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Fearless Governance: Using Trust, Empowerment, and Accountability to Lead
5:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - A public reception will begin at 5pm. Dr. Bedi will speak at 6pm. Dr. Kiran Bedi was the first woman to have joined the officer ranks of Indian Police Service in1972. She was the 24th Lt Governor of Puducherry and served the United Nations as Civilian Police Advisor in Peace Keeping Operations. She has a PhD from IIT Delhi with a post-doctoral Nehru Fellowship. She was a winner of the Gallantry award from Gov. of Inia, and the Magsaysay Award also known as Asia’s Nobel Peace Award. She also was an Asian tennis champion and has authored several books. She has a biopic on her life called Yes Madam Sir. She founded two Foundations, Navjyoti India Foundation and India Vision Foundation which serve the under privileged in rural, urban areas and in prisons for last 30 years. Her latest book Fearless Governance is based on ground realities as she saw while serving as the Lt Governor Puducherry as released by Ms. Indra Nooyi (former CEO Pepsi). They called it a “blue print for Good Governance" cutting across leadership qualities both, in private and public sector.

21st Century Agricultural Renaissance: Solutions from the Land
7:00 PM – Dolezal Auditorium, 127 Curtiss - 2022 William K. Deal Endowed Leadership Lecture Ernie Shea is the President of Solutions from the Land (SfL), a not-for-profit organization that incubates and supports farmer-led, multi-stakeholder platforms that inspire, educate, and equip agricultural partners to innovate and lead efforts to sustain productivity, enhance climate resilience, and contribute to local and global goals for sustainable development. SfL brings agricultural thought leaders to the forefront of conversations about the food system, the environment and the future. Shea has over 40 years of experience at the global, national, state and local level where he has designed and facilitated initiatives to enhance the effective functioning and ability of agricultural landscapes to sequester carbon, protect water quality, improve public health, and ensure a growing and resilient food system.

The Reality of Migration in El Salvador
6:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Interpreter: Joseph Russ Carmen Elena Diaz Anzora is a member of the executive committee of the Calvinist Reformed Church of El Salvador, where she works as Coordinator of the church’s Education Program and forms part of the coordinating team for the church’s Migrant Ministry. She holds a degree Educational Sciences, specializing in Peace Education, with additional training in Psychosocial Care and Psychotraumatology. Carmen has experience in the management, execution, evaluation, and systematization of social projects, especially in community formation, peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Her work includes psychosocial care for migrants and people in emergency situations due to disasters. In addition, she designs, implements and systematizes learning processes for children and youth in violence prevention, community building, and peacebuilding.

A Legacy of Excellence: The History of the New Farmers of America
7:00 PM – Dolezal Auditorium, 127 Curtiss - Dr. Antoine Alston (’00 PhD agricultural education and studies), professor and associate dean within the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at North Carolina A&T State University will present a lecture based on his newly released book, The Legacy of the New Farmers of America, a historical narrative about a national organization meant for Black farm boys studying vocational agriculture in high school. Similar in structure to the Future Farmers of America, the NFA was formed in 1927 and existed until 1965, when it merged with FFA following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He will also touch on African American Agricultural history.

It's Personal: What Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Mean for Individual Liberties
6:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - 2022 Constitution Day Panel Recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court have altered Americans understanding of privacy, freedom of religion, and personal liberties. An expert panel will discuss the immediate legal effects and how other personal freedoms could be affected by upcoming cases. Moderator: Dr. Karen Kedrowski is Director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics and Professor of Political Science at Iowa State. She was recently named Campus Champion of the Year by the Andrew Goodman Foundation in recognition for her student voter engagement work. Panelists: Professor Dirk Deam, ISU Julie Roosa, First Amendment attorney Leah Patton, Staff Attorney, ACLU of Iowa

Who Gets What and Why? Economists as Engineers
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Dr. Alvin Roth is the Craig and Susan McCaw professor of economics at Stanford University and the Gund professor of economics and business administration emeritus at Harvard University. He was President of the American Economics Association in 2017. Dr. Roth has made significant contributions to the fields of game theory, market design and experimental economics, and is known for his emphasis on applying economic theory to solutions for "real-world" problems. In 2012, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Lloyd Shapley "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design."

Where's the Whistle? You Can't Coach Yourself Out of Mental Illness
7:30 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Come to the 2022 Story County Mental Health Expo featuring a huge vendor fair and speaker Lyndsey (Medders) Fennelly, She is a former Iowa State All-American and WNBA Draftee. She co-founded CampusCycle, Elite 360 Training, a sport development business for athletes in central Iowa that has serviced over 40,000 athletes, and is a motivational speaker and mental health advocate. Lyndsey has been hospitalized twice since 2013 after 2 significant breakdowns and has since shared her story with over 13,000 Iowans in an effort to reduce the stigma. She is also passionate about giving back, a life well lived, and most especially time with her family. At 6pm, the Vendor Fair and Exhibition will open in the Sun Room with door prizes and free food. Ms. Fennelly will speak at 7:30pm The annual Story County Mental Health Expo is a partnership among various Story County health groups and ISU. The groups involved include: ISU Committee on Lectures, ISU Police, Eyerly Ball, ISU Student Wellness, ISU Dean of Students Office, Optimae Life Services, YSS, Mary Greeley Medical Center, Community Support Advocates, Ames Police, Community & Family Resources, and NAMI Central Iowa.

Cryptocurrency: The Good, The Bad, and the Future
6:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Come learn about cryptocurrency--what it is, why it's always in the news, and how it effects you! Charles Finfrock is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), a Certified Bitcoin Professional, and an expert in cryptocurrency. Mr. Finfrock spent 18 years in the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Operations conducting and leading clandestine operations overseas to collect foreign intelligence, run counterintelligence operations, and conducting covert action at the direction of the President. He joined CIA shortly before 9/11 and he spent the majority of his career in the Middle East and Europe. After leaving the CIA in January 2019, Mr. Finfrock joined Tesla as its first Insider Threat program manager. He developed Tesla’s corporate Insider Threat program and led its implementation of the Insider Threat program in North America, Europe, and China. He also also led Tesla’s global information security investigations program to respond to loss of confidential or proprietary information worldwide. Mr. Finfrock left Tesla in October 2021 to focus full time on a company he founded, Vigilance. Vigilance provides bespoke and discreet investigative and private intelligence and counterintelligence services to its clients.

Un/Masked: 2022 Symphony of Diversity
7:30 PM – CY Stephens Auditorium - The musical energies of the Americas are front and center at the third ISU presentation of the nationally known Symphony of Diversity. Venezuelan violinist Samuel Vargas, winner of the 2021 Sphinx National Competition for Black and Latino talent, will perform Florence Price's Concerto No. 2 for violin and orchestra in a concert that includes Baba Yetu, a setting of the Lord’s Prayer in Swahili and the first piece of music written for a video game to win a Grammy Award. The second half of the program features the choral-orchestral work Illuminare by Des Moines composer Elaine Hagenburg, and Arturo Márquez’s raucous Danzón No. 2. More than half the music on the concert by duration features music by visible minorities, and more than half of the music on the concert by duration features music by women. About Symphony of Diversity: Symphony of Diversity is a nationally noted orchestral performance series that celebrates, illuminates, and commemorates a history of human rights encompassing both of triumphs and tragedies. Conceived and curated by Jonathan Govias, Director of Orchestral Activities at Iowa State University, the concerts are rooted in the ideal that the world itself is a symphony of diversity to be experienced, and unfearingly address current social issues through both contemporary and historical musical lenses. Past guests have included one-handed virtuoso violinist Adrian Anantawan, transgender pianist Sara Davis Buechner, and indigenous rights activist Sarain Fox. The first iteration took place in Charlotte, NC in April 2017, with the sixth and most recent concert presented in April 2021 in Ames, IA. Over the years the concerts have generated unprecedented media interest and publicity for the activities of a university orchestra, for the artistic as much as the social merits of the concerts.

To Save America, Wokeness Must Be Destroyed
7:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium - This event is free, open to the public, and does not require a ticket for entrance. Doors open at 6pm. ISU students will have the first 500 seats reserved until 6:40pm; show your ISU student ID at the SE or SW Tower doors to enter. The general public may enter through the North Doors. No bags will be permitted. Small bags for medical supplies and diaper bags will be permitted but will be searched before entry. No picket signs, banners, or other materials that could block views or be used as a weapon will be permitted. The event will be live-streamed and recorded. Links will be provided as they become available. Ben Shapiro is founding editor-in-chief and editor emeritus of The Daily Wire and host of "The Ben Shapiro Show," the top conservative podcast in the nation. Shapiro is the author of numerous nonfiction books, including The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Courage Made the West Great, Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America, and How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps. Shapiro was hired by Creators Syndicate at age 17 to become the youngest nationally syndicated columnist in the U.S. He earned a BA in Political Science from UCLA in 2004 and graduated from Harvard Law School in 2007. After working as an attorney for Goodwin Procter LLP, Shapiro began his own legal consulting firm, Benjamin Shapiro Legal Consulting (Los Angeles). This event is sponsored in part by the Young America’s Foundation’s Fred and Lynda Allen Series.