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ANDREI ALEINIKOV
Founding President, International Academy of Genius and Professor, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Andrei Aleinikov is a pioneer of science, award-winning educator, speaker, and bestselling author. He is the 2005 recipient of the George Washington Honor Medal—the highest National Award in the Teacher/Administrator category from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, PA, as well as the 2006 (team) and 2003 (individual) Outstanding Educator Awards for Innovative and Creative Teaching from the Academy of Educational Leadership, NC. His Genius Education Methodology (GEM) helps wake up geniuses in schools, colleges, and universities all over the world. He has authored and edited over 100 books and articles on innovation, creativity, and language and he has published in 13 countries and 8 languages. His latest book, MegaCreativity: Five Steps to Thinking Like a Genius became a bestseller in Asia. Dr. Aleinikov holds a Guinness World Record for the fastest written, printed, and published book, Making the Impossible Possible. For more information see www.mega-creator.com.

Topics: Mega-creativity and genius; creative and innovative education; verbal and nonverbal communication; psychology of creativity.

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JOUSCH ANDRIS BARBLAN
Retired Secretary General, Magna Charta Observatory

Andris Barblan is the recently retired Secretary General of the Magna Charta Observatory on the Universities' Fundamental Values and Rights in Bologna, Italy, and the former Secretary General of the Association of European Universities. A Swiss citizen, Mr. Barblan earned his PhD in Political Sciences at the University of Geneva and has authored various publications in the field of higher education and international academic relations. He has led teams assessing higher education institutions in Central and Eastern Europe and has served as an international consultant to a program on the development strategies of European “cities of knowledge.” He performs with a Swiss choral group that has traveled throughout the world.

Topics: forthcoming.

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CHARLES BARRY
President, Barry Consulting, Inc.

After a decorated field career as an infantry officer and aviation officer, Charles Barry was appointed head of the Strategy Planning Staff of the United States European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, where he led planning efforts on U.S. strategy for Europe after the Cold War. Later, he became Special Assistant to the Director for NATO policy. He has taught at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and lectured for eight years at the Joint Forces Staff College and the National War College of National Defense University on transatlantic affairs, NATO, and the E.U. In 1997, he founded Barry Consulting Inc., specializing in defense analysis and decision options for top-level and private sector clients. Mr. Barry has published articles in Military Review, Survival, Current History, and Joint Forces Quarterly and frequently presents classified papers and briefings to leaders in the Department of Defense. In 1998, he co-authored Accelerating on the Run: From the War Room to the Boardroom.

Topics: Military affairs; homeland security; transatlantic affairs; the future importance of NATO for the U.S.; Russia and the European Union; the war on terrorism; information technology and military operations; how networked units and equipment are changing the nature of military operations and how to command and control forces; the military as an institution in America; the dual challenges of physical and cyber-security.

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DEDE BARTLETT
Domestic violence prevention advocate; former Fortune 25 company executive

Dede Bartlett is Chair of the Advisory Board of the National Domestic Violence Hotline, a former officer of two Fortune 25 companies, Exxon Mobil and Altria, and a frequent speaker on domestic violence issues to community and civic groups. Ms. Bartlett was Vice President of Corporate Affairs Programs at Altria Group Inc. (formerly Philip Morris), where she developed the Company’s award-winning Domestic Violence Awareness Programs. She has lectured around the world on domestic violence issues and sponsored more than 40 conferences in the United States, Europe, Central America and Australia. She has been a trustee of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and director of A Better Chance and was honored by Lifetime Television and the National Center for Victims of Crime. In 2005, Ms. Bartlett received the International Women’s Forum “Women Who Make a Difference Award.” For more information, visit www.dedebartlett.com.

Topics: women and corporate leadership; etiquette: a dollars and sense issue; balancing career, marriage, and children; dating violence: every student’s issue; what do you do when the devil wears Prada?: tips to navigate any workplace; getting over getting fired, downsized, merged and outsourced.

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MARVIN BELL
Poet, lecturer and essayist

Marvin Bell’s poetry has been described as “ambitious without pretension.” The most recent of his 17 books are two poetry collections, Rampant and Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000. A long-time faculty member at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he leads an annual Urban Teachers Workshop for the inner-city program “America SCORES”; collaborates with composers, musicians, filmmakers, and dancers; and teaches for two low-residency MFA programs. From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Bell was Iowa’s first poet laureate. He has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Poetry Review, and he has held Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships, as well as Senior Fulbright Appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia. Mr. Bell has taught at Goddard College and the universities of Hawaii, Washington, and Wichita State. He lives in Iowa City and Port Townsend, Washington.

Topics: The creative writing process as a survival skill; contemporary poetry; the true content of poetry; the teaching of poetry—reading and writing it.

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JOAN E. BERTIN
Non-profit executive; civil liberties lawyer

Since 1997, Joan E. Bertin has been Executive Director of the National Coalition Against Censorship, a coalition of more than 50 national non-profit organizations dedicated to promoting freedom of speech and expression. She graduated from N.Y.U. Law School, where she was a fellow in the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program. Ms. Bertin spent more than a dozen years on the national legal staff of the ACLU where her areas of expertise include constitutional law, employment law, women’s civil rights, and science and law. Currently a faculty member at Columbia University, she also held the Joanne Woodward Chair in Public Policy at Sarah Lawrence College. She frequently speaks and writes on legal and policy issues and is the author of more than 30 chapters and articles in professional books and journals.

Topics: The history of the First Amendment and key Supreme Court decisions defining its scope; book and art censorship; restrictions on sexually explicit speech, including child pornography; academic freedom and student speech rights, including campus speech codes and the "Academic Bill of Rights"; political speech: government secrecy, access to information, and the right of dissent; FCC regulation of broadcast decency; legal issues on labeling of music, film and video games; hate speech; censorship of science and sex education.

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THOMAS D. BOYATT
Former U.S. Ambassador; President of the Foreign Affairs Council

Thomas Boyatt entered the Foreign Service in 1959, serving as Vice Consul in Antofagasta, Chile; Economic Officer at the American Embassy in Luxembourg; and Political Counselor at the Embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus. In 1969, Ambassador Boyatt received the State Department’s Meritorious Honor Award for risking his life to save passengers and negotiating their release in Syria during the 1969 hijacking of a plane—on which he was a passenger—by Palestinian guerrillas. He also received the William R. Rivkin Award for his leadership in promoting peace on Cyprus, and the Christian A. Herter Award for his contributions to diplomacy. After retiring from the Service, Ambassador Boyatt became Vice President of Sears World Trade, then President of U.S. Defense Systems. He has served as a Trustee of Princeton University and on advisory boards at Princeton, Kentucky, and Georgetown. He lectures frequently in the U.S. and abroad. In 2004, Secretary Colin Powell appointed him to the State Department’s Advisory Committee on Leadership and Management. He is now the CEO of the Foreign Affairs Council, a non-partisan group concerned with U.S. diplomacy, and chairs the Political Action Committee of the American Foreign Service Association.

Topics: U.S. foreign policy in the 20th century; foreign policy after the Cold War; the U.N. at a crossroads; the Middle East peace process; the war on terrorism; power and perception in the Gulf War and the Balkans; Chile; international trade and finance; Foreign Service careers; women in the Foreign Service; pre-Colombian and Aegean bronze age pottery; African masks.

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BRYAN CASSIDY
Lecturer on the historical and cultural influence of Europe; advisor to the European Commission in Brussels

Bryan Cassidy was a member of the European Parliament from 1984-1999, specializing in economic and monetary issues. He lectures in Brussels, London, and Paris where he holds regular seminars in French and English on the European Union. He also lectures on the ESSEC-MANNHEIM Executive MBA programme. During his time in the European Parliament, he was a member of the Delegation to the United States and continues to take a close interest in U.S./E.U. trade issues. He has taken part in election monitoring missions in Russia (Siberia twice), Belarus, the former East Germany, Palestine, and Macedonia and has carried out two missions on behalf of the British Government in Estonia and Mongolia. Mr. Cassidy contributes monthly to the business journal Industry Europe, and his publications include Red Tape: Scourge of the Nineties; The Stifling of Enterprise; The Red Tape Obsession; Councils in Business; Workers on the Board; EURIM Guide to Decision Making in the European Union; and the bestselling Hawksmere Lobbying Guide. He graduated from Cambridge with a master’s degree in law.

Topics: Europe’s historical and cultural influence; globalization or protectionism: the world’s dilemma?; understanding the European Union (EU), the US’s largest trading partner; the Dollar and the Euro: the world’s two leading currencies; regulatory burdens on business: a global problem; current international events; turkey’s political ambitions.

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SUSAN CLAMPITT
Nonprofit leader; public media, philanthropy, women’s leadership, and nonprofit management

A leader in the arts, education, politics, public broadcasting, and academia, Susan Clampitt has served as consultant on leadership issues and strategic planning for dozens of noted organizations. She was previously Executive Director and General Manager of WAMU-FM in Washington, DC, one of the country’s leading NPR stations. Ms. Clampitt also worked in the White House as Director of Women's Appointments and as Director of Arts and Humanities Appointments and served as Deputy Chairman at the National Endowment for the Arts and Associate Administrator at the U.S. General Services Administration. She serves on a number of national boards, including the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and Arena Stage. A Helen Hayes Awards Judge, she has been a recipient of FastCompany magazine’s Fast 50 award and the Mayor’s Arts Award; she has also been an Aspen Institute Fellow.

Topics: Women’s leadership; public media; business transformation.

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ELEANOR CLIFT
Contributing Editor, Newsweek

Eleanor Clift reports on the White House, presidential politics, and a variety of national issues. She is currently assigned to Capitol Hill, where she is covering the war on terrorism and writes a weekly column, “Capitol Letter.” Ms. Clift is a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show, The McLaughlin Group, and a political analyst for the Fox News Network. Playing herself, she has appeared in several films, including Independence Day, Murder at 1600 Pennsylvania, and Dave, as well as the CBS series Murphy Brown. She was a key member of Newsweek’s 1992 election team and followed Bill Clinton’s campaign. In June 1992, she was named Deputy Washington Bureau Chief. Ms. Clift and her late husband, Tom Brazaitis, wrote two books: War Without Bloodshed: The Art of Politics and Madam President: Shattering the Last Glass Ceiling, which tracks the rise of women in politics. CNN news analyst Jeff Greenfield said in The New York Times Book Review, “War Without Bloodshed unquestionably works as a road map through the byways of the Washington they don’t teach in civics classes.”

Topics: How Washington works; the changing media; women and politics; President Clinton’s legacy; the current political landscape; how we make public policy, including war policy in Iraq; reporting on presidential elections.

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ROBERT COGAN
Composer; faculty member, New England Conservatory
(Visits campuses with Pozzi Escot)

Robert Cogan has successfully followed a triple career as composer, music theorist, and teacher. For over thirty years, he has served as Chair of Graduate Theoretical Studies and Professor of Composition at the New England Conservatory. His book New Images of Musical Sound—one of four acclaimed volumes he has authored or co-authored—won the Society for Music Theory’s Distinguished Publication Award. More recently, he has published Music Seen, Music Heard, and The Sounds of Song and has written articles for various scholarly music journals. His compositions have been featured in performances by the Cleveland Orchestra, the North and West German Radios, and the RIAS Orchestra of Berlin, as well as at festivals including Avignon and Tanglewood.

Topics: Mathematics and music; the art and science of music; what a composer does; new scientific images of music, sound, design, and performance; psychology/art/language; the art-science music of a new millennium; science, neuroscience, and art; global culture and American music; music’s history: an alternative view.

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MONICA COLLINS
Syndicated columnist, media critic

Monica Collins is a professional journalist, media critic, and entrepreneur. She created and writes “Ask Dog Lady,” the humor lifestyle advice column syndicated in newspapers throughout New England as well as three national magazines. Ms. Collins has a unique perspective on the media. She not only writes and sells her own column but spent 25 years as media columnist/TV critic for USA Today, TV Guide, and The Boston Herald. Her pieces have also run in Vogue, Boston Magazine, Town & Country, and USA Weekend. Collins has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, Nightline, The O'Reilly Factor, Inside Edition, and NPR’s All Things Considered. Ms. Collins currently writes op-ed pieces and features for the Boston Globe. She also covers architecture and development. Her “Ask Dog Lady” columns are available online at www.askdoglady.com.

Topics: Dissecting the media; newspaper survival; cultural criticism, marketing strategy; entrepreneurial creativity.

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CALLIE CROSSLEY
Television and Radio Commentator; Documentary and TV News Producer

Callie Crossley is a media commentator and public speaker. She frequently appears on National Public Radio, CNN, and C-SPAN. She appears weekly on WGBH-TV’s “Beat the Press,” a media criticism program which examines local and national media coverage. Ms. Crossley was a producer for Eyes On the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, the critically acclaimed documentary series, which earned her an Oscar nomination and major film and journalism awards, including the Gold Baton of the DuPont-Columbia Award, considered the Pulitzer Prize of broadcast journalism. As a network television producer, Crossley also earned top awards for her health/medical stories produced for ABC News’ 20/20. Crossley balances her commentary and speaking schedule with her work as Program Manager for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, designing and directing the foundation’s seminar series. Through her company, CrossChannels, she consults to both journalism projects and documentary filmmakers and leads media coaching workshops. Ms. Crossley has been both a Nieman Fellow and an Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard University. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, and holds an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Pine Manor College.

Topics: Women and leadership; current events; civil rights history; career building; race and media; ethics and diversity in journalism and documentary filmmaking.

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RAMON E. DAUBON
Vice President for Programs, the Inter-American Foundation

Ramon E. Daubon is the Vice President for External Affairs at the Inter American Foundation and an Associate at the Charles Kettering Foundation. He serves on boards and in advisory roles to the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue, the Esquel Group Foundation, SAPIENTIS in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA). He has been Executive Director of the Caribbean Environment and Development Institute in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Deputy Assistant Administrator of USAID for its Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, Representative of the Ford Foundation for the Andean and Southern Cone Countries of South America, and Vice President of the National Puerto Rican Coalition. He has been a consultant for the National Hispanic Housing Council, Partners of the Americas, and Casals & Associates. A native of Puerto Rico, he has published extensively on topics about Latin America and the Caribbean and the connection of economic and social development with democracy and the culture of civic engagement.

Topics: Caribbean and Latin America; civil society and democratic citizenship; civic engagement and development; social capital; economic and social development; public-private partnerships; business citizenship; sustainable development; public policy processes; population, human resources, and labor migrations; Puerto Rico; U.S. urban development; the connection between civic capacity and economic capacity.

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MICHAEL DOYLE
Reporter, Washington Bureau, McClatchy Newspapers, California

Michael Doyle covers regional, national, and international issues for a chain of 14 California newspapers. His beat includes the Supreme Court, legal affairs, immigration, agriculture, trade, and public resource issues. Mr. Doyle is the author of The Forestport Breaks: A Nineteenth Century Conspiracy Along the Black River Canal, published by Syracuse University Press. He earned a Master of Studies in Law from Yale Law School, where he was a Knight Journalism Fellow, and he earned a Master’s in Government from The Johns Hopkins University, with a thesis on the Freedom of Information Act. He has contributed freelance articles to Slate, Washington Monthly, Yale Law Report, and other periodicals and in 2005 was named Washington’s best regional reporter in the National Press Foundation’s annual contest. Mr. Doyle has appeared on C-SPAN, CNN, Fox News Channel and other outlets and is also a volunteer EMT in Arlington County, Virginia.

Topics: Law and politics; the Supreme Court and legal affairs, the Freedom of Information Act; environmental politics; journalism ethics and techniques; the press and public policy; immigration and ethnic politics.

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DAVID J. DUNFORD
Former U.S. Ambassador, Middle East expert

Dave Dunford’s 29 years in the U.S. Foreign Service included three years as U.S. Ambassador to Oman and four years as Deputy Ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the 1990-91 Gulf War. He worked for General Garner and Ambassador Bremer in Iraq in 2003 as the senior official in charge of reorganizing Iraq’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His other assignments included Economic Minister-Counselor in Cairo, Director of Egyptian Affairs in Washington, Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative in the Executive Office of the President, and Coordinator of the multinational team tasked with setting up MENABANK, a proposed regional multilateral development bank in Cairo. Ambassador Dunford teaches courses on the Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Middle East Business Environment at the University of Arizona and consults for government and the private sector on Middle East issues. He is former Chairman and active board member of AIPT, a non-profit organization specializing in international exchanges.

Topics: Issues related to the Middle East, including oil, Islam, and terrorism; Middle East politics and culture; the Arab-Israeli conflict; international political economy; international trade and finance; globalization; how to think about the Middle East; Foreign Service careers.

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POZZI ESCOT
Composer; faculty member, New England Conservatory
(Visits campuses with Robert Cogan)

Pozzi Escot is Professor of Composition and Music Theory at the New England Conservatory and holds a professorship at Wheaton College. She is Editor in Chief of the internationally acclaimed journal Sonus, President of the International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies, and Director of Tufts University’s Tallories International Composers’ Conference in France. She is widely regarded as a pioneer in the study of the relationship between music and mathematics and has published articles exploring this area of inquiry. In 1975, Ms. Escot was chosen as one of the five most remarkable women composers of the 20th century, and during the same year, the New York Philharmonic premiered her Fifth Symphony to critical acclaim. With Mr. Cogan, Ms. Escot co-wrote Sonic Design: The Nature of Sound and Music and Sonic Design: Practice and Problems. She has recently completed two books, The Poetics of Simple Mathematics in Music and Oh How Wondrous—Hildegard von Bingen, Ten Essays.

Topics: Mathematics and music; the art and science of music; what a composer does; new scientific images of music, sound, design, and performance; psychology/art/language; the art-science music of a new millennium; science, neuroscience, and art; global culture and American music; music’s history: an alternative view.

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LEE FEIGON
Writer, director, East Asian expert

Lee Feigon is the writer, director, and producer of the madcap revisionist documentary, The Passion of the Mao. Lee also serves as a research associate at the Center for East Asian Studies of the University of Chicago, and has been an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He once was a Professor of History and Chair of East Asian Studies at Colby College. He has written for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Nation, the Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, and the Boston Globe. He has been interviewed on television shows such as MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, CNN, CNBC’s Hardball, and the NBC Nightly News. He is the author of Mao: A Reinterpretation, the work on which the documentary is based, as well as of the acclaimed Demystifying Tibet: Unlocking the Secrets of the Land of the Snows, and China Rising: The Meaning of Tiananmen, a highly praised book that combines a historical perspective of the Tiananmen Movement with a first-hand view of the events leading up to this crisis. Among his earlier publications is: Chen Duxiu: Founder of the Chinese Communist Party (Princeton University Press, 1983). Among his other jobs is serving as the C.E.O. of Censea, one of the largest seafood companies in the United States. In the mid 1980s, he designed and built the Northern-most completely solar heated house in the Western hemisphere. He is presently in the midst of establishing a 1500-acre organic goat farm in Northern Maine.

Topics: How to make a movie with little technical knowledge and no money; Mao and the image of China past and present; the internationalization of the Tibetan cause; globalization and slow eating: a personal and business perspective; documentary filmmaking in the age of the internet; how to succeed in business without going to the office.

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JEFFREY FELDMAN
Constitutional lawyer

Jeff Feldman’s trial practice focuses on constitutional litigation. He has litigated cases involving reproductive freedom, first amendment rights, criminal procedure, personal conduct and family rights, and government regulation of the environment. He has received such honors as the Alaska Bar Association’s Professionalism Award (1998), the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska Public Service Award (1987, 1995), and the ACLU Public Service Award (1993) for his work on cases involving personal freedom. Mr. Feldman has been Chairman of the Alaska Commission on Judicial Conduct and President of the Alaska Academy of Trial Lawyers and the Alaska Bar Association. His numerous articles on legal topics include “Justice Rabinowitz and Personal Freedom: Evolving a Constitutional Framework,” “The Fifth Amendment, Self-incrimination and Foreign Prosecution: The Saga of the Ryuyo Maru,” and “Pre-trial Diversion of the Mentally Retarded Offender.”

Topics: The role of law in society; current constitutional issues; the role of courts in shaping personal and ethical choices; constitutional issues raised by the war on terrorism; 1975-2005: 30 years of change in American law and society; the role of lawyers in America: a template for the 21st century; the Alaska experience: constitutional law on the last frontier.

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A. LEE FRITSCHLER
Higher education policymaker

The former Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education in the Clinton administration, Dr. A. Lee Fritschler set direction for higher education policy and administering the department's higher education programs, including financial aid, FIPSE, GEAR UP, TRIO, international education, the Fulbright program, Developing Institutions, and the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Subsequently, he served as Vice President and Director of the Center for Public Policy Education at the Brookings Institution, which administers education programs in the United States and around the world for government and corporate executives. He is the first North American to serve on the Steering Committee of the European University Association, and he was the Chairman of the U.S. Postal Rate Commission. While President of Dickinson College, Dr. Fritschler co-founded the Annapolis Group, a contingent of 110 presidents of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges, build support for liberal arts programs in colleges. He is currently Professor and Director of Executive Education in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He is the author of many articles and three books, including Smoking and Politics: Bureaucracy-Centered Policy Making.

Topics: The federal role in higher education: benign past, stormy present, and tempestuous future; how policy is made in government; bureaucracy-centered policymaking; higher education in modern Europe: the great transformation; the demise of accountability in U.S. government: contracting out and its cousins; the politics of smoking and health.

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WILLIAM GLAUBER
Journalist, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

Bill Glauber has covered four wars and eight Olympics and reported stories in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He spent the first half of his career as a sports reporter before switching to news. Concentrating on Northern Ireland’s peace process, British politics, and the crisis of the Balkans, he was the London correspondent for The Baltimore Sun from 1995 to 2002. Mr. Glauber reported on the initial U.S. air strikes against Afghanistan as an embedded reporter with the U.S. military and reported widely on European cultural and social issues. Joining The Chicago Tribune in 2002, he covered local, national, and international news—including the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq—and wrote editorials. In 2006, he joined the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, where he covers aging and demographics.

Topics: The future of print journalism in a YouTube world; war reporting 101: how to cover war and live to tell about it; Iraq and the Middle East; British and European politics; the Olympics; opinion writing; news and sports reporting; aging and demographics in America.

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RAICHELLE GLOVER
Senior Vice President, Global Business and Financial Services, Bank of America

Since serving as a front-line manager with the Bank of America at the beginning of her two-decade career, Rai Glover has risen to the bank’s top levels of leadership. Her responsibilities as Senior Vice President include strategic outreach, brand positioning, charitable investments, sponsorship activities, media relations, and executive outreach. In other executive roles with the bank, she has led its Southeast Regional Foundation team, provided strategic direction for a nationwide corporate diversity effort, managed corporate human resource functions, and overseen merger and transition operations. Ms. Glover is a recipient of the 2005 Maya Angelou Women Who Lead Award and the 2004 Pride Magazine Excellence in Business Award, as well as various other honors. She has served on the boards of civic organizations including the North Carolina Business Committee for Education, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Schools Education Foundation, and the Apollo Theater in New York.

Topics: Liberal arts paths to corporate leadership; success in a changing corporate culture; companies' community and civic engagement; corporate philanthropy and responsibility; building relationships in and beyond the corporate world; women in leadership; the work/family balance; business: north and south; what corporate diversity means today; education and business.

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RICHARD J. GOLDSTONE
International human rights lawyer

Richard J. Goldstone is the co-chairperson of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association and a member of the UN-appointed committee investigating the Iraq Oil for Food Program. He has served as a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, as the chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, and as a member of the International Group of Advisers of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Justice Goldstone has taught at the New York University School of Law, Harvard Law School, Fordham University School of Law, and Georgetown University Law Center. A Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he also serves on the boards of the Human Rights Institute of South Africa, Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights, the International Center for Transitional Justice, and the Center for Economic and Social Rights. His book, For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator (2000), chronicles his vast experiences including investigations on South African apartheid-era crimes and the U.N. war crimes tribunals.

Topics: Prosecuting war crimes; reconciliation and fault after severe human rights violations.

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RUTH Y. GOLDWAY
Commissioner, U.S. Postal Rate Commission; former Mayor, Santa Monica, CA

Ruth Goldway knows how to work in and make changes at all levels of government. She was appointed U.S. Postal Rate Commissioner by President Clinton in 1998 and reappointed by President Bush in 2002 for a term ending in 2008. As Postal Commissioner, Ms. Goldway oversees the finances of the U.S. Postal Service and considers issues of the changing nature of communications and technology in the national economy. Earlier in her career, she created a network of farmers' markets in California, founded the Santa Monica Pier Corporation (an independent nonprofit development agency), and was the first public member to be appointed to California’s agricultural marketing boards. Ms. Goldway led public outreach efforts at California State University at Los Angeles and at the Getty Trust before living in Finland for four years, serving as the “Ambassadress” while her former husband served as U.S. Ambassador. While there, she published 15 magazine articles and her memoirs.

Topics: Communications and the role of the Postal Service in U.S. democracy; how to make government work for the average citizen; urban revitalization; European integration; postal privatization.

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JULIET J. GOODFRIEND
President, The Bryn Mawr Film Institute and The Good Friend Group

Juliet Goodfriend is the retired founder and CEO of Strategic Marketing Corporation, the largest custom marketing research firm servicing the global pharmaceutical industry. She now heads the Bryn Mawr Film Institute as well as The Good Friend Group and Foundation, providing consulting resources to entrepreneurial ventures and community programs. In her work for the Institute, she has spearheaded saving an historic cinema, restoring it, and creating a film school and first-class film venue. Her for-profit corporate experience has been put to work in this nonprofit, $8 million project. She has also created the Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute (NELI) for the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research of Bryn Mawr College. She is recognized as an advocate for linking the humanities with the business world and has taught a seminar, “Business: A Liberal Art,” to undergraduates, graduate students, and public audiences. She currently serves on the boards of the Inglis Foundation, the Kardon Institute for Arts, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and Laboratory Skin Care.

Topics: Leadership; using for-profit skills in the nonprofit world; business ethics; using narrative in business plans; the meaning of success; humanities and business; marketing research as a career; global entrepreneurship; volunteerism; problems with the pharmaceutical industry; wheelchair dancing.

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EMILY JANE GOODMAN
Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Before becoming a State Supreme Court Justice, Emily Goodman served in civil, criminal, and family courts. She has taught at the New York University Law School and the Center for Urban Legal Education at City College. Holding an M.J.A. from Columbia University in addition to her law degree, she writes on such subjects as mediation, custody, divorce, housing discrimination, and battered women. She has authored and co-authored several books, including Women, Money, and Power; A Woman’s Guide to Marriage and Divorce in New York; and The Tenant Survival Book. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, New York Law Journal, Ms. Magazine, The Village Voice, and The National Law Journal.

Topics: Mediation; legal and ethical issues pertaining to health care, women, and teenagers; housing discrimination; criminal law.

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BARBARA GOTTSCHALK
Executive Vice President, Seeds of Peace

Seeds of Peace is an organization that brings together young people from Israel, Palestine, and other troubled areas for experience in living together peacefully. The organization has a summer camp in the United States and a Center for Coexistence in Jerusalem. More than 2,000 participants have graduated from the camp in Maine and then returned to their regions for regular meetings and coexistence programs. Barbara Gottschalk also has directed social service agencies responsible for treatment of people with mental and physical disabilities.

Topics: Community-building on a worldwide scale; learning to care about just about everyone on earth; social work methods put to work creatively; Seeds of Peace—how it works; media literacy.

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MARCIA GRANT
Founding Dean, President, and Academic Vice Dean, Effat College, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

During the summer of 1999, Marcia Grant was asked to design and start a college for women in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Today Effat College has 36 teachers and 200 students. Ms. Grant continues to serve as Education Counselor for Princess Lolowah-al-Faisal and is writing about the experience from her home in southwest France. A liberal arts education and early experiences in Latin America have had a profound impact on Ms. Grant’s values and career direction. She began her academic career teaching African and international politics at Oberlin College, and later, as a single parent, entered the Foreign Service of USIA. She served as Director of the Fulbright Program in Mexico and as a cultural attaché in Paris. For four years she led the Edward S. Mason program for Third World government officials at Harvard’s Kennedy School and then worked with the Institute of International Education in New York. Before going to Jeddah, she was Executive Director of the Institute of North American Studies in Barcelona.

Topics: Women and Islam; creating liberal arts programs for women in Saudi Arabia and expanding their opportunities; the importance and possibilities of international academic exchanges; American foreign policy towards Latin America; why the U.S. and Europe differ in international politics; international careers.

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JUDITH BERRY GRIFFIN
Director and Chairman of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation; Director of Carney, Sandoe & Associates

Between 1983 and 2003, Judith Griffin was President of A Better Chance (ABC), a national nonprofit organization that places inner city minority students in the country’s best private schools. During her tenure, she created a program to introduce ABC’s students to Fortune 500 companies through summer internships. In 2002, Ms. Griffin developed one of ABC’s programs into a separate organization, Pathways to College, which encourages rural youth, low-income minority, and first-generation students to pursue a college education. Before joining A Better Chance, Ms. Griffin worked with the U.S. Department of Education, providing recommendations for formulating and executing policies and strategies. She has been an elementary school principal and has taught at Manhattanville College, the Bank Street College of Education, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is presently Director and Chairman of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, and Director of Carney, Sandoe & Associates, an educational consulting firm that serves independent schools. She has authored several children’s books, the most recent of which, Phoebe and the General, was nominated for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award.

Topics: Education in America.

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CHRIS HACKLER
Director for Medical Humanities, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Chris Hackler is a philosopher who teaches in a medical school. The division he directs offers courses and produces scholarship in the history of medicine, literature and medicine, law and medicine, and medical anthropology. Dr. Hackler has published widely on topics in his own field of medical ethics, including advance medical directives and end-of-life decisions, health care reform, rationing of health care, and genetic engineering. He has been the recipient of Fulbright, National Defense, and National Endowment for the Humanities awards, has served as Chair of the Association of Faculty in the Medical Humanities, and has received the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Health and Human Values. He recently was named Inaugural Professor in the Clinton School of Public Service. See also www.uams.edu/humanities/hackler.asp.

Topics: Ethical issues in genetic and reproductive technologies; manipulation of the aging process; artificial nutrition and other treatment decisions for demented patients; living wills, physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia; health care reform and the economics of medicine.

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FUMIKO MORI HALLORAN
Writer and journalist
(Visits campuses with Richard Halloran)

Many of Fumiko Halloran’s books are in Japanese, including From the City of Washington, for which she was awarded the Oya Soichi Award for Best Non-Fiction in 1980; Starlight Over America, New Elite in the United States; Letters from Honolulu: The World as Seen from Hawaii; The Wellsprings of the American Spirit: This Nation Under God; and her novel, The Black Wall. Ms. Halloran has also contributed to many Japanese journals. She has served as Senior Political Analyst at the Japan Economic Institute of America in Washington, DC, and as a Program Officer at the Japan Center for International Exchange in Tokyo.

Topics: America for Japanese audiences; Japanese history, literature, religion, and politics; non-fiction and creative writing.

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RICHARD HALLORAN
Columnist, The Rising East
(Visits campuses with Fumiko Mori Halloran)

While working for The New York Times, Richard Halloran served as a military and defense correspondent and as Bureau Chief for Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the central Pacific region. At The Washington Post, he served as Economic Correspondent in Washington and as Northeast Asia Bureau Chief. Mr. Halloran’s books include Japan: Images and Realities; Serving America: Prospects for the Volunteer Force; and Sparky: A Political Portrait of Senator Spark M. Matsunaga of Hawaii. His articles have appeared in major newspapers including The Boston Globe and The Chicago Tribune and his awards include the Gerald Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense, the U.S. Army Medal for Outstanding Civilian Service, and the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council’s Media Award for Lifetime Achievement. Mr. Halloran is a Senior Fellow at the Center for War, Peace, and the News Media. He has taught at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, the Pacific Forum at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

Topics: American and Japanese military issues; security issues in Asia; U.S. nuclear policy; the reunification of Korea; China-Taiwan relations; U.S. relations with China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, India, and Pakistan; Asia as the dominant force in the 21st century; democracy in Asia and how it differs from democracy in the West; journalism and writing nonfiction.

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JUDI HAMPTON
Principal, Judi Hampton Public Relations, Inc.

Judi Hampton Public Relations is a consulting firm that specializes in executive coaching and professional development workshops. The content of the workshops is drawn from Ms. Hampton’s experience as a managing CEO. Ms. Hampton served as Mobil’s first full-time media spokesperson and acted as Director of Consumer Affairs. She created a successful communications and public relations program in Mobil’s Washington, D.C. office, acted as a Mobil liaison with foreign journalists, and staffed and managed public affairs field positions in the Exploration and Producing Division. Since 1998 she has served as President of Blackside, producers of Eyes on the Prize, the Emmy-winning documentary series on the Civil Rights Movement, and other acclaimed films. Under Judi’s leadership, Eyes on the Prize was rebroadcast on PBS stations nationwide in the fall of 2006 and a new DVD set of Eyes for the educational community was produced.

Topics: Developing communication and business writing skills; how to become an exceptional speaker; managing diversity in the workplace; marketing techniques that yield results; managing group dynamics and conflict; leadership at all levels; documentary filmmaking on black issues.

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GRETCHEN HANDWERGER
Formerly of The World Bank

During her 25 years at the World Bank, Gretchen Handwerger acted as the Bank’s United Nations Liaison and coordinated aid and lending projects in seven South Asian countries. Most recently she served as the Bank’s special representative to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Prior to working for the World Bank, she served as deputy and acting director of the U.S. Peace Corps, providing broad supervision of 6,500 volunteers and 800 staff members in 65 developing nations.

Topics: The Peace Corps; working with developing nations.

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PETER HART
Political pollster

Peter Hart has directed Peter D. Hart Research Associates since 1971. The company has conducted more than 5,000 public opinion surveys that have included interviews among more than 2.5 million individuals. Hart Research also has undertaken more than 2,000 focus group sessions. In 1986, Mr. Hart turned over most of this work to others in the firm in order to focus on public policy, cultural and social issues, and strategic consulting work for corporations. His corporate clients have included Time Warner, American Airlines, DaimlerChrysler, Kodak, Microsoft, and AT&T. Internationally, he has conducted studies in South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Mr. Hart appears frequently on major television programs that discuss public policy issues, including Meet the Press, The Today Show, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. The National Journal named Mr. Hart to its select list of 150 national leaders who shape federal government policy, asserting that he “plays a key role in identifying and shaping national trends and political messages.”

Topics: Political polling; the Clinton administration.

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CHARLES HAUSS
International peace activist
(Visits campuses with Gretchen Sandles, pictured at left)

After discovering conflict resolution in the early 1980s through the Beyond War movement, now the Foundation for Global Community, Charles “Chip” Hauss has built a career combining academic political science with a life-long commitment to lasting non-violent political change. In 2000, he joined the staff of Search for Common Ground, the world’s largest conflict resolution NGO, when it began a project on U.S. domestic politics. A member of the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, he also coordinates its work with United States government agencies ranging from USAID to the Defense Department. He has led several hundred workshops at international conferences with discussions ranging from the end of the Cold War to NGO and military cooperation. A professor of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, Dr. Hauss also taught for 17 years at Colby College in Maine. He has published eleven books about comparative politics, conflict resolution, and international relations.

Topics: The challenges facing the United States in the aftermath of 9/11, from strategic to environmental policy; what the NGO community can and cannot accomplish politically.

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DEBORAH HORAN
Journalist, The Chicago Tribune

Deborah Horan’s areas of interest are Iran, Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and U.S. foreign and economic policy. Currently reporting for The Chicago Tribune, Ms. Horan covers the Middle Eastern community in Chicago. Since March 2003, she has focused on the Arab world’s reaction to the Iraq war and has spent time in Cairo, Beirut, and Baghdad. Previously, she was the Jerusalem-based correspondent for The Houston Chronicle, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the Inter Press Service. She was a Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan and has written for magazines including Newsweek, The Washington Monthly, Progressive Woman, and Psychology Today. In 1999, she was chosen as a finalist for the Livingston Award for outstanding young journalists. Her work has been chosen for submission to the Pulitzer board.

Topics: U.S. foreign and economic policy in the Middle East; Middle East politics; Arab media.

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RICHARD HORNIK
Director of Southeast Asia Programs, Independent Journalism Foundation

Richard Hornik has been an editorial consultant specializing in corporate governance and social responsibility issues since he retired from Time Inc. in 2002. He has written a cover story on Hong Kong’s future for Fortune, edited McKinsey and Co.’s publications for the World Economic Forum, and authored a monograph on corporate responsibility for the International Youth Foundation. In 2003 he began assisting the Independent Journalism Foundation in training young journalists in Vietnam. Mr. Hornik’s last job at Time Inc. was Executive Editor of its regional news magazine, AsiaWeek. Over the previous 23 years, he was Bureau Chief at Time's Warsaw, Boston, Beijing, and Hong Kong offices. In the 1990s he became Business Editor for Time Europe, where he created a weekly business section for Time's European edition and coordinated award-winning coverage of the European Union. In 1989, he co-authored Massacre in Beijing. In 1993, he was Journalist in Residence at the East-West Center in Honolulu, where he wrote an article on the Chinese economy for Foreign Affairs. In 2003 he was awarded a Knight International Press Fellowship, which he used to spend four months training journalists in Cambodia and Vietnam.

Topics: Why Americans distrust the news media; how the Democrats can save globalization; the real danger of China’s economic expansion; why Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono (and Jeffrey Sachs) will not save the world and may actually make global health worse; the next stage of corporate social responsibility.

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JAMEEL JAFFER
Civil rights lawyer

Director of the National Security Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, Jameel Jaffer leads a team litigating major constitutional cases on the ACLU’s national security docket, including cases concerning surveillance, secrecy, detention, and the freedoms of speech and association, and he serves as one of the ACLU’s key spokespeople on national security issues. He also currently directs the Canadian Human Rights Federation. A human rights monitor for the military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay, he co-authored the 2007 book, Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond (Columbia University Press), with Amrit Singh. Mr. Jaffer is a graduate of Harvard Law School, Cambridge University, and Williams College.

Topics: Civil liberties and national security; torture, rendition, and the “war on terror”; government surveillance; dissent; government secrecy; national security in the courts.

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MARIA KARAGIANIS
Founder and CEO, Discovering Justice; journalist and author

Maria Karagianis is working on a book about values and creating a meaningful life. A writer who was part of a Boston Globe team that won a Pulitzer gold medal for coverage of Boston’s school desegregation crisis, she also was a correspondent in South Africa during apartheid and brought these experiences to her second career as a visionary social entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Discovering Justice, a nationally recognized democracy education program headquartered in Boston, with offices in the Moakley Federal Courthouse and the Massachusetts Supreme Court.

Topics: forthcoming.

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LOUIS KIMMELMAN
Attorney, Partner in Allen and Overy’s International Arbitration Practice Group

Louis Kimmelman focuses on the arbitration and litigation of a broad range of complex commercial and construction disputes and has extensive experience representing U.S. and foreign parties in international disputes before arbitral tribunals and state and federal courts. He has been actively engaged in the arbitration of disputes before the International Chamber of Commerce and the American Arbitration Association. Mr. Kimmelman is a member of the panel of mediators of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and a member of the panel of neutrals of the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York and New York County. A graduate of Yale Law School, he co-authored the chapter “Arbitration of International Commercial Disputes” in Successful Partnerings Between Inside and Outside Counsel and co-authored the chapter “Litigating International Disputes in Federal Courts” for Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts. He is also an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School.

Topics: Resolution of international commercial disputes; cultural perspectives on international dispute resolution; arbitration and litigation of international commercial disputes; jurisdiction of U.S. courts in international disputes; mediation; legal advocacy.

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JEANIE HENRY KNIGIN
Vice President, Investments, Salomon Smith Barney

As a First Vice President with over 20 years of investment expertise, Jeanie Knigin provides professional investment management to high-net-worth individuals, endowments, and foundations. Her experience includes advising clients on both domestic and international equities, taxable and tax-free fixed income, and cash management. Specifically, Ms. Knigin focuses on providing advice on asset allocation strategies and evaluation, selection, and monitoring of investment management firms. She is currently a member of the Financial Women’s Association of New York, the Women’s Economic Roundtable, the Institute for Private Investors, and the International Association of Financial Planners. She has appeared on The Today Show, CNBC, and NBC Nightly News, discussing events in the financial markets.

Topics: State of the economy; behavioral aspects of investing; the global implications of investments; ethical and political issues with regard to the economy.

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ROBIN LEEDS
Principal, Winning Strategies; senior political strategist, organizer and advocate

Robin Leeds has developed and implemented programs for the White House, federal and state agencies and legislatures, labor unions, corporations, organizations, and government bodies. She has 25 years of experience in public policy development, public-private partnerships, constituency outreach, grassroots advocacy, development, media, and government relations. Ms. Leeds worked to prevent the repeal of Massachusetts Prevailing Wage Law, pass the National Voter Registration Act, expand voter participation, raise the national childhood immunization rate, pass the Violence Against Women Act and the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, and establish the National Domestic Violence Hotline. Ms. Leeds held several appointed positions in the administration of President Bill Clinton from 1994 to 2000, including Issues Director for the White House Office for Women’s Initiatives and Outreach. She was National Co-Chair of Women for Kerry in the 2004 presidential election and is currently Principal of Winning Strategies, a public affairs consulting firm that represents nonprofit, business, and political organizations, labor unions, and federal and state government agencies.

Topics: U.S. domestic and international policy regarding to improving the lives of women and families; local, state, and federal government; unionization; civil rights; grassroots lobbying.

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ROBERT LEVEY
Columnist, The Washington Post

From 1981 to 2004, “Bob Levey’s Washington,” a column about Washington life, appeared five days a week in The Washington Post. During his 36-year career at the Post, Mr. Levey has covered presidential politics, Congress, local news, features, and sports. His column won major awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Washington Journalism Review. He was named one of the top columnists in Washington by Washingtonian Magazine six times, and in 1999 the magazine named him “Washingtonian of the Year.” Mr. Levey has also had an extensive career in electronic media and has worked for seven radio stations, four TV stations, and one Internet site. Levey Live, an hour-long chat that appeared twice each week on the Post’s website, won consistently high ratings. He has been called “The Larry King of the Internet,” although he does not wear suspenders. He has received the top rating as a speaker by the International Platform Association, the country’s leading speakers’ bureau, and he has served as an adjunct professor or lecturer in journalism at the University of Maryland and Duke University.

Topics: Current American politics; the future of the media; ethics in journalism; Washington, DC, and home rule; advocating the liberal arts.

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DIMON LIU
Human rights activist, architect, urban planner

Dimon Liu was born in China and emigrated to the United States in 1965. She became a human rights activist after witnessing conditions in China during a three-month trip there in 1972. Trained in architecture in New York and political economy in London, she taught architecture and urban design for 15 years in Hong Kong and New York. Her human rights activities have included urging human rights organizations to embrace Chinese concerns, systematically briefing journalists on conditions in China, teaching Chinese citizens how to get involved in politics, and organizing human rights initiatives within Chinese pro-democracy groups. At the U.N. Sub-Commission on Human Rights in 1989, she initiated and organized an intervention which resulted in an unprecedented U.N. reprimand against China on human rights abuse. In 1993 she left academia to focus on U.S.-Sino relations. She has testified before Congress on human rights conditions in China and regularly briefs Capitol Hill on issues concerning China. Ms. Liu’s writings on human rights, rule of law, democracy, and military strategy have appeared in many journals and newspapers including the Asian Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, Newsday, and The Washington Times.

Topics: Human rights in China and in general; rule of law; democracy; military strategy.

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FRANK LLOYD
Lawyer and communications expert

Frank Lloyd is a Washington DC-area lawyer who has argued communications cases before the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) and the federal courts and testified before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on communications legislation. He is Chairman of the Practicing Law Institute's annual programs in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco on Cable Television Law, co-author of the four-volume treatise, Telecommunications Regulation: Cable, Broadcasting, Satellite and the Internet, and an editor of the monthly newsletter, Cable T.V. and New Media Law & Finance. Mr. Lloyd also authors a monthly column on cable litigation as well as several law review articles on cable, copyright, and other aspects of communications law. He is currently serving as co-chair of the Federal Communications Bar Association's Cable Practice Committee. He worked in the Office of Telecommunications Policy in the Executive Office of the President, and from 1977 to 1981 he worked under FCC Chairman Charles D. Ferris.

Topics: Telecommunications regulation; new media law and finance; competition in video, internet and telephone; the role of the Federal Communication Commission.

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WARREN LOCKETTE
Molecular geneticist and Special Force Programs for the Naval Special Warfare Command (Navy SEALS)

Warren Lockette, M.D., a medical officer, scientist, and special advisor to the U.S. Navy’s top SEAL command, is currently Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of California at San Diego, Professor of Neurosurgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, and Medical Officer in the Naval Special Warfare Command in San Diego. His research interests include human performance in extreme environments, hypertension, bone health, osteoporosis, and sports medicine. Dr. Lockette’s many awards and honors include the 2002 NAACP Roy Wilkins Distinguished Public Service Award, the Established Investigator Award given by the American Heart Association, and being named a Fogarty Minority Faculty International Research Fellow of the NIH.

Topics: The future of warfare; the nature of the molecular genetics revolution and its implications for society; the role of ethnicity in the development of disease; human survival in extreme environments.

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JOHN MAGUIRE
Senior Fellow, Institute for Democratic Renewal; Senior Consultant, Project Change
(Visits campuses with Lillian Maguire, pictured at left)

John Maguire spent 28 years as a university president, first at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury and later at Claremont University Consortium and Claremont Graduate University in California. Since his retirement in 1998, Dr. Maguire has been a senior fellow in the Institute for Democratic Renewal in CGU’s School of Politics and Economics and a senior consultant to Project Change, where he engages in a range of racial and social justice activities and democratic community building projects. He serves on the boards of Union Theological Seminary, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute, and the Eureka Communities. He is senior consultant in poetry at California’s Idyllwild School of the Arts and senior advisor to the Claremont Museum of Art. Inspired by his friendship with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Maguire has spent much of his career working against racism, both in schools and across all levels of society. He has written and spoken widely on the relation of moral philosophy and religious thought to contemporary society, human rights, social justice, and education.

Topics: Community service as an element in liberal arts education; values and social policy; the role of the arts and their relation to politics; a history of the civil rights movement; the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.; dismantling institutional racism and building democratic communities; the “well-run” college.

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LILLIAN MAGUIRE
Advocate for children; community activist
(Visits campuses with John Maguire, pictured at left)

Lillian (Billie) Maguire is an advocate for children’s issues who brings her experience as a teacher and curriculum coordinator to nonprofit organizations benefiting children. She co-chaired the 25th National Conference of the Children’s Defense Fund in Los Angeles, founded the Pomona Valley Kid’s Care Fair, currently chairs the Claremont Youth Partnership, and serves as vice president of the Children’s Advocacy Center. She has written articles on adolescent pregnancy in California and administers an endowment fund in her name, created by the Board of Trustees of Claremont Graduate University to raise awareness among graduate students and the University of the needs of children. Her awards include the 2002 YWCA Silver Service Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Children’s Defense Fund, the American Red Cross’s Distinguished Service Award, and a Rotary International “Service Above Self” award.

Topics: American children in today’s political climate; women’s issues; religion and women; community organizing; the difference between supportive and non-supportive communities.

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DAVID MARCUS
Journalist, Newsday

Dave Marcus started his career in 1982 as The Miami Herald’s education reporter. Later, as South American Bureau Chief for The Dallas Morning News, he covered conflicts in Haiti, El Salvador, and Angola before becoming Diplomatic Correspondent for The Boston Globe. He shared the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a series about violence against women. In 1996 he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, then went to cover education for U.S. News & World Report. He left to write a book, What It Takes to Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble—And How Four of Them Got Out (Houghton Mifflin). On sabbatical in 2004, he taught English at Deerfield Academy, then joined Newsday, in Long Island. His articles have appeared in Vanity Fair and The New York Times, and he has appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition and The Today Show. See www.davemarcus.com.

Topics: Trends and controversies in schools; the media and education reform; technology and terrorism; troubled youth and pressures on families.

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MARJORIE MARGOLIES-MEZVINSKY
Chair of Women’s Campaign International

Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky chairs Women’s Campaign International, a group that provides grassroots political training to women around the world. She spent 20 years as a journalist with NBC’s stations in New York and Washington, D.C., and was a correspondent to The Today Show, Sunday Today, A Closer Look, CNBC, and Real Life with Jane Pauley. She has won five Emmy awards and numerous other awards. In 1992, Ms. Mezvinsky became the first woman ever elected to Congress from Pennsylvania. In 1995, she led the United States delegation to the United Nations’ Fourth International Women’s Conference in Beijing, China. She has since represented U.S. delegations to India, Spain, Austria, Turkey, and Kazakhstan. Ms. Mezvinsky served as President of the Women’s Campaign Fund and the Women’s Campaign Research Fund from 1996 to 1998. In 1998, she was the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania. She is currently a fellow at the Fels Center of Government at the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of four books, including the 1976 best seller, They Came to Stay.

Topics: Women in politics; the “Year of the Woman” following the Beijing Conference; adoption and blended families.

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MICHAEL MARKOVITS
Vice President, Global Executive and Organization Capability, IBM

Michael Markovits joined IBM in May 2004. As Vice President of GEOC (Global Executive and Organization Capability), he is responsible for executive staffing, succession planning, executive development and coaching, and leadership and organizational effectiveness consulting for IBM globally. He has written and spoken on topics related to leadership, the role of technology and distance learning in global corporate training, and a number of other organizational development issues. Before coming to IBM, Mr. Markovits was at General Electric for 19 years. He held a successive series of posts in human resources, organizational change, and leadership development at GE. Mr. Markovits has a B.A. from Oberlin College and master’s degrees from Harvard and MIT in education and management, respectively. In addition to his corporate roles, Mr. Markovits has been actively involved in non-profit and social change work focused primarily on issues of peace and reconciliation and ending racism.

Topics: Being an effective leader; leading successful change efforts—what does it take?; hope and personal power as weapons for a change agent; role of the corporation in society; adult learning theory in practice; leading diverse teams; organizational transformation; how does a political theory major become a corporate executive and why?

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DALE MCCORMICK
Former state senator; founder, Women Unlimited; carpenter; LGBTQ activist

Dale McCormick has spent over two decades fighting for jobs, economic justice, health care for all, human rights, and equality for women. A carpenter and contractor for 30 years, Ms. McCormick was the first woman in the country to complete a carpentry apprenticeship with the carpenters’ union, and she is a member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters Union. In 1988, she founded Women Unlimited, a program that successfully trains women on welfare to compete for high-paying jobs in trade and technical occupations. She served in the State of Maine Senate, chairing the Banking & Insurance Committee and writing health care reform legislation. She co-founded and became the first president of the Maine Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance (now Equality Maine). She was the first woman to be elected State Treasurer in 1996 and today is the Director of the Maine State Housing Authority. Her two books, Against the Grain: A Carpentry Manual for Woman, and Housemending: Home Repair For The Rest of Us, join her many published articles on energy efficiency, health care, and civil rights.

Topics: Global warming: is your building the solution or the problem?; three US industries killed by lack of government leadership; our sex-segregated economy, the women’s movement, and non-traditional occupations; how to make political change and survive it; good corporate governance: why it’s important to you, your portfolio, and our country.

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STEVENSON McILVAINE
Former Foreign Service Officer (various African countries)

Stevenson McIlvaine has more than 20 years of experience in U.S.-Africa policy and relations. Having worked in and around Africa for most of his life, starting with the Congo crisis in 1961, he is familiar with all four regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Mr. McIlvaine has lived in Guinea-Bissau, Congo, Somalia, Tanzania, and Zambia and has served as a Political Officer and Deputy Chief of Mission for Charge D’Affaires. In 1981, he served as an Observer in the Multinational Force in the Sinai Desert of Egypt during the transfer of the Sinai from Israel to Egypt. Mr. McIlvaine has also worked in South Vietnam. During a hiatus from the State Department, he was elected to the Fauquier County (Virginia) Board of Supervisors and worked on several congressional campaigns and at the Department of Transportation before returning to the Foreign Service in 1981. He was awarded the Secretary’s Career Achievement Award by Secretary of State Colin Powell in 2003, and he holds two Meritorious Honor Awards for his work in Africa.

Topics: Somalia (1993 and 2006-07); African history, current events, and policy issues; U.S.-Africa relations; U.S. government; careers in foreign service; volunteerism abroad; journalism; language translation (African languages, Vietnamese); policy dilemmas surrounding humanitarian intervention.

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TANYA MELICH
Political analyst, writer, election reform advocate

Tanya Melich, a nationally recognized authority on women in politics, co-founded the National Women's Political Caucus and led the fledgling National Women's Education Fund, the first organization to educate women systematically on how to gain political power. Formerly a Republican who served on the political staffs of Nelson Rockefeller, Jacob Javits, Charles Goodell and John Lindsay, she has managed state and local political races, including a U.S. senatorial campaign and a House race, and is now a Jeffords independent. For twenty years, Ms. Melich ran her own consulting business, Political Issues Management. She has been an occasional television commentator and a contributor to major national newspapers and magazines. Her 1996 book The Republican War Against Women: An Insider’s Report from Behind the Lines garnered her the Gustavus Myers Center Award; recent publications include a 2005 article for The Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy on negative campaigning toward women congressional candidates. She has received numerous awards for her contributions to the betterment of women.

Topics: The effect of U.S. electoral politics on world issues, i.e. global warming, peace; treatment of women in the world; what the Internet is doing to the management of campaigns and political change; the 2008 presidential campaign; the role of internationalism in maintaining security at home; protecting civil liberties in an era of terror; politics in the daily lives of Americans; the importance and limits of government; women in politics; intolerance in America; the non-military aspects of the war on terrorism; cleaning up the electoral system; free speech in a time of war; citizenship in an era of terrorism; the balance between security and liberty; electoral reform.

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RUTH MESSINGER
President/Executive Director, American Jewish World Service

AJWS is a nonprofit organization that provides financial support, technical assistance, emergency relief, and skilled volunteers to grassroots NGOs in the developing world. These groups are involved in community building, sustainable agriculture, education, health, economic development, women’s empowerment, and civil society work in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Russia, and Ukraine. Under Ruth Messinger’s leadership, AJWS is expanding its scope and visibility and creating new service, education, and outreach programs. Ms. Messinger previously spent 20 years in public service in New York City and was the first woman to secure the Democratic Party nomination for Mayor. Ms. Messinger is a social worker by professional training and an active member of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism. In November 2001, she was named one of the Forward newspaper’s “50 Most Influential Jews of the Year.”

Topics: Direct technical assistance and American volunteerism in grassroots groups working on sustainable development and institution building in the developing world, Russia, and Ukraine; international aid and development issues surrounding the AIDS crisis in Africa.

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SUE MILLER
Novelist, short story writer, journalist, memoirist

Both critically acclaimed and loved by readers, Sue Miller is recognized internationally for her elegant and sharply realistic accounts of the contemporary family. Her books have been published in 20 countries around the world. The Good Mother (1986), the first of her seven novels, was an immediate best seller (more than six months at the top of the New York Times charts). Subsequent novels include two Book-of-the-Month main selections: Family Pictures (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award) and While I Was Gone (an Oprah’s Book Club selection). The Story of My Father was heralded by BookPage as a “beautiful, spare memoir about her relationship with her father during his illness and death from Alzheimer’s disease.” Her numerous honors include a Guggenheim and a Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe College. She is a committed advocate for the writer’s engagement with society at large, having held leadership positions in PEN; as Chair of PEN New England, she fostered literacy programs for homeless shelters and established writing programs for urban high schools and prisons. She has taught fiction at, among others, Amherst, Radcliffe, Bennington, and MIT.

Topics: The novel of the family at the turn of the century; the literary arts and society at large; 20th-century novels; writing and reading the short story; master class in fiction; memoir and fiction: the distinctions.

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HENRY MOLLICONE
Opera composer; conductor

A graduate of the New England Conservatory, Henry Mollicone has served on various panels for The National Endowment for the Arts. He is Associate Director of the Ernest Bloch Music Festival in Newport, Oregon, and Director of its composers' symposium. Mr. Mollicone’s one-act operas—Emperor Norton, Starbird, and The Mask of Evil—have been performed extensively. His The Face on the Barroom Floor, a recipient of the American Composers' Recording Award, is one of America 's most-performed contemporary operas and has also been produced in several European countries. His full-length operas include Coyote Tales and Hotel Eden. Mr. Mollicone has also written works for orchestra, voice, chorus, ballet, film, television, and theater. His pieces have been performed by distinguished artists including JoAnn Falletta, Frederica Von Stade, Erie Mills, and Maria Spacagna. In 1976, Mr. Mollicone was a musical assistant to Leonard Bernstein for the show 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and from 1971 to 1976 he was an assistant conductor at the New York City Opera. He is currently Music Director of the Winchester Orchestra of San Jose and the South Valley Symphony. See also ww