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It takes a streak of steely determination to challenge the status quo - and no one knows that better than Connie Rice, one of America's most renowned civil rights attorneys. Her new book, "Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtoom to the Kill Zones," reveals the inspiring life of an indomitable woman. (Click here for the L.A. Times review.) Rice's race for excellence began at home: Her father broke racial barriers as a U.S. Air Force major, and her mother imbued her with a passion for learning and culture. Her worldview was shaped by moving to 17 different homes during her childhood, including periods in England and Japan. After college at Harvard and law school at NYU, where she spent summers working on high-profile death penalty litigation for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Rice began the work that would win her national acclaim for her stirring defense of civil rights. Over the course of her career, the "Lady Lawyer" (as Rice would come to be known to the Los Angeles gang members with whom she struck a pioneering partnership) would take on racism and sexism in the LAPD, a transit system that tried to ignore its poorest users, and a public school system that Rice and her cohorts deemed inadequate. But she is perhaps best known for the report she co-wrote that has revolutionized the city's law enforcement policies and outreach to gangs. Her constant involvement with the LAPD ultimately yielded the consummate reward: her very own parking space at headquarters. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck calls Rice "the conscience of the city." Rice was interviewed about her book and her stories of life in the trenches of civil rights law by Joel Fox, who has been an opinion-maker and a unique voice in California politics for decades. CONNIE RICE has received more than 50 major awards for her leadership and her non-traditional approaches to litigating major cases involving police misconduct, employment discrimination and fair public resource allocation. JOEL FOX operates Joel Fox Consulting, a public affairs/political consulting firm, and is an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University's Graduate School of Public Policy and president of the Small Business Action Committee. He worked for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association for 19 years, serving as its president from 1986 to 1998. A co-publisher and editor-in-chief of www.foxandhoundsdaily.com, he has written hundreds of opinion pieces as well as fiction and nonfiction books, and has served on a number of high-profile state commissions.

MI Forum with Karen Finerman of Metropolitan Capital Advisors. Interviewed by Jody Miller of Business Talent Group. As a woman running an investment bank she co-founded, Karen Finerman noticed numerous ways that she and her female colleagues sabotaged themselves professionally and personally. Why couldn't her friends bring the logic they applied at work to their personal decisions? Why were they uncomfortable with their desire for wealth and success? Why do 80 percent of women have a man in charge of their money? At this Milken Institute Forum, the successful hedge fund manager and CNBC investment commentator, who has also raised two sets of twins, will discuss "Finerman's Rules: Secrets I'd Only Tell My Daughters About Business and Life." The book is rich with not necessarily politically correct ideas for helping women overcome the barriers they face in reaching their goals. With the author's contrarian wit evident throughout, "Finerman's Rules" clues women in on how to get ahead, say no, unplug, raise kids well, deal with the inevitable double standards they face and take control of their financial independence.

MI Forum with Charles Elachi, director of the Jet Propulsion Lab. ike the Mars rover, Charles Elachi's curiosity knows no bounds. Now director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he has spent his entire career as a modern-day Magellan. With the landing of the latest rover in August 2012, Elachi oversaw one of the most challenging engineering feats since the Apollo moon landing. "I could only think of the words of Teddy Roosevelt as I was sitting there: 'It is far better to dare mighty things that we know might fail than to stay in a twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.' And the team brought us victory," he said at a post-landing press conference. At this Milken Institute Forum, Elachi will discuss that particular victory, his storied career in space exploration and the remarkable work that JPL is doing as it monitors its existing 23 spacecraft across the solar system and prepares for the next generation. About Charles Elachi: The director of the Jet Propulsion Lab is also vice president and a professor of electrical engineering and planetary science at the California Institute of Technology. In his 43-year career at JPL, Elachi was a leader in developing the field of spaceborne imaging radar. The principal investigator on numerous research and development studies and flight projects sponsored by NASA, he is currently the team leader of the Cassini Titan Radar experiment and a co-investigator on the Rosetta Comet Nucleus Sounder Experiment. Elachi is the author of over 230 publications and the holder of several patents. The recipient of numerous honors, he was named one of "America's Best Leaders" by U.S. News & World Report and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in 2006. He also has an asteroid named after him in recognition of his contributions to planetary exploration.

MI Forum with Susan Feldman and Michael Jones. Moderated by Dana Settle. he City of Angels is suddenly the city of startups. After spending years in the shadow of Silicon Valley - and Boston and New York - Los Angeles finally has real tech cred. Say goodbye to startup envy and hello to the new entrepreneurs. The local tech community saw a flurry of activity in 2012: More than 220 startups launched in greater Los Angeles, 43 L.A.-based companies were acquired, and more than $870 million was raised from venture capital and angel investors. Overall, entrepreneurs in Southern California attracted more investment than any other region outside of Silicon Valley. At this Milken Institute Forum, several of these pioneering innovators talked tech and gave their take on why Los Angeles has come into its own as a popular place for startups.

MI Forum with Walter Driver, Susan Feldman and Michael Jones. Moderated by Dana Settle. The City of Angels is suddenly the city of startups. After spending years in the shadow of Silicon Valley - and Boston and New York - Los Angeles finally has real tech cred. Say goodbye to startup envy and hello to the new entrepreneurs. The local tech community saw a flurry of activity in 2012: More than 220 startups launched in greater Los Angeles, 43 L.A.-based companies were acquired, and more than $870 million was raised from venture capital and angel investors. Overall, entrepreneurs in Southern California attracted more investment than any other region outside of Silicon Valley. At this Milken Institute Forum, several of these pioneering innovators talked tech and gave their take on why Los Angeles has come into its own as a popular place for startups.