Community Campus Partnerships for Health Annual Conference

Posted by on November 10, 2008

Geoffrey Canada to be Keynote Speaker at the 2009 CCPH Conference,
April 29 – May 2, 2009 in Milwaukee WI

CCPH is proud to announce that Geoffrey Canada, President and Chief Executive Officer for Harlem’s Children Zone, will be the keynote speaker at the 2009 CCPH Conference, “Creating the Future We Want to Be: Transformation through Partnerships.” In his 20-plus years with Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc., Geoffrey Canada has become nationally recognized for his pioneering work helping children and families in Harlem and as a passionate advocate for education reform. Most recently, he is the subject of a new book by New York Times reporter Paul Tough, Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America.

To read more about Geoffrey Canada, please visit: http://www.hcz.org/what-is-hcz/about-geoffrey-canada/53-about-geoffrey-canada.

For a recent NPR story on Canada, please visit: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94576366

Save the dates for the CCPH Conference: April 29 – May 2nd. For more information on the conference, see: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf09-overview.html