61st Annual Conference on World Affairs


	> home > information > news > schedule > staff > sponsors > sponsors benefits > archive > athenaeum > cwa history > parking > contact cwa > donate		2007 Participants Kingsley Aikins President and Chief Executive Officer, The Worldwide Ireland Funds Patrick Anderson Writer, Washington Arturo Ardila-Gómez Director, Center for Transportation Studies, School of Engineering, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá Nan Aron President, Alliance for Justice, Washington Ziad J. Asali Founder and President, American Task Force on Palestine, Washington Janette Ballard Television Producer, BBC, London Bijoux Barbosa Musician, Denver Rony Barrak Musician, Beirut Joel L. Becker Clinical Professor, Department of Psychology; Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles Chip Berlet Senior Analyst, Political Research Associates, Somerville, Massachusetts David Bernknopf Principal, Devonwood Media, Marietta, Georgia Joseph R. Biden, Jr. United States Senator, Delaware Charlie Bisharat Musician, Pacific Palisades, California Cindy Bonner Writer; Novelist, Victoria, Texas Lillian Boutté Entertainer; Singer, Beidenfleth, Germany Janet Breslin-Smith Writer; Consultant, Wichita Henry Butler Musician, New Orleans Sasha Cagen Writer; Publisher, San Francisco Michael Chorost Freelance Science Writer; Speaker; Teacher, San Francisco Joseph Cirincione Senior Vice President, National Security and International Policy, Center for American Progress, Washington Greg Collins Managing Partner, The Lakeline Group, Shanghai Shonaleigh Cumbers Storyteller, Derbyshire Bruce Dold Editorial Page Editor, Chicago Tribune Everett Carl Dolman Professor, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama Lou Dubose Journalist, Austin Charles Dusseau Managing Member, DACS Investments, Miami Jim Emerson Writer; Film Critic; Editor, Seattle Margaret Engel Managing Editor, The Newseum, Washington Maddalena A. Fallucchi Theatre Director; Author; Manager of Cultural Events, Rome Patricia Foulkrod Filmmaker, Venice, California Amy Fox Professor, Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, New York University Mike Franc Vice President, Government Relations, The Heritage Foundation, Washington Norman Gaut Chairman, Semaco Incorporated, Boston Andee Gerhardt Community Engagement Leader, Corporate Social Responsibility, Ernst and Young, New York City Robert Goldstein Music Librarian, National Public Radio, Washington Brad Goode Professor of Music, University of Colorado at Boulder Dave Grusin Musician; Composer; Arranger, Santa Fe Don Grusin Musician; Composer; Arranger; Producer, Los Angeles Anthony Hamilton Poet, Watts Prophets, McKinleyville, California Allen Hermann Musician; Physicist, University of Kentucky, Lexington John Hewitt Professor of Criminal Justice, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids Theresa Hitchens Director, Center for Defense Information, Washington Christine Hogan Writer, Sydney Simon Hoggart Parliamentary Correspondent, The Guardian, London Brian Hollywood Television Producer, BBC News, London Vicki Huddleston Ambassador, United States Department of State (ret.), Santa Fe Andy Ihnatko Tech Columnist, The Chicago Sun-Times, Westwood, Massachusetts David Jacobs Writer; Television Producer, Los Angeles Juniper Jairala Aerospace Human Factors Engineer; Performer, Los Angeles Clara Jeffery Editor-in-chief, Mother Jones, San Francisco Terri Jentz Author, Santa Monica Charles Jess Consular Section Chief, United States Consulate General, Shanghai Nathan Johnson Artist; Composer; Producer; Designer, Hyde Park, Massachusetts Robert G. Kaufman Professor of Political Science, School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University, Malibu Judith Kipper Adviser for Middle East Programs and Director of the Energy Security Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington Paul Krugman Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University; Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times, New York City Achim D. Köddermann Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York, Oneonta Michael J. Laine President, LiftPort Group, Bremerton, Washington Mark Levine Talk Radio Host, Washington Susan Love Author; President and Medical Director, Susan Love Research Foundation; Clinical Professor of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles Rachel Maddow Host, The Rachel Maddow Show, Air America, New York City Mohammad J. Mahallati Co-founder and Trustee, Ilex Foundation, Boston David Margolick Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair, New York City Mike Marlier Musician, Denver Jurek Martin Columnist, Financial Times, Washington Terry McNally Radio Host; Media and Message Consultant; Screenwriter; Author, Los Angeles Thomas McNamara Author; Professor of Psychology and Business Administration, Columbia, Maryland Johanna Mendelson-Forman Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington R. Garrett Mitchell Editor and Publisher, The Mitchell Report Judith Morrison Director for South America and the Caribbean, Inter-American Foundation, Arlington William Nack Freelance Writer, Washington Derek Nash Musician; Composer; Record Company Director, Producer and Engineer, Bexley, Kent Otis O'Solomon Poet; Writer; Performer, Watts Prophets, Los Angeles Daniel Odescalchi President, Strategic Advantage International, Inc., Pleasant Valley, New York Stephanie Oswald Founder and Editor-in-Chief, travelgirl Magazine, Decatur, Georgia Sidney Perkowitz Professor of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta Jeff Price Professor, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, California State University, Chico Jon Ranson Head, Biospheric Sciences Branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland Armand (Sheik) Richardson Photographer; Founder, Arabi Wrecking Krewe, New Orleans Karambu Ringera Founder and President, International Peace Initiatives, Kenya Carolyn Rose-Avila President, Florida Association of Volunteer Action in the Caribbean and the Americas, Miami Magdaleno (Leno) Rose-Avila Executive Director, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Seattle Antonio Sacre Performer; Storyteller; Author, Hollywood James R. Schiffman Chief Copy Editor, CNN International, Atlanta Stuart Schoffman Associate Editor, Jerusalem Report, Jerusalem Rusty Schweickart Apollo 9 Astronaut; Chairman, Association of Space Explorers; Chairman, B612, Tiburon, California Michal Shapiro Associate Director, Music Programming, Link TV, New York City Seth Shostak Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute, Mountain View, California Jim Smith Vice President, Hawker Beechcraft Corporation; Brigadier General, United States Air Force (ret.), Wichita Olessia Smotrova-Taylor President, OST Global Solutions, Silver Spring, Maryland David Solomons Chief Executive Officer, Culture Smart Consulting, London Fintan Steele Director, Science Education and Communication, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Medford, Massachusetts Michael Stoff Professor of History, University of Texas, Austin Voravit Suwanvanichkij Research Associate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Sue Swenson Executive Director, The Arc of the United States, Silver Spring, Maryland Barbara J. Thompson Space Weather Physicist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland William Thorne, Jr. Judge, Utah Court of Appeals, Salt Lake City Sanho Tree Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington Jennifer Q. Trelewicz Director, Russian Systems and Technology Laboratory, IBM, Moscow Farnaz Wallace Executive Vice President, Church’s Chicken, Atlanta David Watts Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Liz Weir Storyteller; Writer, Antrim, Northern Ireland Joe Wilson Ambassador, United States Department of State (ret.); Author, Santa Fe Timothy E. Wirth President, United Nations Foundation, Washington Ronald Wixman Professor of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene Gal Yaakobi Middle East Co-coordinator, Building Bridges for Peace Program, Hod-Hasharon, Israel Rawan Zaitoun Middle East Co-coordinator, Building Bridges for Peace Program, Jerusalem Joy Zarembka Executive Director, Break The Chain Campaign, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington