The Winter Lecture Series, a collaboration between the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Nebraska and the Unitarian Church of Lincoln, will conclude with a panel discussion from 7 to 9 p.m. March 19 at the church, 6300 A St. This includes the panel discussion, a short break for refreshment and a question and answer period.
Each panelist brings an intermediate organizational frame of reference to address the social and economic inequality in the U.S. The panel will be moderated by David Iaquinta, professor at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
The panelists are:
James Goddard, the economic justice and health care access program director at Nebraska Appleseed. In 2009, James received his juris doctorate with high distinction from Nebraska Law, and his bachelor degree in social work cum laude from Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska. Prior to graduating from law school, James clerked at the Mexico Appleseed Center located in Mexico City, Mexico, as well as Nebraska Appleseed.
James is a member of the Nebraska Bar Association and is admitted to practice before the Nebraska State Courts, U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. James is also a member of the Robert Van Pelt Inn of Court. During his time at Appleseed, James has litigated cases and engaged in policy advocacy and media work.
Anita Seth, an organizing director with UNITE HERE!, which represents 300,000 workers across the United States and Canada, primarily in the food service, hospitality and gaming sectors. UNITE HERE! members include 5,000 workers at Yale University, where Seth has worked for more than a decade on a drive to organize graduate teachers and researchers.
Seth earned her doctorate in history from Yale in 2012. Her dissertation, Cold War Communities: Militarization in Los Angeles and Novosibirsk, 1941-1953, examined the growth of military industries in those two cities from the beginning of World War II through the end of the Korean War.
Seth earned a bachelor degree in international relations magna cum laude from Pomona College in 1995. Following graduation, she worked as a junior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., and as a global outreach coordinator at IEER, assisting communities in Russia and the United States confronting the environmental and health legacy of Cold War nuclear production.
Scott Young, the executive director of the Food Bank of Lincoln. Earlier in his career, he worked radio gigs in Nebraska, Wyoming and Arizona before signing on as a broadcaster at KFOR, where he stayed for 28 years. In 2001, Young re-enrolled at Nebraska Wesleyan as a nontraditional student majoring in communications and completed the degree. In May 2011, he was honored by the same institution with an honorary doctorate.
The Food Bank has experienced tremendous growth during his tenure as the executive director, helping to alleviate hunger in Southeast Nebraska. He has found it valuable to let ideas evolve, noting that the Food Bank’s backpack program started with just one school and now sends food home with 3,000 kids each week.
