Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership

AMBASSADOR PATRICK H. GASPARD US AMBASSAODR TO THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA Prior to being appointed US Ambassador to South Africa, Patrick Gaspard served as the Executive Director of the Democratic National Committee, a position he held since 2011. Previously, he served as an Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Political Affairs from 2009 to 2011. Prior to that, he was the National Political Director for Obama for America. He served as the Executive Vice President and Political Direc- tor for the Service Employees International Union. In 2004, he served as the National Field Director for America Com- ing Together, and from 2003 to 2004, he was the National Deputy Field Director for Dean for America. From 1998 to 1999, he was the Chief of Staff for the New York City Coun- cil. Earlier in his career, Mr. Gaspard held a number of posi- tions with the City of New York, including Special Assistant in the Office of Manhattan Borough President and Special Assistant in the Office of Mayor Dinkins.

The Howard G. Buffett Foundation is looking to Morehouse for help in developing a new breed of leadership for the region. The Foundation has given Morehouse $1 million to establish the Rugari Scholarship Program to educate young men who live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and, Uganda. Eventually, the future Morehouse Men are expected to help lead the region forward.

The third former U.S. presidential candidate in the span of seven months will be visiting Morehouse. Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman Jr. will be the Oct. 29 speaker for the Leadership Lecture Series in the Shirley A. Massey Executive Conference Center’s Bank of America Auditorium.Former Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman remembers his grandfather, David B. Haight, a former GOP mayor of the very liberal city of Palo Alto, Calif. And, as he told an audience of Morehouse students on Oct. 29, he remembers Haight proudly having on his wall at home a picture of John F. Kennedy, then U.S. president and a Democrat. His grandfather would be dismayed by the current partisan, polarized nation that has a hard time making friends across the political spectrum, Huntsman said during his Leadership Lecture Series address in the Bank of America Auditorium. Huntsman, himself the former governor of Utah and U.S. Ambassador to China and Singapore, spent nearly an hour talking about the nation’s political challenges and its bright future. He cautioned students that China could eventually surpass the U.S., militarily or peacefully, as the world’s dominant super power.

Julius Coles- Presentation of 'Globalization vs. the American Student' at the University of LaVerne College of the Arts & Science

An interview with Julius E. Coles, by Ron Thomas

Special Representative Lewis meets with Morehouse College Director of the Andrew Young Center for International Affairs Julius Coles, as well as various members of the staff, faculty, and the student body. Lewis delivers remarks to students of Morehouse College, Spelman College, and Clark Atlanta University on, “Public Service and Sub-national Engagement as a 21st Century Foreign Policy Tool,” in Atlanta, Georgia.

Brown Bag Luncheon- November 21, 2003

Dr. Julius Coles is the inaugural speaker for The University of Findlay's Heminger Business Ethics Lecture Series. Dr. Julius Coles is the Director of the Office of Global Education and Andrew Young Center for International Affairs at Morehouse College.

The Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership and Chinese Studies Program presented Ambassador Julia Chang Block. She is the Founding President, US-China Education Trust. The topic of the talks were "US China Relations and Their Future Projects

Guests include: Robert Franklin, Edwin Moses, Luddy Hayden, Emmanuel Jal, Virginia Floyd, Julius Coles

Zimbabwean-born businessman and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa is helping to make dreams a reality. 10 students – two from Burundi and eight from Zimbabwe –were enrolled at Morehouse on full, four-year scholarships. They are the first class of the new Ambassador Andrew Young International Scholars program. Masiyiwa, founder and chairman of Econet Wireless, wants African students to earn a world-class education that they can take home with them after graduation. Forty African students in all – representing an investment of $6.4 million – will go through the program. Masiyiwa believes Morehouse and Atlanta, the center of the civil rights movement with leaders such as Ambassador Andrew Young, will be the perfect place for the students to develop.

Georgia is home to an ever-expanding number of new media entrepreneurs in music, television, and entertainment. This dialogue will focus on the social responsibility of these ne growth-oriented business leaders. Is creating jobs enough? Can they be profitable and responsible? What standards can be derived from the legacy of Mays, King, Jackson, and Young? Guests include: Ambassador Andrew Young, Ed Gordon (BET), Will Packer (Rainforest Films & Bounce TV), Stacii Jae Johnson (Office of the Mayor), Ryan Glover (Bounce TV), Nick F. Nelson (Liquid Soul Media), Tirrell Whittley (Liquid Soul Media), and DeVyne Stevens (UpFront Records).

The success of the civil rights movement has led to increasing diversity in the private sector. This public dialogue will address the role of social change leaders in the private sector -- expanding opportunity through job creation, civic engagement, and philanthropy. What leadership expectations derive from the legacy of leaders such as: Benjamin E. Mays, Martin Luther King, Jr., Maynard H. Jackson and Andrew Young?

As part of The University of Findlay's Winterfest celebration, Julius Coles, past president of Africare and the University's Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, delivered a public lecture, "Africa in the New Millennium".

Panel: "Eco-Friendly Development" Sponsor: Princeton Environmental Institute One of the grand challenges is to address the tradeoffs between development and conservation. The panel will discuss ways to increase development in Africa in environmentally friendly ways. Moderator: Kelly K. Caylor, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University Panelists: Julius E. Coles, MPA *66, President, Africare Elfatih A. B. Eltahir, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (absent) Joshua R. Ginsberg, *88, Vice-president for Conservation Operation, Wildlife Conservation Society