Green entrepreneur, urban advocate, author to speak at Student Forum on campus
Van Jones, founding president of Green For All, a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress, and author of The Green Collar Economy, will speak at a Student Forum at 4:00pm at College Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room on Thursday, February 12, 2009.
Later, Jones delivers the keynote address at UC Santa Cruz's 25th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation.
The title of Jones's speech is "The Green-Collar Economy: Restoring the Earth, Good Jobs, and MLK's Dream."
Held at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, the convocation will begin at 7:30 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, is part of the campus celebration of Black History Month.
For more information see: http://www.ucsc.edu/mlk/
