Pioneer in Community Organizing HKS Professor Marshall Ganz to Speak at Academy Hills
" Harvard Leadership, the way people are empowered and make social change"
Marshall Ganz, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School who teaches community organizing and was an advisor to President Obama's election campaign in 2008, will visit Japan and give a talk at Roppongi Academy Hills. Ganz will introduce the key concepts of community organizing for an hour followed by a panel discussion with Prof. Seiichiro Yonekura, Hitotsubashi University, Yoshikazu Shimada, deputy mayor of Kamaishi City, and Kanoko Kamata, an HKS alum who is working to introduce community organizing in Japan to energize Japanese society through grass-roots activities.
Date: Monday, December 16, 2013
Time: 19:00-21:00
Place: Roppongi Academy Hills 49th Floor Auditorium
MAP: http://www.academyhills.com/aboutus/access/index.html
Fee: 5,000 yen (pre-purchase is required)
Language: speech - English, panel discussion in English and Japanese
Buy ticket at the following web page (in Japanese):
http://www.academyhills.com/school/detail/tqe2it00000l2ggb.html
(NOTE: Harvard Club of Japan is not running this event so please direct all inquiries to the organizer Kanoko Kamata at:
Marshall Ganz's bio: