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SEGERSTROM HALLNovember 18, 2019

Monday at 7:30 p.m.

Out of courtesy to the artists and your fellow patrons, please take a moment

to turn off and refrain from using cellular phones, pagers, watch alarms

and similar devices. The use of any audio or videorecording device or the

taking of photographs (with or without flash) is strictly prohibited. Thank you.

The Center applauds:

presents

An Evening withFather Gregory Boyle

Founder and Executive Director of Homeboy Industries &

Best-Selling Author

Doug McIntyre, emcee

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIESof Orange County

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WELCOME

Dear Speaker Series Members,

Welcome to tonight’s program, and thank you for joining our series! We are thrilled to celebrate the inaugural season of the Distinguished Speaker Series of Orange County with you. Segerstrom

Center for the Arts is arguably one of the best performing arts centers in California, so it may come as no surprise that for years, we’ve had our eye on this breathtakingly beautiful venue as a potential home. The stars finally aligned, and we are proud to announce Segerstrom Hall as our fifth home.

Whether it’s a live rare appearance from an admired icon, an unscripted discussion with a world-renowned leader, or a thought-provoking evening that we can’t stop talking about …. we invite you to explore with us, challenge your own assumptions and ideologies, and revel in our shared humanity.

Since 1996, our subscribers have told us that the series is not just a night out. The Distinguished Speaker Series is a community of questioning minds, where anyone who is curious about the intellectual, cultural and social world around us can reexamine their beliefs. Our goal is to present a compelling and bi-partisan style of entertainment to the community. We search the globe to find great speakers whose remarkable leadership, accomplishments and opinions make a real difference.

Time keeps marching on, and we are very grateful to celebrate our 24th season in Pasadena, our 22nd year in Redondo Beach, our 19th in Thousand Oaks and our 5th season in Beverly Hills!

We would be remiss if we did not express how grateful we are to all who have helped us along the way—our sponsors and advertisers, the management and staff at Segerstrom Center for the Arts and those at our other four theaters, our advertising team Susan Harris and Kim Cochran, our graphic artist and designer Laura Waag, Erika Crespo and Laura Missioreck who spearhead our social media and website, and all our volunteers and other individuals who have help to make the series possible.

We would also like to offer a special thank you to all of our subscribers. Without your commitment, investment and support, the Distinguished Speaker Series wouldn’t be what it is today. We are grateful that you are here with us tonight!

Sue Swan and Kathy Swan Winterhalder

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An Evening with JANE FONDA & LILY TOMLIN

Legendary Award-Winning Actors and Activists

October 21, 20197:30 p.m.

An Evening with FATHER GREGORY BOYLE

Founder & Executive Director of Homeboy Industries and

Best-Selling AuthorNovember 18, 2019

7:30 p.m.

An Evening with ANDERSON COOPER

Award-Winning Broadcast Journalist & Best-Selling Author

January 27, 20208:00 p.m.

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIESof Orange County

at Segerstrom Center for the Arts

An Evening with DR. ROBERT SAPOLSKY

Neuroscientist, Primatologist & Best-Selling AuthorFebruary 17, 2020

7:30 p.m.

An Evening with GEORGE W. BUSH

43rd President of the United States of America

April 20, 20207:30 p.m.

An Evening with DAN BUETTNER

Longevity & Happiness Expert, Explorer & Best-Selling Author

May 18, 20207:30 p.m.

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FATHER GREGORY BOYLE

Father Gregory Boyle has learned that you work with gang members and not with

gangs, otherwise you enforce the cohesion of gangs and supply them oxygen. In his 30 years of ministry to gang members in Los Angeles, Father Boyle has learned you cannot “save” young men and women trapped in gang life. Wanting a gang member to have a different life would never be the same as that gang member wanting to have one. He discovered that you do not go to the margins to rescue anyone. But if we go there, everyone finds rescue.

Fr. Gregory Boyle—best known as Fr. Greg by all who meet him—was born in Los Angeles, one of eight children. His father, a third-generation Irish-American, worked in the family-owned dairy in Los Angeles County and his mother worked to keep track of her large family. As a youth, Fr. Greg and several of his siblings worked side by side with their father in the dairy. After graduating from Loyola High School in Los Angeles in 1972, he entered the order of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and was ordained a priest in 1984.

Prior to 1986, Fr. Greg taught at Loyola High School and worked with Christian Base Communities in Cochabamba, Bolivia. A Jesuit priest, from 1986 to 1992 Fr. Greg served as pastor of Dolores Mission Church, then the poorest Catholic parish in Los Angeles that also had the highest concentration of gang activity in the city.

Fr. Greg witnessed the devastating impact of gang violence on his community during the so-called “decade of death” that began in Los Angeles in the late 1980s and peaked at 1,000 gang-related killings in 1992. In the face of law enforcement tactics and criminal justice policies of suppression and mass incarceration as the means to end gang violence, Fr. Greg and parish and community members adopted what was a radical approach at the time: treat gang members as human beings.

In 1988 Fr. Greg started what would eventually become Homeboy Industries. In an effort to address the escalating problems and unmet needs of gang-involved youth, Fr. Greg and the community developed positive alternatives, including establishing an elementary school, a day care program and finding legitimate employment for young people, as well as providing critical

services to thousands of men and women who walk through its doors every year seeking a better life. Most importantly, it provided the opportunity for rival gang members to work side by side.

The success of the Bakery created the groundwork for additional businesses, thus prompting the creation of Homeboy Industries, in 2001. Today Homeboy Industries’ nonprofit economic development enterprises include Homeboy Bakery, Homeboy Silkscreen, Homeboy Maintenance, Homeboy/HomegirlMerchandise, and HomegirlCafé.

As executive director of Homeboy Industries and an acknowledged expert on gangs and intervention approaches, Fr. Greg is a nationally renowned speaker. Fr. Greg and several “homies” were featured speakers at the White House Conference on Youth in 2005 at the personal invitation of Mrs. George Bush. In 1998 he was a member of the 10-person California delegation to President Clinton’s Summit on Children in Philadelphia. Fr. Greg is also a consultant to youth service and governmental agencies, policy-makers and employers.

Fr. Greg is a member of the National Youth Gang Center Advisory Board (U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention). He is

currently a member of the National Leadership Council of the Iris Alliance Fund and serves on the Advisory Board for the Loyola Law School Center for Juvenile Law and Policy. Previously, he was a member of the State Commission on Juvenile Justice, Crime and Delinquency Prevention.

He has received numerous honorary degrees, awards and recognitions including the Civic Medal of Honor, the California Peace Prize, Humanitarian of the Year from Bon Appetit Magazine, and in 2011 was inducted into the California Hall of Fame. In 2014, the White House named Father Boyle a Champion of Change. He received the University of Notre Dame’s 2017 Laetare Medal, the oldest honor given to American Catholics.

Fr. Greg is the author of the 2010 New York Times bestseller Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. His 2017 book is the Los Angeles Times bestseller Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship.

The year 2018 marked the 30th anniversary of the start of Fr. Greg’s work. Homeboy Industries, now located in downtown Los Angeles, is recognized as the largest gang intervention and re-entry program in the county and has become a national model.

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TONIGHT’S EMCEE

DOUG MCINTYRE

Doug McIntyre is a principle Opinion Columnist for the Southern California

News Group, which includes the Los Angeles Daily News, Orange County Register, Long Beach Press Telegram, Pasadena Star News, and San Bernardino Sun among others. In 2010, Doug was named “Best Columnist” by the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Additionally, he has written for the Los Angeles Times, American History Illustrated, LA Jazz Scene, and The Connecticut Post, among many other publications.

For 25 years, McIntyre was heard on the legendary talk radio station KABC in Los Angeles as host of the Golden Mic Award-winning McIntyre in the Morning, and before that Doug created Red Eye Radio as a local overnight show in Southern California before taking it national. In 2015, he added a one-hour weekday show, Right Now with Doug McIntyre, for WABC in New York City.

In addition to his work in print, McIntyre has been active for over 30-years as a television/screen writer and producer including work on the hit series Married…With Children, WKRP in Cincinnati, Mike Hammer—Private Eye, and the critically acclaimed PBS series, Liberty’s Kids, which earned a Humanitas Prize nomination for excellence in television writing. Together with wife, actress Penny Peyser, Doug wrote, produced, and directed the award-winning film Trying to Get Good: the Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon and was executive producer for Peyser’s feature documentary, Stillpoint.

Doug appeared on Bill Maher’s Politically Incorrect over a dozen times, as well as Real Time on HBO, The History Channel, The O’Reilly Factor, Hannity, Lou Dobbs and countless other CNN news/issues programs.

A popular emcee and master of ceremonies, McIntyre has hosted numerous prestigious events including the annual Los Angeles Political Roast, The Los Angeles Press Club Awards and the Cinema Audio Society awards gala. McIntyre has enjoyed a long association with the California Distinguished Speakers Series, having hosted memorable evenings with showbiz legends Steve Martin, John Cleese, Robert Redford, Betty White and Ron Howard. He has also emceed evenings

with former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Lech Walesa, David McCullough, Ken Burns, among others.

In 2009, his alma mater, Stonehill College, selected McIntyre as their “Alumnus of the Year.” During his time in radio, McIntyre was consistently ranked among the Top 50 radio personalities in the nation and among the Top 10 in Southern California.

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The Mission of the Distinguished Speaker Series Share the Vision Program is to

inspire high school students by introducing them to world leaders and provocative thinkers. Th e program encourages them to dream beyond their realities. Students experience remarkable individuals live and are oft en moved by their personal stories. Since its inception in 1999, over 50,000 students have enjoyed free admission to the Series.

We’ve been presenting speakers for 24 seasons in Southern California and this will be our fi rst year in Orange County. We are excited to present our compelling and bipartisan style of entertainment to a new community. We search the globe to fi nd great speakers whose remarkable leadership, accomplishments and opinions make a real diff erence. We have a line-up that will inspire your students and teachers.

You know your students better than we do, but the obvious classes and clubs who might enjoy this include those studying world history and U.S. history and politics, model UN, debate, theatre, science, and entrepreneurship.

If you know of a high school class or organized high school group that might enjoy the opportunity to participate in the Share the Vision program, contact us at (310) 546-6222 or Kathy Winterhalder at kathy@speakersla.com. Just a few key rules, we try to limit this to one class per high school. Students must be organized with a teacher or school offi cial. Th e original request of interest must come on offi cial school letterhead. Give us a call, and we can get your school involved.

SHARE THE VISIONPROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

President Bill Clinton Journalist Lisa Ling

General Colin Powell (ret.)

General David Petraeus (ret.) Olympic medalist Michael Phelps