Reunion Forum: From Inequality to Equal Opportunity
Co-sponsored by the Haas Center for Public Service and the Stanford Alumni Association
In recent years, increasing attention has been devoted to inequality, opportunity and mobility. What are the roles of our government, Stanford and each of us in building opportunity? What policies can reduce inequality and renew the promise of equal opportunity for all in America and around the world?
About the Speakers
Moderator: Larry Diamond, ’73, MA ’78, PhD ’80, is the Mimi and Peter E. Haas Faculty Director, Haas Center for Public Service; senior fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Hoover Institution; Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education; and professor, by courtesy, of political science and sociology. Professor Diamond teaches courses on comparative democratic development and post-conflict democracy building, and advises many Stanford students. In 2013, he received the Richard W. Lyman Award for exceptional volunteer service to alumni.
Michelle Wilde Anderson, is a professor of law focused on state and local government, including urban policy, city planning, local democracy and public finance. Her work combines legal analysis with the details of human experience to understand the local governance of high poverty areas, both urban and rural, and the legal causes of concentrated poverty and fiscal crisis.
Michael J. Boskin, is the Tully M. Friedman Professor of Economics and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He served as chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 to 1993. He chaired the highly influential blue-ribbon Commission on the Consumer Price Index, whose report has transformed the way government statistical agencies around the world measure inflation, GDP and productivity.
Francis Fukuyama, is the diretor of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; and a professor, by courtesy, of political science. Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on questions concerning democratization and international political economy. His book, The End of History and the Last Man, was published by Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over 20 foreign editions.
Caroline Hoxby, is the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor in Economics; professor of economics, by courtesy, at the Graduate School of Business; John and Lydia Pearce Mitchell University Fellow in Undergraduate Education; and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Trained as a public finance and labor economist, Professor Hoxby is one of the world's leading scholars in the economics of education.
Jesper Sorensen, PhD ’96, is the Robert A. and Elizabeth R. Jeffe Professor; professor of organizational behavior at the Graduate School of Business; professor, by courtesy, of sociology, faculty director and executive director of the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Countries (SEED); and Katherine & David deWilde Faculty Fellow for 2015-2016. Professor Sorensen specializes in studying the dynamics of both organizations and careers, with work that covers a wide range of topics ranging from firm performance to social inequality.
A Selection of Related Stanford University Centers and Programs
Stanford University Centers and Institutes
- Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality (one of three National Poverty Centers)
- Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED), Graduate School of Business
- John and Terry Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law, Stanford Law School
- Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Stanford University Programs
- Avery-Stanford Loan Forgiveness Program for Tteachers, Graduate School for Education
- Diversity and First-Gen Office, Student Affairs
- Hollyhock Fellowship Program, Graduate School of Education
- Leland Scholars Program, Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education
- Mills Legal Clinic, Stanford Law School
- Office of Community Health, Stanford Medicine
- Project ReMade, Stanford Law School
- Workshop on Poverty, Inequality, and Education (PIE), Graduate School of Education
Stanford University Student Groups
- Engineers for a Sustainable World
- First-Generation and/or Low Income Partnership (FLIP)
- Night Outreach
- Stanford Project on Nutrition (SPON)
About the Haas Center for Public Service
Stanford University's Haas Center for Public Service insipres and prepares students to create a more just and sustainable world through service, scholarship and community partnerships. The Haas Center is the hub of Cardinal Service, a bold university-wide initiative to elevate and expand service as a distinctive feature of a Stanford education. Cardinal Service will increase the number of full-time, quarter-long service fellowships (from 350 to 500 by 2020), expand community engaged learning courses (from 70 to over 150 by the end of 2020) and strengthen efforts to encourage service commitments and careers.
