61st Annual Conference on World Affairs


	> home > information > news > schedule > staff > sponsors > sponsors benefits > archive > athenaeum > cwa history > parking > contact cwa > donate		2008 Participants Gordon Adams Professor of International Relations, School of International Service, American University, Washington Margot Adler New York City Correspondent and Host, Justice Talking, National Public Radio Arturo Ardila-Gómez Urban Transport Specialist, The World Bank, Washington Richard Aregood Senior Vice President, Communications, The Marcus Group, Little Falls, New Jersey George B. N. Ayittey Distinguished Economist, American University, Washington Bijoux Barbosa Musician, Denver Rony Barrak Musician, Beirut Roberta Baskin Investigative Reporter, WJLA-TV, Washington Chip Berlet Senior Analyst, Political Research Associates, Somerville, Massachusetts Jello Biafra Singer; Songwriter; Spoken Word Artist; Activist; Actor; Proprietor, Alternative Tentacles Records, San Francisco Charlie Bisharat Musician, Pacific Palisades, California Patrick Boel Management Consultant, Rotterdam Peter G. Bourne Visiting Scholar, Green College, Oxford; Chairman of the Board, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba, Washington Lillian Boutté Entertainer; Singer, Beidenfleth, Germany Janet Breslin-Smith Professor Emeritus, National War College, Salem, New Hampshire Shahnaz Bukhari Clinical Psychologist; Founder and President, Progressive Women's Association; Publisher, Women's World, Islamabad, Pakistan Sandra Person Burns Chief Executive Officer, MS Health Partners, Jackson, Mississippi Sasha Cagen Writer; Publisher, San Francisco Oscar Castro-Neves Musician and Composer, Los Angeles Wendy J. Chamberlin President, Middle East Institute; Ambassador, United States Department of State (ret.), Washington Joseph Cirincione President, Ploughshares Fund, Washington Greg Collins Managing Director, The Lakeline Group, Shanghai Shonaleigh Cumbers Storyteller, Derbyshire Caroline Daniel Comment Editor, The Financial Times, London Chuck Dietzen President and Founder, The Timmy Foundation, Indianapolis Lou Dubose Journalist, Austin Michael Elliott Editor, Time International, New York City Jim Emerson Writer; Film Critic; Editor, Seattle Margaret Engel Managing Editor, The Newseum, Washington Sharon Eubanks Senior Pro Bono Counsel, Holland & Knight, Washington Shelley Fabares Actor, Los Angeles Maddalena A. Fallucchi Theatre Director; Author; Manager of Cultural Events, Rome Mike Farrell Actor; Producer; Author, Los Angeles Alex Filippenko Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley James Gordon Finlayson Professor of Philosophy, University of Sussex Mike Franc Vice President, Government Relations, The Heritage Foundation, Washington John Gaventa Professor, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex Robert George Associate Editorial Page Editor, New York Post, New York City Ahmad Ghoreishi Professor Emeritus, National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey Brad Goode Professor of Music, University of Colorado at Boulder Dave Grusin Musician; Composer; Arranger, Santa Fe Don Grusin Music and Video Producer; Composer; Arranger, Los Angeles Gianni Morelenbaum Gualberto Artistic Director, Music Series, Teatro Manzoni, Milan Mel Gurtov Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University Jay Harris President and Publisher, Mother Jones, San Francisco Mark Jonathan Harris Distinguished Professor, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California S. Azmat Hassan Professor, The John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey Simon Hoggart Parliamentary Correspondent, The Guardian, London Vicki Huddleston Ambassador, United States Department of State (ret.), Santa Fe Mary Hughes Co-founder and President, Staton Hughes, San Francisco Andy Ihnatko Tech Columnist, The Chicago Sun-Times, Westwood, Massachusetts Juniper Jairala Aerospace Engineer, Andrews Space, Incorporated; Fire Dancer, Open Flame Dance Theater, Seattle Terri Jentz Author; Journalist; Screenwriter; Activist, Santa Monica Charles Jess Consular Section Chief, United States Consulate General, Shanghai Andrew Kassoy Co-founder, B Lab, New York City James Kimonyo Ambassador from Rwanda to the United States, Washington Achim D. Köddermann Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York, Oneonta Tim Long Co-executive Producer and Writer, The Simpsons, 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 Professor of Music, University of Denver Jurek Martin Newspaper Columnist, Washington Terry McNally Radio Host; Media and Message Consultant; Screenwriter; Author, Los Angeles Mike Moore Research Fellow, The Independent Institute, Palmyra, Missouri 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 Shamako D. Noble President, Hip Hop Congress, San Jose Josip Novakovich Professor of English, Penn State University, University Park Daniel Odescalchi President, Strategic Advantage International, Pleasant Valley, New York Peter Pringle Author, New York City Frank Quintero Musician, Miami James Randi President, James Randi Educational Foundation, Fort Lauderdale Evelyn Resh Sexuality Counselor; Director, Sexual Health Services, Canyon Ranch Resorts, Great Barrington, Massachusetts Karambu Ringera Founder and President, International Peace Initiatives, Kenya Doug Roble Creative Director of Software, Digital Domain, Venice, California William Ryerson President, Population Media Center, Shelburne, Vermont Antonio Sacre Performer; Storyteller; Author, Hollywood Stuart Schoffman Writer, Jerusalem Leonard Shlain Chairman, Laparoscopic Surgery, California-Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco Shodekeh Beatboxer, Baltimore Seth Shostak Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute, Mountain View, California Jim Smith Brigadier General, United States Air Force (ret.), Salem, New Hampshire Fintan R. Steele Executive Vice President, Life Sciences and Molecular Medicine, Feinstein Kean Healthcare, Medford, Massachusetts Michael Stoff Professor of History, University of Texas, Austin Mark Trahant Editor, Editorial Pages, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sanho Tree Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington Trân Manh Tuân Composer; Arranger; Saxophonist, Ho Chi Minh City Harvey Wasserman Author; Activist, Columbus, Ohio Liz Weir Storyteller; Writer, Antrim, Northern Ireland Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides Founder Astronaut, Virgin Galactic; Blogger, Wired Science; Director, U.S. Operations, Space Generation Advisory Council, Washington Timothy E. Wirth President, United Nations Foundation, Washington Joy Zarembka Executive Director, Break The Chain Campaign, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington John K. Zwerling Criminal Defense Attorney, Alexandria