Speaker Suggestions
Speaker Suggestions
This is a list of names of people who’ve been suggested as future speakers in the CIC seminar.
If you have suggestions please send them to Dan Atkins (atkins@umich.edu) and/or Lisa McLaughlin (lmclaug@umich.edu).
• Beth Kanter, “has done a lot of interesting work in Cambodia and with nonprofit IT capacity building and social media”
• Bob Miller, who Directs United Way 211 in Washtenaw County (and is also an adjunct lecturer in the School of Social Work).
• Second year CIC students could do a presentation on their summer internships.
•A speaker about the USAID Global Development Commons. Contact is Mary Kratz at UM (mkratz@umich.edu) and Seema Patel, Global Development Commons, DAI, Office: 301 771-7885, seemapatel001@yahoo.com.
•Alex Neuhoff -- consultant to non-profits, Bain Consulting (non-profit arm of Bain).
•Cory Doctrow - So. Little Brother. Who's read it? Who was blown away by it? Who thinks that passages of it would be really useful in 502?
If you don't know what I'm talking about, read Henry Jenkins' really excellent review here: http://henryjenkins.org/2008/07/adopting_and_defending_little.html
And then, in the true spirit of the Internet, go download your free electronic copy of the book here: http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/
• Dale Fitch. He is a professor in the School of Social Work that focuses on the use of management information systems in human service agencies