4 Kan
Yellow Self-Existing Seed
The possible Poetry
Of a Life
Is often blocked –
A wounded Psyche
Organizes around Defense –
A Fortress medieval
A Forest primeval
The Princess within
The Prince without
Shoot Arrows of Projection
Blindly over Walls
Finally a benevolent
Force arises from
The Bid for Consciousness –
A crucial Cry for Love
If ever Sleep seduces
Refuse with Power doubled
Overcome the Tragedy
Of Life without its Poetry.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Cecilia A. Conrad, PhD
Cecilia Ann Conrad (4 January 1955) was the Stedman-Sumner professor of economics, vice president for academic affairs, and dean of Pomona College, Claremont, California, USA, and is currently Managing Director at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, where she leads the MacArthur Fellows Program and 100&Change, a global competition for a single $100 million grant.
From 2008 to 2009, she was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), she is also a former president of the National Economic Association, and a former board member of the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP).
Her research interests are in the effects of race and gender on economic status, which she demonstrates through her editorship of The Review of Black Political Economy and her previous directorship of the AEA's 'Pipeline Mentoring Program', run by the Committee on the Status Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP), a program which is designed to increase the number of minority doctorate holders in economics.
Early life
Cecilia Ann Conrad was born on 4 January 1955, St. Louis, Missouri. A year after Cecilia was born, her father, Dr. Emmett James Conrad, became the first African-American surgeon to join the staff of St. Paul’s Hospital, Dallas, Texas (now St. Paul University Hospital, University of Texas Southwestern). He was appointed to the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) by Governor Mark White in 1984, the first African American elected to a citywide office in Dallas. His wife, Cecilia's mother, Eleanor Nelson, acted as his campaign manager when he ran for office. Cecilia was their only child.
Education
From 1976 to 1981 she participated in an affirmative action scheme, the Bell Laboratories Cooperative Research program.
Conrad earned her bachelor's degree from Wellesley College (1976) and went on to receive a masters and a doctorate, both from Stanford University (her doctorate, in 1982, specialized in labor economics, industrial organization, and public finance).
Career
From the end of her studies, until 1981 lecturer, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
1976 - 1981 economist, Economic Evidence Division, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission
1981 - 1985 assistant professor of economics, Duke University
1985 - 1995 Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, New York
1995 - 2004 professor, Pomona College, Claremont, California
2004 - 2007 associate dean, Pomona College
1998 - 2005 director (founding director), of the American Economic Association’s (AEA’s) Committee on the Status Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP)’s 'Pipeline Mentoring
Program
2007 - 2009 vice president and dean of faculty, Scripps College, Claremont, California
2009 - 2012 vice president and dean, Pomona College
Fall 2012 acting president, Pomona College
2009 - 2012 program adviser, Active Living Research (an initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
2005–present member of the board of trustees of Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
2013–present vice president, MacArthur Fellows Program
Awards and honors
2002 California's Carnegie Professor of the Year
2002 Wig Distinguished Professorship Award for Excellence in Teaching (from Pomona College)
2005 Outstanding Academic Title of 2005 for African Americans in the U.S. Economy, which she co-edited, awarded by Choice Magazine
2008 Woman of Power Award at the 2008 annual conference of the National Urban League
2015 Lewis-Oaxaca Distinguished Lecturer at the American Economic Association Summer Mentoring Pipeline Conference
2018 Samuel Z. Westerfield Award (from the National Economic Association)
Selected bibliography
Books
Conrad, Cecilia A (2004). Building skills for black workers: preparing for the future labor market. Washington, D.C. Lanham, Maryland: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies University Press of America. ISBN 9780761827795.
Conrad, Cecilia A; Whitehead, John; Mason, Patrick; Stewart, James (2005). African Americans in the U.S. economy. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780742543782.
Journal articles
Conrad, Cecilia A; Doss, Cheryl R. (2008). "The AIDS epidemic: challenges for feminist economics". Feminist Economics, special issue: AIDS, sexuality, and economic development. Taylor and Francis. 14 : 1–18. doi:10.1080/13545700802262998.
Conrad, Cecilia A (Fall 2014). "Finding the right match" (PDF). Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) Newsletter, special issue: Navigating the Job Market 2.0. American Economic Association: 5–8. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2015-04-13.
Chapters in books
Conrad, Cecilia A (1999), "Affirmative action and admission to the University of California", in Ong, Paul, Impacts of affirmative action: policies and consequences in California, Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira Press, pp. 171–196, ISBN 9780761990550
Research papers
Conrad, Cecilia A; Bloom, David E; Miller, Cynthia K (1996). Child support and fathers' remarriage and fertility. Cambridge Mass: Volume 5781 of National Bureau of Economic Research NBER working paper series (original from: University of Michigan).
Speeches
Is there a bubble in the liberal arts college market? (transcription), Pomona College Vice President and Dean of the College, Cecilia Conrad, speech at the 1 September 2009 Convocation.*
KAN
Kin 4: Yellow Self-Existing Seed
I define in order to target
Measuring awareness
I seal the input of flowering
With the self-existing tone of form
I am guided by the power of universal fire.
In order to telepathically reconstitute reality, we must learn to see ourselves from the other side.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2018-2019.
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Visshudha Chakra (Alpha Plasma)
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