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 Presented by UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. Vishaan Chakrabarti, Dean, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation In this webinar, Vishaan Chakrabarti, new dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, joins Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, for a conversation about the relationship of the arts and design to questions of equity and systemic racism. Chakrabarti is the newly appointed Dean of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design, an architect and professor of architecture. He is the founder of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism, which is an architecture firm based in New York. In 2018 he was named a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Walker is president of the Ford Foundation, a $13 billion international social justice philanthropy. He is a member of Governor Cuomo’s Reimagining New York Commission and co-chair of NYC Census 2020. He chaired the philanthropy committee that brought a resolution to the city of Detroit’s historic bankruptcy. Before joining Ford, Darren was vice president at Rockefeller Foundation, overseeing global and domestic programs. In the 1990s, he was COO of the Abyssinian Development Corporation, Harlem’s largest community development organization. ------------------ Arts + Design Mondays is organized and sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative. The series is co-curated by African American Student Development in the Division of Equity & Inclusion; Arts and Innovation Advocates at Berkeley Law; the Arts Research Center; the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Berkeley Center for New Media; Cal Performances; the College of Environmental Design; the Department of Art Practice and the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series; the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; the Graduate School of Journalism; and the Richmond Arts and Culture Commission. Technical support and presentation offered by UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science, Division of Arts & Humanities. The 2020 series of Arts + Design Mondays is made possible thanks to the generous financial support of Nancy Olson and Buzz Wiesenfeld. For more information, visit artsdesign.berkeley.edu/mondays.