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Making the Case Featuring Daniel P. Walsh

Camille Tarver — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:40:54 +0000

This week’s Making the Case features Daniel P. Walsh, Jr. President of the Greater Cleveland Region Huntington Bank.

https://www.huntington.com/us/HNB3130.htm#walsh

Making the Case Featuring Tim Mueller

Camille Tarver — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:37:33 +0000

This edition of Making the Case features Tim Mueller, an entrepreneur and economic development officer under former Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell. He was also the president of Phylogy, a telecommunications equipment company based in San Francisco.

Making the Case Featuring Lisa Ryan

Camille Tarver — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:22:09 +0000

This week’s Making the Case features Lisa Ryan, Chief Appreciation Strategist at Grategy.

More information about Lisa and Grategy is available here: http://www.grategy.com/Meet-Lisa-Ryan.html

Making the Case featuring Akaya Windwood

Camille Tarver — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:48:36 +0000

This edition of Making the Case features Akaya Windwood. Akaya Windwood is president and chief executive officer of the Rockwood Leadership Institute. Having spent over 40 years working for change, she is committed to social and economic justice, and to building a compelling vision for effectiveness and collaboration within the nonprofit and social benefit sectors. Windwood has served on the Alameda County Human Relations Commission, and the Alameda County Hate Violence Prevention Task Force. She was a co-founder of the Women’s National Leadership Project. She holds a bachelor’s degree in applied psychology and has done doctoral work in clinical psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Making the Case Featuring Betsie Norris

Camille Tarver — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 01:12:57 +0000

This edition of Making the Case features Betsie Norris. Betsie Norris, executive director of Adoption Network Cleveland, Betsie Norris founded Adoption Network Cleveland in 1988 and has led it ever since. She works on the top floor of the five-story Prospect Park Building.

Making the Case Featuring Dale Nienow

Camille Tarver — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:34:17 +0000

This edition of Making the Case features Dale Nienow. Dr. Dale Nienow is Executive Director of the Center for Ethical Leadership. He creates Gracious Space where people can work across boundaries to form collective leadership. He is known for helping people open up to deeper dialogue and new relationships that will move groups and communities forward on their compelling issues. Dale co-led the national Kellogg Leadership for Community Change program on behalf of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and is one of the founders of the national Community Learning Exchange. He is co-editor of “The Collective Leadership Storybook: Weaving Strong Communities” and the monograph, “Kellogg Leadership for Community Change: Crossing Boundaries, Strengthening Communities,” and is one of the primary authors of the book, “Courageous Collaboration with Gracious Space: From Small Openings to Profound Transformations.”

He serves on a variety of community boards (the Bush School, Saint Andrew’s Housing Group – now Imagine Housing, Organizational Systems Renewal Northwest, Student Development Administration Graduate Program), consults frequently with a broad range of organizations across sectors, and connects social change agents nationally.
Dale has a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Southern California, a Master’s degree in Administration from Pacific Lutheran University, and Bachelor’s degree in Economics from St. Olaf College.

Making the Case Featuring Christine Sleeter

Camille Tarver — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:45:34 +0000

Christine E. Sleeter, PhD. (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982) is Professor Emerita in the College of Professional Studies at California State University Monterey Bay, where she was a founding faculty member. Formerly a high school learning disabilities teacher in Seattle, she previously served as a faculty member at Ripon College in Wisconsin and at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, and a visiting professor at Victoria University in New Zealand, San Jose State University, San Francisco State University, and University of Washington, Seattle. She is currently President of the National Association for Multicultural Education, and previously served as Vice President of Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education) of the American Educational Research Association. Her research focuses on anti-racist multicultural education and teacher education, and currently she is developing a new area, critical family history. With a team of researchers in Victoria University, New Zealand, she recently completed an evaluation study of a Maori professional development program for secondary schools. Dr. Sleeter has published over 100 articles in journals and edited books, such as Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, Disability Studies Quarterly, Teaching and Teacher Education, and Curriculum Inquiry. Her recent books include Teaching with Vision (with Catherine Cornbleth, Teachers College Press, 2011), Critical Multiculturalism: Theory and Praxis (with Stephen May, Routledge, 2010), and Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity (with Carl Grant; Routledge, 2007). Her work has been translated into Spanish, Korean, French, and Portuguese. She has been invited to speak in most U.S. states as well as several countries. Awards for her work include the American Educational Research Association Social Justice in Education Award, the Chapman University Paolo Freire Education Project Social Justice Award, the American Educational Research Association Division K Legacy Award, the California State University Monterey Bay President’s Medal, the National Association for Multicultural Education Research Award, and the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group on Multicultural and Multiethnic Lifetime Achievement Award. You can listen to her talk about race and the opportunity gap in schools for Teaching Tolerance, or watch her speak about critical family history.

Video Link: Critical Family History, Race, & Historical Memory

Making the Case Featuring Hugh Williams

Camille Tarver — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:12:45 +0000

This edition of Making the Case features Hugh Williams. This broadcast originally aired in October 2009. Mr. Williams was the Director of Operations of the Cleveland Food Bank and was also on the Future Heights Board of Directors. Sadly, Hugh Williams passed away June 2012.

Making the Case Featuring Sue Cavey

Camille Tarver — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:06:32 +0000

This edition of Making the Case features Sue Cavey.

Making the Case Featuring Pat Perry

Camille Tarver — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:50:48 +0000

This edition of Making the Case features Pat Perry, president of ERC (Employers Resource Council). ERC is Northeast Ohio’s largest organization dedicated to human resources and workplace related services, practices, research and programs. The organization currently serves over 1,300 clients in 22 Northeast Ohio counties. Prior to ERC, Pat served as a Director with AIM Executive (later acquired by Spherion) and served as director of Human Resources for University Mednet. Previously, Pat was an adjunct faculty member for Lakeland Community College, Cleveland State University and Baldwin Wallace College. Pat was named Northeast Ohio’s “Best Boss” by Inside Business Magazine and as one of America’s Best Bosses for 2006 by Fortune Small Business Magazine and Winning Workplaces. He is currently working on his first book, focused on lessons learned from great workplaces.