(1) Connie Rice - Portraits of a Changing Community: Lessons from the Past, Visions for the Future

For more information: www.ila-net.org. In part 1 of her 2008 keynote address at the 10th annual International Leadership Association Conference, Connie Rice discusses her background and the Advancement Project along with her work with gangs in LA in the 1990's

Rice is the co-founder and co-director of the Advancement Project in Los Angeles. Rice has received more than 50 major awards for her leadership of diverse coalitions, and her non-traditional approaches to litigating major cases. Rice serves on the boards of the Public Policy Institute of California and public radio station KPCC. She is a graduate of the New York University School of Law. In her legal work, Rice has led multi-racial coalitions of lawyers and clients to win more than $10 billion in damages and policy changes. She has been named one of the 100 most powerful people in Southern California by the Los Angeles Times West Magazine; she has twice been named as one of the top 10 most influential lawyers in California by California Law Business; and she was first in a listing of the most powerful women in the Pasadena Weekly.

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