Aly Raisman, CWA keynote & major addresses announced

Olympic gold medalist and author Aly Raisman, co-founder of RethinkX Tony Seba, and MSNBC nuclear security analyst Joe Cirincione will visit the University of Colorado Boulder during the 70th Conference on World Affairs April 9-13, 2018.
 

As CWA celebrates 70 years of conversation, conference organizers are pleased to add a diverse lineup of keynote speakers and major addresses to the larger CWA week speaker lineup announced last month.

Keynotes, major addresses and student keynote schedule:

• Tony Seba, co-founder of RethinkX, award-winning author, thought leader and entrepreneur
  CWA Opening Keynote Address: Rethinking the Future: Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation
  11:30 a.m. Monday, April 9
• Joe Cirincione, president, Ploughshares Fund & MSNBC nuclear security analyst
  Susi Snyder, nuclear disarmament program manager for PAX in the Netherlands
  International Nuclear Disarmament
  9 a.m. Wednesday, April 11
• Aly Raisman, U.S. Olympian and author
  CWA Student Keynote Address: Aly Raisman
  Presented by CU Boulder Cultural Events Board and CWA Student Committee
  7 p.m. Thursday, April 12
  (This is a student event, open only to faculty, staff and students. Student tickets will go on sale April 3rd in the UMC)
• Amanda Gorman, Inaugural youth poet laureate of the United States
  Poetry Performance: The Power of the Words of Women
  11 a.m. Friday, April 13

Conference on World Affairs is open to all without charge.

Students and community members comprise the volunteer program committee that selected each of the speakers and performers.

Get the full lineup at the 2018 Speakers & Performers page or via the CWA website. The official schedule will be finalized in late March.

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