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Speaker Series
Guided by our promise of inspiring greatness for a better world, La Jolla Country Day School's speaker series connects the world to the school and the school to the world. The CEC is committed to ensuring that faculty, students and parents have the opportunity to hear from a broad range of prominent, inspiring voices from around the country and globe.
Below is a sample of the diverse speakers and visitors who have shared their knowledge and experiences with the LJCDS community.
Derek Abbey
Citizenship, Empathy & Unity
Project Recover’s President and CEO
Jody David Armour
Race, Rap & Redemption
Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California
Mark Fallon
Citizenship & Justice
Retired NCIS agent and author
Jason Freeman
Do Your Imperfect Best
Author and speaker
Janice Rhosalle Littlejohn
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Author, journalist and associate director for the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities at the University of Southern California
Nicholas Meyer
Educating a Nation About Nuclear War
Director of The Day After
Rose Schindler
Memories of Survival
Holocaust Survivor
Lynne Thompson
Author, poet and formerly director of the Employee and Labor Relations Center at the University of California and interim Title IX officer at the University of California, Riverside
Carol Wells
Activists, Artists, and Sisters
Founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics
Dan Wolf
Democracy Counts
Co-founder of Democracy Counts, Inc.
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