CIVIL RIGHTS LECTURE SERIES TO FEATURE PROMINENT CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST AND AUTHOR LINDA CHAVEZ

The ASU Center for Community Development & Civil Rights hosts the third in its ongoing Civil Rights Forum series Sept. 27 and 28, featuring prominent conservative Linda Chavez.

Ms. Chavez is Chair of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a non-profit public policy head shot linda (2).JPGresearch organization in Sterling, Virginia. She also writes a syndicated column (Creators Syndicate) that appears in dozens of newspapers across the country and is a political commentator for FOX News Channel. Chavez was staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights under President Ronald Reagan from 1983 to 1985, and a past nominee for Labor Secretary for the Bush Administration.

She is the author of the memoir, “An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-Liberal (Basic Books 2002). Her most recent book is “Betrayal: How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics” (Crown Books, 2004). She also wrote “Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation” (Basic Books 1991), which the Denver Post described as a book that "should explode the stereotypes about Hispanics that have clouded the minds of patronizing liberals and xenophobic conservatives alike."

The Civil Rights Forum series is hosted by ASU Presidential Professor of Practice Raul Yzaguirre, executive director of the ASU Center for Community Development & Civil Rights. (See biographical information below.)

The Civil Rights Forum has two focuses—students and community.  On Sept, 27, students and faculty are invited to attend the ASU Tempe Campus Civil Rights Forum at the Agriculture (AG) Building Lecture Hall 150 . On Sept. 28, the general public is invited to attend a breakfast lecture at the Phoenix Convention Center. Following the discussion a Q&A with the audience will round out the event. Both the Sept. 27 and Sept. 28 events will provide a chance to hear Raul Yzaguirre and Linda Chavez discuss and debate their respective views on contemporary civil rights and immigration in the United States.

Previous installments of the Civil Rights Forum have included the March 2006 screening of the HBO film “Walkout” that was followed by a Q&A session with Raul Yzaguirre, actor-director Edward James Olmos and film producer Moctesuma Esparza.  In March 2007, Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, discussed the future of Latinos and African-Americans in the U.S. educational system and workforce.

ASU Campus Event

Sept 27th, 4:30PM

ASU Tempe Campus,

AG Building Lecture Hall 150

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Downtown Phoenix Event

Sept 28th, 7:30AM

Phoenix Convention Center

West Building, #212

2nd Street & Washington