How can businesses and business schools help integrate refugees into local economies?

Hosted by the Center for Education on Social Responsibility (CESR)
Kittredge Multipurpose Room
University of Colorado Boulder
October 26, 2016
 
Agenda: 
8:00 to 8:30am -- Continental Breakfast & Check-in
 
8:30am -- Welcome 
  • Dean William H. Kaempfer, Leeds School of Business
  • Mark Meaney, Executive Director, Center for Education on Social Responsibility, Leeds School of Business
8:45 to 9:15am -- Keynote
  • Kit Taintor, State Refugee Coordinator, Colorado Office of Economic Security, Division of Refugee Services 
9:15 to 10:15am -- Panel: Government 
  • Facilitator: Kat Bradley-Bennett, Program Director, St. Vrain Community Adult Education
  • Federal: Dee Daniels Scriven, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Department of Health and Human Services 
  • State: Bill Dowling, Director, Divisions of Employment and Training, Colorado Department of Labor
  • County: Kiersten Chartier, Business Outreach Specialist, American Job Center
  • Denver: Jamie Torres, Director, Office of Immigrant & Refugee Affairs, City of Denver
10:15 to 10:35am -- Audience Participation 
 
10:45 to 11:30am -- Panel: Business
  • Facilitator: Francy Milner, Lecturer, College of Engineering and Applied Science, CU Boulder
  • L&R Pallet: James Ruder, Founder & CEO
  • Knotty Tie: Jeremy Priest, Founder & CEO
11:30 to 11:50am -- Audience Participation 
 
12:15 to 1:00pm -- Lunch Keynote
  • Karima Osman, Denver Immigrant and Refugee Commission
1:15 to 1:45pm -- Interview
  • Interview by William Ayen, Senior Instructor of Information Systems, College of Business, UCCS
  • James Horan, Vice President Refugee and Community Services, Lutheran Family Services
1:45 to 2:30pm -- Panel: NGOs
  • Facilitator: Su Hawk, Executive Director, B:CIVIC 
  • Melissa Theesen, Managing Director, ECDC-African Community
  • Ryan Plourde, Director, Soccer Without Boulders
  • Alexandria Wise, Executive Director, Community Enterprise Development Services (CEDS)
2:30 to 2:50pm -- Audience Participation 
 
3:00 to 4:00pm -- Panel: B-Schools
  • Facilitator: Abigail Schneider, Assistant Professor, College of Business and Economics, Regis University
  • Cheri Young, Associate Professor, Fritz Knoebel School of Hospitality Management, Daniels College of Business, DU
  • William Ayen, Senior Instructor of Information Systems, College of Business, UCCS
  • Joseph French, Associate Professor of Finance, Monfort College of Business, UNC 
  • Linda Van Doren, Chief Academic Officer, Emily Griffith Technical College
4:00 to 4:30pm -- Audience Participation and Summary of Proceedings
 
4:30pm -- Networking Reception