Centennial Lecture of the UCSB Gevirtz Graduate School of Education

Marian Wright Edelman, the founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, is the author of the bestseller The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours and eight other books. The first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she worked as counsel for the Poor People’s Campaign begun by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She is the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award. She will discuss her newest work, The Sea is So Wide and My Boat is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation.
Presented by the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, UCSB Arts & Lectures and the Critical Issues Forum titled Economic Justice – Policy and the Political Imagination.

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