PP55 at Reunions!

Don't miss PP55's 20th Anniversary Events at Reunions!

THURSDAY, MAY 28
3 pm - 6 pm Princeton Project 55 Open House 12 Stockton Street
Join Princeton Project 55, an organization that inspires and builds civic leadership among alumni across the generations by engaging them in significant activities that influence and improve our society, for an open house reception. Meet, mingle, and re-connect with Project 55 current and former fellows and interns, founders, alumni volunteers, and staff. Learn about Project 55’s current activities, programs, plans, and dreams for the future while celebrating the milestones that mark our 20 years of success…All alumni—new or familiar with Project 55—are welcome!


FRIDAY, MAY 29
10 am -11 am Serving the Public Interest – Moments of Obligation
East Pyne Auditorium

In the spirit of the Obama Administration’s call to public service, hear from five civic leaders who experienced moments of obligation and followed their calls to public service. Learn from these inspiring individuals and from Princeton Project 55 about how you too can embody “Princeton in the Nation’s Service”. Featuring moderator Elizabeth Duffy ’88, Head Master of Lawrenceville School, and panelists Margaret Crotty ’94, Director of Child Survival, Save the Children Alliance, Jim Floyd ’69, founding Vice President of Princeton in Africa, Rishi Jaitly ’04 Senior Policy Analyst, Google India and founder of IndiaVoices, and Charles Best, Founder and CEO of DonorsChoose.org.


2 pm – 4 pm Princeton Project 55 Presents: Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North (Sundance 2008; PBS/POV 2008) Frist Theatre

Documentary screening and discussion with the filmmaker, Katrina Browne ’89

Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S.history. She and nine relatives retrace the Triangle Trade—from Rhode Island to Ghana to Cuba—uncovering the vast extent of Northern complicity in slavery, and gaining fresh perspectives on the black/white divide (Princeton cameo). Most white Americans have foresworn overt racism, but what remains? What are the structural inequities, and what kinds of racial baggage do many of us carry, such as the “racial stalemate” of black anger and white resentment named by President Obama? Co-sponsored by: Center for African American Studies, DavisInternationalCenter, Anthropology and History Departments, Princeton in Africa, Princeton in Latin America, CarlA.FieldsCenter for Equality and Cultural Understanding

3 pm to 6 pm Princeton Project 55 Open House 12 Stockton Street
SATURDAY, MAY 30
2 pm Show your PP55 Pride in the P-RADE!
SUNDAY, MAY 31
10 am Princeton Project 55 Board of Directors meeting at the Princeton Public Library (coffee and light refreshments at 9:30 am)