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The Norman and Louis Miller Lecture in Public Understanding

These lectures are free and open to the public. 

Fall Miller Lecture

 

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Sherrilyn Ifill
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq. Endowed Chair in Civil Rights, Howard University Law School

“A Conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill” 

Oct. 17, 2023
5:30 p.m. Invite Only Reception
Michels Commons Ballroom
7 p.m. Public Lecture
Walter Theatre, Abbot Pennings Hall of Fine Arts
St. Norbert College


Sherrilyn Ifill is the Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq. Endowed Chair in Civil Rights at Howard University Law School, where she also heads the multi-disciplinary 14thAmendment Center for Law & Democracy. She served as the seventh President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) from 2013 to 2022, and currently serves as President and Director-Counsel Emeritus. Ifill, the second woman to ever lead LDF, provided visionary and transformational leadership during one of the most consequential and intense moments in our nation’s history.

Ifill will be in conversation with ESPN journalist Sarah Spain and President and CEO of Brown County United Way Robyn Davis. 

Spring Miller Lecture

Barber

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
Founding Director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

April 11, 2024
5:30 p.m. Invite Only Reception
Michels Commons Ballroom
7 p.m. Public Lecture
Old St. Joseph Church
St. Norbert College


For years the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II of the Poor People’s Campaign has been one of the most gifted moral fusion organizers, strategists and orators in the country. As an indispensable figure in the public policy and public theology landscape, he believes it’s time for everyone who cares about the state of our nation to heed the call and join forces to redeem the soul of America. It's time to come together and renounce the politics of rejection, division and greed, and to lift up the common good, move up to higher ground and revive the heart of democracy. During his inspiring keynote, Rev. Dr. Barber makes an impassioned argument with a message that could not be clearer: It's time for change and the time needs you.

The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is President and Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, Co-Chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival, Bishop with The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, and Professor in the Practice of Public Theology and Public Policy and Founding Director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School.

The Miller Lecture Series is free and open to the public. Registration is required to reserve a seat.


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