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Race and Work / Labor with Will González, Esq.

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Event open to the Penn community by Zoom. Please register here!

Will González, Esq. is Executive Director, has over 35 years of experience working in the Latino community. The Philadelphia Foundation’s Williams Award for Organizational Excellence & The Community Change Award from the Bread & Roses Community Fund recognized his leadership of non-profits. Mr. Gonzalez has received various community awards, among them a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Legal Intelligencer, PA’s premier legal publication. He is licensed to practice law in NJ and PA. He is the Past President of the Hispanic Bar Association of PA and a member of the board of the PA Chapter of the ACLU. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Lehigh University and a Juris Doctor from Rutgers University School of Law where he was awarded the Ralph Bunch Fellowship and the Law Students Civil Rights Research Council Fellowship. He has traveled extensively in Latin America and has vast experience as a radio host and newspaper columnist.

Hosted by Fariha Khan, ASAM Co-Director, in her course American Race: A Philadelphia Story,  SNF Paideia Program.

Asian America Across the Disciplines Series Spring 2022 presents Will González, Esq Executive Director CEIBA

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