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词条 Lateefah Simon
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Lateefah Simon (born January 29, 1977 in San Francisco) is the president of the Akonadi Foundation and an advocate for civil rights and racial justice.[1] In 2003, she became the youngest woman to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, for her leadership of the Center for Young Women's Development (now the Young Women's Freedom Center) from age 19.[1][2][3][4]

Under San Francisco district attorney Kamala Harris, Simon led the creation of San Francisco's Reentry Division, with Back on Track, an advocacy program for young adults charged with low-level felony drug sales.[1]

Simon has been the executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area and the program director of the Rosenberg Foundation.[1]

She was elected to represent the seventh district on the Bay Area Rapid Transit District board of directors in 2016.[5] Her motivations for running included her reliance on BART, as someone legally blind and unable to drive.[6]

Simon studied social entrepreneurship at Stanford University and public policy at Mills College,[7] where will be the 2017 Commencement speaker.[8]

She is the mother of two children[7] and has written about the difference in how she was treated as an unwed mother and as a widowed mother.[9]

Awards

  • 2003 MacArthur Fellows Program[4]
  • 2007 Jefferson Award [10]
  • 2005 "California Woman of the Year" by the California State Assembly [11]

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Lateefah Simon, President|url=http://akonadi.org/staff/lateefah-simon-president/|website=Akonadi Foundation|accessdate=21 March 2017}}
2. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=krUDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA8&dq=Lateefah+Simon&hl=en&ei=5A3KS_zwFoH58Ab9hdXRBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Lateefah%20Simon&f=false "Three Blacks Named MacArthur Fellows"], Jet, Oct 27, 2003
3. ^http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portraits/Lateefah_Simon.php
4. ^{{cite web|title=Lateefah Simon|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/720/|website=MacArthur Foundation|accessdate=21 March 2017|date=5 October 2003}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=Lateefah Simon|url=http://www.bart.gov/about/bod/bodMembersDetail_07|website=Bay Area Rapid Transit|accessdate=21 March 2017}}
6. ^{{cite news|title=Lateefah Simon seeks inspiration in promises made|url=http://www.sfgate.com/visionsf/article/A-2014-2015-Visionary-of-the-Year-Nominee-seeks-6716161.php|accessdate=21 March 2017|publisher=SFGate|date=6 January 2016}}
7. ^{{cite web|title=About Lateefah|url=https://www.lateefahforbart.com/about|website=Lateefah for BART|accessdate=21 March 2017}}
8. ^{{cite web|title=Civil Rights Advocate Lateefah Simon to Deliver Mills College Commencement Address|url=https://www.mills.edu/news/2017/pressrelease-03222017-LateefahSimonToDeliverCommencementAddress.php|website=Mills College|accessdate=22 March 2017|date=22 March 2017}}
9. ^{{cite web|last1=Simon|first1=Lateefah|title=I Was a Working Single Mom Twice — Here's What I Learned|url=https://medium.com/working-parents-in-america/i-was-a-working-single-mom-twice-here-s-what-i-learned-a688650bc74e#.qez35xfbg|website=Medium|accessdate=21 March 2017|date=5 November 2015}}
10. ^http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-10-21/living/17266313_1_east-bay-young-people-harris
11. ^http://eomega.org/omega/faculty/viewProfile/2238c3330352b5f9955bcb520dab1462/
12. ^{{cite web|title=Lateefah Simon|url=http://www.emergeamerica.org/alumnae/spotlight/lateefah-simon|website=Emerge America|publisher=Emerge America|accessdate=August 3, 2016}}

External links

  • "An Interview with Lateefah Simon", CYD Journal, Sarah Raskin
  • [https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/girltrouble/lateefah.html "Lateefah Simon Q&A"], Independent Lens, PBS
  • "Commencement Address", San Francisco State University, 2010
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