thinkTank Podcasts

March 6 - 30, 2008
NOW CLOSED

After every performance of thinkTank, we are pleased to present a 30 minute post-show discussion led by various members of the Chicago community. This opportunity to continue the discussion is a vital part of the thinkTank experience. Click here for the complete speaker schedule. Every week, we will present audio recordings of select post-show discussions. This is a great way to both learn more about the topics that make up thinkTank and hear comments from a variety of great speakers. Check back every week for a new podcast.
 
 
Reem Rahman (Thursday, March 20)
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Ms. Rahman is the Communications Coordinator at CAIR-Chicago. She graduated with honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with an interdisciplinary Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Neuroscience. Her scholarship and work is committed to the power of ideas and ideals to transform society. Reem was one of the founding members of CAIR at the University of Illinois, the first university based chapter in the nation. She served as the executive director, coordinating media and civil rights activism, community service, interfaith dialogue, and leadership development. Reem has been selected as a Young People for the American Way Fellow and a Drum Major Institute for Public Policy Scholar.
 
 
Luis Gutierrez (Saturday, March 15)
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Mr. Gutierrez funded Latinos Progresando in 1998. Based in Pilsen and Little Village, Latinos Progresando serves immigrants through legal services, community education and engagement, and organizing and advocacy around just immigration policy. An in-demand speaker and strong community voice, Luis chairs the Immigration Committee of Latinos United and is on the Illinois Coordinating Committee for the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities, a national Latino- and Caribbean-led umbrella advocacy organization. As a member of the board of directors of Game Time Inc. and the associate board of the Daniel Murphy Scholarship Foundation, Luis is a strong advocate for minority youth. Through work with these organizations and service as a mentor to numerous students, Luis brought a youth voice into conversations about Latinos Progresando's role in the community, which now includes initiatives focused on immigrant educational attainment and college matriculation. Luis is one of the 2007 recipients of the Community Renewal Society's prestigious 35 Under 35 Leadership Awards. In 2005, Luis received a certificate of appreciation from the City of Chicago; he has also been nominated for a Changing Worlds Immigrant & Refugee Contributions Award.
 
 
Geoffrey R. Stone (Friday, March 7)
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Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. A member of the law faculty since 1973, Mr. Stone served as dean of the Law School (1987-1994) and Provost of the University of Chicago (1994-2002). Mr. Stone has been an editor of the Supreme Court Review since 1991, and is the author or co-author of many books on constitutional law, including most recently Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark (2007), War and Liberty: An American Dilemma (2007), and Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime (2004), which received the 2005 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best book in the field of history. Mr. Stone’s next major book, Sexing the Constitution, will explore the history of sex from ancient Greece to contemporary constitutional law. Mr. Stone is a member of the national advisory council of the American Civil Liberties Union, the national board of the American Constitution Society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the American Law Institute, and chair of the board of the Chicago Children’s Choir.
 
 
Harvey Grossman (Thursday, March 6)
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Mr. Grossman has been the Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois since 1980. In that capacity, he served as legal counsel in a broad spectrum of civil liberties and civil rights litigation. In the areas of national security and political surveillance, Mr. Grossman served as ACLU’s lead counsel in enforcing federal court settlements in ACLU v. F.B.I. and ACLU v. City of Chicago. These landmark court decrees provide judicial oversight for the F.B.I. and local law enforcement when investigating First Amendment protected activities of individuals and groups within the City of Chicago. Enforcement proceedings initiated by the ACLU in 1994 forced the F.B.I. to expunge files on leading Arab-Americans in Chicago. In the post 9/11 period, Mr. Grossman has been involved in numerous national security cases including the successful representation of a Muslim woman who was subjected to a strip search at O'Hare Airport because she was wearing a hijab, and a pending case, Khorrami v. F.B.I., challenging the three month summary detention of an alien of Iranian descent taken into federal custody immediately following September 11th. Mr. Grossman serves as lead counsel in Rahman v. Chertoff, representing U.S. citizens wrongly detained upon returning to the U.S.
 
 
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