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.
The Rockefeller Center Presents
Leah Daughtry ’84, DNC Chief of Staff
4:30 – 6 pm, 3 Rockefeller Hall
As Chief of Staff for the Democratic National Committee, Leah Daughtry ’84 is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Democratic Party. She is also pastor of The House of the Lord Church in Washington, D.C. and a board member for The House of the Lord Churches, The Randolph Evans Memorial Scholarship Fund, and Men on the Move. Prior to her work with the DNC, Daughtry served as acting assistant secretary for administration and management at the United States Department of Labor and as executive director of Man To Man/Sister To Sister, a not-for-profit human service agency dedicated to enriching the lives of families in Brooklyn, New York. Her work experience also includes serving on the Clinton-Gore 1992 Transition Team and as managing director of the 1992 Democratic National Convention.
Al-Nur Presents
Okolo Rashid, Co-Founder of the International Museum of Muslim Cultures
Ties That Bind: The Civil Rights Movement and the Legacy of the Timbuktu Exhibition Project
5 pm, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Okolo Rashid co-founded the first American museum dedicated to Islamic history, the International Museum of Muslim Cultures in Jackson, Mississippi. Through research and the exhibition of objects that promote the understanding of Muslim life, the museum facilitates multicultural and interfaith tolerance, and advances religious and civic dialogue.
Rashid’s talk will address the legacy of the Timbuktu Exhibition Project, which brought to light ancient manuscripts from the sophisticated, highly literate culture that flourished in Timbuktu, Mali from the thirteenth through the nineteenth centuries.
Film
Seoul Train by Jim Butterworth
7 pm, 105 Dartmouth Hall
This riveting documentary exposes the life-and-death struggle faced by North Koreans who attempt to flee their homeland through China, a country that does not recognize their legal status as refugees. A discussion with the filmmaker, James Butterworth Tu’91, Jean J. Kim (moderator), Assistant Professor of History, and David C. Kang, Adjunct Associate Professor of Business Administration at Tuck and Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth will follow.
See January 26 for Dartmouth’s Social Justice Awards honoring Butterworth and others.
Sixth Annual MLK Social Justice Awards
5 pm, Collis Common Ground
Please join us in honoring and hearing about the lives and careers of Dartmouth community members who have enriched our world through their contributions to peace, civil rights, education, public health, environmental justice, and social justice. The ceremony will include a panel discussion with the honorees. A reception will follow the ceremony.
Thomas W. Wahman ’60 has devoted his life to increasing social, economic, and environmental justice for impoverished Americans and economically disadvantaged people worldwide. His main focus had been civil rights and voting rights in the United States. He also is the founder and president of the internationally oriented Resources Development Foundation.
Karen Kramer Hein DMS’68 is former president of the William T. Grant Foundation and founder of the United States’ first comprehensive adolescent HIV/AIDS program. Her medical and humanitarian career has focused on prison health, health reform, global health and youth development, and trying to help prevent the causes of war.
James F. Butterworth Tu’91 is founder and principal of Incite Productions, which produces documentaries promoting positive social change around the world. Butterworth produced, filmed and directed Incite's debut film, Seoul Train, which has inspired countless grassroots and policy-level actions worldwide to help solve the North Korean refugee crisis..
Paul D. Holzer ’00 is director of higher education at the Latin American Youth Center in Washington, D.C., where he oversees four college preparation programs that serve at risk minority youth.
Student Group:
The Mascoma Clinicprovides free medical care to underserved residents of Enfield, Canaan, and other New Hampshire towns. It is run by Dartmouth Medical School students and sponsored by the Good Neighbor Health Clinic.
Special Recognition:
SEAD (Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth) expands educational opportunities for high school students from under-resourced urban and rural schools while offering the Dartmouth community a unique opportunity for service learning.
