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Spring 2010 Public Policy Lecture

Changing Lives: Precious, Policy, and Education

Panel Discussion with Lisa Cortés, Jonathan Kozol, and Carole Simpson

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

7:00 p.m.

MCLA Church Street Center

featuring

Lisa Cortés, Executive Producer, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

Jonathan Kozol, Acclaimed Former Teacher and Children's Advocate

and moderated by

Carole Simpson, Former ABC News Anchor

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) will use the Oscar-winning film Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire as a platform to consider issues regarding race, class, economic and social oppression, and the power of education to transform and redeem lives.

Precious focuses on an illiterate, horrifically abused young African-American woman who, with very little help, enrolls in an alternative high school to try to turn her life around. Although the film is set in the 1980s, the situations it describes persist.

Lisa Cortés, executive producer of Precious, and author, educator, and activist Jonathan Kozol will participate in a panel discussion moderated by Emmy Award-winning journalist Carole Simpson, Leader in Residence at Emerson College's School of Communication.

Free and open to the public. No reservations required.

For more information call (413) 662-5185.

The Public Policy Lecture Series is made possible through the generosity of the Ruth Proud Charitable Trust.

Admission: free

Event Website: http://www.mcla.edu/About_MCLA/notablespeakers/publicpolicylecture

Location: MCLA Church Street Center (wheelchair accessible)

Contact Information: , (413) 662-5185