2021 CWA Speakers & Performers

Faculty, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, CU Anschutz Medical Campus

Executive Director at Empower Community High School • Co-Founder, HadaNõu Collective

Clarinetist and Composer

Chief Correspondent, The Washington Post

Instructor, Jazz Studies, University of Colorado Boulder

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, The Bassiouni Group • Former Diplomat, South Sudan Government • Former UN and UNICEF Representative

Distinguished Professor, Philosophy and Medical Ethics, University of Utah

Monologist, Motus Theater JustUs

Executive Director, W. Haywood Burns Institute

Chief Data Officer, Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology

Audio Program Director & Podcast Host, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University

Spoken Word Poet

Adjunct professor, University of Colorado Law School • Senior fellow, Silicon Flatirons Institute Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship, University of Colorado • Special assistant attorney general, Colorado Department of Justice

Executive Director, Police Assessment Resource Center (PARC) Los Angeles

Author; Journalist; Comedian; TV and Games Writer; Show Host; Former Senior Editor at Lucasfilm

Journalist & News Anchor, CNN

National Outreach & Education Director, Motus Theater

Author; Former Chief Ethics Officer & Former General Counsel, Airbnb

Co-Founder, Future of Life Institute • Postdoctoral Scholar, Tufts University

Pianist; Vocalist; Composer • Assistant Professor & Area Coordinator, Jazz and American Music Department, Metropolitan State University of Denver

Baritone Saxophonist

Vocalist

Academy and Emmy award-winning producer • Former executive producer, Google & Pixar

Former Member of Parliament, The Netherlands • Professor, Asian University for Women, Bangladesh

American political commentator • Former attorney • Senior editor, The Dispatch

Director of Science and Policy, Union of Concerned Scientists

President, Ben & Jerry's Foundation • Board of Directors Emeritus, Ben & Jerry's

Documentary Director and Producer

Senior Fellow for Africa Studies, Council on Foreign Relations • Former U.S. Ambassador to Botswana, U.S. Department of State

Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College • 2019 Templeton Prize Laureate

Head of 3D, RYOT Verizon Media

Distinguished Professor of Tumor Immunology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

CWA Musical Director • Associate Professor, Jazz Studies, University of Colorado Boulder

Monologist, Motus Theater JustUs

Director, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative, University of Colorado Boulder

Chief of Police, City of Sacramento California

Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Educator • Organizational Theorist • Consultant, Ktunaxa Nation Council

Director, New Models of Policy Change, New America

Innovation Strategist

CEO, IncOperate

Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Boulder Community Health

Assistant Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, University of Minnesota

Associate Director, Center for Technology and Society, Anti-Defamation League

Executive Director & Head of School, Empowerment Through Education Foundation

Director, IoT Analytics, CAT Digital

President Emeritus, Association of American Medical Colleges

Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace • Founding CEO, The Truman National Security Project

Storyteller and Playwright

Assistant Director, Idea Forge, University of Colorado Boulder

Civil Rights Attorney • Faculty Director, Voter Access & Engagement Initiative, Washington University

Licensed Clinical Social Worker • Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center

Director, ETE Foundation Board of Directors • Participant, The Dawn Will Break"

Managing Partner, FutureLab Consulting

CEO, Jadu

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Central Connecticut State University

Director, Drum Set Studies, Newman Center for the Performing Arts

Black Panther Party alumni • Multi-cultural story teller

Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University

Representative, Colorado House District 30

Founder, Open Global Mind

Stone Center Senior Scholar & Visiting Presidential Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Monologist, Motus Theater JustUs

National Affairs Writer, The Nation, Co-Founder, Free Press, and Author

Storyteller • Critical Care RN

Dean, University of Florida, College of the Arts

Award-winning television producer • Author • Peace Advocate • Founder of the Free Radicals Project

Professor of Economics, Saint Michael's College

Emmy Award-Winning Writer & Producer, The Simpsons

Science Fiction Novelist

Ecologist • Author of "Becoming Wild"

COO, Jadu • Emmy-nominated producer

NASA Flight Surgeon • Aquanaut • Air Force Major General

Executive Board Director • DEI Advocate • Former Corporate Vice President, Microsoft

Senior Instructor, Engineering Plus • Managing Director, Center for Translational Research • Research Healthcare Scientist, Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center

Founder, Liber Institute

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer, and instrument designer

CEO, Novalia Ltd. UK and NovaliaUSA Inc. USA

Author and Social Scientist

Retired Judge, Utah Court of Appeals and Tribal Courts

Managing Editor, PwC Health Research Institute

Programme Officer, Gender and Economic Policy, Third World Network (TWN) Africa

Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project, Brooklyn College

Co-founder, Fair Play Alliance • Co-founder, Stray Bombay Company

Jazz Musician & Composer

Storyteller • Entrepreneur • Thought leader

Musician, Vocalist, Composer, Educator

Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections • Guest Performer, Motus Theater

CEO, 1% for the Planet

Vice President, ETE Foundation Board of Directors • Associate Producer, "The Dawn Will Break"

Founder and Chief Executive Disruptor, Disruptive Partners

Adjunct Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology • Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley

Director, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, CU Anschutz Medical Campus

Former President, World Bank Group • Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government