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About the Event: The Our Compelling Interests book series is launching its third volume. In this new volume, Eboo Patel (Founder and President of Interfaith Youth Core; former faith advisor to President Barack Obama) explores today’s volatile climate of religious conflict, prejudice, and distrust, and examines the principle that the American promise is deeply intertwined with how we engage with people of different beliefs.

The book panel program will feature Eboo Patel as well as volume contributors John Inazu (Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor, Washington University in St. Louis), Robert Jones (CEO, Public Religion Research Institute), and Laurie Patton (President, Middlebury College). Nancy Cable (Chancellor, University of North Carolina-Asheville) will moderate the keynote panel.

What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do in order to make society more integrated and just? In this panel, experts across the corporate, academic, and media sectors discuss how organizations can leverage identity - and cognitive-based differences to better their bottom line and address the complex challenges of the knowledge economy. The second volume in The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Our Compelling Interests series, The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy, authored by University of Michigan diversity expert Scott E. Page, will help establish the framework for the conversation.

Panelists

Janine Cabrera-Velde, training and communications specialist, Emory University; Andrew R. Davis, global chief diversity & inclusion officer, The Coca-Cola Company; Gail Evans, executive vice president, CNN (ret.); Scott E. Page, Leonid Hurwicz collegiate professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute; Moderated by Celeste Headlee, host of Georgia Public Broadcasting's On Second Thought

Listen to the Our Compelling Interests panel discussion on The Diversity Bonus, featured on Georgia Public Broadcasting's "On Second Thought" with Celeste Headlee.

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What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do in order to make society more integrated and just? In this panel, Scott E. Page will discuss the power of cognitive differences, a subject raised in his latest book, The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy, the second volume in the Our Compelling Interests series—an initiative of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Panelists

Jana Babatunde-Bey, president of the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation
Nancy Cantor, series editor and chancellor of Rutgers University-Newark
Jerry Kang, vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion at the University of California-Los Angeles
Scott E. Page, volume author and Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Michigan

Moderated by Charmaine Jefferson, president of Kélan Resources, vice chair of the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission, trustee for the California Institute of the Arts, co-chair of the PBS SoCal African American Community Council

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At a time when American society is swiftly transforming and reengaged in debates over identity politics, the new book series Our Compelling Interests sheds light on how connecting across differences will only become more critical to our shared success. WGBH and World Channel General Manager Liz Cheng will moderate a panel discussion with: Danielle Allen, chair, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Board, James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University; Jeffrey Leiden, chairman, president and CEO, Vertex; Earl Lewis, president, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and Deval Patrick, managing director, Bain Capital Double Impact, former governor of Massachusetts. Co-hosted by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in partnership with Princeton University Press, WGBH, and World Channel.

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At a time when American society is swiftly transforming, the new book series Our Compelling Interests sheds light on how our differences will only become more critical to our shared success. After a reading by poet and Schomburg Center Director Kevin Young, WNYC Host Brian Lehrer moderated a panel discussion featuring Rutgers University-Newark Chancellor Nancy Cantor (series coeditor), Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Nicole Gelinas, New York Public Library President Tony Marx, and NAACP Legal Defense Fund President Sherrilyn Ifill.

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In celebration of the Our Compelling Interests book launch, New Yorker Staff Writer and Columbia Journalism School Professor Jelani Cobb moderated a panel discussion featuring contributors Patricia Gurin, Nicole Smith, and Thomas Sugrue. Series coeditors Earl Lewis and Nancy Cantor shared welcoming remarks.

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