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This Document is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Law Publications at DOCS@RWU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Conferences, Lectures & Events by an authorized administrator of DOCS@RWU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration In honor of the contributions of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to the Civil Rights Movement and RWU Law’s 20th Anniversary, the Office of Diversity & Outreach presents: MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 2014 8:00 a.m. Rhodes on the Pawtuxet 60 Rhodes Place, Cranston, Rhode Island 31st Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Breakfast Hosted by the Minister’s Alliance of Rhode Island and featuring Keynote Speaker, Michael L. Vaughan Senior Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Delaware (Classical High School Alumnus – Class of 1977) Seats are limited. Please email Deborah Johnson at [email protected] if you are interested in attending. wednesday, JANUARY 22, 2014 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. Room 283 “A CLASS APART”

Join us for this lunchtime event, co-sponsored by the Latino Law Students Association, the Multi-Cultural Law Students Association, the Asian Pacific Law Students Association, the Black Law Students Association and the Association for Public Interest Law, which will feature a screening of the film “A Class Apart.” Lunch will be provided and a discussion, facilitated by LLSA Chair, Jenny Santana and BLSA Chair, Darnae Wells, will follow the movie.

This film brings to life the heroic post-World War II struggles of Mexican Americans against the Jim Crow-style discrimination targeted against them. It highlights the landmark 1954 civil rights case Hernandez v. Texas in which a group of Latino lawyers sought to ensure that Mexican Americans were recognized by the 14th Amendment by bringing their case to the Supreme Court – and winning.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2014 5:00 p.m. Room 286 Keynote Address by the Honorable Jenny Rivera Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals of Judge Jenny Rivera has spent her entire professional career in public service. She clerked for the Honorable , on the Southern District of New York, and also clerked in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Pro Se ’s Office. She worked for the Legal Aid Society’s Homeless Family Rights Project, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (renamed Latino Justice PRLDEF), and was appointed by the New York State Attorney General as Special Deputy Attorney General for Civil Rights. Judge Rivera has been an Administrative Law Judge for the New York State Division for Human Rights, and served on the Commission on Human Rights. Prior to her judicial appointment, she was a tenured faculty member of the City University of New York School of Law, where she founded and served as Director of the Law School’s Center on Latino and Latina Rights and Equality. On January 15, 2013, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo nominated her to the Court of Appeals, and the New York State Senate confirmed her appointment on February 11, 2013.

She graduated from Princeton University, and received her J.D. from New York University School of Law and her LL.M. from Columbia University School of Law.

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