MLK Week 2012

What is the Future of Diversity in the Media, Arts, Education, Cities, Economy, Immigration and Activism?  Find out at the university-wide event during MLK Week at NYU, featuring 7 leaders from various areas speaking for 7 minutes on 7 topic areas surrounding this year’s theme, The Future of Diversity: Here & Now. Confirmed speakers include Dr. Cornel West, Princeton University Professor, philosopher and influential intellectual, who will address the issue of activism; and Dr. Mitchell L. Moss, Director of the Rudin Center for Transportation and Henry Hart Rice Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, who will speak about the issue of cities.

We will also be presenting the NYU MLK Jr. Humanitarian Award to Associate Professor Jack Tchen who is the Founding Director of NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute and co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in America.

Jack is an alumnus of the NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science, '90, '92.