Featuring keynote speaker Vincent Eng

Thursday, April 10
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Munce Conference Room, Archer 110

Please join us as Suffolk begins our month-long celebration of Asian Heritage with a special presentation from our keynote speaker, Vincent Eng.

Refreshments will be provided.

Vincent A. Eng is the Deputy Director of the Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), a national non-profit and non-partisan organization that works to advance the human and civil rights of Asian Americans through advocacy, public policy, public education, and litigation. Mr. Eng also serves as the Chair of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Committee on Language Rights.
   
At AAJC, Mr. Eng oversees its public policy programs and litigation efforts. He has filed numerous amicus briefs in the Supreme Court of the United States, including in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases, testified before Congress on civil rights matters, and has participated on various national panels and debates. Mr. Eng has appeared on CSPAN and National Public Radio, and has been quoted by as numerous media outlets.

In addition to his duties at AAJC, Mr. Eng is an adjunct professor of law at American University, Washington College of Law and a lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School and George Washington University Law School where he has lectured on Asian Americans and the Law, Criminal Sentencing, and Legal Research and Writing. In 2005, Mr. Eng established Asian Americans and the Law as part of the law school curriculum at George Washington University Law School. He also serves as the faculty advisor for the National Security and Law Society at the Washington College of Law. Mr. Eng has supervised clinical students in a non-faculty capacity at the Harvard Law School, New York University Law School, and the University of Maryland School of Law.

Mr. Eng has published extensively. He has written and edited over ten books on various legal and political matters and has served as the editor in chief of the Almanac of the Executive Branch. Mr. Eng’s most recent major publication Sentencing, Sanctions, and Corrections, a law school casebook, was published by Foundation Press, a division of West Publishing. His recent writings have focused on federalism in the courts and community relations/racial violence.
 
Mr. Eng is a graduate of Brandeis University, where he received his B.A. in Politics. From The American University, he received his J.D., M.S. in Criminal Justice, and had worked toward his M.B.A.

Additional information about Mr. Eng is available from the AAJC website at www.advancingequality.org.