2011 Participants
Gordon Adams
Professor of International Relations, School of International Service, American University, Washington
Zulfiqar Ahmad
President, Eqbal Ahmad Foundation, Palo Alto
Nina Alvarez
Television Journalist, Filmmaker and Producer, New York City
Arturo Ardila-Gomez
Senior Urban Transport Specialist, Sustainable Development Department, World Bank, Washington
Richard Aregood
Professor of Journalism, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks
Adrienne Asch
Director, Center for Ethics, Yeshiva University, New York
Ronit Avni
Film Producer; Founder/Executive Director, Just Vision, Washington
Kevin Bales
President, Free the Slaves, Washington
Bijoux Barbosa
Professor of Music, University of Colorado, Boulder
Rony Barrak
Monika Bauerlein
Co-Editor, Mother Jones, San Francisco
David Bender
Broadcaster; Writer, Trinidad, California
Guy Benson
Political Writer and Talk Show Host, Washington
Benedicte Berner
Vice President, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights; Lecturer on Media and Democracy, Harvard University Extension School and School of Journalism, Institute of Political Studies, Paris
Jello Biafra
Singer; Spoken Word Artist; Proprietor, Alternative Tentacles Records, San Francisco
Ron Blake
Musician, NBC's Saturday Night Live Band; Professor of Jazz Studies, The Julliard School, New York City
Terri T. Burke
Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, Austin
Andrew Butcher
Chief Executive Officer, GTECH, Pittsburgh
Jayni Chase
Founder, GREEN Community Schools, Bedford, New York
Joe Cirincione
President, Ploughshares Fund, Washington
Bill Clifford
President and Chief Executive Officer, WorldBoston, Boston
Liz Coleman
President, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
David Crosby
Shonaleigh Cumbers
Kevin Davies
Editor, Bio-IT World; Author, Needham, Massachusetts
Tricia DeGennaro
Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute; Adjunct Professor, Department of Politics, New York University
Robert Dreyfuss
Journalist, The Nation, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Alexandria, Virginia
Lou Dubose
Michael Elliott
Editor, Time International, New York City
Jim Emerson
Writer; Film Critic; Editor, Seattle
Adrean Farrugia
Musician; Composer, Toronto
Danielle Feinberg
Director of Photography for Lighting, Pixar Animation Studios, Oakland, California
Michael G. Franc
Vice President, Government Relations, The Heritage Foundation, Washington
Robert A. George
Associate Editorial Page Editor, New York Post, New York City
Dan Gillmor
Director, Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, Cronkite School, Arizona State University
Colin Goddard
Assistant Director of Victims and Youth Advocacy and Federal Legislation, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Washington
Brad Goode
Professor of Music, University of Colorado, Boulder
Gooding
Musician; Recording Artist; Composer, Los Angeles
Alexander Grit
Academic Dean, Stenden University, Qatar
Azmat Hassan
Visiting Professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
Peter H. Hildebrand
Director, Earth Sciences Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Washington
Maria Hinojosa
Anchor and Managing Editor, Latino USA, National Public Radio; Anchor, One on One with Maria Hinojosa, WGBH/La Plaza, New York City
Paul Hochfeld
Emergency Physician, Corvallis, Oregon
Simon Hoggart
Parliamentary Correspondent, The Guardian, London
Brian Hollywood
Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC Television News, London
Gigi Ibrahim
Political Activist and Citizen Journalist, Cairo
Andy Ihnatko
Tech Columnist, The Chicago Sun-Times, Westwood, Massachusetts
Frank F. Islam
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, FI Investment Group, McLean, Virginia
Lynne d Johnson
Senior Social Media Strategist, R/GA, Brooklyn
Robert G. Kaufman
Professor of Political Science, School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University, Malibu
Lorelei Kelly
Director, New Strategic Security Initiative, Washington
Maggie Koerth-Baker
Science Journalist; Science Editor, BoingBoing.net, Minneapolis
Jeff Lieberman
Artist; Scientist, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Richard Mack
Sheriff (ret.), Graham County, Arizona
Sanjoy Mahajan
Visiting Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering, Olin College of Engineering, Needham, Massachusetts
Mohammad Ja`far Mahallati
Presidential Scholar, Islamic Studies, Department of Religion, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Mike Marlier
Professor of Music, University of Denver
Jurek Martin
Columnist, Financial Times, Washington
Terrence McNally
Radio Host; Media and Message Consultant; Screenwriter; Author, Los Angeles
Andrea Moffat
Vice President, Corporate Programs, Ceres, Boston
Jimmie Moore
Judge, Philadelphia Municipal Court for the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Judith Morrison
Senior Advisor, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington
Clare Muireann Murphy
Storyteller, Galway, Ireland
Gerald Murray
Professor of Anthropology (emeritus), University of Florida, Gainesville
Ted Nace
Director, CoalSwarm, San Francisco
William Nack
Writer and Television Essayist, Washington
Derek Nash
Musician; Composer; Record Company Director, Producer and Engineer, Bexley, Kent
Graham Nash
Tina Packer
Founding Artistic Director, Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, Massachusetts
Jay M. Parker
Colonel (ret.), United States Army; Professor of International Security Studies, National Defense University, Fort McNair, Washington
Sidney Perkowitz
Professor of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta
Julie Butcher Pezzino
Executive Director, Grow Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Bette Phimister
Deputy Editor, The New England Journal of Medicine, Boston
Reza Ramazani
Professor, Department of Economics, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, Vermont
Kavita Ramdas
Senior Advisor, Global Fund for Women, San Francisco
Douglas Ray
Associate Laboratory Director, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington
Evelyn Resh
Nurse Midwife; Sexuality Counselor, Ashfield, Massachusetts
Susan B. Rifkin
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Social Psychology, London School of Economics; Visiting Senior Lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
David Rosenman
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Steve Sauer
Personal Manager and Producer, Media Four, Los Angeles
Stuart Schoffman
Howard Schultz
President, Lighthearted Entertainment, Burbank
Larry Schweiger
President and Chief Executive Officer, National Wildlife Federation, Reston, Virginia
Alan Senauke
Vice Abbot, Berkeley Zen Center; Director, Clear View Project, Berkeley
Tom Shadyac
Film Director; Producer; Writer, Malibu
Susan Shaer
Executive Director, Women's Action for New Directions (WAND), Arlington, Massachusetts
Seth Shostak
Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute, Mountain View, California
Vivian Siegel
Director, Center for Science Communication; Research Professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Kyrsten Sinema
Arizona State Senator, Phoenix
Jon Sinton
Progressive Media Entrepreneur, Marietta, Georgia
Gail Smith
Chief Executive Officer, Cavell Group, Brussels
Michael Stoff
Professor of History; Director, Plan II Honors Program, University of Texas, Austin
James Tanabe
Artistic Director, Corteo and Wintuk, Cirque du Soleil
Sanho Tree
Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington
David M. Walker
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Comeback America Initiative, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Harvey Wasserman
Author; Activist; Editor, NukeFree.org, Bexley, Ohio
Liz Weir
Storyteller; Writer, Antrim, Northern Ireland
Jo Belle Yonely
Professor of Music, Jazz Vocals, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
