Runway Lecture
Runway is designed to bring the energy and dialogue around social justice, equity, and inclusion on our campus directly to alumni and parents, providing you with runways to be change-makers at work, as volunteers, and at home with friends and family.
2024 Runway Lecture:
Moving Museums Forward, Creating a More Just Museum Sector
Makeda Best ’93 is deputy director of curatorial affairs at the Oakland Museum of California. She joined OMCA in 2023 to lead the vision and implementation of exhibitions, and to oversee all aspects of management of and access to the museum’s nearly 2 million items in its collections that span the art, history and natural sciences of California. Makeda is co-founder of Museums Moving Forward, a Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation funded curator-driven initiative to support greater equity and accountability in art museum workplaces through data and research. She served previously as the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, where her projects drew international attention and awards, and where she gained recognition for her work to reimagine the installation of collections across the museums. An author of a book on American war photography, three exhibition catalogues, and of numerous scholarly essays, she earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from Harvard University, and holds an M.F.A. in studio photography from the California Institute of the Arts. She also taught at the undergraduate and graduate level at Harvard, where she was awarded six distinctions for excellence in teaching.
Friday, November 8, 2024
Downtown Olympic Club
524 Post Street, San Francisco
- 11:00 Doors open
- 12:00 Lunch
- 12:30 Program begins
$50 or FREE for members of our community who work in social justice professionally
Questions? Contact Marianna Stark '89, director of alumni engagement and giving
415-407-8743 or marianna.stark@sfuhs.org
Past Runway Lecture Speakers
2023 Michael Wara '91, P '26, on the pathway to equitably transition our energy, transportation, and housing away from fossil fuels and towards zero carbon solutions. Michael is the Director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program and a senior research scholar at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment as well as Senior Director for Policy at the Sustainability Accelerator within the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
2022 Atteeyah Hollie ‘98, deputy director of the Southern Center for Human Rights on ending wealth-based inequality in our justice system.
2021 Aaron Tartakovsky '08, co-founder and CEO of Epic Cleantec: A Journey from Politics to Plumbing:
Stewarding Our Most Precious Resource. Click here to watch the video.
2020 Louise Aronson MD, MFA ’81; Cynthia Brown MSN '91, SB '87; Jeffrey Hom MD, MPH, MSHP '00; Tomás Magaña, MD, MA, FAAP '82; moderated by Jen Rogers '91: Advancing Health Equity in the Time of Covid-19, a conversation with four distinguished alums who work in public health. Click here to watch the video of the event.
2019 Lareina Yee '91, P '21 on the power of inclusion at work, raising awareness on the subject of implicit bias in the workplace. Lareina leads Women in the Workplace, a research partnership with LeanIn.org and the Wall Street Journal. She is also chief diversity and inclusion officer for McKinsey, and member of the global partnership service team.
2018 Louise (Davis) Langheier '99, Co-Founder and CEO of Peer Health Exchange, established in 2003. PHE’s mission is to empower young people with the knowledge, skills, and resources to make healthy decisions. They do this by training college students to teach a skills-based health curriculum in under-resourced high schools across the country.
2017 Ian Haney López is the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class. Haney Lopez forcefully connects the growing racial divisions in society and the surging wealth inequality that hurts everyone. Haney Lopez is an engaging educator who has spoken at the Aspen Foundation, Commonwealth Club, National Press Club, and more. He spoke with University High School students following the election in November, 2016.