The Rev. Lucius Walker, a spokesman for Pastors for Peace and executive director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), will speak to a sociology class at 2:30 p.m., Thursday, April 4 in Alamance 218. Students and faculty are invited to attend.
Walker has made several recent humanitarian aid trips to Cuba, challenging the United States’ embargo. He has also been instrumental in a program which allows minority students from the Mississippi Delta to enroll in Cuban medical schools. In return, the students agree to return to Mississippi to practice medicine and alleviate the shortage of doctors in the region.
Walker was the founding director of IFCO in 1967. He served as associate general secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA from 1973-78. In 1979, he returned to IFCO, which is the only national ecumenical foundation committed exclusively to the support of community organzation.
Walker will be speaking to Sandy Smith-Nonini’s Development in Latin America class.