for sustainable civic engagement at the local, state and national level, and for engaging in dialogue and connection with others across lines of difference. Our featured speakers will describe their journeys to civic leadership and the lessons they have learned along the way for maintaining a sense of hope and possibility, particularly in relation to politics and public policy.

Featured speakers include: 

• Panelist: Maia Ferdman, ’15, M.A. ’15 Project Manager for the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate
• Panelist: Vincent Harris '78, Empowerment Congress
• Panelist: Dr. Claudia Sandoval '06, UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute
• Panelist: Dr. Celia Lacayo ’01, M.A. ’03, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
• Moderator: Natalie Samarjian’06, J.D. ’12, UCLA Alumni Association Board of Directors