Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration featuring Van Jones

January 12th, 2012, 12:30 PM

Edmonds Community College's Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration features Van Jones, human rights advocate and clean energy proponent, presenting 12:30 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre in Mukilteo Hall. He will also speak at the City of Lynnwood celebration 7 p.m. at the Lynnwood Convention Center.

As a civil rights activist, attorney and environmental advocate, Van Jones will speak on the importance of continuing Dr. King's dream, speak on the Green Collar Economy; the importance of job creation in a clean-energy enviroment; the impact of civil rights to present and how the American Dream is under siege and on the new movement that is rising all across America to fight back.

Jones is the best-selling author "The Green-Collar Economy," and served as the green jobs advisor to President Obama's White House.

He is currently a senior fellow at the Center For American Progress and a senior policy advisor at Green For All.

In addition, Van holds a joint appointment at Princeton University, as a distinguished visiting fellow in both the Center for African American Studies and in the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.