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A Conversation with Eva Paterson and Tim Wise
Tim Wise is the author of three books, his just-released Between Barack and a Hard Place (City Lights), White Like Me; Reflections of Race from a Privileged Son (Soft Skull Press) and Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White (Routledge). He has spoken to over 300,000 people in 48 states, and on over 350 college campuses. From 1999-2003, Wise was an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute, and in the early 90s was Associate Director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, the largest of the many groups organized for the purpose of defeating neo-Nazi political candidate, David Duke.
Eva Paterson is the President and a founder of the Equal Justice Society, a national organization dedicated to changing the law through progressive legal theory, public policy and practice. Prior to taking the helm of the Equal Justice Society in 2003, Paterson worked at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights for twenty-six years, thirteen of them as Executive Director. Paterson co-founded and chaired the California Coalition for Civil Rights for 18 years, and was a leading spokesperson in the campaigns against Proposition 187 (anti-immigrant) and Proposition 209 (anti-affirmative action) and numerous other statewide campaigns against the death penalty, juvenile incarceration and discrimination against lesbians and gay men. She is Executive Producer of the forthcoming film "Presidential Race."
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LocationFirst Congregational Church of Oakland
2501 Harrison Street
Oakland, CA 94612
United States
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