We are delighted to host the 2021 Non-Profit Leadership Symposium. The theme for this year’s symposium is “Philanthropy With a Purpose,” and the program promises to be as engaging, refreshing and inspirational as our programs in 2018 and 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic, while not defeated, will not prevent us from gathering virtually this Friday, April 2, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST and Saturday, April 3, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST.
Agenda
Day One: Friday, April 2, 2021 – Education, Effort and Equity
Welcoming Remarks – Fred Nance, Co-Chair Inclusion and Diversity Committee; and Global Managing Partner, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Introduction of Opening Speaker – Ambassador James Blanchard, Chairman, National Archives Foundation; former US Ambassador to Canada; former Governor, State of Michigan; and Partner, DLA Piper
Opening Remarks – Ernest Green, member of the Little Rock Nine
- Ernest is likely the only member of our distinguished program participants whose high school graduation in May 1958 from Little Rock Central, was attended by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Panel One – Moderator: Rodney E. Slater, Chairman, Squire Patton Boggs Foundation; and Partner, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
- Margaret McCabe, Dean, University of Arkansas School of Law
- Dr. Michael Lomax, President, United Negro College Fund (UNCF)
- Kevin Thurm, Chief Executive Officer, Clinton Foundation
- Kim Tignor, Co-Founder, #SheWillRise; Executive Director, Institute for Intellectual Property & Social Justice; and former Policy Director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Fireside Chat – Paul Irving, Chairman, Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging; Chairman, Encore.org; and distinguished scholar-in-residence, University of Southern California Davis School of Gerontology
- Articles authored and co-authored by Paul Irving:
Presentation – “A Non-Profit Good Governance for Greatness” by Colin Jennings, Partner, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
- “10 Best Practices for Non-Profit Corporate Governance,” Squire Patton Boggs insight
Panel Two – Moderator: John Oberdorfer, President and Vice Chairman, Squire Patton Boggs Foundation
- Squire Patton Boggs Foundation website and 20th Anniversary Brochure
- Damon Hewitt, Acting President, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights (Racial Justice Impact Fellowship)
- Carmia Caesar, Assistant Dean, Howard University School of Law (1619 Project)
- Marni Lennon, Assistant Dean, University of Miami School of Law (1619 Project)
Closing Remarks – Alethia Nancoo, Partner and Co-Chair, Inclusion and Diversity Committee, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
- Alethia, a newly minted member of the Squire Patton Boggs Global Board, will share the firm’s Standing Up for Our Values Initiative
Activities for day one will conclude at 1 p.m. EST. Day two activities are to begin at 11 a.m. EST on Saturday, April 3, 2021.
Day Two: Saturday, April 3, 2021
Panel One – Young Voices: Their Protest, Power and Search for Purpose
Moderators: Bridgette J. Slater, JD and MBA Candidate, Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School; and Sudheer R. Poluru, JD and MBA Candidate, Harvard Law School and University of Chicago Booth Business School
- Erica Wheelan Heyse, National Director, The Congressional Awards Foundation
- Raquel “Rocky” Egusquiza, Executive Director, Miami Marlins’ Foundation; and Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Miami Marlins
- Corrine Irish, Of Counsel, and Co-Chair, Pro Bono Program, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
- Patrick Madden, Executive Director, National Archives Foundation
- AnnMaura Connolly, President, Voices for National Service
- Janis Kearney, Founder and President, CELEBRATE MAYA PROJECT
- Rose Kirk, Senior Vice President and Chief Corporate Social Responsibility Officer, Verizon
- Greg Honan, Communications Director, With Honor
- Emily Roseman, Research Director, Institute for Nonprofit News
- Marion Humphery, Jr., third-year law student, University of Arkansas School of Law; and a Squire Patton Boggs Foundation Fellow
Fireside Chat – The Honorable Dennis Archer, Past President, American Bar Association; former Mayor, City of Detroit; former Associate Justice, Michigan Supreme Court; and Chairman Emeritus, Dickinson Wright
Panel Two – Promise, Purpose and Prospects of the Delta Region
Opening Remarks – The Honorable Michael Espy, Chairman, Hope Enterprise Corporation
- Mike is also a former US Congressman; former US Secretary of Agriculture; and a recent Democratic US Senate nominee
Moderator: James Honan, Educational Co-Chair, Institute for Educational Management (IEM); and Senior Lecturer on Education, Harvard University
- Bob J. Nash, President, Nash and Associates
- The Honorable Raymond Abramson, Judge, Arkansas Court of Appeals
- George Kendall, Of Counsel and Chair, Public Service Initiative, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
- Darrin Williams, Chief Executive Officer, Southern Bancorp Inc.
- A'Lelia Bundles, author of “On Her Own Ground, the Life and Time of Madam C.J. Walker”; and Immediate Past Chair, National Archives
- Kim Davis, Senior Advisor, Walton Family Foundation
- Clarksdale Collegiate
- Delta College Attainment Network (DCAN)
- Delta Philanthropy Forum
- Spring Initiative
- Global Teaching Project
- Sherman Tate, Chairman, Arkansas Urban League
- Donna Washington, Founder, Student Internet Equity Coalition (SIEC)
- Lee Powell, Executive Director, The Delta Grassroots Caucus
- Emily Broad Leib, Clinical Professor, Director, Food Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard University; and Former Director, Delta Directions Consortium
For any questions about the symposium, please contact Keri Li.
We offer special thanks to John Oberdorfer, former Partner, Squire Patton Boggs, for his support of this program.