Keynote Speakers
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Claire Gaudiani, PhD, is a highly quotable champion of American generosity who appears regularly in the national media. Gaudiani authored The Greater Good, the recently completed Generosity Rules!, a guide to personal generosity, and the forthcoming Women Social Entrepreneurs. She is currently professor of Philanthropy at New York University. Gaudiani served for 13 years as President of Connecticut College. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Director of The Henry Luce Foundation, MBIA Inc. and The National Council for Economic Education. She is the recipient of ten honorary doctorates and of the Rosso Medal for distinguished service to philanthropy. She and her husband, David Burnett, have two children and three grandchildren. |
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Handy Lindsey, Jr. has spent thirty years in professional philanthropy. Prior to joining The Cameron Foundation in 2004 he served as Executive Director and Treasurer of the Field Foundation of Illinois from 1988 until 1997 when he was named President. Prior to that, he was assistant director of the Chicago Community Trust. From 1980 to 1986, he was staff associate, senior staff associate and executive director of the Chicago Area Foundation for Legal Services. Handy studied at the University of Chicago where he earned an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business, an M.A. from the School of Social Services Administration and an undergraduate degree in Sociology. In 1997 while continuing full-time employment with the Field Foundation, Handy returned to the School of Social Service Administration to undertake work toward a Ph.D., for which he completed all required course work in March, 2000. Handy has two grown children, Josef and Marshall. He is married to Kristin R. (Anderson) Lindsey. |
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Monique Harden is the co-director and attorney of Advocates for Environmental Human Rights (“AEHR”), a nonprofit, public interest law firm in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA that she co-founded with attorney Nathalie Walker in 2002. AEHR is dedicated to transforming legal systems that make communities vulnerable to disaster and displacement. AEHR provides human rights-based legal services, community organizing support, and public advocacy campaigns. On behalf of African Americans living in the historic community of Mossville, Louisiana, Ms. Harden and AEHR legal staff filed the first ever human rights petition that seeks fundamental change of the United States environmental regulatory system. The Mossville human rights/environmental justice case is currently pending with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States. In the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, AEHR is spearheading advocacy and organizing efforts aimed at establishing recovery as a legal right, not an empty promise, in accordance with the United Nations’ Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. Ms. Harden has coordinated international coalitions advocating for human rights in the contexts of environmental racism and disaster profiteering. |
