June 5 - 7, 2008
Northeastern University - Boston
City Year's annual convention, cyzygy, gets its name from the Greek word “syzygy,” which describes a rare alignment of celestial bodies.
City Year's annual convention of idealism unites more than 1,500 City Year corps members, staff, and alumni with hundreds of corporate, civic, and community leaders to demonstrate the power of citizen service and its potential to change our world - one child, one neighborhood, one country at a time. The convention culminates in a day of service that will leave the city with a lasting legacy of the convention's idealistic spirit.
Inspiring speakers who will be joining us during the convention include:
- John Bridgeland, CEO, Civic Enterprises, LLC
- Michael Brown, CEO & Co-Founder, City Year, Inc.
- David Cohen, Executive Vice President, Comcast Corporation
- AnnMaura Connolly, Senior Vice President, Global Initiatives & Strategic Partnerships, City Year, Inc.
- David Eisner, CEO, Corporation for National & Community Service
- David Gergen, Editor-at-Large US News & World Report, Professor of Public Service & Director of the Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
- Clarence W. Gooden, Executive Vice President - Sales & Marketing and Chief Commercial Officer, CSX
- Bradley Goodins, Executive Director, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
- Robert Manning, CEO, President and CIO, MFS Investment Management
- Sue Nokes, Chief Customer & Operations Officer, T-Moble USA
- David Osher, Managing Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research
- Terry Ryall, Chief Executive, v
- Shirley Sagawa, Co-Founder, Sagawa/Jospin Consulting Firm
- Phyllis Segal, Vice President, Civic Ventures
- Wendy Spencer, CEO, Florida Governor's Commission on Volunteerism & Community Service
- Stephanie Wu, Senior Vice President, Program & Service, City Year, Inc.
For more information about cyzygy please contact Kristin Walega at kwalega@cityyear.org.