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Leon S. Peters Ethics Lecture Series
In light of Covid-19 restrictions, the Ethics Center will be providing content in a virtual format on:
The Ethics Center Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/EthicsCenterFSU/videos).
This includes interviews, discussion panels, and past presentations.
Upcoming Events
Atomic Bombing Commemoration
August 6th, 8:00 am at Peace Garden, Fresno State
- Speakers include:
- Marisol Baca
- Judge Dale Ikeda
- Rev. Akiko Miyake-Stoner
- Rinban Nakagawa, Fresno Buddhist Temple
- Dr. Saul Jimenez-Sandoval, Fresno State President
August 9th, 10:30 am at Shinzen Friendship Garden, Woodward Park
- Rev. Akiko Miyake-Stoner
- Dr. Daniel O'Connell
- Dr. Veena Kapoor
Past Lecturers: Visiting Scholars and Speakers
- Gaonucci (Belle) Vang, Fresno State Alum
- Anthony Utterback, Fresno State Alum
- Ayanna Moore, Fresno High School
- Odessa Marcos, Visalia Charter School
- Brandon Gridiron, Equity and Access Administrator at Visalia Unified School District
- Tom Woerner-Powell, University of Manchester
- Darren Duerksen, Fresno Pacific University
- Rev. Akiko Miyaki-Stoner, United Japanese Christian Church
- Hajj Reza Nekumanesh, Executive Director Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno
- Rabbi Rick Winer, Temple Beth Israel
- Sister Kathleen Drilling, St. Paul Catholic Newman Center
- Rabbi Laura Novak Winer, Hebrew Union College
- Sukhaina Hussain, CAIR Sacramento/Central Valley
- Lady Jessica Criner, St. Rest Baptist Church
- Danielle O'Connell, Central Valley Partnership
- Rev. Paul Binion, Westside Church of God
- Anna Lopez, New Thought Community
- Nathan K. Hensley, Georgetown University
- Uziel Jimenez, Ethnic Studies, Sunnyside High School
- Barry Gan, St. Bonaventure University
- Paula Smithka, University of Southern Mississippi
- Dr. Rais Vohra, Interim Fresno Country Public Health Director
- Ivonne Der Torosian, V.P. Community Health and Well-Being, Saint Agnes Medical Center
- Dezie Woods-Jones, State President/CEO of Black Women Organized for Political Action
- Sheriff Margaret Mims, Fresno County Sheriff
- Alejandra Salazar, Student Stanford University
- Lindsay Callahan, President and CEO of United Way Fresno and Madera Counties
- Brandi L. Orth, Fresno County Clerk/Registrar of Voters
- Paul Gronke, Director of the Early Voting Information Center, Reed College
- Stephen Morris, CEO of the Civic Education Center
- Daniel Jamison, Attorney Dowling Aaron Incorporated
- Angie Barfield, Program Specialist Fresno County Office of Education
- Sher Moua, Youth Leadership Institute and Men and Boys of Color
- Gabriela Martinez, Fresno Youth Commission and Clovis West Student
- Ashley Rojas, Executive Director of Barrios Unidos
- Michael Ryan, Vice President of Mission Integration, Saint Agnes Medical Center
- Clayborne Carson, Stanford University
Assemblyman - Ash Kalra, CA Assembly
- Dolores Huerta, UFW, Dolores Huerta Foundation
- Aideed Medina, Poet
- Dillon Savory, Central Labor Council
- Maria Xiquin, SEIU 2015 Caregivers Union
- Armando Elenes, United Farm Workers
- Agustin Lira and Patricia Wells, El Teatro de la Tierra
- Omar Hernandez, ASI President
- Rabbi Jack Moline, National Interfaith Alliance
- Mike Smith, Lozano Smith Law
- Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, SUNY Cortland
- Charles S. Poochigian, Associate Justice California Court of Appeals and former CA State Senator
- Leon Vellasco-Stoll, Centro La Familia
- Zoyer Zyndel, Trans-E-Motion
- Jacki Alvarez, Fresno City College
- Chief José Garza, Reedley Police Department
- Lieutenant Marc Ediger, Reedley Police Department
- Jake Harder, West Coast Mennonite Central Committee Director of the Reedley Peace Building Initiative (RPBI)
- Christina Cassinerio-Wilson, Restorative Practitioner Teacher/Coach/Consultant, Fresno Unified
- Judge Erica Grosjean, Federal Magistrate
- Judge Mark Cullers, Fresno County Superior Court
- Judge Mark Snauffer, California Appellate Court
- Michael Smith, Attorney Lozano Smith Law
- Daniel Jamison, Attorney Dowling Aaron Law
- John Minkler, Civic Learning Partnership
- Moira Harada, CART teacher
- Kirk E. Sherriff, U.S. Attorney’s Office
- Rev. Akiko Miyake-Stoner, United Japanese Christian Church
- Richard Rothstein, Journalist and Fellow at Haas Institute
- Selena Farnesi, Deputy District Attorney, Fresno
- H Spees; Director of Strategic Initiatives, City of Fresno
- Joaquin Arambula, Assemblyman for CA 31st District
- Michael Clayton, BBB “Ambassador for Trust"
- Catharyn Baird, CEO and Founder of EthicsGame
- Hal Urban, author of Lessons from the Classroom
- Douglas Allen, Professor of philosophy at the University of Maine
- Mohammad Pournik, U.N. Development Program (retired)
- Jim Boren, Executive Editor and Senior VP, Fresno Bee
- Joe Moore, Director of Program Content, Valley Public Radio
- Reverend James Lawson, Civil Rights Icon
- Melissa Baucus Professor of Entrepreneurship, Texas State University
- Richard Johanson, Chair Emeritus of the Fresno Business Council, founder Johanson Transportation
- Rebecca DeYoung, Philosophy, Calvin College
- Kent Dunnington, Philosophy, Biola University
- Frank Beazley, Saint Agnes Hospital
- Christopher Meyers, Director of the Kegley Institute of Ethics at CSU-Bakersfield
- Tony Carr, President of Halloran Philanthropies
- Robin Hoover, Immigration Activist
- Robert Sellers, President of the Parliament of the World’s Religions
- Tony Yamamoto, Former Director of Social Services and Interpreter Services at Valley Children’s Hospital
- Melinda Hall, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Stetson University
- Darius Assemi, President Granville Homes
- Larry Powell, Former Fresno County Superintendent of Schools
- Tim Ryan, Associated Students President, Fresno State
- Sabrina D. Ashjian, Deputy District Attorney, Fresno County
- Kevin Assemi, Attorney with Waterford Foundation and Granville Homes
- Edgar Blunt, Career Pillar/IMAGO
- Lori Morton, Fresno County Office of Education
- Ismael Herrera, Fresno State Office of Community and Economic Development
- David Brooks, New York Times and PBS
- Lucius Outlaw, Vanderbilt University
- Andreas Borgeas, Fresno County Supervisor
- Rick Winer, Rabbi Temple Beth Israel, Fresno
- Mark Arax, Journalist
- Hilal Elver, UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Food
- Ethan Nadelmann, Drug Policy Alliance
- Robert C. Jones, California State University, Chico
- Juan Arambula, CA Assemblyman
- Esmeralda Z. Soria, Fresno City Council
- Rosendo Peña, Jr., Justice, California Fifth District Court of Appeals
- Lorenzo Rios, Clovis Veteran's Memorial
- John Minkler, Educator
- Lisa Fruchtman, Filmmaker
- Rory Carroll, The Guardian
- Irfan Ali, Interfaith Alliance of Central California,
- Hamid Mavani, Claremont Graduate University.
- George DeMartino, University of Denver
- Eduardo Briceño, CEO of Mindset Works
- Cheyney Ryan, University of Oregon and Oxford University
- Abby Ginzburg, Filmmaker
- Sarah Tyson, University of Colorado, Denver
- Simran Kaur, Sikh Coalition
- Angela Davis, UCLA
- Phil Zuckerman, Pitzer College
- Randy Archibold, New York Times
- Steve Johnson, Markulla Center for Ethics at Santa Clara University
- Jeffrey P. Fry, Ball State University
- John Tehranian, Southwestern Law School
- Doug Noll, San Joaquin School of Law
- Debra Nankivell, Fresno Business Council
- Gihan Abou Zeid, Egyptian Journalist
- Justin Atkinson, San Joaquin School of Law
- Jessica Smith-Bobadilla,San Joaquin School of Law
- J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Hartwick College
- Alejandro Santana,University of Portland
- Charles Haynes, First Amendment Center
- Marcia Beauchamp, Tony Blair Faith Foundation
- John Minkler, Academy for Civic and Entrepreneurial Leadership
- Debora Brown, Madera County Teacher of the Year
- Lori Grace, Hoover High School
- Will Kymlicka, Queen's University
- Sue Donaldson, Author/playwright
- Trudy Conway, Mount St. Mary's University
- James Sterba, Notre Dame University
- Darren Sherkat, University of Southern Illinois
- Letitia Meynell, Dalhousie University
- Robert Bellah, UC Berkeley
- Diane Moore, Harvard University
- Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
- Ruben Martinez, Loyola Marymount University
- Jedd Medefind, Christian Alliance for Orphans
- Carlos Sanchez, San Jose State University
- John Zerzan, Anarchist Author/Activist
- Les Kimber , Founding Editor, California Advocate
- Juan Esparza Loera Editor, Vida en el Valle
- Betsy Lumbye , Executive Editor, Fresno Bee
- Faith Sidlow , Channel 24 News, MCJ Facult
- Thomas Knowles, Former Special Agent FBI
- Kamal Abu-Shamsieh, Director of the Islamic Cultural
Center of Fresno - Marvin W. Berkowitz, University of Missouri, St. Louis
- Bruce Grelle, California State University, Chico
- Shelley Wilcox, San Francisco State University
- Lloyd Steffen, Lehigh University
- Rob Caughlan, Environmental Activist
- Betsy Rosenberg, Environmental Journalist
- Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist
- Nel Noddings, Stanford University
- Ovadia Ezra, Tel Aviv University
- Jacquelyn Kegley, California State University, Bakersfield
- John Lachs, Vanderbilt University
- Ted Peters, Graduate Theological Union
- David K. Chan, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
- Jose-Antonio Orosco, Oregon State University
- Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado, Denver
- Edie Jessup, Community Activist
Past Lecturers: Fresno State Scholars and Students
- Amine Tais, Phiosophy, College of Arts and Humanities
- Veena Howard, Philosophy, College of Arts and Humantieis
- Dan Cady, History, College of Social Sciences
- Cindy Urrutia, Center for Creativity and the Arts, College of Arts and Humanities
- Miguel Perez, Public Health, College of Health and Human Services
- Antonio Avalos, Economics, Craig School of Business
- Julie Olson-Buchanon, Interim Dean, Craig School of Business
- Nancy Van Leuven, Mass Comm and Journalism, College of Arts and Humanities
- Malik Simba, History & Africana Studies, College of Social Sciences
- Denise Seabert, Dean of the College of Health and Human Services
- Loretta Kensinger, Women's Studies, College of Social Sciences
- Negin Tahvildary, Philosophy & Peace and Conflict Studies, College of Arts and Humanities
- Pam Lane-Garon, Education, Kremen School of Education
- Leece Lee-Oliver, Women's Studies & American Indian Studies, College of Social Sciences
- Luis Fernando Macías, Chicano and Latin American Studies, College of Social Sciences
- Thomas Ellis, Theater & Africana Studies, College of Arts and Humanities
- Elizabeth Rocha Zuñiga, ASI President
- Hisham Qutob, ASI Vice-President
- Lisa Bryant, Political Science, College of Social Sciences
- Joseph Ross, Biology, College of Science and Mathematics
- Tricia van Laar, Biology, College of Science and Mathematics
- Vadim Keyser, Philosophy, College of Arts and Humanities
- Marcus Shaw, Department of Criminology, College of Social Sciences
- Tinneke Van Camp, Department of Criminology, College of Social Sciences
- Matthew Jendian, Department or Sociology, College of Social Sciences
- Faith Sidlow, Media, Communications, and Journalism, College of Arts and Humanities
- Ruth Griffin, Dance/Theater, College of Arts and Humanities
- Lisa Bryant, Political Science, College of Social Sciences
- Christopher Sterlin, Department of Management, Craig School of Business
- Jes Therkelsen,Media, Communications, and Journalism, College of Arts and Humanities
- James Rocha, Philosophy, College of Arts and Humanities
- Honora Chapman, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Humanities
- Gyanesh Lama, College of Health and Human Services
- Jacques Benninga, Bonner Center for Character Education in the Kremen School of Education
- Kat Biacindo, Kremen School of Education
- Bhupinder Singh, College of Health and Human Services
- Kara Zografos, College of Health and Human Services
- Otto Benavides, Kremen School of Education
- Libbi Miller, Kremen School of Education
- Al Evans, College of Social Sciences
- Matthew Jendian, College of Social Sciences
- Daniel Cady, College of Social Sciences
- Bruce Thornton, College of Arts and Humanities
- Twotrees (Matthew Haar Farris), College of Arts and Humanities
- Lorin Lachs, College of Science and Mathematics
- Yishaiya Abosch, College of Social Sciences
- Michael Becker, College of Social Sciences
- Lori Clune, College of Social Sciences
- Karen Bell, College of Arts and Humanities
- Jacques Benninga, Kremen School of Education
- Vincent Biondo, College of Arts and Humanities
- Jason Bush, College of Science and Mathematics
- Andrew Jones, College of Social Sciences
- Ida Jones, Craig School of Business
- Maddhu Katti, College of Science and Mathematics
- Barbara LaBossiere, College of Arts and Humanities
- Robert Maldonado, College of Arts and Humanities
- Bernadette Muscat, College of Social Sciences
- Leonard Olson, College of Arts and Humanities
- Jim Prince, College of Science and Mathematics
- David Schecter, College of Social Sciences
- Malik Simba, College of Social Sciences
- Peter Vanderwater, College of Science and Mathematic
- Steven Walker, College of Social Sciences
Projects
Ethics Workshops and Training in Ethical Decision-MakingThe Ethics Center offers workshops and lectures on ethics for businesses and other organization. Contact Director Andrew Fiala for more information.
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