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For leaders and educators interested in creating and applying ideas and actions to promote the worth, dignity and development of individuals, communities and organizations. 

“Uncommon Vision for the Common Good”

2006 Conference Schedule (pdf)

2006 Walden University Conference on Social Change
October 20 – 21, 2006
Tremont Plaza Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland

Walden University’s Conference on Social Change is for anyone interested in creating and applying ideas and actions to promote the worth, dignity, and development of individuals, communities, and organizations.

Keynote Speaker
Richard C. Harwood, founder and president of The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, and author of Hope Unraveled: The People’s Retreat and Our Way Back 

The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation seeks to help people imagine and act for the public good--to spark fundamental change in American public life so that people can tap their own potential to make a difference and join together to build a common future.

Closing Speaker  
Dr. Nir Tsuk, director of the Global Fellowship Program, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public 

Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs with system-changing solutions that address the world’s most urgent social challenges.

Special Guest Speakers 
Kevin Klose, president and CEO of National Public Radio (NPR), on the role of media in social change

NPR (National Public Radio), an internationally acclaimed producer and distributor of noncommercial news, talk, and entertainment programming, serves an audience of 26 million Americans each week in partnership with more than 800 independently operated, noncommercial public radio stations.

Dr. David Thornburg, Director of Global Operations for the Thornburg Center

The Thornburg Center is one of the oldest groups of consultants, speakers and authors whose primary focus is on education from Kindergarten to twelfth grade, working across the spectrum from small schools to federal governments, with a common theme of enhancing student creativity and the mastery of subjects through the thoughtful use of modern technologies.

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