2006 Participants
Kevin Abrams
Director; Writer; Producer, Melquiades Productions, Hollywood
Gordon Adams
Professor and Director of Security Policy Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Silver Spring, Maryland
Patch Adams
Clown; Physician; Activist, Arlington
Robbie Allen
Technical Leader, Cisco Systems; Author; Editor, Cary, North Carolina
Joan Ambrose-Newton
Goli Ameri
United States Public Delegate, 61st Session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Tigard, Oregon
Arturo Ardila
Professor of Industrial and Civil Engineering, University of the Andes, Bogota
Sylvio Back
Filmmaker; Poet, Rio de Janeiro
Bijoux Barbosa
Elie Barrak
Rony Barrak
Medea Benjamin
Founding Director, Global Exchange, San Francisco
Chip Berlet
Senior Analyst, Political Research Associates, Somerville, Massachusetts
David Bernknopf
Principal, Atamira Productions, Marietta, Georgia
Charlie Bisharat
Musician, Pacific Palisades, California
Patrick Boel
Management Consultant, Rotterdam
Cindy Bonner
Writer; Novelist, Yorktown, Texas
Lillian Boutté
Entertainer; Singer, Beidenfleth, Germany
Sam Bozzette
Senior Natural Scientist, RAND Health; Professor of Medicine and International Relations, University of California, San Diego
Barbara Samuels Cambridge
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas
Michael Chorost
Freelance Science Writer; Speaker; Teacher, San Francisco
Bill Clifford
Citizen Teacher, Winchester, Massachusetts
Caroline Daniel
White House Correspondent, Financial Times, Washington
Jacob Gelt Dekker
Sean Deuby
Senior Systems Engineer, Intel Corporation, Plano, Texas
Jennifer K. Dick
Poet; Lecturer, National School of Statistics and Economic Management, Paris
Bruce Dold
Editorial Page Editor, Chicago Tribune
Gay Ducey
Children's Librarian, Oakland; Storyteller and Storytelling Educator, Berkeley
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
Jim Emerson
Writer; Film Critic; Editor, Seattle
Joe Fab
Film Director; Writer; Producer; Vice President, The Johnson Group, McLean, Virginia
Amy Fox
Playwright; Screenwriter, New York City
Michael G. Franc
Vice President, Government Relations, The Heritage Foundation, Washington
Scott Fried
Motivational Speaker; Health Educator, New York City
Yoshino Funaki
Junior Professional Associate, World Bank, Washington
Ahmad Ghoreishi
Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Brad Goode
Professor of Music, University of Colorado at Boulder
Bob Greenstein
Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington
Dave Grusin
Musician; Composer; Arranger, Santa Fe
Don Grusin
Musician; Composer; Arranger; Producer, Los Angeles
Dorian Haarhoff
Storyteller; Poet; Writing Coach, Somerset West, South Africa
Selma Hadzihalilovic
STAR Network of World Learning, Sarajevo
Sonya Hamlin
Communications Expert; Lecturer; Author, New York City
Jay Harris
President and Publisher, Mother Jones, San Francisco
Jim Hightower
Author; Political Commentator; Humorist, Austin
Carole Hillard
Lieutenant Governor, State of South Dakota (ret.), Rapid City
Christine Hogan
Simon Hoggart
Broadcaster; Journalist, The Guardian, London
Kathy Ivens
David Jacobs
Writer; Television Producer, Los Angeles
Terry Jeggle
Senior Officer, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, Geneva
Evaleen Jones
President; Founder; Medical Director, Child Family Heath International, San Francisco; Center for Education, Family and Community Medicine, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Palo Alto
Robert G. Kaufman
Professor of Political Science, School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University, Malibu
Achim Köddermann
Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York, Oneonta
Jensine Larsen
Founding Editor, World Pulse Magazine, Portland
Richard LeBaron
United States Ambassador to Kuwait, Kuwait City
Kate Lehrer
Mark Levine
Talk Radio Host, The Inside Scoop on Washington, Washington
Gwyn Lewis
Field Organizer, MoveOn.org Political Action, Seattle
Thomas Lewis
Clinical Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Mohammad J. Mahallati
Fellow, Harvard University
Mike Marlier
Jurek Martin
Columnist, Financial Times, Washington
Bryan P. McCoy
Colonel, United States Marine Corps, Washington
Terry McNally
Radio Host; Media and Message Consultant; Screenwriter; Author, Los Angeles
Judith Morrison
Executive Director, Inter-Agency Consultation, Inter-American Dialogue, Washington
Joaquin Muńoz
Eighth Grade Teacher, Philadelphia
William Nack
Freelance Writer, Washington
Derek Nash
Musician; Composer; Record Company Director, Producer and Engineer, Bexley, Kent
Kathleen Newland
Senior Associate and Co-director, Migration Policy Institute, Washington
Tram Nguyen
Executive Editor, Colorlines Magazine, Oakland, California
Shamako D. Noble
President, Hip Hop Congress, San Jose
Daniel Odescalchi
President, Strategic Advantage International, Inc., Pleasant Valley, New York
Ruth Oratz
Professor of Clinical Medicine, New York University School of Medicine
Susan Parenti
Composer; Teacher, School for Designing a Society, Urbana, Illinois
Sidney Perkowitz
Professor of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta
Nelson Rangell
Musician, Littleton, Colorado
David Richards
Lawyer, Mill Valley, California
Anthony Romero
Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union, New York City
Magdaleno (Leno) Rose-Avila
Executive Director, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Seattle
Antonio Sacre
Performer; Storyteller; Author, Hollywood
Charles F. (Chuck) Scanlon
Major General, United States Army (ret.), Indian Harbour Beach, Florida
Donal Scannell
Filmmaker; Writer, Dublin
James R. Schiffman
Senior Editor, CNN International, Atlanta
Richard Schwartz
Founder, The Center for Self Leadership, Oak Park, Illinois
Chris Shiflett
Musician, Foo Fighters, Los Angeles
Leonard Shlain
Chairman, Laparoscopic Surgery, California-Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco
Seth Shostak
Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute, Mountain View, California
Lewis M. Simons
Jim Smith
Brigadier General, United States Air Force (ret.), Wichita
Fintan Steele
Director, Science Education and Communication, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Medford, Massachusetts
Michael Stoff
Professor of History, University of Texas, Austin
Marion Lear Swaybill
Producer; Writer, New York City
Sue Swenson
Executive Director, The Arc of the United States, Silver Spring, Maryland
Kim Thachuk
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University, Washington
William A. Thorne, Jr.
Judge, Utah Court of Appeals, Salt Lake City
Sanho Tree
Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington
Ruthanne Tudball
Potter; Teacher, Norfolk, England
James Turner
Partner, Swankin and Turner, Washington
Harvey Wasserman
Author; Activist, Columbus, Ohio
David Watts
Poet; Commentator; Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Liz Weir
Storyteller; Writer, Antrim, Northern Ireland
Cathryn Wellner
Storyteller; Food and Health Project Manager, Interior Health Authority, Government of Canada, Kelowna, British Columbia
Nedra Wheeler
Timothy E. Wirth
President, United Nations Foundation, Washington
Ronald Wixman
Professor of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene
Jim Woolsey
Distinguished Advisor, The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Washington
Susan Zolla-Pazner
Professor, Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine
