Gates Official Touts Global Engagement

Jeff Harrison
March 8, 2000


LECTURE:
"Just Imagine! Americans Taking an Interest in the World" by Jack Faris, director of community strategies for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

WHEN:
Friday, March 24, 4 p.m.

WHERE:
Center for English as a Second Language, Room 102, located on North Campus Drive east of the Arizona State Museum

CONTACT:
Carol Bender, coordinator, UBRP, 621-9348

Jack Faris, one of the people charged with giving away part of the world's largest personal fortune, will address the challenge of engaging Americans, especially college students, in global issues of development, health and education. The audience will have the opportunity to dialogue with Faris.

Faris is a sociologist who since April 1999 has been responsible for public relations for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation has, among other activities, been working to eradicate polio worldwide, shape public policy for citizen access to technology and revamp K-12 education in Washington state.

Faris graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from the University of Washington and has a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago. He has taught at Towson State University in Baltimore, worked for corporate PR firms Cole & Weber and Leo Kramer International and has written on the subjects of military culture and charitable giving.

A reception will follow at nearby Maricopa Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Faris will be available to talk after the lecture.

(Ed. Dennis St.Germaine
dds@u.arizona.edu
520-626-4364

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