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Alumni Convocation on October 13

Rosa Lee Harden

The 2016 Alumni Convocation on October 13 will include a forum from 3-4:30 pm with the Rev. Canon Rosa Lee Harden ‘99, one of the founders of SOCAP, which Harden describes as “a network of heart-centered investors, entrepreneurs, and social impact leaders who believe in an inclusive and socially responsible economy to address the world’s toughest challenges.”

SOCAP holds an annual conference in San Francisco that draws about 2500 attendees for presentations, conversations, and entrepreneurial pitches. The community that gathers each year for the event, says Harden, “is dedicated to accelerating a new market at the intersection of money and meaning.”

At CDSP, Harden, who is also canon for money and meaning at All Souls Cathedral in Asheville, North Carolina, will be joined by both her husband and SOCACP co-founder, Kevin Jones, and their colleague, Tim Soerens. The trio will lead a conversation about how Christian leaders and congregations can help build thriving neighborhoods and become financial anchors for communities in need by paying attention to what they do with all of their assets, including money. “If you come to this symposium,” says Harden, “be prepared to consider what it might look like if you, and your congregation, used all of your assets to love your neighbor as you love yourself.”

After the forum, Alumni Convocation attendees are invited to a reception before Convocation Eucharist at 5:45 pm. Former Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori ’94, ’01 will preach at the service, and CDSP President and Dean W. Mark Richardson will preside. Harden, the Rev. Rodney Davis ’09, and the Rev. Canon Caryl Marsh ’77 will receive honorary degrees. Davis is a retired associate justice on the California Court of Appeal and Marsh is a former member of CDSP’s board and the retired rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Salt Lake City.

Register now for Alumni Convocation 2016. Questions can be directed to the Rev. Laurel Johnston ’06, director of alumni affairs and major gifts officer, at 510-204-0740 or via email.