Photographs
Far left: Dorothy Allison (third from left) and students following Allison's Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration keynote address. Photo by Joseph Mehling, College Photographer. Center: Members of AXIS Dance Company, a mixed-ability dance troupe, performing at the Hopkins Center as part of a Hopkins Center campus residency cosponsored by IDE. Photo by Jack Rowell. Right: Discussions at a Diversity Forum hosted by IDE. Photo by The Dartmouth.
Artwork
Detail from mural produced by Ernesto Cuevas and Dartmouth students as part of Encuentro Latino, a Summer Arts Festival coordinated by the Leslie Center for the Humanities.
How to Change the World with Your Bare Hands
The son of Civil Rights activists, Booker attended Stanford, Oxford, and Yale Law School, where he organized programs or legal clinics for low-income youth and residents in the cities near each of these schools. In the late 1990s, Booker worked as a staff attorney for the Urban Justice Center in New York City and as program coordinator of the Newark Youth Project. He won a seat on the Newark City Council in 1998. Passionately committed to change, Booker sometimes used unconventional methods-such as a hunger strike-to draw attention to the city's worst problems. He was elected mayor in 2006 and in this position has continued to work to improve government, housing, safety, jobs, and conditions for youth.
Presented by the Rockefeller Center
