Expert in Puerto Rican and Latino policy to speak, April 4

Event: Angelo Falcón, president of the National Institute for Latino Policy, a nonprofit and nonpartisan policy center that focuses on Latino issues in the United States, will lecture about national Latino media advocacy issues.

This event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the School of Journalism, with a grant made possible by the Carnegie Corporation and the College of Communication Latino Media Studies Program.

When: noon-1 p.m., April 4, 2008

Where: CMA 3.120

Background: Falcón is a political scientist best known for starting the Institute for Puerto Rican Policy (IPR) in New York City in the early 1980s and his studies of Puerto Rican and Latino politics and policy issues. An adjunct assistant professor at the Columbia University School of Public and International Affairs, Falcón has been able to combine academic and policy research with an aggressive advocacy style based on broad coalition-building and community organizing. Noted for his caustic sense of humor and his progressive politics, he has become one of the longest-serving chief executives of a Latino nonprofit in the country who easily straddles the academic and practical policy advocacy and organizing.

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Contact:
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
(512) 471-0405