A full calendar: Topics of diversity, inclusion and historical segregation
In the time of the pandemic, UC Davis School of Law remains intellectually engaged. Students, faculty, staff and community continue to have a wealth of events to choose from daily. For example, on Tuesday this week, we have two big events during the noon hour. The different topics offer an idea of the breadth of interests represented at King Hall:
The Women in Business Law panel in Business Law Culture Week features Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Afra Afsharipour (pictured) moderating a discussion of how we can make business law a more inclusive and prosperous place for women. Much of Dean Afsharipour's scholarship focuses on promoting racial, gender and other diversity in business. The panel includes Perkins Coie counsel Tiffany Lee '11, whose practice includes privacy and antitrust litigation; Danielle Naftulin, a partner in Cooley's corporate group whose work primarily focuses on securities and venture capital; and Tina Combs, who had experience at Morrison & Foerster and Wells Fargo before serving as a director on ReNew Solar's board.
In addition, the Aoki Center and UC Davis History Department Free People of Color Lecture Series continues with Professor Elizabeth Pryor, Smith College. Her talk looks at "Becoming Mobile in the Age of Segregation: Public Conveyances & the Fight for Black Citizenship." In the United States, in the early 19th century, Black abolitionists and elite free people of color took advantage of the newly emerging technologies of travel -- stagecoaches, steamships, railroads -- to expand their social, economic and activist networks. Calling themselves "colored travelers," they (like all Americans) believed that full access to public conveyances was a fundamental right to which they were entitled as U.S. citizens. Nevertheless, they confronted white supremacist ideologies that prevented them from access.
I am looking forward to these and other events this week.
The Women in Business Law panel in Business Law Culture Week features Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Afra Afsharipour (pictured) moderating a discussion of how we can make business law a more inclusive and prosperous place for women. Much of Dean Afsharipour's scholarship focuses on promoting racial, gender and other diversity in business. The panel includes Perkins Coie counsel Tiffany Lee '11, whose practice includes privacy and antitrust litigation; Danielle Naftulin, a partner in Cooley's corporate group whose work primarily focuses on securities and venture capital; and Tina Combs, who had experience at Morrison & Foerster and Wells Fargo before serving as a director on ReNew Solar's board.
In addition, the Aoki Center and UC Davis History Department Free People of Color Lecture Series continues with Professor Elizabeth Pryor, Smith College. Her talk looks at "Becoming Mobile in the Age of Segregation: Public Conveyances & the Fight for Black Citizenship." In the United States, in the early 19th century, Black abolitionists and elite free people of color took advantage of the newly emerging technologies of travel -- stagecoaches, steamships, railroads -- to expand their social, economic and activist networks. Calling themselves "colored travelers," they (like all Americans) believed that full access to public conveyances was a fundamental right to which they were entitled as U.S. citizens. Nevertheless, they confronted white supremacist ideologies that prevented them from access.
I am looking forward to these and other events this week.