Mike Farrell: Social Activism Speakers Series
Ramo Auditorium
- Public Event
Mike Farrell, an actor and humanitarian who originally became famous on the hit show MASH, currently serves as President of Death Penalty Focus, a non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through 'grassroots organizing, research, and the dissemination of information about the death penalty and its alternatives.
Farrell is also Co-Chair of Human Rights Watch in California and a member of the advisory board of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. He was a founding board member of Peace Studies, ATV, and inmate-developed alternatives to violence program at Augusta Correctional Center in Virginia. After a trip to Bosnia and Somalia, Mike was named Good Will Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
The 2003-2004 Social Activism Speaker Series is made possible with the generous support of the Moore-Hufstedler Fund, Student Affairs, Campus Life, the Diversity Program Fund, the Alumni Association, Jack & Edith Roberts, the GSC, ASCIT, and the Caltech Y.
For more information, please phone (626) 395-4652 or email [email protected].
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