The 2012-13 theme was "Communities and Justice"
Jonathan Kozol
Jonathan Kozol is the National Book Award-winning author ofÌýSavage Inequalities, Death at an Early Age,ÌýThe Shame of the Nation, andÌýAmazing Grace.ÌýHe has been working with children in inner-city schools for nearly fifty years. His most recent book isÌýFire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America.
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Héctor Tobar
Héctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a novelist. He is the author ofÌýThe Tattoed SoldierÌý(1998),ÌýTranslation NationÌý(2005), andÌýThe Barbarian NurseriesÌý(2011; chosen as Occidental's First-Year Reading for 2012-2013). He writes a weekly column for theÌýL.A. Times.
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Jesús Treviño
Jesús Treviño is an award-winning writer and director whose television directing credits includeÌýLaw and Order: Criminal Intent,ÌýBones,ÌýNYPD Blue,ÌýER,ÌýThe Practice,ÌýChicago Hope, among many others. Mr. Treviño began his career in film and television as a student activist documenting the 1960s Chicano civil rights struggle with a super-8 camera. Throughout the late sixties and early nineteen seventies, he was both a participant and a chronicler of the events and issues of the day.
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Monday,ÌýFebruary 4, 2013
Jill S. SchneidermanÌý
Jill S. Schneiderman is Professor of Earth Science at Vassar College. Her interests include environmental issues, feminism, and the history of science. She is editor of and contributor toÌýFor the Rock Record: Geologists on Intelligent DesignÌý(University of California Press, 2009) andÌýThe Earth Around Us: Maintaining a Livable PlanetÌý(Westview Press, 2003).
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Monday, March 4,Ìý2013
Richard A. Muller
The Antoinette and Vincent M. Dungan Lectureship on Energy and the Environment
Richard A. Muller is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Faculty Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. He is an award-winning teacher and the best-selling author ofÌýPhysics for Future PresidentsÌý(W.W. Norton, 2009), based on his renowned course for non-science students. His most recent book isÌýEnergy for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the HeadlinesÌý(W.W. Norton, 2012).
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Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson, named byÌýEbonyÌýas one of the hundred most influential black Americans, is the author of sixteen books, includingÌýHoller if You Hear Me, Is Bill Cosby Right?ÌýandÌýI May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr.ÌýHe is currently University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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