Monday, January 20, 2025
Reception: 11:00 a.m. – 11:45
Luncheon: 12:00 noon
Grand America Hotel Ballroom
555 South Main
Salt Lake City, Utah
Make reservations by calling (801) 250-5088, email jdwnaacp@att.net or pay online:
www.naacp-saltlakebranch.org
Payments can be mailed to:
NAACP Salt Lake Branch
P.O. Box 25414
Salt Lake City, UT 84125-0414
RSVP by January 14
$125.00 Individual Ticket
$1,000.00 Table of Eight
$50.00 for Youth Under 12
Tel: (801) 250-5088, Fax: (801) 250-5111
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Speaker
Amos N. Guiora
Amos N. Guiora is Professor (Lecturer) at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, the University of Utah. He is a Distinguished Fellow at The Consortium for the Research and Study of Holocaust and the Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and a Distinguished Fellow and Counselor at the International Center for Conflict Resolution, Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh.
Guiora is regularly interviewed by the national and international media
https://www.law.utah.edu/news-articles/professor-amos-guiora-speaks-to-international-and-national-media-about-war-in-israel/.
For the past ten years Guiora has been researching, writing, and lecturing on the question of bystanders (originally in the Holocaust) and enablers resulting in his previous books, The Crime of Complicity: The Bystander in the Holocaust, Armies of Enablers: Survivor Stories of Complicity and Betrayal in Sexual Assaults, and The Complicity of Silence: Confronting Ecosystems of Child Sexual Abuse in Schools. Guiora’s forthcoming book, Enablers Through the Ages; Normalizing the Unimaginable focuses on enablers in the Holocaust and in Israel.
Guiora established the College of Law’s Bystander Initiative https://www.law.utah.edu/resgestae-issue/utah-law-announces-new-alexander-zeev-guiora-bystander-initiative-award/. Research summary: Areas of Expertise: Complicity, Bystander, Extremism, Counterterrorism, Criminal Law, International Law, National Security, Religion, Ecosystem of Pedophilia, Enablers in Sexual Assault, Morality in Armed Conflict, Israeli politics.
Education: Ph. D, Faculty of Law, Leiden University
J.D., Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
A.B., Honors in History, Kenyon College
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award Recipient
Kem Crosby Gardner
Chairman, Gardner Company
USUO Board member since September 2011
Kem is renown as much for establishing one of the most successful commercial real estate and renewable energy companies in the Mountain West as he is for his leadership and investment in building Salt Lake City into a premier city for business, the arts, health care, education, rodeo, and public policy. The Gardner family arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. Kem has built relationships, established partnerships and given back to the community he loves.
Since 1973 he has been a fixture in the development community, serving as president of The Boyer Company for 30 years. In 2004 he established Gardner Company and served as its chairman until turning over the daily management to his son, Christian in 2011. He is remaining active in the company serving as Chair Emeritus. During his 50 years in the real estate business, he has been involved in the development of some 3000 residential lots and more than 35 million square feet of corporate office and medical buildings, retail shopping centers, life-style centers, hotels, and industrial/manufacturing facilities in Utah, Idaho and Nevada.
Kem’s contributions to the community are numerous. Some of the highlights include helping to establish the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah, chairing the Utah Symphony/Utah Opera board of trustees to establish a world-class symphony and a superior regional opera company, and successfully fundraising for the Intermountain Medical Center and establishing the Kem C. Gardner Transformation Center, Supply Chains, and Women and Newborn facilities. Kem was the finance chairman of the Salt Lake Olympic Bid Committee and finance chairman of the Olympic Games. He was instrumental in bringing in Mitt Romney to run the Olympic Games.
He has served as chairman of the Days of ’47 Rodeo for 12 years, building a new arena at the State Fairgrounds and elevating it to a top five professional rodeo in the nation. He has served as chair of the United Way and was the original chairman of the Salt Lake Airport Authority transforming the Salt Lake International Airport into the Delta transportation hub with the capacity to handle 26 million annual passengers. His legacy reaches into almost every segment of the community, and he continues to contribute his time and resources to lift it even higher. Kem’s focus in charitable giving has been for the arts, health care, including mental health, and education with six buildings carrying his name.
For many years, Kem has supported Pastor France Davis’s efforts to fund scholarships
for Black students. He also funded the construction of 3 monuments honoring Utah’s first Black pioneers at This is the Place Park.
He and his wife Carolyn are the parents of seven children and 30 grandchildren.
Education:
Juris Doctorate Degree, University of Utah
Bachelor of Arts, University of Utah
Honorary Doctor Degrees from Utah State University, Weber State University and the University of Utah
Board Positions (Past and Present)
Trustee of Intermountain Health Care since 1982 and Chairman the Board from 2007 -2013
Chairman of the Intermountain Healthcare Foundation
Chairman, fundraising campaign, Intermountain Medical Center
Chairman, Salt Lake Chamber
Co-chair, 2015 Transportation Alliance
Chairman, Salt Lake Airport Authority
Chairman, Utah State Board of Regents
National Advisory Committees of Weber State University and the University of Utah
Chairman, United Way of Salt Lake and Executive Committee member from 1998 to the present
Co-Chair of the United Way Changing the Odds Campaign
Original incorporator and Finance Chair of the Salt Lake Olympic Bid Committee
Fundraising Chairman, 2002 Olympic Ambassadors
Chairman, Salt Lake Board for Olympic Aid
Right to Play USA Advisory Committee
Chairman, The Days of 47 Rodeo
Benefactor, Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute
Chairman, Utah Symphony and Opera
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Emma Elizabeth Roberson Houston
Rosa Parks Award Recipient
Emma Elizabeth Roberson Houston was born in Navasota, Texas to Ida and Norman Gene Roberson Sr. A graduate of Stephen F. Austin High School in Houston, Texas, she later earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and her MBA from the University of Phoenix.
For over 20+ years, Emma E. has dedicated herself to civic work in Salt Lake City. Her career began in 1989 with Girl Scouts of Utah, where she instilled entrepreneurial values and leadership skills in young women. From there, Emma E’s path only grew brighter, as she took on roles at Salt Lake County Aging Services, becoming the first in Utah to facilitate national accreditation for senior centers – a monumental achievement that impacted the lives of the aging across the state.
Emma E’s dedication to equity, diversity, and inclusion led her to be appointed as diversity director for Salt Lake County Government where she served until 2020. Her desire to continue in the EDI profession led her to the University of Utah where she served as the Assistant Vice President for EDI and now currently serves as Assistant Vice President for Community Engagement, which if you know her, you know that is her “lane.” Her ability to foster equity, empower others, and strengthen communities has been central to her life’s mission.
A 19-year breast cancer “thriver,” Emma E’s leadership extends far beyond her professional roles. She has served and continues to serve on countless boards and committees including but not limited to the League of Black Women, the Salt Lake County Housing Authority, the Utah Genealogical Society, the Utah Commission on Women and Families, The Sojourner Group, the YWCA Utah, Pastor France A. Davis Scholarship Foundation, Huntsman Cancer Foundation, Community Action Committee, American Heart Association Ambassador, American Cancer Society Making Strides for Breast Cancer, the Governor's Office of Black Affairs, the MLK Human Rights Commission and as corresponding secretary for the Salt Lake Branch NAACP.
Emma E. is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. Her light and heart beats are her two amazing daughters, Lorry Annette and Erica Elizabeth and two equally amazing son-in- loves, Robert Porté and Samuel Blue.
When she is not networking and connecting in the community, she is most likely on a plane, going somewhere.
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Mistress of Ceremonies
Surae Chinn
Creative and useful DIYs, brilliant cooking hacks, and unique recipes, plus the trendiest topics at the table… Surae Chinn brings it all five days a week as a full-time host of ‘Good Things Utah.’ ABC4’s live, two-hour, daily lifestyle show is where Surae shares the above along with important, worldly issues, giving a diverse voice and perspective to the community.
Surae joined ‘Good Things Utah’ in June of 2019 after transitioning from the 4:00 pm ABC4 News Anchor position, which she began on August 1, 2016. Surae shared her dedication to health and medicine as ABC4’s Health and Medical Correspondent from 2016-2021, leaving a lasting impression and reminder to always ‘be your own advocate.’
This award-winning journalist came to us here in Utah from WUSA9 (CBS) in Washington, D.C., where she served as the fill-in anchor and reporter. Prior to that, Surae worked in Kansas City, Missouri as the weekend morning anchor. She was also the weekend anchor in Lynchburg, Virginia at WSET-TV (ABC), where she received an Edward R. Murrow award for her coverage and 30-minute special on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and an Associated Press award for ‘Best Documentary.’
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First Responders Awards Will Be Presented During The Program:
First Responders Awards, established in 2017, will be presented for outstanding community service, actions of valor on or off duty or exemplary law enforcement service. This award is presented to Police, Fire and EMS for saving a life, helping someone in need or community service.
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NAACP Scholarship Donors:
NAACP Scholarships: CHG Healthcare, CR England, Gordon & Connie Hanks, Hires Big H, Larry H. Miller Company, Ben & Liliana Dilts, Brian Barnard Law School Scholarship, Parr Brown Gee & Loveless Scholarship and Smith’s Food and Drug will be presented to Utah High School and College Students.
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