61st Annual Conference on World Affairs


	> home > information > news > schedule > staff > sponsors > sponsors benefits > archive > athenaeum > cwa history > parking > contact cwa > donate		2004 Participants Gordon Adams Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Silver Spring, Maryland Richard Aregood Editorial Page Editor, The Star-Ledger, Newark Amneh Badran Director, Jerusalem Center for Women, Jerusalem Bijou Barbosa Rony Barrak Percussionist, Zouk Mikael, Lebanon Daniel J. Benor Wholistic Psychiatrist; Editor, International Journal of Healing and Caring-Online, Medford, New Jersey Labinot Berlajolli Student, The John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations; Advisory Board Member, National Albanian American Council, Summit, New Jersey Dan Berman Author; Public Power Activist David Bernknopf Media Strategist, Atamira Productions, Marietta, Georgia Merriam Bleyl Independent Educational Researcher, Placitas, New Mexico Patrick Boel Independent Management Consultant, Rotterdam Patrick Breslin Vice President, External Affairs, Inter-American Foundation, Arlington Janet Breslin-Smith Chair, Department of National Security Strategy, National War College, Washington Barbara S. Cambridge Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Dallas Bill Clifford Writer, Winchester, Massachusetts Dave Conlin Archeologist, National Park Service Submerged Resources Center, Santa Fe Douglas Cox Attorney, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Washington John Crump Foreign Service Officer (ret.), Lakin, Kansas Olga M. Davidson Professor of Comparative Literature, Brandeis University; Chairman, Ilex Foundation, Boston R. Bruce Dold Editorial Page Editor, Chicago Tribune Charles Dusseau Investment Banker, Core Equities, Miami Roger Ebert Film Critic; Journalist, The Chicago Sun-Times; Co-host,Ebert & Roeper and the Movies, Chicago Patricia Elliott Actress, New York City Maddalena A. Fallucchi Theatre Director; Author; Manager of Cultural Events, Rome Sally Fay Writer; Performer, Mt. Kisco, New York Russell Ferrante Pianist, La Canada, California David Finkle Writer, New York City Michael Franc Vice President, Government Relations, The Heritage Foundation, Washington Indira Ganesan Writer, Sag Harbor, New York Ahmad Ghoreishi Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey Brad Goode Trumpeter, Cincinnati Terry Greenblatt Activist in Residence, Global Fund for Women, Berkeley Michael Greger Physician, Boston Ecofeminist Action, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts Laurent Guérin Freelance Photojournalist, Taos Ina Levin Gyemant Superior Court Judge (ret.), San Francisco Fareed Haque Guitarist, Evanston, Illinois Jeremy Harris Mayor, City and County of Honolulu William Hartmann Scientist; Writer; Painter, Tucson Azmat Hassan Professor, The John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey Simon Hoggart Broadcaster; Journalist, The Guardian, London Brian Hollywood Journalist, BBC News and Current Affairs, Belfast Jean Houston Lecturer; Author, Ashland, Oregon Arianna Huffington Syndicated Columnist; Author; Political Commentator, Los Angeles Andy Ihnatko Columnist, The Chicago Sun-Times, Westwood, Massachusetts Hisham A. Jabi Social Entrepreneur; Founder and Boardmember, Jazoor, Reston, Virginia Barry Jacobs Director of Strategic Studies in the Office of Government and International Affairs, American Jewish Committee, Washington Charles Jess Vietnam Desk Officer, U.S. Department of State, McLean, Virginia John Kitzhaber Former Governor, State of Oregon (Two Term); Endowed Chair on Health Care Policy, The Foundation For Medical Excellence, Portland Judi Komaki Playwright; Professor of Psychology, City University of New York Achim Köddermann Philosopher, State University of New York, Oneonta Kate Lehrer Novelist, Washington Tim Long Co-executive Producer and Writer, The Simpsons, Los Angeles Ed Lu Astronaut; Research Physicist, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Houston Mohammad Ja‘far Mahallati Co-founder and Trustee, The Ilex Foundation; Scholar, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Rockville, Maryland David Maraniss Author; Associate Editor, Washington Post Mike Marlier Jurek Martin Columnist, Financial Times, Washington Clifford May President, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Washington Declan McCullagh Chief Political Correspondent and Senior Writer, CNET's News.com, Washington Ellen McGirt Writer; Columnist, MONEY Magazine, New York City Terry McNally Radio Host; Media Consultant; Screenwriter; Author, Los Angeles Peter Meisen President, Global Energy Network Institute, San Diego Gilli Mendel Director, Media and Film Education and Special Projects, The Jerusalem Cinematheque-Israel Film Archive Anthony J. Mohr Judge, Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles Joaquin Muñoz Research Assistant, Carl Hayden Bee Research Center; Spiritual Leader, Pasqua Yaqui Tribe, Tucson William Nack Freelance Writer, Washington Elliott Naishtat House Representative, Austin, Texas Derek Nash Jazz Musician; Composer; Record Company Director, Producer and Engineer, Bexley, Kent Hal Nathan President and CEO, Foundation for the People of Burma, San Francisco Kathleen Newland Senior Associate and Co-director, Migration Policy Institute, Washington Shamako Noble Artist; Chair, National Cultural Program, Hip Hop Congress, Campbell, California Tom O'Keefe President, Mercosur Consulting Group, Ltd., Washington Daniel Odescalchi Political Consultant, Pleasant Valley, New York Karl Auguste Offmann Lloyd G. Balfour African President in Residence, Boston University; Former President, Republic of Mauritius Walter K. Olson Author; Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute, Chappaqua, New York Erin Pham Director, Asia Trade Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington Nelson Rangell Musician, Littleton, Colorado Richard Reoch President, Shambhala International, Halifax, Nova Scotia Andrew Revkin Environment Reporter, The New York Times, New York City Nazih Richani Professor, Coordinator of Latin American Studies and the Foreign Service Program, Department of Political Science, Kean University, New York City Matt Richtel Writer; Journalist, San Francisco Donna Rosenthal Author; Journalist, San Francisco and Los Angeles Yasin Samatar Student, The John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University; Intern, United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, South Orange, New Jersey Donal Scannell Filmmaker; Writer, Dublin Pepper Schwartz Author; Professor of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle Rusty Schweickart Apollo 9 Astronaut; Chairman, B612, Tiburon, California Limor Shiponi Independent Multidisciplinary Artist; Zichron, Yaakov, Israel Leonard Shlain Author; Surgeon, San Francisco Seth Shostak Astronomer, SETI Institute, Mountain View, California Ben Sidran Musician; Producer; Author, Madison Jim Smith Brigadier General, United States Air Force (ret.), Vice President of Raytheon Company, Washington David Solomons CEO, Culture Shock! Consulting, London Kim Spencer President, Link TV, San Francisco Peter Steinhauer Chip Stephens Michael Stoff History Professor, University of Texas, Austin Steve Stroud Deputy Director of Photography, Los Angeles Times Dovie Thomason Storyteller, First Nations of North America, Waldorf, Maryland Sanho Tree Fellow, Drug Policy Project, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington Jim Turner President, National Institute for Science, Law & Public Policy; Partner, Swankin & Turner, Attorneys at Law, Washington Bruce D. Walker Professor of Medicine and Director, Division of AIDS, Harvard Medical School Harvey Wasserman Author; Activist, Columbus, Ohio David Watts Physician; Poet; Commentator, Mill Valley, California Liz Weir Storyteller; Writer, Antrim, Northern Ireland Nora York Singer; Composer; Activist, New York City Al Young Author; Poet, Berkeley Rose Young Campaigns Director, Greenpeace USA, Washington