(NAME-MCE) FW: Announcement: Welcoming the Stranger Event, 7 pm, July 9 @ WACC in Whittier

[Gradilla, Alexandro]

FYI

Alexandro José Gradilla, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
California State University, Fullerton
Chicana and Chicano Studies Department
800 N. State College Blvd., H314
Fullerton, CA 92831
agradilla at fullerton.edu<mailto:agradilla at fullerton.edu>
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Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 9:09 AM
To: Alexandro Jose Gradilla
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Welcoming the Stranger:
Compassion and Justice for immigrants
A Dialogue on Immigration Reform

Explore the biblical issue of compassion and justice for immigrants and immigration reform with Professor Robert Chao Romero (UCLA) and Welcoming the Stranger co-author Jenny Hwang (World Relief) and Jose Serrano (UCLA student).

Thursday, July 9, 7 – 8:30 pm in room 24 @ Whittier Area Community Church, 8175 Villaverde Drive, Whittier, CA, www.wacc.net , cosponsored by World Relief and Whittier Institute for Leadership Development (W. I. L. D.). Contact: Glen Peterson, 562/400-4739, gpeterson at capacitypartnership.com<mailto:gpeterson at capacitypartnership.com> for more information.

Speaker Bios:

[Confirmed] Jenny Hwang is the Director of Advocacy and Policy for the Refugee and Immigration Program at World Relief where she works with the Congress and the Administration to improve refugee and immigration policy. She previously worked in the Resettlement section of World Relief for 2 years as the Senior Case Manager and East Asia Program Officer where she focused on advocacy for refugees in the East Asia region and managed the entire refugee caseload for World Relief before their arrival to the United States. Jenny has conducted research on refugees in Madrid, Spain working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She graduated with a B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University and is the co-author of “Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion, and Truth in the Immigration Debate.”

[Confirmed] Robert Chao Romero is an Assistant Professor in the UCLA Cesar Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies and Director of the Christian Students of Conscience campus ministry. In the tradition of Rev. Martin Luther King and Cesar E. Chavez, Christian Students of Conscience trains and mobilizes university students in inner city and global justice issues from a faith-based perspective. Dr. Romero received his Juris Doctor from U.C. Berkeley and his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an ordained minister and has recently begun a pro bono practice in immigration law.

[Confirmed] Jose Serrano recently graduated from UCLA, with a major in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations and with 2 minors, one in Education and the other in Chicano/a Studies. He will be applying to graduate school in the fall concentrating in educational policy. He came here to the U.S. at the age of four years old and is the first one in his family to attend a four year university. And last but not least, Jose firmly believes that God does not give us challenges we are not able to overcome.

Best,
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Glen Peterson
Capacity Partnership Group
Post Office Box 693, Whittier, CA 90608

562/400-4739 [mobile and voice or text messaging]
562/309-4399 [fax]

www.capacitypartnership.com
http://capacitypartnership.blogspot.com/
twitter.com/gjpeterson
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