[Mitworld] MLK Breakfast 2009: Yes We Must: Achieve Diversity through Leadership

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 30 |  March 18, 2009

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Yes We Must: Achieve Diversity through Leadership-Keynote
February 5, 2009

Drs. Hockfield and Cole celebrate the victory of the first African-American U.S. President, but remind 
listeners that American institutions have not yet achieved the full measure of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/649

Speakers:
Dr. Susan Hockfield
MIT PresidentProfessor of Neuroscience

Johnnetta Betsch Cole
Chair, Board of Directors
Johnnetta B. Cole Global Diversity and Inclusion Institute

President Emerita, Bennett College for Women


Event Host:
MIT Annual Breakfast Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We need to imagine and work toward making a world where difference doesn’t make any more difference. 
We need to envision and then create communities where everyone is respected and invited to the table 
so their voices can be heard, so their experiences can help propel work that can be done. If there’s not 
enough work at the table, we have to learn how to build bigger tables."
-Johnnetta B. Cole

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Yes We Must: Achieve Diversity through Leadership-Student Remarks
February 5, 2009

Two students deliver heartfelt appeals for courage and integrity at the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Day breakfast. 

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/648

Speakers:
Matt Gethers
Senior, Biological Engineering, MIT

Joy Johnson
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Ph.D. candidate, 2012


Event Host:
MIT Annual Breakfast Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"For so long, we’ve been achieving, inventing, and discovering, but for the same time, our achievements 
have been overlooked, our inventions stolen and discoveries rediscovered. ... The impostors have 
been doing it so long, they’ve perfected the very art of fraud."
-Joy Johnson

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In The Pipeline:

Observations on the Science of Finance in the Practice of Finance

Presented By:
School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
Robert A. Muh Award Lecture

Speakers:
Robert C. Merton

John and Natty McArthur University Professor 
 Harvard Business School

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