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HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
HELLING CONFERENCE ROOM, CITY HALL
August 19, 2014
6:00 P.M.
1. Call Meeting to Order/ Roll Call
2. Approval of Minutes from the July 15, 2014 Meeting
3. Public Comment of Items Not on the Agenda
4. New Business:
a. Revision to Human Rights Ordinance §2-4-2 Decreasing Time Allotted for
Response from 30 to 15 Days
b. Revision to Human Rights Ordinance §2-5-1, §2-5-2, §2-5-3 Removing Presence or
Absence of Dependents as a Protected Characteristic
5. Old Business:
a. Human Rights Opportunity Fair (Wednesday, September 17)
b. Goal Setting Session for FY 15 (Thursday, October 2)
c. Breakfast 2014 (Wednesday, October 29)
i. Keynote Speaker
6. Reports:
a. The 2014 Johnson County ADA Celebration
b. Building Blocks to Employment Job Fair
c. Education Subcommittee (Retish, Olmstead, Coulter)
d. Building Communities Subcommittee (Townsend)
e. University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (Ghoneim, Olmstead)
f. Commission
g. Staff
7. Set Next Regular Meeting Date: September 16 at 6 pm
8. Adjourn
The Human Rights Commission meetings follow the Iowa City Community School District closings for inclement weather except for early
dismissals for heat.
Minutes
Human Rights Commission
July 15, 2014 — 6:00 PM
Helling Conference Room
Members Present:
Members Excused:
Staff Present:
Preliminary
Harry Olmstead, Shams Ghoneim, Andrea Cohen, Orville Townsend, Ali
Ahmed, Kim Hanrahan, Stella Hart.
Paul Retish, Joe Coulter.
Stefanie Bowers.
Others Present: Misty Rebik, Brittany Kimzey.
Recommendations to Council: No.
Call to Order:
Olmstead called the meeting to order at 18:00.
Consideration of the Minutes from the June 17, 2014 Meeting:
Motion: Moved by Townsend, seconded by Hanrahan. Motion passed 6-0. (Ghoneim not present).
Meeting Business:
Annual Report
Commissioners reviewed the report for FY 14. The report is accepted unchanged.
Motion: Moved by Hanrahan, seconded by Ghoneim. Motion passed 7-0.
2014 Johnson County ADA Celebration
This event is being held on Saturday, July 26 from 2-4 p.m. on the Ped Mall. Hart and Cohen will
represent the Commission at the event. The fee is $25 for a table. The Commission will participate in
this event. Motion: Moved by Ghoneim, seconded by Townsend. Motion passed 7-0.
Human Rights Opportunity Fair
Brittany Kimzey gave a brief overview of the Human Rights Opportunity Fair. It will be held on
Wednesday, September 17 from 1 lam -3 pm at the Old Capital Center. So far, 22 organizations have
confirmed participating in this event and Kimzey hopes the number will go as high as 40. One of the
purposes of the event is to bridge the gap between the community and the University and to let the
community know about some of the meaningful work that students do in the area of human rights here in
Iowa City. The Commission will participate in this event. Motion: Moved by Hanrahan, seconded by
Hart. Motion passed 7-0.
University of Iowa Center for Human Rights One Community One Book
The Commission voted to donate to this community project. The author Reyna Grande will present in
Iowa City on Saturday, October 4 at 7:30 pm on the University of Iowa campus. The book The Distance
Between Us: A Memoir looks at how US immigration policies affect families. The Commission will
donate $200.00. Motion: Moved by Ghoneim, seconded by Cohen. Motion passed 7-0.
Goal Setting Session
The agenda incorrectly labeled the goal setting session for FY 14, Bowers noted it should have read FY
15. Commissioners decided to hold the session on Thursday, October 2 starting at 5 pm. The alternative
date is scheduled for Thursday, October 9 starting at 5 pm. Bowers will locate a City facility to hold the
session.
Breakfast 2014
Misty Rebik, Executive Director for the Center for Worker Justice (CWJ), updated the Commission on
the status of the allegations made against the Sheraton since the Breakfast of 2013. Rebik reports that no
non -minority employees (past or present) have made any similar complaints against the Sheraton.
She also discussed that the CWJ is working on the problem of wage theft here in Iowa City.'
Some Commissioners voiced concern about consistency when doing business around town and whether
they have heard both sides of the situation with respect to the Sheraton.
Bowers mentioned that the location of the breakfast should be on the bus line. She added that last year's
ticket price was $20.
After a head count of Commissioners who would be comfortable returning to the Sheraton, Townsend
moved that the Commission check with the Iowa Memorial Union (IMU) for availability and if that is
unavailable, to use the Sheraton as the second choice for the 2014 Breakfast. Motion: Moved by
Townsend, seconded by Hart. Motion passed 4-3. (Cohen, Hanrahan, Ahmed in the negative).
Commissioners are asked to come up with suggestions for a keynote speaker for the breakfast.
Suggestions include William "Sandy" Boyd, Adrien Wing, Burns Weston, Royceann Porter, Kingsley
Botchway, Chad Simmons, Orville Townsend, Diane Finnerty, Jim Leech, and LaTasha Massey. Further
discussion is tabled until the August meeting. Bowers will forward information on the suggested people
to the Commissioners.
Reports:
Iowa City Pride
Cohen reports the event went well
(Olmstead left meeting)
CIVIC Visitors -Human and Civil Rights for All
Cohen reports the event went well. The subject was discrimination against the LGBT community
(Ghoneim left meeting)
Building Blocks to Employment Job Fair
Planning meeting forjob fair will be held on August 19 at noon in the Helling Conference Room.
Building Communities
Townsend reported that Black Voices met with the Iowa City Community School District's Chief Human
Resource Officer, Chace Ramey. They discussed improving the hiring process so that more minority
instructors are recruited and retained.
Commission
Ghoneim (Bowers presented) will participate in a program through CIVIC where she will meet with an
international visitor to discuss human rights here in Iowa City.
' See Human Rights Commission Meeting Minutes of November & December 2013 for background information
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Staff
Bowers thanked Commissioners for their patience in getting a date selected for the Goal Setting Session.
Adjournment: 19:52.
Next Regular Meeting — August 19, 2014 at 6:00 pm.
Human Rights Commission
ATTENDANCE RECORD
YEAR 2013/2014
(Meeting Date)
NAME
TERM
EXP.
7/16/
13
8/20/
13
9/17/
13
10/15/
13
11/19/
13
12/17/
13
121/
14
2/18/
14
3/18/
14
4/29/
14
5/20/
14
6/17/
14
7/15/
14
Ali Ahmed
1/l/17
-
-
-
-
-
-
X
X
O/E
O/E
O/E
X
X
Orville
Townsend, Sr.
1/l/17
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
O/E
X
X
X
Paul Retish
1/l/17
-
-
-
X
X
X
X
X
O/E
X
X
X
O/E
Kim
Hanrahan
1/1/15
X
X
X
X
O/E
X
X
X
X
X
O/E
O/E
X
Shams
Ghoneim
111115
O/E
X
X
X
X
X
O/E
X
X
X
X
X
X
Stella Hart
111115
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
X
X
Jewell Amos
111115
X
X
X
X
O/E
X
X
X
O/E
R
R
R
R
Joe D. Coulter
1/1/16
O/E
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
O/E
Harry
Olmstead
l/l/16
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Andrea Cohen
1/l/16
-
O/E
X
X
X
X
X
X
O/E
X
X
X
X
KEY: X = Present
O = Absent
O/E = Absent/Excused
NM = No meeting
--- = No longer a member
R = Resignation
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CITY OF IOWA CITY
MEMORANDUM
Date: August 11, 2014
From:
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From: Kristin Watson, Human Rights Investigator
CC: Stefanie Bowers, Human Rights Coordinator
Re: Revisions to Human Rights Ordinance
Chapter 5 Fair Housing and §2-4-2 Investigation of complaints
Introduction/Background:
At the time a complaint is filed, Human Rights staff send notice to the Respondent (the
business, person or organization alleged to have discriminated), together with a set of
questions and requests for supporting documents. Currently, the Human Rights
Ordinance (hereafter, Ordinance) allows the Respondent 30 days to provide the
answers and documents. The time frame of 30 days is a reasonable time allotment for
most complaints filed here in the office. See 42-4-2(C)l. However, the Human Rights
Ordinance requires complaints alleging housing discrimination to be closed within 100
days from the date of filing. See 42-5-4(F).
For practical purposes this allows staff only 100 days to accomplish the following:
• draft a questionnaire/document request,
• serve notice of the complaint on the Respondent,
• conduct a mandatory mediation session (which can take several weeks
depending on the schedules of the parties involved), see §2-5-4(C),
• investigate the complaint (which may include interviews, site visits, and/or
supplemental questions and requests for documents),
• prepare a final investigative report summarizing the data gathered and applying
anti -discrimination laws to the specific circumstances (which also involves
researching and analyzing recent legal developments), see § 2-5-4(E),
• notify the Complainant and Respondent of the decision, see §2-5-4(H), and
• if the decision is no probable cause or the complaint is administratively closed,
allow the Complainant 10 days to object to the decision, see §2-4-3(C).
Allowing a Respondent 30 days to respond to staffs initial requests in a housing
complaint has proven to be inefficient in application due to the 100-day completion
requirement. Because the other areas covered (education, credit, employment and
public accommodation) do not have the same 100-day requirement for completion, staff
would not recommend any changes to the 30-day requirement for responding in those
areas.
Recommendation:
Amend the Human Rights Ordinance to require Respondents in complaints alleging
housing discrimination to (a) respond within 15 days of receiving the
All section references herein are to Title II of the City Code, the Human Rights Ordinance.
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questionnaire/document request, and (b) respond to supplemental questionnaires and
document requests within 7 days .2
Further amend the Human Rights Ordinance to require Human Rights staff to serve
notice on the Respondent in a complaint alleging housing discrimination within 7 days.3
§2-5-1, §2-5-2, §2-5-3 Presence or Absence of Dependents as a protected class
in housing complaints.
Introduction/Background:
In the area of housing, Presence or Absence of Dependents is a covered protected
characteristic. This characteristic was added to the Human Rights Ordinance in 1984.
Dependent is defined as: Any person, regardless of age, who resides in a household
and who derives primary care or support from that household. See §2-1-1.
Prior to the 1984 amendments to the Human Rights Ordinance, Marital Status, Familial
Status, and Sexual Orientation were not protected characteristics in the area of housing,
as they are now. Marital Status is defined as: The state of being married, single,
divorced, separated or widowed. See §2-1-1. Familial status is, in short, defined as
having one or more individuals under the age of 18 domiciled with a parent or person
with status equivalent to that of a parent 4 The definition includes pregnant women and
people in the process of securing legal custody of a person under the age of 18. Sexual
Orientation is defined as: Actual, history of, or perceived heterosexuality,
homosexuality, or bisexuality. See §2-1-1. The 1984 amendments added Marital Status,
Sexual Orientation, and Presence or Absence of Dependents as protected
characteristics in the area of housing. Familial status was added later.
The purpose of adding Presence or Absence of Dependents as a protected
characteristic was to prevent housing discrimination against people who live with
children or other dependents (such as elderly and/or disabled people). Thirty years
later, however, continuing to protect this characteristic seems unnecessary, as people
with or without dependents all appear to have other protected characteristics under
which they could file a discrimination complaint.
Example 1: John, a local landlord, refused to rent a house to Mary, a single person,
who is a foster parent to 5 children under the age of 10. John made comments
concerning whether Mary could handle "all those children" without a husband.
Mary could file a complaint based on marital status and familial status
discrimination.
Example 2: Mark, who is selling his house, refuses to sell it to Nicole, a single person
with no children or dependents. Mark believes that because Nicole is single she is not
the best "fit' for the neighborhood, which is primarily composed of families.
Nicole could file a complaint based on marital status discrimination.
Y This should not be a burden for Respondents, as supplemental requests are usually limited in scope.
Staff would also, as they do now, approve reasonable requests from Respondents for time extensions.
3 Currently, staff is required to serve notice on the Respondent within 20 days. See §2-4-2(A).
4 The full definition can be found in § 2-1-1 Definitions.
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Example 3: ABC Management Company refuses to lease a condominium to Adam, a
father who is the primary care taker for his disabled adult son.
Adam could file a complaint based on disability discrimination.
Example 4: Kay and Kelly, a married couple, make an offer to purchase a home in a
new subdivision but the owner of the home, Peter, refuses their offer because they are
in the process of adopting a child.
Kay & Kelly could file based on familial status discrimination.
Example 5: Stacey is having a difficult time finding housing in Iowa City. When she
mentions to a potential landlord that she is the primary support and caretaker for her 88-
year-old uncle Johnny, who has dementia, the landlords usually do not call her back.
Stacey could file a complaint of discrimination based on disability and age.
Human Rights staff could envision only one highly unlikely circumstance in which
Presence or Absence of Dependents could be the only basis under which a person
could file a complaint. This would be if a prospective tenant or buyer were to be refused
housing because of the tenant/buyer's stated intent to have, or not have, children at
some point in the future. It would require (1) that the prospective tenant/buyer discussed
intimate details regarding plans for their future with the landlord/owner, and (2) that the
landlord/owner was motivated to refuse to rent/sell to the person based on this
information. Staff has not heard or read about this scenario ever occurring.
In addition, Presence or Absence of Dependents is not a protected characteristic under
state or federal law. Removing it as a basis would therefore make Iowa City's Code of
Ordinances consistent with the Iowa Code and the Fair Housing Act.
Recommendation
Amend the Human Rights Ordinance to remove Presence or Absence of Dependents
as a protected class in the area of housing complaints.
Staff
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Kingsleys story begins in Clemson, South Carolina where he was born into a
family culture which stressed perseverance and hard work. His mother, a
retired Lt. Colonel in the US Army Reserves, raised Kingsley and his two
siblings on her own and made sure to instill an appreciation for knowledge
and focus. Kingsleys mother had successfully put herself through college and
graduate school, earning several degrees and a place at Clemson University as
a Senior Nursing Lecturer. Kingsley says that he looks to his mother as a role
model due to her success in lifting herself out of economic hardship through
sheer determination, a feat he hoped to replicate himself.
After graduating from D.W. Daniel High School. Kingsley attended the
University of South Carolina with the intention of pursuing a career in law. He
graduated with honors with a B.S. in Criminology and Criminal Justice and
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Kingsley became interested in the interaction between the city's police department and residents after witnessing troubling
policing practices. Having just emerged from the Law School Kingsley knew there were other, more positive ways of
addressing crime in the large college town of Iowa City.
"There were times where I felt the first contact between the police and a Iowa City resident could have been handled
differently," Kingsley explained. "We live in a very punitive system and I wanted people to know that they had a second
chance."
Police discretion in Iowa City tends to favor punitive ends to Iowa Citys changing demographic and, especially the many
young adults in the city's college population, could mean a very permanent negative stain on a person's life trajectory. As both
a recent college graduate and person with aJD, Kingsley found himself in a unique position to push for changes at the local
level.
"Local politics can have an immediate impact" Kingsley says. 'They [local politics] affect each Iowa City residents lives,
especially students' lives and its important they are aware of what is going on around them and become more involved.
Kingsleys perspective had also been informed by his many years working in the community and his advocacy as chair on the
Iowa City Ad Hoc Diversity committee, which led him to seriously consider his running for local office.
"I had an opportunity to run," Kingsley said. "I really wanted to make changes... to change the culture of the discussion."
Drawing on the support of his peers and the desire for change from the community, Kingsley decided to run for a City Council
seat. His campaign succeeded and he was sworn in officially on Dec. 10, 2013. His electoral success makes him the youngest
person on the council and he hopes to bring more diversity to the discussion. However, the diversity Kingsley brings to the
council is notjust limited to his being African American and young.
'To truly have diversity we need more than just diversity of age or race," Kingsley explains. "We also need diversity of thought.
To truly get to the root of the issue we need to get more people sitting at the table."
In addition to reforming the police practices of Iowa City, Kingsley hopes to renew the city's commitment to issues that affect
all people young and old who want to improve their quality of life. Issues like providing access to affordable housing and
promoting the economic viability of the city whose council he serves on..
Despite being rated in 2008 as the second best small metropolitan area to do business in the US, Iowa City still faces
economic troubles. A professional "brain drain" and lack of positive communication are key causes of their troubles, says
Kingsley.
"Currently we are producing entrepreneurs, but not retaining their talents," Kingsley stresses. "We need a culture of
innovation to keep businesses and young professionals in Iowa City."
He also stressed how important it is to keep young people feeling like they have a voice in the political discussion and to work
to keep them engaged in their communities.
"It's about communication," Kingsley says. "We need to make information more available and help foster a stronger
relationship between local government and the community it serves."
Like other young people, Kingsley had not always seen himself becoming involved in the political process. It is often seen as
slow, especially at the local level. However, Kingsleys experiences thus far have shown him how much local politics can affect
young people and that choosing to not participate simply leaves their voices out of the decisionmaking process.
"It had always been someone older who was dictating the discussion," Kingsley says. "Now, as a 28 year old, I can help to
better communicate the concerns of the community and my own demographic."
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history and values, the civil rights movement, and foreign cultures. In addition, the agency helped launch
a National Digital Public Library to establish a unified gateway to digital collections of books, artworks,
and artifacts from libraries, museums, and other cultural sites across the country. Leach presided over the
culmination of decades -long projects such as the publication of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and the
Dictionary of American Regional English.
Leach is best known for his 30 years of service as a representative in Congress where he chaired the
Banking and Financial Services Committee, the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, and the
Congressional -Executive Commission on China. Following his time in Congress, he was a Professor at the
Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and Interim Director of the Institute of Politics and
Lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
He holds thirteen honorary degrees, has received decorations from two foreign governments, and is the
recipient of the Wayne Morse Integrity in Politics Award, the Adlai Stevenson Award from the United
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UICHR website(http://Internatlonal.ulowa.edu/ulchr)
Highlights:
2009 Elected to membership in American Law Institute
2010-2012 on -site director London Law Consortium
2012 Regents Award for Faculty Excellence
2012 Appointed American Bar Association Accreditation Committee
The 'Arab Fall": The Future of Women's Rights, 18 U.C. Davis J. Int'I L. & Pol'y 445 (2012).
2013 Appointed Director UICHR (University of Iowa Center for Human Rights)
2014 Elected Counsellor to American Society of International Law
Adrien Wing is the Bessie Dutton Murray Professor at the University of Iowa College of Law, where she has
taught since 1987. Additionally, she is the Director of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights, as
well as Director of the summer abroad program in France. She served as the Associate Dean for Faculty
Development 2006-2009 and the on -site Director for the London Law Consortium semester abroad
program 2010-12.
After receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton with high honors in 1978, Professor Wing
earned her Master of Arts degree in African studies from UCLA in 1979. She obtained her Doctorate of
Jurisprudence degree in 1982 from Stanford Law School, and was awarded the Stanford African Student
Association Prize. While in law school, she served as an editor of the Stanford Journal of International
Law, as an intern with the United Nations Council on Namibia, and as Southern Africa Task Force Director
of the National Black Law Students Association.
Prior to joining the College of Law faculty in 1987, Professor Wing spent five years in practice in New
York City with Curtis, Mallet -Prevost, Colt & Mosle and with Rabinowitz, Boutin, Standard, Krinsky &
Lieberman, specializing in international law issues regarding Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America.
She also served as a representative to the United Nations for the National Conference of Black Lawyers.
Professor Wing presently teaches International Human Rights, Law in the Muslim World, and Sex
Discrimination Law. She has taught US Constitutional Law; Critical Race Theory; Comparative Law;
Comparative Constitutional Law; Race, Racism & American Law; Law in Radically Different Cultures; and
the International and Domestic Legal Aspects of AIDS. She is, in addition, a member of The University of
Iowa's interdisciplinary African Studies faculty and North Africa/Middle East faculty groups. During fall
2002, she was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School. During fall 2011, she was the
Bette and Wylie Aitken Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chapman Law School.
Author of more than 100 publications, Wing is the editor of Critical Race Feminism: A Reader and Global
Critical Race Feminism., An International Reader, both from NYU Press, as well as co-editor of the Richard
Delgado Reader. Her US -oriented scholarship has focused on race and gender discrimination, including
topics such as the impact of Hurricane Katrina, gangs, mothering, affirmative action, the war on terrorism,
and polygamy in Black America. Her international scholarship has emphasized two regions: Africa,
especially South Africa; and the Middle East, in particular the Palestinian legal system. Constitutionalism,
women's rights, rape in Bosnia, Muslim headscarves in France, Tunisian secularism, Turkish democracy,
and the Arab spring are among the topics of articles.
Professor Wing has advised the founding fathers and mothers of three constitutions: South Africa,
Palestine, and Rwanda. She organized an election -observer delegation to South Africa, and taught at the
University of Western Cape for six summers. She also advised the Eritrean Ministry of Justice on human
rights treaties.
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China, France, Hong Kong, Brazil, London, and Tunisia.
Further, Wing has received numerous honors, and has held leadership positions in various organizations.
She has been Vice President of the American Society of International Law. Additionally, she has served as
Chair of the International Section of the National Conference of Black Lawyers, as a member of the
TransAfrica Forum Scholars Council, and on the Board of Directors of the Iowa Peace Institute and the
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council, as well as the Stanford Law School Board of Visitors. Iowa Governor
Vilsack appointed Professor Wing to the Commission on the African American Prison Population in 1999.
She was the Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Minority Section in 2002. She currently
serves on the American Bar Association Accreditation Committee, the ABA Middle East/North Africa Law
Initiative, and the Board of Editors of the American Journal of Comparative Law. Her honors include the
distinguished alum award from her high school Newark Academy, the Clyde Ferguson Award from the
American Association of Law Schools, and the Regents Award for Faculty Excellence from the State of
Iowa. She was elected to membership in the American Law Institute in 2009.
Wing is a life member of the New York -based Council on Foreign Relations and a law school inspector for
the American Bar Association and the American Association of Law Schools.
Professor Wing is a member of the New York Bar,
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Office: 272 Schaeffer Hall
Office Hours:
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and by appointment
Phone Number: (319) 335-0802
Email: iacki-rand@uiowa.edu
Jacki Rand (citizen, Choctaw
Nation of Oklahoma)joined the
History Department in 1998 with a joint appointment in American
Indian and Native Studies. Her current research interests center
on federal Indian law and policy, settler colonialism, and global
indigenous histories. Using court records and documents, oral
histories, newspaper accounts, and archival sources, Rand is
producing a book manuscript on violence against Native women
contextualized in the history of a southeastern tribe in the late
twentieth century. Professor Rand teaches courses in the history
of Native North America, of federal Indian law and policy, of
museums, and of human rights in addition to public history. She is
presently developing a course on global indigenous peoples and
settler colonialism.
Professor Rand sits on the editorial board of the Native American
and Indigenous Studies Association Journal. She was one of the
co-founders of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (the
academic version of the Big Ten) American Indian Studies
Consortium (CIC AIS) and served on the Executive Committee
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from 2000-2006. She organized the first CIC AIS graduate
research conference in 1999 at the University of Iowa.
Prior to entering graduate school, Professor Rand worked for the
Smithsonian Institution from 1983 to 1994. From 1990 to 1994 she
organized numerous consultations between senior staff members
of the National Museum of the American Indian and Native
community members throughout the United States. She
graduated with a doctoral degree from the University of
Oklahoma in 1998.
LINKS
Rising Waters, Rapid Changes:
History Corps
http://dsph.uiowa.edu/historycorps/?page—id=57
Obermann Center for Advanced Studies
http://obermann.uiowa.edu/news/rising-waters-raDid-changes
Graduate Student Eric Zimmer talks about his Obermann
Fellowship
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOXXZx7XzPU
Teaching:
Her current teaching interests include federal Indian policy and
American colonialism, Native material culture production, and
museum studies. Courses recently taught include:
• AINS:3002 (149:102) Introduction to American Indian History
and Policy
• HIST:2251 (16A:051) Colloquium for History Majors (American)
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• HIST:3211(16A:115) Native North America I: Pre -contact to 1789
• HIST:3212 (16A:116) Native North America 11:1789 to Present
• HISTA130 (16:120) Museum Literacy and Historical Memory
Jacki has also taught a Lannan Institute seminar "Federal Indian
Policy Law and Your Community History" to tribal college faculty
held at the Newberry Library and a graduate workshop on federal
Indian policy and law at the Newberry Library.
Awards & Service:
• CIC/AIS Faculty Fellowship, Newberry Library, 2007-2008
• Central Investment Fund for Research Enhancement,
University of Iowa, Summer 2000
• Iowa Arts Council, April 2000
• College of Liberal Arts Student Computing Fee Grant, April
2000
• Funding from the Office of the Vice -President of Research,
Office of the Graduate College, Office of the Dean of Liberal
Arts, Office of the Provost, American Indian and Native Studies
for the inaugural CIC Graduate Research Conference, April
2000
• Arrell Gibson Award for Outstanding Student in Western
History, University of Oklahoma,1996
• American Fellowship, American Association of University
Women,1995-1996
Publications
Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State
"Red, White, and Black: A Personal Essay on Interracial Marriage"
"Why I Can't Visit the National Museum of the American Indian:
Reflections of an Accidental Privileged Insider,1989-1994,"
"Primary Sources: Indian Goods and the History of American
Colonialism and the 19-Century Reservation" in Clearing a Path:
Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies
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