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Voice and Vision

LANI GUINIER Civil Rights Advocate

* Lift Every Voice *

Thursday, September 27, 2007 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.)

Garrison Theater Scripps College Performing Arts Center (10th and Dartmouth) Book signing to follow in the theater lobby. Books will be available for purchase before and after the event. This talk is free and open to the public on a first-come, first served basis.

In 1998, Lani Guinier became the first black woman to be appointed to a tenured professorship at Harvard Law School. Before joining the faculty at Harvard, she was a tenured professor for ten years at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. During the 1980s, she was head of the voting rights project at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and served in the Civil Rights Division during the Carter administration as special assistant to then-Assistant Attorney General Drew S. Days. Guinier came to public attention when she was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to head the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, only to have her name withdrawn without a confirmation hearing. Guinier turned that incident into a powerful personal and political memoir, Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice . Dean of Yale Law School Anthony Kronman calls Lift Every Voice a “moving personal testimony, a story of dignity and principle and hope, from which every reader can take heart.”

A graduate of Radcliffe College of Harvard University and Yale Law School,

Guinier has received numerous awards, including the 1995 Margaret Brent

Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the American Bar Association's

Commission on Women in the Profession; the Champion of Democracy Award

from the National Women's Political Caucus; the Rosa Parks Award from the

American Association for Affirmative Action; the Harvey Levin Teaching Award,

given to her by the 1994 graduating class at the University of Pennsylvania; and

the 2002 Sacks-Freund Teaching Award form Harvard Law School.

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This event is co-sponsored by the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Commons, Scripps Associated Students,

Scripps Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Humanities, and the Dean of Students Office.

The Alexa Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series is made possible through the generous

Bequest of Alexa Fullerton Hampton, Scripps class of 1942.

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