Speakers Bureau: Joe Hicks

Joe Hicks is the vice president of Community Advocates, Inc.  He is the former executive director of the L.A. City Human Relations Commission and the the co-founder and executive director of the Multi-Cultural Collaborative, an umbrella group for a diverse group of community-based leaders.

In the early 1990s, Hicks was Executive Director of the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the well-known civil rights organization founded by Martin Luther King, Jr.  For more than 30 years, Hicks has been an active figure in local and national issues related to civil rights and intergroup relations.  His comments and opinion articles have appeared in local, national and international media.

Hicks also served a three-year term as a member of the Board of Governors for the California State Bar, and he continues to serve on numerous boards.

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Publications by Joe Hicks:

Chavez Commemoration Craves Consensus it Lacks (April 2007)

Bowl Game Proposal a True Indicator of Race Relations, Not Kramer's Racist Rant (January 2007)