[OSList] Fw: NYU Reynolds Program: <Special Speaker Series Event: What Do You Stand For? An Evening of Moral Courage with Cornel West and Irshad Manji. Special musical guest Omnia Hegazy!>

[chunili2000 at yahoo.com]

Hi Tricia,
 
I saw this announcement from NYU about social entrepreneurship and thought of you.
Don't remember where you are based...but may be you and your friends would be interested in this event which is open to the public.
 
Chuni Li
 
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Subject: NYU Reynolds Program: <Special Speaker Series Event: What Do You Stand For? An Evening of Moral Courage with Cornel West and Irshad Manji. Special musical guest Omnia Hegazy!>
  

 
The NYU Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship is pleased to present a very special Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century Speaker Series Event: The Launch of Moral Courage TV 
Join us on April 16, 2013 from 6:00pm -7:30pm for an evening celebrating the launch of Moral Courage TV with Professor and Philosopher Dr. Cornel West, and Founder and Director of the Moral Courage Project Irshad Manji. Don’t miss this inspiring discussion about power, democracy, innovation, and your own role in all three.  Moral courage means standing up when others want you to sit down, and it's the big idea behind every movement for social change.  The event takes place in the Tishman Auditorium, 40 Washington Square South, New York NY. The event is free and open to the public, but space is limited and an RSVP is required by clicking here or by cutting and pasting http://bit.ly/CWIMu into your browser. Singer/songwriter Omni Hegazy will perform, and a reception will follow. 
CORNEL WEST is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is a Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris. Cornel West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. He appears frequently on Bill Maher, The Colbert Report, CNN and C-Span as well as on his dear Brother, Tavis Smiley’s PBS TV Show. He is also co-host of the popular radio show “Smiley & West” heard on PRI around the country. The co-hosts have recently co-authored the book titled The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto. The new book is a game-changing text on economic injustice in
 America. He made his film debut in The Matrix – and was the commentator (with Ken Wilbur) on the official trilogy released in 2004. He also has appeared in over 25 documentaries and films including Examined Life, Call & Response, Sidewalk and Stand. Last, he has made three spoken word albums including Never Forget, collaborating with Prince, Jill Scott, Andre 3000, Talib Kweli, KRS-One and the late Gerald Levert. His spoken word interludes were featured on Terence Blanchard’s Choices (which won the Grand Prix in France for the best Jazz Album of the year of 2009), The Cornel West Theory’s Second Rome, Raheem DeVaughn’s Grammy-nominated Love & War: Masterpeace, and most recently on Bootsy Collins’ The Funk Capital of the World. In short, Cornel West has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. – a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice. 
IRSHAD MANJI is Founder and Director of the Moral Courage Project, housed at the Wagner School of Public Service. This multi-media program equips people to become gutsy global citizens. As a faithful Muslim, Irshad puts moral courage into practice. Her latest book, Allah, Liberty & Love, is a guide to reconciling faith and freedom in a world raging with repressive dogmas. O, The Oprah Magazine, describes Allah, Liberty & Love as “an audacious, thoughtful call for people of all religions to move beyond hate, fear and intolerance.” Irshad’s previous book is the international bestseller, The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith. It has been published in 31 languages, including Arabic, Urdu and Bahasa Indonesia. In-between her books, Irshad created the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary, Faith Without Fear. Her books and films have been banned by certain governments, which explains Irshad’s strategic use of social media –
 from online translations and study guides to a virtual team of advisors who answer the public’s questions about how to live with moral courage. On April 16, Irshad is launching Moral Courage TV, a web-based channel that tells the stories of morally courageous people worldwide. Partnered with YouTube, Moral Courage TV will be translated and distributed in several languages. The World Economic Forum identifies Irshad as a Young Global Leader. The Jakarta Post in Indonesia – the world’s largest Muslim country – has selected her as one of three Muslim women making a positive change in Islam today. Most recently, the New York Society for Ethical Culture gave Irshad its highest distinction: The Ethical Humanist Award. 
Now in its seventh year, the NYU Reynolds Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century Speaker Series features a remarkable selection of social entrepreneurs and related leaders who have launched extraordinary programs, companies and movements addressing the most pressing challenges of the 21st century.  Reflecting the NYU Reynolds belief that social entrepreneurship is a meta-profession drawing on cross-disciplinary knowledge and practice, the series presents prominent social entrepreneurs and leaders from across the spectrum of public and professional sectors who will share their insights as cutting-edge, far-reaching changemakers. One event remain for this year’s series; Teach For America Founder Wendy Kopp on April  22. 
Past speakers include Public Enemy founder Chuck D, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, Room to Read Founder John Wood, documentary maker No Impact Man Colin Beavan, Ashoka founder Bill Drayton, idealist.org founder Ami Dar, Partners in Health co-founder Paul Farmer, International Bridges To Justice founder Karen Tse, Whole Foods Founder John Mackey, Seventh Generation founder Jeffrey Hollender, ACLU President Anthony Romero, Acumen Fund founder Jacqueline Novogratz, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, Endeavor  founder Linda Rottenberg, and CNN pundit David Gergen. 
To learn more about the NYU Reynolds Speaker Series, and to access our audio and video library of previous speakers, click here or cut and paste http://bit.ly/p9Y2 into your browser. The audio and video library is also available from the podcast section of iTunes. Search NYU Reynolds Program. 
To learn more about the NYU Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship, please visit us at http://www.nyu.edu/reynolds.    
  
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