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CEO and president, The Hershey Company

Professor of Classics at University of Colorado. Classics Department Harry Carroll Memorial Lecture.

Kamau Patton is a visual artist and art educator. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Sociology. He received his MFA from Stanford University, Spring 2007. Patton has exhibited his work in solo shows in Los Angeles at Machine Project, in San Francisco at Queens Nails Annex and at Tilton Gallery in New York. Kamau Patton has worked on numerous community based art projects for organizations such as The San Francisco Art Institute, The School House, the Museum of Children's Art, Southern Exposure and the Richmond Art Center. He has worked on public art projects commissioned by The San Francisco Arts Commission, the City of Walnut Creek, the City of San Jose, and Creative Time. Patton has worked collaboratively on artists' projects at the MoMA in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Kamau Patton is currently developing a performance project for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco California.

Interim president, Claremont Graduate University; William E. Dodge professor emeritus of social ethics and president emeritus of the faculty, Union Theological Seminary; author, Black Power and White Protestants: A Christian Response to the New Negro Pluralism (1968) and co-author, Christian Identity and Theological Education (1985)