May 24, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
Thomas Auditorium 003

Moderator:

Regan Crotty ’00
Dean of Undergraduate Students

Panelists:

Gordon H. Chang ’70
Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities and Professor of History, Stanford University

Sally Frank ’80
Professor of Law, Drake University

Manuel “Manny” Gonzalez ’85
Chief of Marketing and Communications, Department of Recreation and Parks, Baltimore City

Shawon Jackson ’15
Founder and Executive Director, Vocal Justice

Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University

Participants:

Regan Crotty ’00
As dean of undergraduate students at Princeton University, Regan Crotty has responsibility for the areas of Student Engagement, including supporting over 400 student organizations, undergraduate and class governments, student agencies, new student orientation, Outdoor Action, Campus Club and events/programs such as Class Day; Student Support and Community Standards, including managing student crises and overseeing the undergraduate disciplinary system; and Protests and Free Expression, involving upholding the University’s commitment to freedom of expression and ensuring that University guidelines governing free expression are followed. She has held various roles at Princeton, including director of gender equity and Title IX administration, director of student life, interim executive director for planning and administration, and investigator. Crotty also worked as assistant general counsel at Morgan Lewis LLP and as a litigation associate at Dechert LLP. An English major at Princeton, Crotty also holds a law degree from the University of Chicago.

Gordon H. Chang ’70
Gordon H. Chang has taught at Stanford for more than 30 years. His scholarly interests include U.S. diplomatic history, trans-Pacific relations, Asian American history and art history. His publications include “Friends and Enemies: The United States, China and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972,” “Fateful Ties: A History of America’s Preoccupation with China” and “Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic History of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad.” His new book, “War, Race, and Culture: Journeys in Trans-Pacific and Asian American Histories,” publishes this May. He has been active in anti-war and anti-racism movements since Princeton. At Stanford, Chang served as the faculty director of several different academic programs and was the senior associate vice provost for undergraduate education during the COVID-19 crisis. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Huntington Library. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Sally Frank ’80
A professor at Drake University Law School since 1990, Sally Frank teaches primarily in the clinical program where students practice law representing real people in real cases. Her clinic mostly handles family law and guardianship cases; she has also represented protesters. Frank teaches seminars in “Women and the Law” and “Women in the Hebrew Scriptures,” and she has published in the area of women’s rights. Active in protest movements since before she was in college, Frank has served on the boards of major civil rights organizations and different arms of the Reform Jewish movement. In law school, Frank worked with the National Lawyers Guild to become a legal observer at protests, and she has worked with movements for social change in this capacity ever since — not only in Des Moines, Iowa, where she lives, but also outside national political conventions and at national protests.

Manuel “Manny” Gonzalez ’85
Manny Gonzalez promotes Baltimore City’s recreational facilities and programs. He previously worked as director of communications and marketing for the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). Prior to ASLA, Gonzalez held various marketing leadership roles in the corporate sector, from the San Jose Mercury News to Moët Hennessy USA, where he managed partnerships with organizations such as the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and the Hispanic Federation. Gonzalez graduated from Princeton in 1985 with a B.A. in politics, and in 1990 he received his MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles. While at Princeton, he served as president of the Undergraduate Student Government. Gonzalez was born in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, grew up in Los Angeles and currently lives in Baltimore.

Shawon Jackson ’15
Shawon Jackson’s nonprofit Vocal Justice, which inspires and prepares students to speak up for social change, has engaged more than 2,500 students in its storytelling for social change curriculum since 2019. In 2021, Jackson was named an Echoing Green Fellow, recognizing him as a top social innovator globally. He also made the Forbes “30 Under 30” list for education. At Princeton, Jackson earned an A.B. from the School of Public and International Affairs, as well as certificates in African American studies, Latino studies and Spanish. He served two terms as Princeton’s undergraduate student body president. Post graduation, Shawon completed a Princeton in Latin America fellowship with an education nonprofit in the Dominican Republic, and then did public and social sector consulting with Deloitte. He earned his MPP/MBA from Harvard Kennedy School and Stanford Business School, where he is now a part-time lecturer of strategic communication.