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Walden Social Change Initiatives
Walden's commitment to creating and disseminating knowledge that makes a difference in peoples lives is realized in the university's Center for Social Change, which publishes the refereed Journal of Social Change and hosts an annual Conference on Social Change.
And, in celebration of Walden's 35 Years of Inquiry for Social Change last year, the university presented social change awards to leaders in education, the arts, environmental activism, and public policy.
Dr. Piedad Robertson
Robertson is president of the Education Commission of the States, which works with state leaders to advance education through public policy. She is on the boards of numerous organizations, among them the American Council on Education, Educational Testing Service, Gates Millennium Scholars, The Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, and The Institute for Higher Education Policy. She was president of Santa Monica College; was instrumental in establishing the Academy of Entertainment and Technology, a multimedia center that prepares students for jobs in the entertainment industry; was special assistant to the California secretary for education; and served as the Massachusetts secretary of education, where she supervised the drafting of the comprehensive Kâ12 Education Reform Act.
Theatre de la Jeune Lune
Minneapolis' Theatre de la Jeune Lune, which also received a Regional Theatre Tony Award in 2005, was recognized for using its unique approach to theater as a means of delivering important themes and statements. "Like Walden, our form of education connects ideas and people with purpose," says Jeune Lune Artistic Director Robert Rosen.
Winona LaDuke
A highly respected activist for social and environmental issues, LaDuke is the program director of Honor the Earth and the founding director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project. In 1994, LaDuke was nominated by Time as one of America's 50 most promising leaders less than 40 years of age. She was awarded the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, the BIHA Community Service Award in 1997, the Ann Bancroft Award for Women's Leadership Fellowship, and the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project. LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg. She lives and works on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota.
Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg is the author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. In 1967, Ellsberg worked on the top-secret McNamara study of U.S. Decision-Making in Vietnam, 1945â68, which later came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. In 1969, he photocopied the 7,000-page study and gave it to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; in 1971 he gave it to the New York Times, Washington Post and 17 other newspapers. His trial, on 12 felony counts posing a possible sentence of 115 years, was dismissed in 1973 on grounds of governmental misconduct against him. That misconduct led to the convictions of several White House aides and figured in the impeachment proceedings against President Nixon. Since the end of the Vietnam War, Ellsberg has been a lecturer, writer, and activist on the dangers of the nuclear era and unlawful interventions.
And, in celebration of Walden's 35 Years of Inquiry for Social Change last year, the university presented social change awards to leaders in education, the arts, environmental activism, and public policy.
Dr. Piedad Robertson
Robertson is president of the Education Commission of the States, which works with state leaders to advance education through public policy. She is on the boards of numerous organizations, among them the American Council on Education, Educational Testing Service, Gates Millennium Scholars, The Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, and The Institute for Higher Education Policy. She was president of Santa Monica College; was instrumental in establishing the Academy of Entertainment and Technology, a multimedia center that prepares students for jobs in the entertainment industry; was special assistant to the California secretary for education; and served as the Massachusetts secretary of education, where she supervised the drafting of the comprehensive Kâ12 Education Reform Act.
Theatre de la Jeune Lune
Minneapolis' Theatre de la Jeune Lune, which also received a Regional Theatre Tony Award in 2005, was recognized for using its unique approach to theater as a means of delivering important themes and statements. "Like Walden, our form of education connects ideas and people with purpose," says Jeune Lune Artistic Director Robert Rosen.
Winona LaDuke
A highly respected activist for social and environmental issues, LaDuke is the program director of Honor the Earth and the founding director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project. In 1994, LaDuke was nominated by Time as one of America's 50 most promising leaders less than 40 years of age. She was awarded the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, the BIHA Community Service Award in 1997, the Ann Bancroft Award for Women's Leadership Fellowship, and the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project. LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg. She lives and works on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota.
Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg is the author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. In 1967, Ellsberg worked on the top-secret McNamara study of U.S. Decision-Making in Vietnam, 1945â68, which later came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. In 1969, he photocopied the 7,000-page study and gave it to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; in 1971 he gave it to the New York Times, Washington Post and 17 other newspapers. His trial, on 12 felony counts posing a possible sentence of 115 years, was dismissed in 1973 on grounds of governmental misconduct against him. That misconduct led to the convictions of several White House aides and figured in the impeachment proceedings against President Nixon. Since the end of the Vietnam War, Ellsberg has been a lecturer, writer, and activist on the dangers of the nuclear era and unlawful interventions.