Harvard Club of Santa Barbara

Lecture on 3/8/2018 - Professor Anne H. Charity Hudley

UC Santa Barbara Professor Anne H. Charity Hudley will speak on "The Power of a Single Voice" in this free event open to all Harvard alumni/ae and friends.

The Harvard Club of Santa Barbara invites you to attend a lecture, "The Power of a Single Voice," by Professor Anne H. Charity Hudley on Thursday, March 8 at 6:00 p.m at 1020 State Street in the seminar room of the law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP. Entry to the firm’s offices (on the first floor) is from the rear of the building adjacent to City parking lot #8, entered from Anacapa Street between Figueroa and Carrillo. The lot has 80 spaces. Additional parking is within a block at the City Library parking structure or the Lobero parking structure, also accessed from Anacapa Street. A reception will follow the lecture. This is a free event, and all local alumni and friends are invited to attend.
 

RSVP with your name and number of guests.  This event is limited to 40 people.
 

Through a mix of lecture, narratives, video and sound, Professor Hudley will discuss how linguists, educators, and communities might work together to make sure that every classroom voice is heard—voices that are too valuable to lose.
 

Anne Charity Hudley is the North Hall Endowed Chair in the Linguistics of African America at UC Santa Barbara and Director of Undergraduate Research for the College of Letters and Science. Her research and publications address the relationship between English language variation and K-16 educational practices and policies. She is the co-author of three books: The Indispensable Guide to Undergraduate Research: Success in and Beyond College, Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools, and We Do Language: English Language Variation in the Secondary English Classroom. She has worked with Pre-K through college educators through lectures and workshops sponsored by public and independent schools throughout the country. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), and has served as a consultant to the National Research Council Committee on Language and Education and to the National Science Foundation’s Committee on Broadening Participation in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) sciences. She earned her AB magna cum laude and AM from Harvard, both in 1998, and lived in Canaday B and Leverett House. At Harvard, she was the president of the Radcliffe Choral Society and a member of the Harvard University Choir. Professor Hudley received her Phd degree in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania.

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