[Peace-discuss] Martin Luther King, Jr. Planning Committee

[Karen Medina]

The question came up in tonight's AWARE meeting as to who organizes the 
MLKing events. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Planning Committee includes 
people from many different organizations [ The following information was 
taken from http://www.admin.uiuc.edu/MLK/sponsors/05committee.html -kem 
]. The list of the committee members for this year's celebration events are:

Committee Co-Chairs

Nathaniel Banks, Co-chair
  African American Cultural Center

Vernon Burton, Co-chair
  Department of History


Committee Members

Jennifer Armstrong
  40 North/88 West

Bernice McNair Barnett
  Educational Policy Studies

William Berry (ex officio)
  Office of the Chancellor

Kris Campbell
  Office of Public Affairs

Sundiata Cha-Jua
  African American Studies Program

Allison Clark
  NCSA

Gabriel Cortez
  Graduate Student

Larine Cowan
  Office of Equal Opportunity and Access

Cope Cumpston
  Urbana Human Relations Commission; University of Illinois Press

Natalie Davis
  Illini Union

Latrina Denson
  Housing Division

Poshek Fu
  History, Cinema Studies

Alvin Griggs
  Urbana Rotary MLK Committee

Laura Haber
  Unit One

Paul Harleston
  United Way of Champaign County

Janette Hays
  Student/TEAM

Jameel Jones
  Champaign Park District

Nicholas Klitzing
  Student Trustee

Teri McCarthy
  Community Member

Billy Joe Mills
  Student

Rose Ann Miron (ex officio)
  Office of Public Engagement and Institutional Relations

Rasul Mowatt
  Community Member

Victoria Ogunsanya
  Student/CBSU

Tze Huey Peng
  Chinese American Association of Central Illinois

Wanda Pillow
  Native American Studies

Alicia Rodriguez
  Latina/Latino Studies Program

Josh Rohrscheib
  Illinois Student Senate

Ryan Ruzic
  Illinois Student Senate

Reverend Claude Shelby, Sr.
  MLK Scholarship Committee

Jeffrey Sichaleune
  Office of the Dean of Students

Sam Smith
  University High School