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Contents Edward Albee

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Michael R. Gordon

57

Charles Osgood

109

Mitch Albom

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Andrew M. Greeley

59

Elaine Pagels

111

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Elizabeth Alexander

Brian Greene

61

Jacques P´epin

113

Sherman Alexie

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Jeff Greenfield

63

Harold Prince

115

Marin Alsop

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John Grogan

65

Anna Quindlen

117

Ken Auletta

15

Mireille Guiliano

67

Joshua Cooper Ramo

119

Anthony Bourdain

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Sylvia Ann Hewlett

69

Eric Ripert

121

Richard Boyatzis

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Gary Hirshburg

71

Joan Rivers

123

Avraham Burg

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John Irving

73

Douglas Rushkoff

125

James Burke

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Kay Redfield Jamison

75

Burt Rutan

127

John F. Burns

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Jamaica Kincaid

77

Oliver Sacks

129

Ric Burns

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Joe Klein

79

David E. Sanger

131

Henry Cisneros

29

Robert Krulwich

81

Barry S. Scheck

133

Glenn Close

31

Louise Leakey

83

Alice Schroeder

135

Amy Dickinson

33

Meave Leakey

85

Anna Deavere Smith

137

Joan Didion

35

Richard Leakey

87

Paul Solman

139

Nora Ephron

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Kishore Mahbubani

89

James B. Stewart

141

Susan Estrich

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Michael Mandelbaum

91

Andrew Sullivan

143

Admiral William Fallon

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Camryn Manheim

93

Lynne Truss

145

Jules Feiffer

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Annie McKee

95

Ronan Tynan

147

Bruce Feiler

45

Jon Meacham

97

Terry Waite

149

Thomas L. Friedman

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Joel Meyerowitz

99

Andrew Weil

151

Carlos Fuentes

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Jonathan Miller

101

Jerry White

153

Nancy Giles

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N. Scott Momaday

103

Naomi Wolf

155

Carol Gilligan

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Walter Mosley

105

B.D. Wong

157

Daniel Goleman

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Sylvia Nasar

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Fareed Zakaria

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Š Peter Bellamy

Edward Albee reviewing a script.

Edward Albee S U G G E S T E D

Playwright Edward Albee has defined modern American theatre with four decades of provocative, controversial and brilliant plays.

A three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, he has been called “the greatest living playwright” by The New Yorker.

Albee is perhaps best known for his 1962 drama, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? It won both the Tony and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards and is widely considered a classic of American contemporary theatre. In his lectures, Albee describes the power of the arts as a catalyst for change. He believes that art should be dangerous, that it should reveal all of our shortcomings and complacency — hopefully inspiring us to live our lives more fully.

Albee’s other groundbreaking plays include The Zoo Story, A Delicate Balance, Seascape, Three Tall Women and The Goat or Who Is Sylvia, which won the Tony Award. He is a Kennedy Center Honoree, was awarded the National Medal of Arts, and received a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre.

Albee had three plays produced in New York during the 20072008 season: Peter and Jerry with Bill Pullman; a revival of his one-act plays, The American Dream and The Sandbox; and Occupant, about Louise Nevelson. His play, Me, Myself and I, opened at the McCarter Theater in January 2008.

T O P I C S

The State of Theater and the Arts in America An Evening with Edward Albee Readings by Edward Albee Special Program: Available for Residencies

“Thank you so much for making our inaugural festivities so special. Students were inspired and the faculty was rejuvenated! In a word, your speech was ‘glistening.’ ” Ohio Dominican College

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Mitch Albom at the New York City launch of Tony Bennett’s book.

(Left to right: Tony Bennett, Mitch Albom, Mario Cuomo)

Mitch Albom S U G G E S T E D

Author of Tuesdays With Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven and For One More Day, writer and broadcaster Mitch Albom has become an inspiration to millions around the world.

Tuesdays with Morrie became an international phenomenon with over 14 million copies sold and is now the bestselling memoir of all time. Oprah Winfrey made it into an Emmy Awardwinning TV film starring Jack Lemmon and Hank Azaria.

In 2003 Albom’s first novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller list and sold nearly five million copies in its first year. In 2004 he wrote the screenplay for the ABC TV movie starring Jon Voight and Ellen Burstyn.

His other #1 New York Times bestselling novel, For One More Day, explores the themes of family, divorce, and lost loved ones. His forthcoming book, Have a Little Faith: A True Story, is being released in September 2009 by Hyperion.

A columnist for the Detroit Free Press, Albom also hosts two radio shows that originate in Detroit on WJR-AM and reach 38 states. He has appeared on many TV programs including Oprah, The Today Show, Larry King Live and Charlie Rose, and his articles have been featured in The New York Times, GQ and Sports Illustrated.

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For One More Day: Appreciating the People and the Moments We Have Right Now Finding a Mentor & Being One Sports as Metaphor Tuesdays with Morrie: Lessons for Living

“Funny, moving … not a dry eye in the house.”

New York Life

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Elizabeth Alexander delivering her poem at the inauguration of President Barack Obama.

Elizabeth Alexander S U G G E S T E D

Poet, essayist, playwright and Yale professor Elizabeth Alexander recently made history as the fourth poet to compose and deliver a poem at a presidential inauguration. Immediately following Barack Obama’s inaugural address, Alexander’s oration echoed through the streets of Washington D.C. as millions listened worldwide.

Joining the ranks of other celebrated honorees Robert Frost and Maya Angelou, Alexander’s task was even more historic as America welcomed the first African-American president into the White House. The daughter of a civil rights advisor to President Johnson, she has come full-circle having recited her poem, “Praise Song for the Day” on the same Mall where she, as a child, witnessed MLK deliver his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech.

A long-time advocate of the arts as a part of our civic dialogue, she has said, “Poetry is not meant to cheer; rather, poetry challenges, and moves us towards transformation.” Alexander’s collections of poetry, which explore issues of race, gender and politics, include American Sublime, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Antebellum Dream Book, The Venus Hottentot, and Body of Life. She has been published in the Paris Review, American Poetry Review and The Washington Post and she has appeared on The Colbert Report, CBS News and PBS’ The Newshour.

Alexander has taught literature and creative writing and read her poetry across the United States and abroad for over twenty years. In July 2009, she will assume chairship of the Department of African American Studies at Yale University. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship for work that “contributes to improving race relations in American society.”

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Why Poetry Matters: Adventures with the Obama Inaugural Poet Hearing America Singing: Multi-vocal Cultures in America Shifting the Paradigm: Creativity and Motivating Leadership Understanding America Through African-American Culture

“Her visit is already gener-

ating lots of excitement and energy, and we're looking forward to her return.”

Penn State University

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Š Rob Casey

Sherman Alexie juggling basketballs, one of his favorite sports.

Sherman Alexie S U G G E S T E D

Author, poet and screenwriter Sherman Alexie was named one of The New Yorker’s 20 top writers for the 21st century.

The New York Times Book Review described him as “one of the major lyric voices of our time.” Men’s Journal has called him “the world’s first fast-talking and wisecracking mediagenic American-Indian superstar.”

His first novel, Reservation Blues, won Booklist’s Editors Choice Award for Fiction. Indian Killer was a New York Times Notable Book. The Toughest Indian in the World won the 2001 PEN/Malamud Award, honoring excellence in the art of storytelling. Ten Little Indians was a 2003 national bestseller and Publishers Weekly Book of the Year.

His latest books include Flight, The Absolutely True Diary of a PartTime Indian, a 2007 National Book Award winner in Young People’s Literature, and Face, his first full collection of poems in nine years. His collection of short stories, War Stories, will be released in fall '09.

He wrote and produced the film, Smoke Signals, based on his book, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, which won the Audience Award and Filmmakers Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. In 2002 Alexie made his directorial debut with The Business of Fancydancing. He is currently working on a sequel to The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven entitled, Fire with Fire, and a sequel to True Diary entitled, The Magic and Tragic Year of My Broken Thumb.

Alexie’s stories are driven by a haunting lyricism and naked candor that cut to the heart of the human experience. With his humorous, revealing and exuberant works of art, he compels audiences to see the world for all of its pitfalls and possibilities.

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Without Reservations: An Urban Indian’s Comic, Poetic & Highly Irreverent Look at the World The Business of Fancydancing: Poems, Stories, Punch Lines and Highly Biased Anecdotes The Partially True Story of the True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“He was alternately hilarious, outrageous and thought provoking before an overflowing crowd.”

Iowa State University

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Š Grant Leighton

Marin Alsop conducting the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

Marin Alsop S U G G E S T E D

A Life in Music Women and Leadership Marin on Crisis Management and Overcoming Adversity Education and the Arts: Developing Our Future Leaders

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Conductor Marin Alsop made history with her appointment as the Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony, becoming the first woman to head a major American orchestra. Called a “born communicator and effective proselytizer for music” by The New York Times and a “lively entertainer as well as a powerhouse musician” by The San Francisco Chronicle, Alsop has spent a lifetime dedicated to music.

She began playing piano at 2, violin at 5, entered Julliard pre-college at 7, decided to become a conductor at 9, and at 16 entered Yale.

In 1991 she made her professional conducting debuts at the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic where she continues as a regular guest conductor, along with the New York Philharmonic and the London Symphony.

Winner of Gramophone’s “Artist of the Year” award, Alsop was the first conductor to be named a MacArthur Fellow. In 2006 she was the only classical musician invited to attend the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Alsop has been profiled in TIME and named one of “America’s Most Powerful Women” by Newsweek. She can be heard regularly as a commentator on NPR’s Weekend Edition program, “Marin on Music,” BBC’s Radio 3 and XM Satellite Radio.

In Baltimore Alsop has been credited with reinvigorating the orchestra and leading a major community outreach effort that has generated tremendous excitement. She is currently at work on a book about leadership.

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“... a formidable musician and powerful communicator ...”

The New York Times

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Ken Auletta at The New Yorker Festival.

(Left to right: Ken Auletta, Tom Brokow, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings)

Ken Auletta S U G G E S T E D

Author and media columnist f o r T h e N e w Yo r k e r K e n Auletta is “the James Bond of the media world,” wrote Business Week, “a man who combines the probing mind and easy charm of a top intelligence agent with the glamour that benefits the holder of a highprofile job.” In ranking him as America’s premier media commentator, the Columbia Journalism Review concluded, “No other reporter has covered the news communication business as thoroughly.”

His award-winning “Annals of Communications” profiles have revealed, with unique intimacy, the inner-workings of such famous media personalities as Rupert Murdoch, Harvey Weinstein, Sumner Redstone, Michael Eisner, Barry Diller and Bill Gates. His profile about Ted Turner, “The Lost Tycoon,” won the National Magazine Award.

His books include four national bestsellers: Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way; Greed and Glory on Wall Street; The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Superhighway; and World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies.

Auletta is a regular guest on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Charlie Rose and Nightline. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Esquire and The New Republic. His newest book, Googled: A Clash of Media Worlds, will be released in October 2009.

T O P I C S

How the Human Factor Shapes Decisions, and Why Fear Is the Dominant Emotion of the Digital Age Backstory: Inside the Business of News The Media’s Ethical Dilemmas Lessons from the Corporate Battlefield

“Great content and insight. By far the best of the speakers in addressing the true aim of the conference.”

Public Relations Society of America

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Š Tracey Gudwin

Anthony Bourdain on the streets of Jaisalmer in India for his Travel Channel show, No Reservations.

Anthony Bourdain S U G G E S T E D

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Chef, author of Kitchen Confidential and host of The Travel Channel’s No Reservations Anthony Bourdain has been dubbed “the bad boy of cuisine” for his rock star look and blunt observations about the world of restaurants, chefs and cooking.

Bourdain, the executive chef at New York’s famed bistro Les Halles, is the author of the bestselling Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, a candid, hysterical, and sometimes shocking portrait of life in restaurant kitchens that has been translated into over 28 languages. His book, A Cook’s Tour, published in conjunction with his series on the Food Network, was also a bestseller in the U.S. and the U.K. His other books are Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook, The Nasty Bits and No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach, an illustrated journal of Bourdain’s travels. His crime novels include The Bobby Gold Stories and Bone in the Throat.

A contributing authority for Food Arts magazine, his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times and Gourmet. He has shared his insights about team building and crisis management with the Harvard Business Review. He has also been profiled by CBS Sunday Morning and Nightline and appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman.

No Reservations, nominated for an Emmy and widely popular all over the world, is currently in its fifth season. Bourdain continues to travel to the farthest reaches of the globe and explores destinations from rural Laos to a struggling New Orleans.

T O P I C S

No Reservations: An Evening with Anthony Bourdain How to Stop Worrying and Enjoy Globalization Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Leadership Lessons from the Kitchen: Team-Building & Crisis Management

“To say he is entertaining is an understatement — we laughed as hard as he made us think.”

Microsoft

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Š A. Rotoletti

Richard Boyatzis at a speech in Dublin, Ireland.

Richard Boyatzis S U G G E S T E D

Author and p ro f e s s o r Richard Boyatzis is one of the leading experts in leadership development and emotional intelligence (EI). His research on human behavior has revolutionized management education and helped spawn a new industry of competency consultants, researchers, academics and executive coaches.

His latest book, Becoming a Resonant Leader (with Annie McKee and Fran Johnston), is the workbook companion to their earlier book, Resonant Leadership, which is published in 18 languages. These two books outline concrete ways to create the resonance that fuels great leadership. Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence (with Dan Goleman and Annie McKee) unveiled new scientific evidence demonstrating that a leader’s emotional competencies have an enormous impact on effectiveness and an organization’s bottom line. A Wall Street Journal, Business Week and New York Times business bestseller, Primal Leadership has been translated into 28 languages.

Boyatzis consults internationally and leads a landmark course for the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. He currently is Professor in the Departments of Organizational Behavior, Psychology, and Cognitive Science at Case Western and in Human Resources at ESADE in Barcelona.

Former President and CEO of McBer Company, he holds a B.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University. He has written over 100 articles on leadership, motivation, behavioral change, emotional intelligence and managerial competencies.

T O P I C S

Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others through Mindfulness, Hope, and Compassion Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead through Emotional Intelligence Developing Emotional Intelligence: Becoming a More Effective Leader Special Programs: Available for Half-Day and Full-Day Seminars

“GREAT! This was an awesome session and Richard is a wonderful individual.”

McKinsey & Company, Inc.

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Avraham Burg with the Dalai Lama.

Avraham Burg S U G G E S T E D

Activist and political leader Avraham Burg has been a leading figure in Israeli politics for over 20 years. The youngest speaker in the history of the Israeli Knesset (19992003) and a staunch supporter of peace in the Middle East, Burg has been referred to as “one of the best speechmakers in politics.”

Despite having grown up at the heart of the religious Zionist movement, Burg has led the way to a more liberal reconciliatory approach to the Middle East conflict; “All of my life I’ve been an activist of the peace camp ... I’m ready to go a very long way to bring people together from dialogue to acceptance and than compromise.” In a bold move, he became the first speaker to invite his Palestinian counterpart to address the Israeli Knesset.

In his book, God is Back (2006, Hebrew), Burg explores the critical need for separation of religion and the state. He warns that an increasingly large sector of Israeli society disdains political democracy. In his most recent book, The Holocaust is Over; We Must Rise from Its Ashes, (2008, English) he argues that the Jewish nation has been traumatized by the Holocaust and has lost the ability to trust itself, its neighbors or the world around it.

Burg has written for The Guardian and the International Herald Tribune and appeared on CNN’s Crossfire and CBS’s The Early Show.

Currently, Burg is leading a British-Israeli investment company that attracts funds to strengthen businesses in Israel.

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Prospects for Peace Under the Obama Administration The Politics of God in the Middle East Beyond the Holocaust: From Trauma to Trust, A New Strategy for the Jewish People Finding Reconciliation in An Era of Fear What Makes a Jew - Birthright or Values?

“It was amazing! Really incredible — and he is such a wonderful human being. A true pleasure to host.”

Brown University

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James Burke on location.

James Burke S U G G E S T E D

Science historian, television host and author James Burke has been called “one of the most intriguing minds in the Western world” by The Washington Post. He entertains audiences with his unique perspective on the process of innovation and how it causes people and institutions to change.

For over forty years Burke has produced, directed, written and hosted award-winning television series (including the landmark Connections) on BBC, PBS, Discovery and The Learning Channel. Burke is the best-selling author of Connections, The Day the Universe Changed and The Knowledge Web. His most recent titles are Circles, Twin Tracks and American Connections.

Burke leads audiences on a journey through the history of science, technology and social change — showing the interconnected nature of the world, stimulating innovative thinking, and revealing the remarkable serendipity behind humankind’s tireless commitment to invention.

His latest project is an online interactive knowledge mapping system to be used as a teaching aid, a tool for innovation and management, and a predictor. He was a regular columnist for 6 years at Scientific American and recently wrote the new Epcot script for Disney.

T O P I C S

Staying Ahead: Innovation for the Day after Tomorrow Preparing for the Knowledge Economy: The Future of Education Creativity: The Coming Renaissance Special Programs: Customized Videos and Speeches

“You were awesome. The feedback was over the top positive. They appreciated your intellect and humor.”

Nike Inc.

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Š The New York Times

John Burns reporting from Iraq.

John F. Burns S U G G E S T E D

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London Bureau Chief and The Battle for Baghdad: What the Outcome Will Mean for former Baghdad Bureau Iraq, America and the World Chief for The New York Times John F. Burns is the War and Repression: longest-serving foreign correA Reporter’s Life in the spondent in the Times’ history World’s Nastiest Places and a two-time winner of the What’s Right and What’s Wrong Pulitzer Prize. For more than 30 with American Media Coverage years he has been a fearless repof a Turbulent World resentative in embattled regions Special program with — from South Africa during The New York Times’ David E. Sanger apartheid to the siege of Sarajevo and then to Iraq before and after the war.

His work has taken him to China, India, and the Soviet Union during perilous periods. After 9/11, he directed the paper’s coverage of the Afghanistan war, first from a base in Islamabad, and later from the Afghan capital. He covered the last six months of Saddam Hussein’s regime, and, when American troops captured Baghdad, he served as bureau chief for the paper in Baghdad — often under hazardous circumstances — until July 2007. He has been a familiar face during these conflicts, appearing on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, The Charlie Rose Show and many other news shows.

In addition to his two Pulitzers, Burns is also a dual winner of the George Polk Award for foreign reporting in Africa and Afghanistan. His book on the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein will be published in fall 2008. He will follow that with “He brought perspective, another book about his time spent in far away and nasty places.

humanity and a strong ‘everyman’s’ sense of history unfolding…. He is not to be missed.”

World Affairs Council of Jacksonville

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Ric Burns directing on the set of We Will Remain: Tecumseh, a PBS American Experience series.

Ric Burns S U G G E S T E D

Documentary filmmaker, PBS writer & producer Ric Burns is a profoundly powerful storyteller whose thought-provoking and deeply poetic films have garnered a devoted following over the last two decades.

Burns is best known for his Emmy Award-winning, eight-part PBS series, New York: A Documentary Film, which Variety called “a monumental series that raises the bar for this kind of work.” His other films include Ansel Adams, Coney Island, The Way West, The Donner Party and Eugene O’Neill, which The Wall Street Journal called, “a superbly told narrative of America’s greatest playwright.”

Burns began his career working alongside his brother Ken as co-producer and co-writer of the landmark PBS series, The Civil War. He formed his own company, Steeplechase Films, in 1989 to produce his work for Public Television. His latest film, Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film, was broadcast in 2006. Entertainment Weekly rated it an “A” and it received an Emmy and Peabody Award.

Burns is currently at work on three documentaries: a history of The New York Times; Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World, an exploration of one of America’s first global industries slated for broadcast in May 2010; and a film about ballet and American Ballet Theatre. We Shall Remain: Tecumseh, part two of a five-part PBS American Experience series on the history of Native America, premiered in May 2009.

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Transforming the World: The Creative Power of Art and Commerce Sustainable Cities: Urban America as the Laboratory of the Future America, Whaling & the World: A Parable of Industry and the Environment New York: Capitalism, Democracy and the Culture of Change

“A thoughtful, insightful and incredibly engaging presentation… You inspired us all.”

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Henry Cisneros on site at the CityView Renaissance Project in Inglewood, California.

Henry Cisneros S U G G E S T E D

Housing innovator and former Secretary of HUD Henry Cisneros is a living testament to American diversity and leadership.

His inclusive vision of a strong, resilient society stretches beyond the boundaries of race and class.

Cisneros serves as Chairman of CityView, which produces highquality, workforce housing in cities for thousands of families. In 2004 he was named “Housing Person of the Year” by The National Housing Conference. He was recently inducted into the National Housing Hall of Fame.

In 1981 Cisneros was elected Mayor of San Antonio, becoming the first Hispanic-American ever to run a major American city. For four terms he helped rebuild the city’s economy, attracting hightech industries, increasing tourism and creating tens of thousands of jobs. In 1993 President Clinton appointed him Secretary of HUD. Under his leadership homeownership in America reached record levels.

As president of Univision, he ran the fifth largest TV network in America. He was President of the National League of Cities and Chairman of the National Civic League. The youngest person ever to be named a White House fellow, Cisneros holds Masters and Doctoral degrees from Harvard and George Washington Universities. His latest book is Our Communities, Our Homes: Pathways to Housing and Homeownership in America’s Cities and States.

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America's Economic Crisis: Finding Our Way Forward Latinos and The Nation's Future: What Every American Needs to Know The Essentials of Leadership for the 21st Century The Integration of Immigrants: Building Blocks for A Strong America Green Building Strategies for American Cities

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Š Nigel Parry

Glenn Close on the set of the FX television series Damages.

Glenn Close S U G G E S T E D

Actress Glenn Close is a beloved and acclaimed performer, creating indelible characters on stage, screen and television. A Tony, Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe award winner, she began her career on stage and in 1974 received her first Tony nomination for her Broadway appearance in Barnum. She is now the recipient of three Tony Awards for her performances in The Real Thing, Death and the Maiden and for the musical, Sunset Boulevard.

Close made her film debut in 1982’s The World According to Garp, receiving an Academy Award nomination for her performance. She went on to receive four additional Oscar nominations for performances in The Big Chill, The Natural, Fatal Attraction and Dangerous Liaisons. Other popular films that she has appeared in include Jagged Edge, Reversal of Fortune, Air Force One, 101 Dalmatians and its sequel.

For television, she won an Emmy Award for her TV film, Serving in Silence, a SAG Award and a Golden Globe for her performance in Showtime’s The Lion in Winter, and a Golden Globe for her new, critically acclaimed FX drama series, Damages, of which the Los Angeles Times said, “Close’s performance illuminates rather than outshines with its high wattage.”

Close is a Trustee Emeritus of The Sundance Institute and a Trustee of The Wildlife Conservation Society.

T O P I C S

An Evening with Glenn Close Are You Who We Think You Are?

“FANTASTIC — the best — we raised $1 million.”

Women & Infants Hospital, Providence, RI

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Š Rob Howard

Amy Dickinson with her daughter in upstate New York.

Amy Dickinson S U G G E S T E D

Syndicated Advice Columnist Amy Dickinson writes the column, “Ask Amy,” which appears in over 200 newspapers worldwide including the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Newsday and The Washington Post.

In 2003 Dickinson was chosen to step into the void created by the death of legendary advice columnist Ann Landers. Under her stewardship, the column has come of age, tackling issues from online gambling and porn addictions to custody disputes over the family pet. A profile of Dickinson published in The Atlantic Monthly suggested that if Jesus wore a tshirt, it would say, “What Would Amy Do?” Dickinson has written a column on family life for TIME magazine and her radio stories have been heard for the last 10 years on NPR’s All Things Considered. She has also had stories published in Esquire, Allure, O magazine, The New York Times and The Washington Post and is a regular panelist on the popular NPR current events quiz show, Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me. She has been a guest on The Today Show, The Rachael Ray Show and CNN’s American Morning.

Her memoir, The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, A Daughter, and the Town That Raised Them, released in February 2009.

T O P I C S

Ask Amy: An Evening with Amy Dickinson The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, A Daughter and The Town That Raised Them Aging in the Sandwich Generation The Writing Life Renovating A Life: How to Start Over and Begin Again

“Amy was off the charts amazing!”

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Š Robin Platzer

Joan Didion at the 2007 National Book Awards.

Joan Didion S U G G E S T E D

Novelist, essayist and screenwriter Joan Didion has been an incisive observer of American politics and culture for more than forty-five years. Her distinctive blend of spare, elegant prose and fierce intelligence has earned her books a place in the canon of American literature as well as the admiration of generations of writers and journalists.

In 2005 she won the National Book Award for The Year of Magical Thinking, which is now in its 20th printing. Chronicling the year following her husband’s death, the book is both a vivid personal account of losing a partner and a broader attempt to describe the mechanism that governs grief and mourning. In 2007 Didion adapted The Year of Magical Thinking into a play, which debuted on Broadway starring Vanessa Redgrave.

Didion’s novels include A Book of Common Prayer and Democracy, and her non-fiction includes Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Salvador and Where I Was From. Ms. Didion and her late husband, John Gregory Dunne, co-authored five screenplays including The Panic in Needle Park, A Star Is Born and Up Close and Personal.

Her honors include the Gold Medal for Belles Lettres from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2007 National Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

T O P I C S

The Year of Magical Thinking

A Reading by Joan Didion

A Conversation with Joan Didion

“Her reading left everyone rather silent, stunned, introspective, and needing to tell people they love, simply, that they love them. I thought it was awesome.”

Willamette University

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Nora Ephron on the set.

Nora Ephron S U G G E S T E D

Film director, screenwriter, author and journalist Nora Ephron has been called “a smart, funny lady who makes smart, funny movies.”

Named one of “The 25 Most Powerful Women in America” by Biography magazine, Ephron began as a reporter and essayist.

Her collected essays were published in the bestseller, Crazy Salad. In 1983 Ephron wrote the bestselling novel Heartburn. (She also wrote the 1986 movie adaptation.) Ephron’s latest book is the #1 New York Times bestseller, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman.

In 1983 Ephron earned an Oscar nomination for co-writing Silkwood. In 1989 she received another Oscar nomination for her screenplay, When Harry Met Sally, and made her directorial debut with This is My Life. She followed that with Sleepless in Seattle, starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, which grossed over $200 million worldwide. In 1998 she reunited Ryan and Hanks in the comedy, You’ve Got Mail.

In 2007 she joined The New York Times as a guest columnist. Her most recent project, writing and directing an adaptation of the book, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen is being released August 2009 in theaters nationwide.

T O P I C

An Evening with Nora Ephron

“She captivated the crowd ... the perfect speaker.”

National Council of Jewish Women

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Š Jepson School of Leadership Studies

Susan Estrich at the University of Richmond.

Susan Estrich S U G G E S T E D

Legal & political analyst and author Susan Estrich is one of the nation’s leading legal scholars and public intellectuals. The Robert Kingsley Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Southern California, she is known for her quick wit and humor on Fox News where she regularly appears as the “house liberal” and is a major fixture during presidential campaigns.

Estrich has paved the way for countless women to attain positions of leadership. She was the first woman ever to run a national presidential campaign, the first woman president of the Harvard Law Review and the youngest woman to be tenured at Harvard Law School.

She has been a senior advisor to four presidential campaigns, has written briefs on reproductive rights for the Supreme Court, and clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens.

A syndicated columnist, Estrich is the author of numerous books and articles about law, politics and women, including Sex & Power and The Case for Hillary Clinton. She is best known in academic circles for her path-breaking work on the law of sexual assault, notably her book Real Rape. She has worked on an array of high-profile cases in the last two decades, representing clients such as Michael Milken. In January 2008 she joined the law firm of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP as Of Counsel doing complex civil and criminal litigation.

T O P I C S

The Political Scene and How the Media Covers It Sex and Power: Women, Men, Sexism and the Future Civil Liberties in Times of Terror Domestic Violence and the Legal System

“Her vitality, wit, intelligence and energy make a startling and mesmerizing combination. She had the audience in the palm of her hand.”

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Admiral Fallon in his military awards and decorations.

Admiral William Fallon S U G G E S T E D

© Alisha Frederick

Four-star Admiral “Fox” Fallon, who recently retired after a distinguished 40-year career, is widely known for speaking truth to power and his strong advocacy of diplomatic engagement as the preferred approach to resolving international disputes.

Called “one of the best strategic thinkers in uniform today” by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Adm. Fallon has led U.S. and Allied forces in eight separate commands and played a leadership role in military and diplomatic matter at the highest levels of the U.S. government.

A firm believer in a strong military as an essential prerequisite of stability and security, he also promoted conversation between many nations during his years in command of forces in the AsiaPacific and Middle East regions.

Adm. Fallon is no stranger to controversy; during his tenure as Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, he raised the ire of Washington’s “China hawks” with his advocacy of stronger military relations with China. A profile in Esquire Magazine, which depicted him supporting a balanced approach to Iran in opposition to Bush Administrative policies, resulted in widespread controversy leading to the Admiral’s resignation.

He is a graduate of Villanova, the U.S. Naval War College and holds an MA in International Studies from Old Dominion. Sharing his experience and views on security and foreign policy, he has contributed to The New York Times, journals, and publications worldwide, and has been featured on international news and commentary programs.

T O P I C S

Working with People: The Roles of Leadership and Risk Management National Security Affairs: How Decisions Are Made in Washington Strategic Planning: Essential Prerequisite to Achieve Results Leadership and Responsibility: The Role of the U.S. in the World

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Self-portrait of Jules Feiffer on the town.

Jules Feiffer S U G G E S T E D

© Chip Cooper

Cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and children’s book author & illustrator Jules Feiffer has had a remarkable creative career turning contemporary urban anxiety into witty and revealing commentary for over fifty years. From his Village Voice editorial cartoons to his plays and screenplays including Little Murders and Carnal Knowledge, Feiffer’s satirical outlook has helped define us politically, sexually and socially.

The first cartoonist commissioned by The New York Times to create comic strips for their Op-Ed page, Feiffer has since shifted his focus towards writing and illustrating books for children and young adults including A Room with a Zoo and The Man in the Ceiling, soon to become a Broadway musical produced by Walt Disney.

He won a Pulitzer Prize and a George Polk Award for his cartoons; an Obie for his plays; an Academy Award for the animation of his cartoon satire, Munro; and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Writers Guild of America and the National Cartoonist Society.

Feiffer has taught at the Yale School of Drama and Northwestern University and has been honored with major retrospectives at the New York Historical Society, the Library of Congress and The School of Visual Arts.

In these challenging political times, Feiffer’s presentations mix personal anecdotes, current events and satirical commentary. His forthcoming memoir, Backing into Forward, relates how persistent failure inspired him to reinvent himself as an artist over and over.

T O P I C S

Feiffer on Feiffer: My Life and Funny Times Backing Into Success: How to Make Failure Work for You Is Being Funny Good for the Jews?

Reinventing Yourself for Fun and (Maybe) Profit Low Expectations: From Ike to Obama, Fifty Years of Political Cartoons

“We were honored to have a genius like him in the room.”

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Š Courtesy of PBS

Bruce Feiler on the set of Walking the Bible.

Bruce Feiler S U G G E S T E D

Author of Abraham and Walking the Bible Bruce Feiler offers a powerful interfaith message and a hopeful vision for peace and reconciliation. At a moment when the world is asking, “Can the religions get along?” his work has helped bring people together.

In Walking the Bible: A Journey

By Land Through the Five Books of Moses, Feiler recounted his travels through the Middle East and connected biblical stories to their actual sites. Celebrated by the Washington Post as “an instant classic,” Walking the Bible spent over a year on The New York Times bestsellers list and, in 2006, PBS aired Walking the Bible With Bruce Feiler, a mini-series written, produced and hosted by Feiler.

The Wall Street Journal called it “three splendid hours of television.”

His most recent books include Where God Was Born: A Journey By Land to the Roots of Religion and Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths, which was praised as “a revolution in thought” by TIME magazine and featured on its cover. His forthcoming book, America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story (October 2009), reveals the central role Moses has played in American history – from the Pilgrims to the Founding Fathers, from Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama – and explores how he can provide meaning in a moment of national crisis.

Feiler is currently writing an inspirational memoir of fatherhood in the face of illness that will be published in May 2010, in time for Father's Day. A regular contributor to NPR’s All Things Considered, Feiler has written for The New York Times and Washington Post and is a contributing editor at Gourmet and Parade.

T O P I C S

America in Troubled Times: Faith, Hope and Renewal from Washington to Obama Who Speaks for God? Reclaiming Religion from Extremists Family, Faith and America Can We All Get Along?

Building Bridges among the Religions in the 21st Century

“The audience was completely under your spell during your entire presentation.

You touched souls, and I’m still getting calls to say how wonderful a day it was.”

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Š Jonas Karlsson

Thomas Friedman in his New York Times office.

Thomas L. Friedman S U G G E S T E D

Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times Tom Friedman is the writer the public looks to for the straight talk and reliable information it needs about the world — especially when events seem too menacing to comprehend and policy discussions are clouded in a smokescreen of politics and posturing. Covering many of the monumental stories of recent decades, he has won three Pulitzer Prizes and been called “the country’s best newspaper columnist” by Vanity Fair.

His new book, Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America (Sept. '08), is a #1 New York Times bestseller. His previous bestseller, The World is Flat, has sold more than two million copies. His other bestsellers include Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism, The Lexus and the Olive Tree and From Beirut to Jerusalem, which serves as a basic text on the Middle East in colleges and universities nationwide and won the National Book Award.

Friedman appears in his own segment, “Tom’s Journal,” on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and is a frequent guest on programs such as Face the Nation and Charlie Rose. His TV documentaries, “Searching for the Roots of 9/11,” “The Other Side of Outsourcing” and “Addicted to Oil,” have aired on the Discovery Channel.

T O P I C S

The World Is Flat Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America The Global Economy & American Foreign Policy The Middle East: An Update on Changing Events The Next Phase of Globalization

“It was a magnificent performance before 1,700 students and guests that will long be remembered.”

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Š American Council on Education

Carlos Fuentes at the American Council on Education.

Carlos Fuentes S U G G E S T E D

A u t h o r, s t a t e s m a n a n d scholar Carlos Fuentes has defined the cultural, emotional and hereditary identity of an entire continent. He is recognized worldwide as one of the greatest literary and political figures of the Spanish-speaking world.

Fuentes’ novels, including The New York Times bestseller, The Old Gringo, and the classics Terra Nostra and The Death of Artemio Cruz, look deeply into the identity of Latin America, its internal conflicts and its contentious relationship with the superpower to the north. His nonfiction work and essays also celebrate the rich contributions of Latin culture (including The Buried Mirror, which became a Discovery Channel series). His latest book, The Eagle’s Throne, “is the most wickedly entertaining novel of Fuentes’ career,” said The New York Times.

He has won Mexico’s National Prize in Literature, the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (the highest honor for a Spanish-language writer), France’s Legion of Honor and the Four Freedoms Award. He was the first recipient of the Latin Civilization Award presented by the Presidents of Brazil, Mexico and France. He has also served as Director of International Cultural Relations for Mexico’s Ministry of Exterior Relations and the Mexican Ambassador to France.

He has just completed his first play, and his new collection of short stories, Every Happy Family, was published in spring 2008.

T O P I C S

The Creative Spirit as a Force for Humanism Immigration: Challenges on Both Sides of the Border Celebrating Cervantes and Don Quixote The Challenge of Education Globalization: A New Deal for a New Age

“His presence galvanized the community... a rare ability to deliver important messages powerfully.”

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Š Susan Shacter

Nancy Giles warming up for an appearance on CBS Sunday Morning.

Nancy Giles S U G G E S T E D

CBS Sunday Morning contributor, comedian and actress Nancy Giles delights TV audiences with her social commentaries and theater fans with her solo pieces. She is a funny, perceptive and provocative observer of today’s world.

A self-described “six-foot, oneinch black woman who’s not model-thin,” Giles has made her mark dismantling misconceptions about race, feminism and sexism.

Her one-woman New York stage show, Black Comedy: The Wacky Side of Racism, was called “smart and unforgiving” by the Village Voice. Her acclaimed work on CBS Sunday Morning has provided the largest audience yet for her unique blend of laugh-out-loud humor and common sense wisdom.

A veteran of Chicago’s esteemed Second City improv troupe and winner of the Theater World Award for the off-Broadway musical, Mayor, Giles also appeared for three seasons on the TV drama, China Beach, and played a secretary in the movie, Working Girl. She can often be heard on television and radio advertisements, such as the Boniva commercials featuring Sally Field, and has also offered her social and political perspectives to viewers of The Today Show and Hardball with Chris Matthew's.

On topics ranging from popular culture and body image to creativity and stereotype, Giles says, “I want to make people laugh and I want to entertain them, but I also want to provoke thought and discussion.” A commanding presence, she’s someone with something witty and compassionate to say to all of us.

T O P I C S

My Wacky Adventures in Race & Racism A Regular Gal Talks about Politics and the Media Mentoring Matters The Artist’s Dilemma: Staying Sane & Being Creative Stories from the Work Front: From Working Girl to CBS Sunday Morning

“I have never been so satisfied with a visiting artist… I have also not laughed that hard out loud in a very long time.”

Hudson Valley Community College

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Carol Gilligan at home.

Carol Gilligan S U G G E S T E D

Psychologist, professor and novelist Carol Gilligan was named by TIME Magazine as one of 25 most influential Americans.

Har vard University Press describes her 1982 book, In a Different Voice, as “the little book that started a revolution.” In 2002 The Birth of Pleasure was praised

by The Times Literary Supplement as “a thrilling new paradigm” and characterized by NPR as the work of a psychologist who writes like a novelist.

Gilligan’s work continues to inspire political debate, new research, films and novels as well as initiatives in social policy and education. As a member of the Harvard faculty, she held the university’s first chair in gender studies. In 1997 she received the prestigious Heinz Award for her contributions to understanding the human condition.

Her most recent works include a critically acclaimed play, co-authored with her son Jonathan and inspired by The Scarlet Letter, and a book, Darkness Visible: Loss, Patriarchy and Democracy’s Future, coauthored with NYU law professor David Richards. Her first novel, Kyra, which the Miami Herald called “deeply emotional and a thinking person’s love story,” was published in January 2008.

She is currently a University Professor at New York University with affiliations in the School of Law, the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

T O P I C S

Looking Back to Look Forward: In a Different Voice 25 Years On Love in a Time of Heroism: Reflections on Kyra Raising Healthy Boys Creating a Sustainable World: The Importance of Women’s Voices Taking Creative Risks: What Stands in Our Way & What Encourages Us

“We were enchanted.

Dr. Gilligan has a way of pulling people in as if you were in her private parlor.

It was a huge success.”

California State University, San Bernardino

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Daniel Goleman at home.

Daniel Goleman S U G G E S T E D

Author of Emotional Intelligence and psychologist Dr. Daniel Goleman has transformed the way the world educates children, relates to family and friends and does business.

The Harvard Business Review called emotional intelligence (EI) — which discounts IQ as the sole measure of one’s intelligence — “a revolutionary, paradigm-shattering idea.” Since its release, Emotional Intelligence has been a runaway success worldwide. It has been translated into 30 languages, with over five million copies in print.

His follow-up bestseller, Working With Emotional Intelligence, examined EI in the workplace, outlining its vast importance in achieving success in any professional setting. Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence (co-written with Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee) unveiled new scientific evidence that a leader’s emotional competencies have an enormous impact on group performance and an organization’s bottom line. It was a Wall Street Journal, Business Week and New York Times business bestseller.

Goleman’s New York Times bestseller, Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships, explores the groundbreaking neuroscience behind everyday interactions and what it means for success in life. His latest book, Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything, was released in spring 09.

A reporter on the brain and behavioral science for The New York Times for 12 years, he was awarded the American Psychological Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

T O P I C S

Leadership That Gets Results Ecological Intelligence Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence Special Programs: Available for Seminars and Video Conferences.

“Energizing and thoughtprovoking … he is also a consummate professional and a pleasure to work with.”

American Management Association

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Š Benjamin Lowy

Michael Gordon during a night mission in Iraq.

Michael R. Gordon S U G G E S T E D

Chief Military Correspondent for The New York Times Michael R. Gordon is one of the nation’s preeminent experts on national security. Reporting from Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, the horn of Africa and other trouble spots, Gordon writes exclusive stories and analysis that are often front-page news.

He was at Tora Bora when Osama bin Laden made his escape.

He was in Chechnya when the Russian Army leveled Grozny.

During the early stages of the Iraq war, he was the only newspaper correspondent embedded with the allied land war command, a position that gave him an unparalleled view of the planning and execution of the war plan.

Gordon has written extensively about a range of issues, from weapons proliferation and global security challenges to Al Qaeda and the war on terror. He co-authored the national bestseller, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq, which has shaped the debate about the Bush Administration’s decision-making. The Economist described the book as “magisterial.” Foreign Affairs dubbed The General’s War the single best volume on the Persian Gulf War. He reported and wrote the award-winning documentary, Deadlock: Russia’s Forgotten War, for CNN Presents and won the George Polk Award for his articles on Libya’s chemical weapons program.

Gordon has been a guest on many programs, including Meet the Press, Charlie Rose, Anderson Cooper 360° and The Daily Show. He is currently at work on a new book about the Surge and the United States’ continuing struggle to bring stability to Iraq.

T O P I C S

Global Security Challenges in the 21st Century National Security & the 2008 Election: Can the Next President Really Get Us out of Iraq?

Al Qaeda and the War on Terror: A Status Report Special Programs: Available for a Conversation with Maureen Dowd or General Bernard E. Trainor

“Our audience was captivated — truly on the edge of their seats.”

Northwestern University

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Š The Crossroad Publishing Company

Father Andrew Greeley at work writing one of his many books.

Andrew M. Greeley S U G G E S T E D

Priest, author and sociologist Father Andrew M. Greeley is one of the most influential Catholic thinkers and writers of our time. He has attracted a worldwide parish through his 50 bestsellers and more than 20 million books sold.

A professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and the University of Arizona, Greeley focuses his research on pivotal issues facing the Catholic Church, including the celibacy of priests, religious imagination and the sexual behavior of Catholics. In bestselling novels like Cardinal Sins and Irish Stew and over 100 nonfiction books including Confessions of a Parish Priest and The Making of the Popes, he has unflinchingly urged his beloved Church to become more responsive to evolving concerns of Catholics everywhere.

Greeley recently celebrated 50 years as a priest and released three books including a novel, The Priestly Sins, which Publishers Weekly called “a must-read” for anyone interested in the ongoing controversy in the Catholic Church. In 2005 he was ABC’s on-site consultant in Rome during the Vatican conclave. Described by The Los Angeles Times as “a master of the human heart,” Greeley has inspired thousands to reconnect with their beliefs.

In his latest book, A Stupid, Unjust and Criminal War: Iraq 20012007, a collection of his uncompromising and prophetic Chicago Sun Times columns, Greeley raises critical and moral questions that explores what is most precious in our American heritage and how we must recover our deepest values.

T O P I C S

The Religious Imagination The Present Condition of Catholicism God in the Movies: Religion & Popular Culture Iraq: An Unjust and Criminal War

“Incredible. I can think of no better speaker with whom we could have started our lecture series.”

Miami University

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© Andrea Cross/2003 WGBH Educational Foundation

Brian Greene on the set of NOVA’s The Elegant Universe.

Brian Greene S U G G E S T E D

Physicist, string theorist and author of The Elegant Universe Brian Greene is one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists and a brilliant, entertaining communicator of cutting-edge scientific concepts. The Washington Post described him as “the single best explainer of abstruse concepts in the world today.”

In The Elegant Universe Greene recounted how the theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics transformed our understanding of the universe, and introduced us to string theory, a concept that might be the key to a unified theory of the universe. The book sold more than a million copies and became an Emmy and Peabody Award winning NOVA special that Greene hosted.

His second book, The Fabric of the Cosmos, spent 6 months on The New York Times bestseller list and is currently being adapted into a 4part NOVA miniseries slated for broadcast in 2010. Greene has had many media appearances, from Nightline and Charlie Rose to The Late Show with David Letterman, and has made cameo appearances in the films Frequency, Maze, and The Last Mimzy.

A graduate of Harvard and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Greene is a professor in both Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University. His latest book, Icarus at the Edge of Time (Sept. ’08), is a futuristic retelling of the Icarus myth. The World Science Festival, cofounded by Greene, premiered in New York City in the spring of 2008 as an annual celebration of science that brings together great minds in science, business, government, and the arts.

T O P I C S

Why Science Matters The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality The Frontier of Cosmology String Theory: Reaching for Einstein’s Dream Breakthrough Thinking: Challenging What We Know

“It’s definitely a one-of-a-kind lecture — hugely entertaining yet very informative and thought provoking. There was something for everyone.”

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Jeff Greenfield at the 92nd St Y in New York City.

Jeff Greenfield S U G G E S T E D

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Senior political correspondent for CBS Jeff Greenfield is one of America’s most respected commentators and journalists.

He is known for his quick wit and savvy insight into politics, history, the media and current events.

Greenfield contributes to CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, CBS News Sunday Morning, CBSNews.com and other broadcasts. He hosts CEO EXCHANGE on PBS, which brings together the world’s most innovative CEOs for a lively discussion about themselves, their companies, and their passions.

A three-time Emmy Award-winner, he twice has been named to TV Guide‘s All-Star News “Dream Team” as best political commentator and was cited by the Washington Journalism Review as “the best in the business” for his media analysis.

From 1998-2007 Greenfield was a senior analyst for CNN. Prior to that, he was ABC News’ political and media analyst for 14 years. He has covered every national political convention since 1988, and has reported on virtually every important domestic political story of the past 25 years.

A former speechwriter for Robert Kennedy, Greenfield has authored or co-authored 11 books including The People’s Choice and Oh, Waiter! One Order of Crow!, an insider account of the contested 2000 presidential election.

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A Political Update with Jeff Greenfield Old Media, New Media: The Future of News Is There a Jewish Vote in America?

Business & the Media

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John Grogan

John Grogan S U G G E S T E D

Author of Marley & Me John Grogan was a columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer when he wrote a column saying goodbye to his incorrigible 13-year-old Labrador retriever, Marley. When hundreds of messages flooded his inbox and voicemail the next day, John recalls, “That’s when I knew I had a bigger story to tell.”

The story became Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog, his book about what a misbehaving dog meant to his family. A touchstone for people worldwide, the book grew into a runaway #1 New York Times bestseller with more than 3 million copies in print in 30 languages. Made into a movie starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston, the book is now part of Grogan’s engaging and inspirational conversation about family, loyalty, optimism, and what really matters in life.

Grogan has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS’ The Early Show, National Geographic Channel’s The Dog Whisperer, and in The New York Times, USA Today, and People magazine. In his popular appearances he shares what his mischievous dog taught him about patience, constancy and acceptance, “that commitment matters and that ‘in good times and bad, in sickness and health’ really means something.”

Grogan’s latest New York Times bestseller is The Longest Trip Home. Publishers Weekly called it “a hilarious and touching memoir of his childhood.”

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Life Lessons from Marley & Me Follow Your Dreams: Write What Is in Your Heart, Success Will Follow Marley & Me: What “Man’s Best Friend” Can Teach Us About Being Human Just for Kids: Why Your Pet Will Be the Friend You Will Never Forget

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Mireille Guiliano hosting a Veuve Clicquot event at Versailles.

Mireille Guiliano S U G G E S T E D

Author of French Women Don’t Get Fat, former President & CEO of Clicquot, Inc. and LVMH executive Mireille Guiliano has been hailed as “a true marketing innovator” and “a barrier breaking pioneer.”

In 1984 Guiliano was tapped to re-launch the 225-year-old flagship brand Veuve Clicquot in the U.S. In two decades under her leadership, it grew from less than one percent to about 25% of the U.S. champagne market.

Her runaway bestseller, French Women Don’t Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure — part memoir and part gastronomy and practical philosophy guide — was called “a welcome reprieve from the scores of diet books ... a stirring reminder of the importance of joie de vivre,” by Publishers Weekly. Translated into 37 languages, it was a #1 New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly and Wall Street Journal bestseller. It has over two million copies in print in America.

Mireille has appeared on programs from Oprah to The Today Show and been profiled in The New York Times, TIME, People and Newsweek.

Her latest book is French Women for all Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes and Pleasure.

One of the few women who have reached the top echelon of the wine and spirits industry, and a member of the Executive Committee of Moet-Hennessy (LVMH, France), Mireille has been called a champion of women in business. She frequently presents internationally on business topics, especially related to the luxury goods sector, as well as on food, wine, travel and entertaining.

Guiliano's new book, Women, Work and The Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense and Sensibility, will be released in October 2009.

T O P I C S

French Women Don’t Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure Business(woman): Morsels of Wisdom from a CEO Branding & Marketing in the Luxury Sector What’s the Worst That Can Happen?

Taking Chances and Joie de Vivre: Living with All Five Senses

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Sylvia Hewlett at the Center for Work-Life Policy.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett S U G G E S T E D

President of the Center for Work-Life Policy, economist and Columbia professor Sylvia Ann Hewlett is charting new ground for companies and employees with her bestselling books and cutting edge research.

Her new book, Off-Ramps and On-Ramps (Harvard Business School Press), named by Amazon as one of the top ten business books of 2007, establishes her as a leading expert in the fields of talent management, workplace transformation, diversity and inclusion.

She is the founding director of the Hidden Brain Drain — a Task Force of 46 global companies committed to the full realization of female and multicultural talent. Working with Goldman Sachs, BP, GE, Microsoft and others, Dr. Hewlett has authored and developed innovative models of best practice.

Her 2002 bestseller, Creating a Life, lays out a “road map” for ambitious women seeking to integrate work and life. Her other books include The War Against Parents (co-authored with Cornel West) and When the Bough Breaks, winner of a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Prize. Her next book, Top Talent: Keeping Your Best People When You Need Them Most, will be published by Harvard Business School Press in September 2009.

In addition to her Columbia University appointment where she directs the Gender and Policy Program, Dr. Hewlett is the founding President of the Center for Work-Life Policy, a Manhattan-based think tank. She writes regularly for the Harvard Business Review and the Financial Times and has appeared on Oprah as well as Charlie Rose.

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Leveraging New Streams of Global Talent Making Smart Choices in Life and Work Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Work Week Diversity in the Workplace Sustaining High Performance in Times of Stress

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Gary Hirshberg at Stonyfield Farm in New Hampshire.

Gary Hirshberg S U G G E S T E D

President and CEO of Stonyfield Farm Gary Hirshberg has been working at the forefront of movements for environmental and social transformation for 30 years. From his early days as an educator and activist to his current position, Hirshberg’s positive outlook has inspired thousands of people to recognize their ability to make the world a better place.

He has overseen the growth of Stonyfield Farm from its infancy as a seven-cow organic farming school in 1983 to the world’s largest organic yogurt company with $300 million in annual sales. This growth has been built with innovative marketing techniques that often combine the social, environmental and financial missions of the company.

Recipient of the 1999 Global Green USA’s Green Cross Millennium Award for Corporate Environmental Leadership, he serves on several corporate and non-profit boards, including Honest Tea and Peak Organic Brewing. He is also Chair of Climate Counts, a collaborative effort to bring consumers and companies together in the fight against global climate change.

In Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World (January 2008), Hirshberg demonstrates how companies can work to save the planet, while achieving greater profits and satisfaction, and how we can all use the power of conscious consumption to encourage green corporate behavior. Included are case studies of other businesses — companies such as Timberland, Patagonia, Interface and Walmart — that have increased profits by reducing their environmental footprints.

T O P I C S

Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World Climate Change: Ten Years Left to Make a Difference Green Business: The Next Frontier The Power of One: Consumer Clout in the Marketplace

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John Irving at Fairfield University.

John Irving S U G G E S T E D

Novelist and screenwriter John Irving is one of the most popular and respected writers in the world. His novels have become American classics; each one is a publishing event.

Irving’s first international bestseller, The World According to Garp, introduced a world of readers to his inventive and expansive style, memorable characters and masterfully woven stories-withinstories. Garp won a National Book Award in 1980 and was made into a film starring Robin Williams that earned Academy Award nominations for John Lithgow and Glenn Close.

Since Garp’s release, all of Irving’s novels (including A Son of the Circus, A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Widow for One Year, The Fourth Hand and Until I Find You) have been translated into over 30 languages and sold tens of millions of copies. His novel, The Cider House Rules, was turned into a movie in 1999 that won him the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Irving has three screenplays in-progress and will release his 12th novel, Last Night in Twisted River, in October 2009.

Irving has won the O. Henry Award and awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1992 Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma and in 2001 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Proceeds from John Irving’s presentations benefit the Maple Street School in Vermont and Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts.

T O P I C S

Readings by John Irving An Evening with John Irving

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Dr. Kay Jamison at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Kay Redfield Jamison S U G G E S T E D

Professor, mental health advocate and author of An Unquiet Mind Kay Redfield Jamison is an international authority and researcher on mood disorders. A recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, she has unique insight into the world of mental illness.

A Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Jamison went public with her own struggle with manic-depression in a 1995 Washington Post article and subsequent book, An Unquiet Mind.

The book became a New York Times bestseller that Oliver Sacks said, “stands alone in the literature of manic depression for its bravery, brilliance, and beauty.”

Her national bestseller, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, was chosen by The New York Times as a “Notable Book of 1999.” Her book, Exuberance: The Passion for Life and Touched With Fire, is a groundbreaking study of manic-depression and creativity. She has also coauthored the standard medical textbook on manic-depression, ManicDepressive Illness Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression. Chosen by TIME as a “Hero of Medicine,” she has appeared on Oprah to discuss bi-polar disorder.

Her newest memoir, Nothing Was the Same, is a haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss as Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband who passed away from cancer. Written from deep inside the experience itself, the book will release fall ‘09.

Audiences describe her lectures as profound educational experiences. She addresses the clinical and personal realities of depression and bipolar disorder in a manner that encourages dialogue, empathy and hope.

T O P I C S

An Unquiet Mind: Personal & Professional Reflections on Mental Illness Managing Depression & Bi-Polar Disorders in the Workplace Creativity & Madness The Crisis of Suicides on Campus Beyond Happiness: Exuberance and Mania

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Š Taro Yamasaki

Jamaica Kincaid in her garden.

Jamaica Kincaid S U G G E S T E D

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Writer, novelist and professor Jamaica Kincaid skillfully and elegantly tempers the boundary between poetry and prose. With her books and novels, including Annie John, Lucy, At the Bottom of the River and A Small Place, she has carved out a unique and cherished place in the American literary landscape.

Kincaid’s literary “voice” is deeply rooted in her experiences as a child in her native Antigua.

Growing up under the colonial rule of England instilled in her a tragic, yet often-ignored perspective. Says Kincaid, “I never give up thinking about the way I came into the world, how my ancestors came from Africa to the West Indies as slaves. I just never forget it. It’s like a big wave that’s still pulsing.”

Kincaid won the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts for her first book, At the Bottom of the River. Her award-winning book, A Small Place, inspired the 2001 documentary, Life and Debt, about the impact globalization can have on a developing country. Kincaid is at work on a new novel, See Now Then.

A visiting professor at Harvard University, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004.

T O P I C S

An Evening with Jamaica Kincaid: A Reading Coming of Age in a Small Place On Writing Landscapes and Memory The Garden as Metaphor & Paradox: A Source of Peace & Disturbance, Knowledge & Escape

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She was the best Convocation speaker we have ever had.”

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Joe Klein with Barack Obama covering the presidential campaign.

Joe Klein S U G G E S T E D

Columnist for TIME and author Joe Klein is one of America’s best political journalists, known for his provocative and probing analysis of events in our nation’s capital and abroad.

His weekly column, “In the Arena,” which covers national and international affairs, from Washington to Europe and the Middle East, won the National Headliner Award for best magazine column. A veteran of nine presidential campaigns, he has been praised for his “dogged reporting, a thorough, subtle grasp of issues, and a clear-eyed, compelling style.”

As “Anonymous,” he wrote the #1 bestseller, Primary Colors, which The New York Times Book Review called “one of the best political novels to appear in the latter half of the 20th Century” becoming a major motion picture starring John Travolta and Emma Thompson. His other books include The Running Mate, The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton (a New York Times bestseller) and his latest book, Politics Lost: How American Politics Was Trivialized By People Who Think You’re Stupid.

A self-described “political junkie,” he is a former Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; he appears frequently on Meet the Press and The Chris Matthews Show.

T O P I C S

Inside Washington: American Politics & the Politicians Islam, Iraq & the War on Terror Jewish Neoconservatives: Are they Good for Israel?

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Robert Krulwich on the set of his ABC special The Secret Life of Barbie.

Robert Krulwich S U G G E S T E D

Co-host of NPR’s Radio Lab, correspondent of NPR’s Science Unit and ABC News S p e c i a l C o r re s p o n d e n t Robert Krulwich has been called “the most inventive network reporter in television” by TV Guide. His specialty is explaining complex subjects — science, technology, economics — in a style that is clear, compelling and entertaining.

He has explored the structure of DNA with a banana; created his o wn Italian Opera, “Ratto Interesso” to explain how the Federal Reserve regulates interest rates; and pioneered the use of animation on ABC’s Nightline, World News, and on NPR’s internet site to explore cellular biology and subprime lending.

Krulwich regularly appears on ABC’s World News, NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered. His program, Radio Lab, is a NPR series that explores new developments in science for people who are curious but not usually drawn to science shows. “I like talking about ideas, and I especially like creating images that will keep those ideas in peoples’ heads for hours, days, even months” he says. In 2007 The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine gave Radio Lab its $20,000 top honor for excellence in communicating science to the general public.

He has won numerous other awards including two Emmys, a George Polk Award, a Dupont Award and the National Cancer Institute’s Extraordinary Communicator’s Award.

T O P I C S

Talking Science to Non-Scientists Beethoven, Chumba Wumba and Peter Jennings: How News Is a Form of Music Coming Together in an Appliance Near You: TV, Radio & the Internet Merge Special Programs: Available to Moderate Panel Discussions and Onstage Interviews.

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Louise Leakey excavating a fossil from the Turkana Basin in Kenya.

Louise Leakey S U G G E S T E D

Paleontologist, conservationist, educator and National Geographic Explorer-inResidence Louise Leakey is the youngest member of the famous Leakey family of fossil hunters in East Africa. With an adventurous spirit and unwavering focus on the advancement and understanding of human origins, she has spent much of her life leading expeditions into the remote badlands of northern Kenya. From these groundbreaking forays, Dr. Leakey and her team have yielded some of our deepest insights into what it is that makes us human.

Her team, The Koobi Fora Research Project, has made discoveries that have shaped modern thinking on the journey of humanity over the past 4 million years. One of the most publicized discoveries, Kenyanthropus platyops, challenged the straight-line story of human evolution.

From her earliest childhood spent among the nomadic desert people of Lake Turkana, Leakey has developed a deep attachment to the wildlife and cultural heritage of northern Kenya. Today she draws on her scientific background in human origins to work with the local communities in building a future for this region in a dramatically changing world.

Having developed a state of the art research center in the Turkana Basin, Leakey has gained a unique perspective on the protection of the desert environment in Africa. She was recently selected to participate in the World Economic Forum in Davos, the aim of which is to understand the problems and risks the world faces in the future.

T O P I C S

Secrets in the Sands: Revelations Into How We Became Human Passion for Discovery: Continuing the Family Tradition A Human Journey — What the Fossils Tell Us

“She is absolutely incredible how she mixes family history, humor, data, technology ….

We just love her.”

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Meave Leaky examining a fossil in the Turkana Basin in Kenya.

Meave Leakey S U G G E S T E D

Paleontologist and zoologist Meave Leakey is the standardbearer of a distinguished family of paleoanthropologists who have dominated their field since the beginning of the 20th century.

Her life-long search for clues about our past has led her to every corner of the remote, windswept semi-deserts of Kenya’s Lake Turkana Basin. Over the last four decades, the Koobi Fora Research Project, which she currently codirects with her eldest daughter Louise, has unearthed much of the evidence behind our current understanding of our past.

Dr. Leakey is presently focusing on the origins of our own genus, Homo, and the emergence of Homo erectus, the first human ancestor to move out of Africa. In 1999, 2000 and again in 2007 the project made sensational new discoveries of early Homo that, as National Geographic put it, “challenge the straight-line story of human evolution.” The announcement of these discoveries was featured in Nature and The New York Times.

Leakey is a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence in recognition of the 50-year relationship between “the National Geographic Society and the Leakey family dynasty of pioneering fossil hunters.”

She is also a Research Professor at Stony Brook University and a Research Associate of the National Museums of Kenya. A masterful storyteller, Dr. Leakey conveys the importance of studying our origins in the context of the modern world with vivid images, real-life stories and provocative questions.

T O P I C S

The Search & Discovery of Our Earliest Ancestors My Life in Science: An Evening with Meave Leakey African Origins: One Species, One Planet Emerging Humans: Are We Really Different?

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Richard Leakey receiving the Stars of Stony Brook Award.

Richard Leakey S U G G E S T E D

Paleoanthropologist, political advisor and environmentalist Richard Leakey has been making international headlines for more than 40 years. Son of the famous Louis B. and Mary Leakey, he has been credited with some of the most significant fossil discoveries in history and was named one of TIME’s 100 Greatest Minds of the 20th Century.

He is the author of over 100 articles and books including Origins and Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa’s Natural Treasures.

In his 1995 book, The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and The Future of Humankind, Leakey examined the five great catastrophic extinctions in the history of the planet. Written well before our increased environmental awareness, Leakey stressed how human beings are dangerously reducing biodiversity, damaging eco-systems and possibly precipitating the next major mass extinction, which could number humans amongst its victims.

Now a Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London (FRS) in 2007, Leakey convenes the Stony Brook World Environmental Forum and the Human Evolution Symposiums and Workshops. Leakey has served as Director of the National Museums of Kenya and the Kenya Wildlife Service and as Head of Public Service and Secretary to the Cabinet in Kenya. He is Chair of The Turkana Basin Institute at Stony Brook and Transparency International-Kenya and recently founded WildlifeDirect, an online service that supports conservationists and allows anyone to play a role in the survival of the world’s most endangered species.

T O P I C S

Climate Change and the Future of Life on Earth Why Our Origins Matter Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa’s Natural Treasures The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind Surviving Catastrophic Changes in the 21st Century

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Kishore Mahbubani at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.

Kishore Mahbubani S U G G E S T E D

Professor, author and former ambassador Kishore Mahbubani is a global thought-leader and Asia’s best-known diplomat. Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, Mahbubani served for 33 years as a diplomat for Singapore with postings in Malaysia, Cambodia, Washington DC and New York where he served twice as Singapore’s Ambassador to the UN and President of the UN Security Council. For many years he has been a consultant to policymakers throughout Asia and to multi-national corporations looking to invest and grow in the region.

His latest book (now out in paperback), The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Power to the East, is an incisive analysis of the dominant story of our time. He explores why Asia’s rise is happening now and how it will alter the world in the coming decades.

“History tells us that tensions and conflicts are more likely when new powers emerge,” says Mahbubani. “But the Asian march to modernity represents an opportunity for the West and the world if the West learns to work with it.” He also is the author of Can Asians Think? and Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust between America and the World.

His articles — on topics from globalization and free trade to political leadership — have appeared in Foreign Affairs and The New York Times. Profiled by The Economist and TIME, he was listed as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines. Mahbubani was awarded The Foreign Policy Association Medal, which cited him as “A gifted diplomat, a student of history and philosophy, a provocative writer and an intuitive thinker.”

T O P I C S

The Rise of Asia America and the World Politics, Economics and Culture from an Asian Perspective Why the World Needs New Global Leadership

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Michael Mandelbaum at Johns Hopkins University.

Michael Mandelbaum S U G G E S T E D

Author and Professor at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Michael Mandelbaum is one of America’s leading authorities on international affairs, known for his ability to explain, in clear and accessible ways, the meaning and consequences of complicated global developments and trends.

His classic book, The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century, has been translated into seven languages including Chinese and Arabic. “The purpose of the book,” says Mandelbaum, “was to provide a framework for understanding all of the international issues of the 21st century, from globalization to terrorism, from Chinese succession politics to Latin American economic crises.” The Financial Times called it “a brilliant book” and Tom Friedman praised it as “important and compelling.”

His latest book is Democracy’s Good Name. His other works include The Case for Goliath, The Fate of Nations, and The Meaning of Sports. Educated at Yale, Cambridge and Harvard, he has been a guest on NPR, Face The Nation, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and Larry King Live. From 1986-2004, he was Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The World Affairs Councils of America named him one of the most influential people in American foreign policy.

He is currently working on a book on the global economy, a large portion of which will be devoted to the BRICs — Brazil, Russia, India, and China — as well as a book on the future of American foreign policy.

T O P I C S

Economic Turmoil, the Financial Crisis, & the Silver Lining: What Lies Ahead for America and the World The Rise and Risks of Democracy around the World How Green Will Our Future Be? World Economic Prospects for the Next Decade

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Camryn Manheim on the set of Ghost Whisperer.

Camryn Manheim S U G G E S T E D

Emmy Award-winning actress and social activist Camryn Manheim has never played by the rules. Her fierce determination to defy the beauty myth and casting stereotypes has resulted in one of today’s most remarkable Hollywood success stories.

Manheim’s groundbreaking Emmy and Golden Globe Awardwinning role on The Practice changed the opportunities in television for plus-size actresses. In her New York Times bestseller, Wake Up I’m Fat!, she detailed her life with candor and humor.

In 2006 Manheim joined the series Ghost Whisperer starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. Her recent credits include An Unfinished Life, Slipstream, Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion, Two and a Half Men, Happiness and the TV movie, Elvis.

Manheim’s social activism has included working with the disabled, the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood.

She has been honored by the National Council of Jewish Women and the National Lawyers Guild and received an E! Fashion award from Joan Rivers, which she claims was the hardest award to get.

Manheim was named one of the “Most Intriguing People” by People Magazine and “Woman of the Year” by Glamour. Always passionate, with a dash of irreverence, she encourages her audience to be brave and to understand that “life is not a dress rehearsal.”

T O P I C S

Mitzvah Therapy: Living Life Generously They Don’t Call It “Show Art,” They Call It “Show Business” The Sexiest Body Part Is Self Confidence!

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Dr. Annie McKee at the Teleos Leadership Institute.

Annie McKee S U G G E S T E D

Founder & Managing Director of Teleos Leadership Institute, executive coach, author and faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania Annie McKee advises some of the largest corporations in the world.

A scholar on the cutting edge of leadership, organizational culture and change, she is dedicated to making good leaders better and world-class corporations even more successful.

Her latest book, Becoming a Resonant Leader, a follow-up to Resonant Leadership, is a hands-on guide to developing emotional intelligence, renewing relationships and sustaining effectiveness. McKee also co-authored the bestseller, Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence with Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis.

With engaging speeches and interactive seminars, McKee demonstrates that “the best leaders create resonance — a reservoir of positivity that inspires passion and motivates people to perform at their best.” She believes that resonant leaders do more than simply chart a strategy or manage resources — they move people, creating a deep emotional connection that is characterized by hope, a shared belief in a compelling vision, and a sense that together, we can achieve anything.

Named by Business Week as “The high priestess of executive coaching” and as one of the 100 Best Leaders of 2005, she works closely with senior management teams at international firms such as Reuters, UniCredit Banca, Starbucks and Merrill Lynch.

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Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others through Mindfulness, Hope and Compassion Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Transformation The Passion Within Special Programs: Available for Customized Half-Day and Full-Day Seminars/Workshops

“Awesome! .... She was a dream to work with.”

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Jon Meacham at an editorial meeting at Newsweek.

Jon Meacham S U G G E S T E D

Editor of Newsweek and author of Franklin and Winston & American Lion Jon Meacham was named “one of the most influential editors in the news magazine business” by The New York Times. A skilled raconteur and eloquent speaker, he understands important issues and events in all of their complexity and how they impact our lives.

Meacham is responsible for all day-to-day editorial operations of Newsweek and has written many cover stories. His bestseller, Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, explored the fascinating relationship between the two leaders who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. Time declared it “masterful,” and The Washington Post proclaimed it “a memorable achievement.”

His most recent New York Times bestseller, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Nov. '08), won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was cited as an “unlikely portrait of a not always admirable democrat, but a pivotal president, written with an agile prose that brings the Jackson saga to life.”

His previous book, American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, was also a New York Times bestseller. USA Today said it “provides an enlightening look at how the founding fathers discovered ways to tame but not extinguish the fires of faith.”

A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” of the World Economic Forum in Davos, he has appeared on such programs as The Charlie Rose Show, The Today Show, The O’Reilly Factor and The Colbert Report.

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The State of the Nation: America Then and Now Andrew Jackson and the Art of Leadership: Old Hickory in a New Century Franklin & Winston: Leadership Lessons for Today The Politics of Economics The Economics of the Environment

“He was wonderful, interesting, full of information ... what stood out is his intelligence.”

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Joel Meyerowitz photographing The Aftermath at the World Trade Center.

Joel Meyerowitz S U G G E S T E D

Photographer Joel Meyerowitz is an award-winning artist whose work has appeared in over 350 galleries and museums around the world. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author of 16 books including Cape Light, considered a classic work of color photography. His work took a different turn in the days after 9/11. Through his persistence and determination he gained unlimited access to Ground Zero, creating the only photographic record of the aftermath of the World Trade Center attack.

His most recent book, Aftermath: The World Trade Center Archive, features 400 of over 8,000 images, as well as an engaging account of his experience during recovery efforts. “To me, no photographs meant no history,” says Meyerowitz. “My task was to make a record of the aftermath which has embedded itself deeply into the consciousness of all of us in America and around the world.” An exhibit from the archive has traveled to over 200 cities, in 60 countries from Kabul to Lima to Beijing, and a permanent selection will be at the World Trade Center Museum.

Early to embrace digital photography while continuing to shoot in film, Meyerowitz believes that “in an image focused world we are all photographers now.” In a new program, he shares selections of audience photography along with some of his own work to illustrate the increasingly blurring lines between professional and amateur photographers.

Meyerowitz is an NEA and NEH award-winner, and has been profiled by Nightline, People and CBS Sunday Morning. A retrospective of his 45-year career will be published in fall 2008.

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Living in a Digital World: We Are All Photographers Seeing the World around You: 40 Years of Making Photographs Making a Difference: Social Consciousness and the Artist as Activist Photographing Ground Zero: Images & Memories

“His extraordinary images and story captivated the entire audience.”

Savannah College of Art and Design

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Jonathan Miller in rehearsal.

Jonathan Miller S U G G E S T E D

Theater and opera director Jonathan Miller is a “physician and neuropsychologist, a prolific author and lecturer,” wrote The New York Times. “[He] knows more than a little about everything. He combines qualities that shouldn’t be combined in one person: he is both a performer and a thinker.”

Miller first gained international prominence with Beyond the Fringe, the 1960 play that redefined the boundaries of comedy, launching a lunatic legacy that has stretched from Monty Python to Saturday Night Live. He has enjoyed one of the most stellar careers in modern theater, directing countless plays (including 11 for the BBC’s Shakespeare series) and over 50 operas at some of the world’s most distinguished venues from La Scala to The Metropolitan Opera.

He has written and presented several major series for the BBC and PBS including The Body in Question, a landmark series on the history of medicine and, most recently, A Brief History of Disbelief.

His books include The Human Body, The Facts of Life, Subsequent Performances, Nowhere in Particular and On Reflection, based on his lectures.

For colleges and universities interested in an extended visit, Dr. Miller accepts occasional one or two-week residencies. His multidisciplinary expertise has made these very popular.

T O P I C S

The After-Life of Plays A Brief History of Disbelief Laughing Matters: Humor and Comedy Special Projects: Available for Residencies, Master Classes and Seminars

“... The students were so awestruck by Dr. Miller’s incredible depth of knowledge, they were rendered speechless.”

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N. Scott Momaday at The National Book Festival.

N. Scott Momaday S U G G E S T E D

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Native American scholar and poet N. Scott Momaday has been referred to as “the dean of American Indian writers” by The New York Times. He crafts — in language and imagery — majestic landscapes of a sacred culture.

Named a UNESCO Artist for Peace and Oklahoma’s poet laureate, he is a recipient of the 2007 National Medal of Arts for “introducing millions worldwide to the essence of Native American culture.” Momaday is the founder of The Buffalo Trust, dedicated to the preservation of Native American culture and heritage. He has held tenured teaching posts at UC Berkeley, Stanford University and the University of Arizona.

Momaday was the first Native American to be awarded the Pulitzer for his novel, House Made of Dawn. His other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the “Mondello,” Italy’s highest literary honor. His works include The Way to Rainy Mountain, The Names: A Memoir, The Ancient Child and a new collection, Three Plays, that celebrates Kiowa history and culture.

Behind it all beats the heart of the oral storyteller, keeping alive — in myths and memories — the people persecuted and the land lost. “In the oral tradition,” says Momaday, “stories are not told merely to entertain or instruct. They are told to be believed. Stories are realities lived and believed. They are true.”

T O P I C S

Leadership Lessons from Native Wisdom Native American Oral Tradition: The Stories & Storytellers Heritage, Healing and the Land: The Spiritual Aspect of Landscape The Crisis of Identity Facing Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples

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Walter Mosley in New York City.

Walter Mosley S U G G E S T E D

Novelist and social commentator Walter Mosley is best known for his popular mysteries featuring detective Easy Rawlins.

Yet his work transcends the conventional bounds of fiction writing. The Boston Globe hailed him as “one of the nation’s finest writers.”

His first Rawlins novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, was made into a film starring Denzel Washington.

Other books in the series include The New York Times bestseller Little Scarlet and Blonde Faith. His latest releases include Tempest Tales, a contemporary series of tales that echo Langston Hughes’ The Simple Stories, and The Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow. His latest book, The Long Fall, was released in March 2009.

In his nonfiction, What Next: A Memoir Towards World Peace, Workin’ on the Chain Gang, Life Out of Context, he examines ways that we can contribute to political, economic and social progress in America. A recent endeavor, Making Democracy, is an internet-based initiative that seeks “a future where people are the special interest.”

The site will connect voters with political activists and offer advice and aid on how to take action for causes that are important to the public.

Mosley’s honors include an O’Henry Award, a Grammy, the Sundance Risktaker Award and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award.

T O P I C S

Making Democracy The Literary Life This Year You Write Your Novel Bearing Witness Cultural Famine

“Superb! Mr. Mosley is so cool, so eloquent and witty.”

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Sylvia Nasar in an IBM advertisement.

Sylvia Nasar S U G G E S T E D

Economist, journalist and professor Sylvia Nasar is the author of A Beautiful Mind, the bestseller that inspired the Academy Award-winning film starring Russell Crowe. While working as an economics reporter for The New York Times, Nasar discovered the remarkable story of John Nash, the Princeton mathematical genius who suffered from schizophrenia for three decades before recovering and winning a Nobel Prize in economics. Her biography, which won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and was a Pulitzer finalist, helped put a human face on a devastating mental illness.

A writer at Fortune and columnist at U.S. News & World Report before she joined The Times, Nasar also has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, the Russell Sage Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. When she was appointed to the first Knight professorship at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Dean Tom Goldstein said, “Her informed perspective, shaped by her multi-faceted professional experiences, will be invaluable as we explore the issues facing business journalism in the era of acquisitions and consolidations, emerging technology and the 24hour news cycles.”

Nasar, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times and other leading publications, teaches a graduate seminar in economics reporting that focuses on globalization, growth, living standards and business cycles. She is working on Grand Pursuit, a book about 20th century economic thinkers.

T O P I C S

A Beautiful Mind Revisited: Creativity & the Brain Globalization Then and Now: How Nations Create Destinies The US Economy: Media, Myths & Realities Modern Thinkers & the Demise of Economic Determinism: Something Extraordinary Is Possible

“We got great feedback, she was so gracious, she has tremendous warmth for her subject and we were very moved by her story.”

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Charles Osgood on the set of CBS Sunday Morning.

Charles Osgood S U G G E S T E D

Host of CBS Sunday Morning and creator of The Osgood File Charles Osgood is CBS News’ “Poet-in-Residence” and one of the gems of American broadcasting.

Taking over for Charles Kuralt in 1994, Osgood has continued CBS Sunday Morning’s long tradition of in-depth profiles, great reporting and wide-ranging coverage of news, art, entertainment, science, literature and culture. As anchor and writer of The Osgood File (his trademark commentaries for CBS Radio), Osgood combines poignant social commentary with an uncanny ability to find the irony and humor in everyday life.

Osgood has won three Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards and the International Radio and Television Society Award for Significant Achievement. He also has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame and the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

He has anchored and reported for CBS This Morning, CBS Morning News, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite’s Universe. He anchored the CBS Sunday Night News for seven years and has written numerous books including See You on the Radio. His new book is A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House: Humor, Blunders, and Other Oddities from the Presidential Campaign Trail.

In his speeches Osgood is charming, funny and may even play his banjo or the piano. His presentations — an entertaining mix of stories, insights and comedic banter — have delighted audiences for years.

T O P I C S

The Osgood File Special Programs: Available for Orchestral Readings and as a Master of Ceremonies

“Osgood’s wit and wisdom made our 2004 dinner a memorable event....

He spoke and sang with warmth, charm and humor.”

New York Intellectual Property Law Association

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Elaine Pagels at the University of California, Berkeley.

Elaine Pagels S U G G E S T E D

Author of The Gnostic G o s p e l s , p ro f e s s o r a n d scholar Elaine Pagels is a preeminent figure in the theological community whose impressive scholarship has earned her international respect. The Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University, Pagels was awarded the Rockefeller, Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships in three consecutive years.

As a young researcher at Barnard College, she changed the historical landscape of the Christian religion by exploding the myth of the early Church as a unified movement. Her findings were published in the bestselling book, The Gnostic Gospels, an analysis of 52 early Christian manuscripts that were unearthed in Egypt. The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Critic’s Circle Award and the National Book Award and was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best books of the 20th Century.

Her subsequent bestselling books include Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, The Origin of Satan, Adam, Eve and the Serpent and, most recently, Reading Judas.

Pagels earned an M.A. from Stanford and a Ph.D. from Harvard.

She has a working command of Greek, Latin, German, Hebrew, French, Italian and Coptic. She has been profiled in TIME, The Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, The New Yorker and Newsweek’s issue on “Women and Power.”

T O P I C S

Beyond Belief: A Different View of Christianity What Happened to God the Mother: Gender Roles and Images of the Divine in Western Religious Traditions The Origin of Satan, the Nature of Evil The Many Faces of Jesus: Views From the Ancient World and Contemporary Life

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Jacques Pepin from the cover of Chez Jacques: Traditions and Rituals of a Cook.

Jacques Pe´pin S U G G E S T E D

Master chef, author and teacher Jacques Pépin, referred to as "one of the most admired figures in the culinary world" by The Washington Post, has taught millions of Americans -- and an entire generation of chefs -- how to cook.

He has published 25 cookbooks and hosted nine acclaimed public television cooking series, the most recent of which, More Fast Food My Way, features his renowned techniques and his passion for the craft of cooking.

While serving as a guest judge on Bravo's Top Chef, he was described as "the most influential chef in American cookery.” Men's Vogue called him "the original Iron Chef."

Pépin was the personal chef to three French heads of state, including Charles de Gaulle. After immigrating to the United States, he turned down the position of White House chef to direct research and development at Howard Johnson's, where he learned about mass production, marketing, and American food tastes.

His groundbreaking works on French cuisine, La Technique and La Méthode, earned him a place in the James Beard Foundation’s cookbook Hall of Fame. His latest book, More Fast Food My Way, which includes over 100 simple recipes followed Chez Jacques, and his bestselling memoir, The Apprentice.

In 1989 he began shooting PBS TV shows, later teaming with his daughter Claudine for three series, and ultimately with his friend Julia Child for Julia and Jacques Cook at Home, winning an Emmy.

The Dean of Special Programs at The French Culinary Institute since 1988, The Culinary Trust has created The Jacques Pepin Scholarship Fund, offering the opportunity for professional culinary study to high school minority students. A columnist for Food & Wine, Pépin oversees all culinary programs for Oceania Cruises. He has won a Lifetime Achievement Award from The James Beard Foundation and the French Legion of Honor, France’s highest civilian honor.

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Sustainable Innovation: Insights for Business Development Fast Food My Way: A Chef’s Perspective on Health Chef's Table: Exploring The Intersections of Art & Food The Apprentice: An Evening with Jacques Pepin A Culinary Retrospective: Conversations on Food and Society

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Hal Prince receiving The National Medal of Arts Award from President Clinton.

Harold Prince S U G G E S T E D

Tony Award-Winning theatre director Harold Prince “belongs on the Mount Rushmore of living directors” with a record-setting 21 Tony Awards and over 50 musicals, plays and operas to his credit. No other person has shaped Broadway as has Prince, and perhaps no other person can bring to audiences a more engaging and informed account of American theatre.

His extraordinary resume as director and/or producer includes many of the most important musicals of the past six decades from West Side Story (’50s), Fiddler on the Roof and Cabaret (’60s), Follies, Sweeney Todd and Evita (’70s), to Phantom of the Opera (’80s) and a definitive revival of Showboat (’90s). His other hits include Company, She Loves Me, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

His most recent work is LoveMusik, about which John Simon wrote “I saw it three times, and have come to think that it was very likely the best musical I have ever seen.” He will next be co-directing with Susan Stroman a new musical, Paradise Found, for the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles scheduled for next season.

In his lectures, Prince looks back on his storied career and discusses the changes that have taken place on Broadway over the years including the impact of higher ticket prices and increased corporate investment. He also speaks of his enthusiasm for regional theatre throughout America.

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Hal Prince on Broadway

“A great success… His obvious zest and love for theatre is absolutely infectious.”

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Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen S U G G E S T E D

Novelist, social critic and former Newsweek and New York Times columnist Anna Quindlen has provided audiences with her perspective on events of the day for over 30 years, delicately balancing the political with the personal.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author, Quindlen recently retired from her Newsweek column of ten years, “The Last Word,” though she will continue to write pieces for the magazine. She began her career at age 18 as a copy girl for The New York Post, joining The New York Times a few years later. Starting off as a general assignment reporter, she went on to be named deputy metropolitan editor, working to provide the paper with a strong female voice. She eventually became the third woman in the paper’s history to write for its influential Op-Ed page when she began her award-winning column “Public and Private.”

Her bestseller, One True Thing, was made into a film starring Meryl Streep and Renee Zellweger, and her bestsellers Blessings and Black and Blue were both made into TV movies. Her novel, Rise and Shine, debuted on The New York Times bestseller list at #1, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life has sold over one million copies. Her most recent book Good Dog. Stay. is about her beloved black Labrador, Beau.

Quindlen provides us with insight into issues ranging from literacy and education, to work and social justice, to medical ethics and family values. Quindlen doesn’t separate national affairs from daily life, but places them side by side, giving us a more realistic picture of modern life.

T O P I C S

An Evening with Anna Quindlen Doing Well By Doing Good Reading and Writing in a Democratic Society Media in the Modern Age How Reading Changed My Life Women in the 21st Century: The Balancing Act

“Your speech, so personal and heartfelt.... gave each of the 1,000-plus people something to think about.”

Massachusetts General Hospital

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Joshua Cooper Ramo at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Joshua Cooper Ramo S U G G E S T E D

Managing Director at Kissinger Associates and author of The Age of the Unthinkable, Joshua Cooper Ramo has been called “one of China’s leading foreign-born scholars” by The World Economic Forum. Questioning conventional thinking, Ramo puts forth a radical new model for thriving in a world of unexpected change.

Prior to entering the strategic advisory business, Ramo was an award-winning journalist and the youngest-ever Foreign Editor of TIME magazine. Among his nearly two-dozen TIME cover stories were the 1997 Man of the Year profile of Andy Grove and an award-winning profile of Kofi Annan.

In his most recent book, The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It (March 2009), Ramo argues that we are now in the midst of unprecedented change – instead of relying on our traditional models and institutions of the past, we must adapt to these changes with innovative solutions and creative problem-solving ideas to face the global challenges ahead. Forbes called it “a poignant, informed and optimistic book.”

Trained as an economist, Ramo holds degrees from the University of Chicago and New York University. He spent two sabbaticals working at AIDS hospices in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, and co-founded the US-China Young Leaders Forum. An Aspen Institute Fellow and The World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Asia21 Leaders Program.

Ramo served as China analyst for NBC during the 2008 Olympic Games and has appeared on such programs as Meet the Press, The Today Show, and Charlie Rose.

T O P I C S

The Age of the Unthinkable: A New Model For Thinking About and Thriving in an Unstable World From Google to Hizb'allah:What Revolutionaries Do Well, and What They Can Teach Us About Innovation The Chinese Century? An Inside View of Beijing's Aspirations for Power and Growth and How to Deal With It Managing in an Era of the Unpredictable

“Ramo questions conventional thinking and provides fresh ideas - something we deeply need these days.”

Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein

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Eric Ripert in the kitchen at Le Bernardin.

Eric Ripert S U G G E S T E D

Chef, author and host of PBS’ Avec Eric Eric Ripert has been honing his talents at the three-star Michelin restaurant Le Bernardin, as executive chef and co-owner, for the last 18 years. The New York Times called Ripert “a maestro, and his kitchen a finely tuned orchestra,” and has consistently given Le Bernardin a four-star rating almost since its inception.

Born and raised in southern France, Ripert began his career at a young age wielding his knives with such legendary chefs as Joel Rubechon and Jean Louis Palladin. He has garnered the highest level of respect from colleagues, critics and patrons alike for his professionalism and work ethic, not to mention palate, and has since gained wide public recognition with frequent appearances on Top Chef as a guest judge, mentor and “fan favorite.”

He is the author of three books including Le Bernardin Cookbook: Four-Star Simplicity; A Return to Cooking and his most recent, On the Line, which provides insight into the inner workings of the restaurant. From management and costs to the service and employee benefits, Ripert offers his four-star wisdom on the business of a running a successful restaurant.

Ripert is the winner of countless accolades including the French Legion of Honor and four James Beard awards. In 2005, he founded Ripert Consulting, bringing his innovative philosophy and business acumen to projects including three properties at RitzCarlton hotels.

He has been profiled by Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Gourmet, GQ and many other publications. Ripert has also been featured on Good Morning America, Charlie Rose, The Late Show, and is a frequent guest star on Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. His new show, Avec Eric, will premiere on PBS this fall 2009.

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Avec Eric: A Conversation with Eric Ripert On the Line: The Costs, The Chaos & the Triumphs Bourdain and Ripert Two Chefs. Two Unlikely Friends.

Two Very Different Careers. Two Very Different Philosophies.

Good and... Evil?

Special Programs: Available for Demos and Culinary Conversations

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Joan Rivers with Lulu.

Joan Rivers S U G G E S T E D

Comedian, TV host and CEO Joan Rivers is an icon of American culture. She is a bestselling author, Emmy Award-winning talk show host, Tony-nominated actress, Celebrity Apprentice winner, writer, director, and savvy businesswoman who has overcome great odds to reinvent herself and her career time and time again.

Rivers performs her trademark stand-up comedy act in front of sold-out audiences in the U.S. and abroad, and as a speaker, Rivers gives audiences a frank, touching and hilarious look at her life and the challenges she has met during almost 50 years in show business.

Rivers hosted The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, as well as the Emmy Award winning The Joan Rivers Show, and wrote the bestsellers Bouncing Back and Still Talking. She went on to co-host Joan and Melissa: On the Red Carpet, and became CEO of a thriving international enterprise, Joan Rivers Worldwide, which produces some of QVC’s most successful brands. Her autobiographical play, The Joan Rivers Theatre Project: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress, had a successful run in the US and the UK. Using the business expertise she’s developed over the years, Rivers recently won the 2009 season of The Celebrity Apprentice. This year she released her ninth and tenth books, Murder at the Academy Awards and Men Are Stupid...And They Like Big Boobs, and will host a new reality TV series, How’d You Get So Rich, scheduled to air on TV Land this summer. At an age when many entertainers are rendered irrelevant by trends or tabloid scrutiny, Rivers continues to beat the odds and is enjoying more success than ever.

T O P I C S

Bouncing Back: I’ve Survived Everything & You Can Too My Life in Show Business: 135 Years & Counting An Evening with Joan Rivers Don’t Count the Candles: Staying Young at Any Age Fashion from the Red Carpet with Joan Rivers (and Melissa Rivers)

“The event in Houston was a rip roaring success … truly over the top. It will live on in everyone’s memories.”

Houston Young Presidents Organization

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Douglas Rushkoff from his PBS Frontline documentary The Persuaders.

Douglas Rushkoff S U G G E S T E D

Social & media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff is one of today’s most engaging and perceptive commentators on the impact of technology and media on organizations and society. A globally recognized thought leader on marketing and internet culture, he explores how communications affect our lives.

The originator of terms and ideas from “viral media” to “screenagers” and “social currency,” Rushkoff is the author of 10 books on technology, media and pop culture including Coercion, Media Virus, Playing the Future and Cyberia, the first book on cyber culture. His works have been translated into over 25 languages.

His book, Get Back in the Box: Innovation From the Inside Out, is a thought-provoking examination of the influence of interactive communications on business. Rushkoff looks at how the new renaissance in creativity and collaboration, ushered in by the internet, gives organizations the freedom to return to core competencies and reconnect with the passion that fuels true innovation.

Rushkoff received national acclaim as the correspondent for the PBS Frontline documentaries, The Merchants of Cool and The Persuaders.

He is currently working on PBS Frontline's new multiplatform project, Digital Nation. A monthly columnist for Discover and Meeting Professionals International’s magazine, The Meeting Professional, Rushkoff is a professor of virtual culture at New York University. His latest book, Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation And How To Take It Back, was released in June 2009.

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Get Back in the Box: The Massively Underestimated Power of Basic Competency Crisis as Opportunity From Sputnik to MySpace: The New Education Race, and How to Win It Digital Natives: Teaching & Learning from an Interactive Generation

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Burt Rutan with the Global Flyer and SpaceShipOne.

Burt Rutan S U G G E S T E D

Aerospace entrepreneur and SpaceShipOne designer Burt Rutan was described by Newsweek as “the man responsible for more innovations in modern aviation than any living engineer.” A bold visionary with a passion for the advancement of technology, he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Inc. magazine and one of “the world’s 100 most influential people” in 2006 by TIME. Rutan designed the legendary Voyager, the first aircraft to circle the world nonstop without refueling. SpaceShipOne, the world’s first privately funded spacecraft, won the $10 million Ansari X Prize, created to spur the development of affordable space tourism. In a joint venture with Virgin’s Richard Branson, Rutan, as CEO of Scaled Composites, formed “The Spaceship Company” to manufacture and market spaceships for the new commercial space-flight industry.

Rutan believes that the best ideas come from the collaborative efforts of small, closely-knit project teams and an environment not limited by adversity to risk. He inspires audiences with his vision on creativity, innovation and managers’ tasks to motivate a creative team. Rutan was profiled by 60 Minutes and featured on the covers of both LIFE and TIME.

T O P I C S

Small Team, Giant Challenge: How SpaceShipOne Won the X Prize Inspiration for Innovation and the New Race for Space Breakthroughs: The Product of Innovators Managing Creative People

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Dr. Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks S U G G E S T E D

World-renowned neurologist and author Oliver Sacks has been dubbed “the poet laureate of medicine” by The New York Times. Dr. Sacks is one of the great medical writers and storytellers of our time, transforming our understanding of the human mind and restoring narrative to a central place in the practice of medicine.

With profound compassion and ceaseless curiosity, he transports us into the uncanny worlds of his neurological patients — from the surgeon with Tourette’s Syndrome who is compelled to tic every few seconds, but nonetheless performs delicate operations, to the 42year-old man struck by lightning who suddenly develops an overwhelming passion for classical music and teaches himself to play and even compose Chopinesque sonatas.

Sacks’s bestselling books including Awakenings (inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film) and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, entertain, enlighten, and inspire his many fans around the world. His latest book is Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.

In his stories of individual patients surviving and adapting to various neurological conditions, and his brilliant explorations of the nature of perception, memory, consciousness and creativity, Sacks enlarges our understanding of the complexities of the human mind.

Sacks is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and has been appointed as Columbia University Artist, a new designation at the university.

T O P I C S

Music, Healing & The Brain An Anthropologist on Mars: Cases from a Neurologist’s Notebook Awakenings Revisited Journey into Wonder: Reflections on a Scientific Boyhood Creativity & the Brain

“Our lives are much richer having met Oliver Sacks.”

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David Sanger at an IBM computer manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, China.

David E. Sanger S U G G E S T E D

Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times David E. Sanger writes compelling front-page analyses from the White House and around the globe that explain the most complex events of our time.

For over two decades as a Times correspondent, including six years as Chief White House Correspondent, Sanger has become known as one of the nation’s most lucid analysts of foreign policy, national security and the politics of globalization. His years as a foreign correspondent give him a unique view into the rise of Asia, the jockeying for power among rising and established nations, and nuclear proliferation. He has twice been a member of Times reporting teams that won the Pulitzer Prize, and his reporting on Iraq and the North Korea nuclear crisis won the Weintal Prize, one of the highest honors for foreign policy coverage.

Sanger’s New York Times bestseller, The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power (Jan. ’09), is an examination of the challenges that the tumultuous events of the past eight years have created for the new president.

Sanger’s engaging, articulate style has made him a regular on television including Washington Week, Charlie Rose, Face the Nation, and a variety of National Public Radio shows. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he is a graduate of Harvard College.

T O P I C S

The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power How Technology and Global Competition Are Changing America Prospects of Reform: What Happens When Health Care, Social Security and Huge Deficits Collide?

If Green Flashes Red: Climate Change as a National Security Threat

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Barry Scheck announcing the 200th exoneration by the Innocence Project.

Barry Scheck S U G G E S T E D

Attorney and DNA expert Barry Scheck is known for his years of landmark litigation which set standards for the use of DNA evidence in courts throughout the country. He has spearheaded a nationwide movement to re-examine the fairness and efficacy of our criminal justice system.

Scheck co-founded The Innocence Project in 1992. This national litigation and public policy organization is dedicated to reforming the criminal justice system to prevent injustice. It has used DNA evidence to exonerate more than 200 wrongfully imprisoned people, some of whom were on death row or had been incarcerated for decades.

In Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted, Scheck exposed the mishandled evidence and coercive interrogations that plague the legal process. Publisher’s Weekly called the book “an alarming wake-up call.”

A DNA expert on the O.J. Simpson defense team, he has served as Counsel in such other high-profile cases as the Louise Woodward “Nanny Murder” case and the Abner Louima sexual assault case. He has covered the Oklahoma City bombing and other trials for NBC News. A commissioner of forensic science for New York and a Professor at the Cardozo School of Law, he has been awarded one of the legal professions highest honors, Most Outstanding Criminal Defense Lawyer in America.

T O P I C S

The Innocence Project: DNA & the Wrongly Convicted Genetics & Privacy Actual Innocence & the Death Penalty Special Programs: Available for Debates

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Alice Schroeder with the subject of her New York Times bestseller, Warren Buffett.

Alice Schroeder S U G G E S T E D

Bloomberg News columnist and former regulator, CPA and all-star Wall Street analyst Alice Schroeder is the author of The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, a #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller.

The Snowball is a revealing and complete look at the life, wisdom and philosophy of Buffett, from the development of his outlook on the world and the principles he lives by to the business secrets he has never before shared publicly. It was named one of the 10 best books of the year by TIME. Schroeder -- the first analyst to be granted an interview with Buffett and the only analyst with whom he would speak -- went on leave from Morgan Stanley in 2003 to begin researching and writing the book. Recruited for this task by Buffett himself, who values the way she thinks and writes, Schroeder was given unprecedented access -- to his files, family, business associates and massive quantities of his time for interviews and questions.

Schroeder began her career as an auditor for Ernst & Young.

Before moving to Wall Street as a securities analyst, she worked as a project manager at the Financial Accounting Standards Board, where she drafted some of the most significant accounting rules affecting the insurance industry. Her 54-page report for PaineWebber on Berkshire Hathaway in 1999 was the first comprehensive look at Buffett's company and became a bestseller. She was recruited by Morgan Stanley, where she was a managing director and Institutional Investor's top-ranked property-casualty insurance analyst.

In 2008 Ms. Schroeder was chosen alongside Ben Bernanke and Hillary Clinton as one of the "People to Watch" by BusinessWeek. Risk and Insurance magazine called her "one of the most respected -- and unafraid -- thinkers on Wall Street."

T O P I C S

Managing Through a Crisis: Lessons from Warren Buffett What Went Wrong at AIG, Berkshire Hathaway, S&P, Moody's... and Others Buffett's Rules in Today's Investing World Claim Checks: Warren Buffett's Decision to Give It Away Women in Transition: The Art of Creative Change

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Anna Deavere Smith from her play Let Me Down Easy.

Anna Deavere Smith S U G G E S T E D

Playwright, actor and professor Anna Deavere Smith, hailed

by Newsweek as “the most exciting individual in American theatre,” uses her singular brand of theatre to explore issues of community, character and diversity in America.

She was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Foundation “genius” Fellowship for creating “a new form of theatre — a blend of theatrical art, social commentary, journalism and intimate reverie.”

Smith has a recurring role on the new Showtime series Nurse Jackie, played National Security Advisor Nancy McNally on NBC’s The West Wing, and has appeared in such films as Rachel Getting Married, Philadelphia and The American President. She is perhaps best known as the author and performer of two one-woman plays about racial tensions in America — Fires in the Mirror (Obie Award-winner and runner-up for the Pulitzer) and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (Obie-winner and Tony Award nominee). Interviewing subjects from all walks of life, Smith recreates their words in performance, transforming herself into an astonishing number of characters.

A tenured professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, Smith founded the Institute on the Arts & Civic Dialogue at Harvard (now at NYU). Her latest book is Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts. Her most recent play, Let Me Down Easy, explores the resilience and vulnerability of the human body.

T O P I C S

Snapshots: Glimpses of America In Change Aging: Vulnerability and Resilience Engaging the World: The Role of the Artist in Society Race in America: Crossroads of Ambiguity Doctor-Patient Relationships

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Paul Solman at Bates College.

Paul Solman S U G G E S T E D

Business and Economics Correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Paul Solman has been demystifying money matters (and, occasionally, art, sports and journalism itself) for over 25 years. With energy and wit he engages and empowers his audiences, from CEOs and MBAs to undergraduates, making business and economics comprehensible and fun.

The winner of two Peabody Awards and Emmy Awards in every decade since the ‘70’s, he has been named to TV Guide’s All-Star News “dream team.” Using every device he can think of — from teaching the tricks of Enron’s “accounting alchemy” with a magic wand and disappearing dollars to explaining earnings growth with tortilla dough — Solman has illuminated hundreds of economics stories on topics both sober (NAFTA, Cuba, Social Security reform) and light (the workings of the circus and the NFL).

In recent years his NewsHour reporting has included a sevenpart series on the rise of China and a series on the business response to global warming. He has taught at Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program and is the BradyJohnson Visitor in political economy at Yale University.

This year on The NewsHour, Solman has been doing a year-long series, “America’s Response to Globalization,” exploring the global economic challenges facing the United States, including such issues as the manufacturing renaissance in the Midwest, the export revival in California, the alternative energy revolutioin in Pittsburgh and how to create the next generation of competitive Americans. He's also been explaining hedge funds, the subprime crisis and most recently "moral hazard" at the Fed as only Solman can.

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America’s Response to Globalization China on the Rise The Economics of Global Warming The Economics of Healthcare: “The Methuselah Crisis” Financial Literacy

“From making the economy (almost) riveting, his analyses are wonderfully clear, lively, and fun.”

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Jim Stewart at his alma mater DePauw University.

James B. Stewart S U G G E S T E D

Author, Editor-at-Large and columnist for SmartMoney James B. Stewart combines the skills of an investigative reporter with the style and sensibility of a novelist, examining events in business, law and politics that shape American society. The San Francisco Examiner called him “the journalist every journalist would like to be.”

From his Pulitzer Prize- winning Wall Street Journal articles on the 1987 stock market crash to pieces about Enron and WorldCom, Stewart explores the use and abuse of power at the highest levels of government and finance.

For The New Yorker, he has written penetrating profiles from Tyco’s Dennis Kozlowski to Michael Milken. His SmartMoney column, “Common Sense,” which also runs in The Wall Street Journal, features his insights into business and investing trends.

Stewart’s book, Disney War: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom, was a New York Times bestseller and won the Loeb Award for Best Business Book. His Heart of a Soldier was named “Best Book about 9/11” by TIME. His other bestsellers include Blood Sport, Blind Eye and Den of Thieves, the definitive account of 1980s Wall Street insider trading scandals. A Harvard-educated lawyer, he is currently the Bloomberg Professor of Business and Economic Journalism at Columbia University.

T O P I C S

Melt-Down:The Credit Crisis and the Fall of Wall Street Ethics and Leadership Principles of Investing Corporate Governance & Transparency: Aftermath of the Sub-Prime Crisis Special Programs: Available for half-day and full-day seminars.

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Andrew Sullivan at the Connecticut Forum.

Andrew Sullivan S U G G E S T E D

Senior Editor and blogger at The Atlantic and columnist for the Sunday Times of London Andrew Sullivan is one of the most provocative political and social commentators today.

His blog, The Daily Dish, is found on The Atlantic.com, where his incisive and blunt observations about the news reach millions.

Playboy ranked it #1 on its list of Top 10 Political Blogs in America.

The former editor-in-chief of The New Republic, he was the youngest editor in its history and named Editor of the Year by Adweek.

In his latest book, The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back, Sullivan argues for a conservatism based on practical restraint, individual freedom, constitutional norms and skepticism.

His landmark book, Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality, was the first to advocate civil marriage rights for gay couples. He has written extensively on a wide range of issues from the crisis in the Catholic Church to the war in Iraq, civil liberties and torture.

A graduate of Oxford and Harvard and a seasoned speaker known for his sharp debating skills, Sullivan is a regular panelist on The Chris Matthews Show and Real Time with Bill Maher and appears on many other programs including Charlie Rose, Anderson Cooper 360° and Meet The Press.

T O P I C S

The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back The Blogger Breakthrough: Dispatches from a Media Revolution The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage American Politics: View from Home and Abroad

“Eloquent, gracious, enlightening and very, very, intelligent.”

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Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss S U G G E S T E D

Author, punctuation champion and humorist Lynne Truss made the proper placement of a comma more meaningful, funny and entertaining than ever before. Her #1 international bestseller, Eats Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, turned the arcane subject into must-read material with her warm, reassuring and consistently amusing commentary. The book spent 46 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and sold three million copies worldwide.

Though known in the U.K. as a broadcaster, journalist, and novelist, in the U.S., Truss is happy to be known mainly as “a grouch, or at least a champion of horrified polite people.” She followed her zero-tolerance approach to punctuation with a zero tolerance manual on wretchedly bad behavior, Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door. Addressing everything from cell phone exhibitionism to people walking four abreast on the sidewalk, it was also a New York Times bestseller.

Her latest book, The Girl’s Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can’t Manage Without Apostrophes!, is an illustrated guide to punctuation for young readers. Whether on the page or the stage, Truss’s wit and love of language makes “sticklers” out of us all.

T O P I C S

The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Why Is Everyone So Rude?

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Ronan Tynan singing the National Anthem at Yankee Stadium.

Ronan Tynan S U G G E S T E D

Irish tenor, recording artist, physician and champion disabled athlete Ronan Tynan moves audiences like few others can. His stirring performances have brought him international fame and his personal story of triumph in the face of adversity has made him one of the most soughtafter speakers today.

In recent years, Tynan has performed at many memorable events, from the 9/11 memorial services at Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden to Ronald Reagan’s funeral. His first solo album, Ronan, debuted at #2 on Billboard’s Classical Crossover Chart and was the 8th best-selling classical crossover album of 2005. His latest CD, I’ll Be Home for Christmas, is a collection of holiday songs.

The subject of an ABC 20/20 profile and the BBC documentary, Dr. Courageous, Tynan was born with a lower limb disability and had both of his legs amputated at age 20. Within a year, he was competing in the Paralympic Games. He won 18 gold medals and set 14 world records, nine of which are still in place today. He was the first disabled person ever admitted to Limerick’s National College of Physical Education and became a physician specializing in orthopedic sports injuries.

In his speeches, which include some singing, he captivates audiences with his humor and inspirational message about overcoming obstacles and living life to the fullest.

T O P I C S

Hitting the High Notes: Living Life to the Fullest Achieving Top Performance The Power of the Mind over the Body Special Programs: Available for Mini-Residencies and Master Classes

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Terry Waite addressing the Commonwealth Foundation Disability Forum.

Terry Waite S U G G E S T E D

Humanitarian, hostage negotiator and author of Taken on Trust Terry Waite has led a remarkable life as a diplomat and a humanitarian. A worldrenowned agent of peace, he is a testament to the power and resilience of the human spirit.

Waite garnered international recognition in the 1980s when, as a special envoy to the Archbishop of Canterbury, he successfully negotiated the release of hostages in Iran and then Libya. In 1987, while negotiating the release of hostages in Beirut, Waite was himself taken hostage and held in captivity for 1,763 days (four years of which were in solitary confinement).

Since September 11, he is often called upon by CNN, the BBC and other news media to share his views on Islamic fundamentalism, the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay and the best way to negotiate with hostage-takers in Iraq and elsewhere. He is the founder of Hostage UK, which advises families and companies about the global risks of hostage taking.

With a broad perspective of world affairs and a deep understanding of diverse cultures, Waite now devotes most of his time to intercultural relations, conflict resolution and humanitarian causes around the world. He is the founder and president of Y Care International and the U.K. Ambassador for the Freeplay Foundation.

T O P I C S

International Terrorism: Examining the Root Cause Reflections on Lebanon and Hezbollah: From Captivity to Today Iraq, Guantanamo & Human Rights Resolving Conflict: The Test of Humanity

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Feedback has been among the best we’ve ever received.”

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Dr. Andrew Weil in his garden.

Andrew Weil S U G G E S T E D

Physician, author and columnist Andrew Weil is one of the world’s foremost authorities on health, wellness and integrative medicine. His books, PBS specials and frequent appearances on Larry King Live have inspired people everywhere to live healthier lives. And his revolutionary work as a physician has triggered a profound change in the practice of medicine.

Named one of “the world’s 100 most influential people” by TIME, Dr. Weil is the Director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona’s College of Medicine. The program was the first to include courses on alternative therapies, mind/body interactions, healing and other subjects not currently emphasized in medical education.

His 10 books (including the international bestsellers Healthy Aging, Spontaneous Healing and 8 Weeks to Optimum Health) have sold over six million copies; five have been #1 New York Times bestsellers.

His new book, Why Our Health Matters: A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future (Sept. '09), identifies what has gone wrong with healthcare in America and offers a realistic vision of how we can achieve optimum health through personal responsibility and a new model of medicine.

As editorial director for the website, www.drweil.com, Dr. Weil oversees the direction and content of one of the top resources for healthy living. Author of a monthly column in Prevention Magazine, he has partnered with such companies as Origins, Miraval and Nature’s Path Foods promoting healthy products and services. Dr. Weil has been a guest on Oprah, Good Morning America, NPR’s Fresh Air, The Today Show and many other shows. He received his A.B. and M.D. degrees from Harvard University.

T O P I C S

Why Our Health Matters: A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future Healthy Aging Vitamins, Herbs & Alternative Therapies: What Works — What Doesn’t Optimum Health: Maximizing the Body’s Own Healing Systems

“His passion is infectious....

He ‘wowed’ the crowd with his ability to relate to their problems.”

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Jerry White with Princess Diana on a mission for Landmine Survivors Network.

Jerry White S U G G E S T E D

Global activist and executive director & co-founder of Survivor Corps Jerry White is recognized worldwide as a leading expert on survivorship and resilience. White believes that, with the right tools and support, everyone can rise above tragedy.

As a college student studying abroad in Israel in the mid-1980s, White was returning from a camping trip when the ground exploded under his feet. A landmine—leftover from the 1967 War—blew apart his right leg. After spending six months in an Israeli hospital wing with other injured men who were returning from the war in Lebanon, an inspired White transformed his traumatic experience into his life's work.

White co-founded the Landmine Survivors Network to help the hundreds of thousands of civilian landmine victims rebuild their lives.

As a leader in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, White worked alongside the late Diana, Princess of Wales and Queen Noor of Jordan in their humanitarian efforts, and his work has received praise at the highest levels, including the 1997 Nobel Prize for Peace.

Testifying before the United Nations and the US Senate, White has led the effort to establish protection for 650 million people with disabilities worldwide. Through Survivor Corps, White is now facilitating a global network of survivors overcome war and rebuild their communities with programs in 39 countries. Survivor Corps has been at the forefront of the reintegration efforts on the behalf of the returning troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

In his book, Getting Up When Life Knocks You Down: Five Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis, White shares stories from fellow survivors, takes us through the process of not only surviving tragedy, but transforming unexpected challenges into growth and opportunity.

T O P I C S

The Lessons of Survivorship: Overcoming Your Worst Day Promoting Resilience in the Workplace Real Security: How to Build a Victim-Free World Preventing Mass Destruction in Slow Motion

“A powerful speaker with great insight into the nature of violence, trauma, reconciliation and healing.

He informs and inspires with candor, experience and humor.”

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Naomi Wolf researching her next book on political ideals in Bath, England.

Naomi Wolf S U G G E S T E D

Feminist, social critic, and political activist Naomi Wolf raises awareness of the pervasive inequities that exist in society and politics. She encourages people to take charge of their lives, voice their concerns and enact change.

Wolf’s landmark international bestseller, The Beauty Myth, challenged the cosmetics industry and the marketing of unrealistic standards of beauty, launching a new wave of feminism in the early 1990s. The New York Times called it one of the most important books of the 20th century.

Wolf’s latest book, The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, is an impassioned call to return to the aspirations and beliefs of the Founding Fathers. Wolf shows how events of the last six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the 20th century’s worst dictatorships. A documentary adaptation of The End of America was relased in fall 2008 along with her follow-up book, Give Me Liberty: A Handbook For American Revolutionaries.

She is the author of, among other books, Fire With Fire: The New Female Power and Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle For Womanhood.

Wolf is co-founder of The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, an organization that teaches young women how to become leaders and agents of change in the 21st century, and co-founder of The American Freedom Campaign, a non-partisan citizens’ alliance formed to reverse the abuse of executive power and restore our system of checks and balances.

A graduate of Yale and a former Rhodes Scholar, Wolf has written essays for The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Glamour, and The New York Times.

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The Changemakers: Ethical Leadership & Real Power The End of America: A Citizen’s Call to Action Give Me Liberty: How Americans Can Restore Democracy The Beauty Myth Revisited: How Images of Beauty Are Still Used against Women Special Programs

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B.D. Wong on the set of Marco Polo.

B.D. Wong S U G G E S T E D

All the World’s a Stage: From Exclusion to Inclusion Change, Hope and Equality for Asian-Americans

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Tony Award-winning actor B.D. Wong is one of America’s most versatile performers. He plays forensic psychiatrist, Dr. George Huang, on NBC’s Law and Order: SVU. His character, Father Ray Mukada, on the HBO series, Oz, made him a cult favorite.

Wong’s impressive list of film credits include Father of the Bride, The Freshman, Seven Years in Tibet and Disney’s Mulan, but it is in the theater that Wong first gained national attention. His Broadway debut in M. Butterfly earned him the Tony Award, Outer Critic’s Circle Award, Theatre World Award, Clarence Derwent Award and Drama Desk Award. He is the only actor to have won all five awards for a single role.

In his book, Following Foo: The Electronic Adventures of the Chestnut Man, Wong recounts the personal drama that he and his partner endured on their path to parenthood — involving a surrogate, an egg from his partner’s sister and identical twins born 13 weeks prematurely and needing months of intensive care.

The lessons Wong has learned in order to survive and excel in a vocation fraught with rejection and racism have given him a keen perspective on diversity. Lauded for their resonant and inspirational messages, his presentations address many issues including racial selfimage, Asian-American parental pressure and the “model-minority myth.”

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An Artist’s Vision, An Actor’s Journey “Following Foo...”

The Family Redefined

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Fareed Zakaria S U G G E S T E D

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Editor of Newsweek International, columnist and CNN Host Fareed Zakaria, described by Esquire as “the most influential foreign policy adviser of his generation,” is widely respected for his ability to spot economic and political trends around the world.

Dr. Zakaria oversees all of Newsweek’s editions abroad, and his cover stories and columns — on subjects from globalization and emerging markets to the Middle East and America’s role in the world — reach more than 25 million readers weekly. He also is the host of a weekly international news program, Fareed Zakaria GPS, that airs on CNN Worldwide.

His new national bestseller, The Post-American World (April ‘08), is about the “rise of the rest” — the growth of China, India, Brazil and many other countries — and what it means for the future. His previous bestseller, The Future of Freedom, has been translated into 20 languages and was called "a work of tremendous originality and insight"

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Born in India and educated at Yale and Harvard, he has served as an analyst for ABC News, a roundtable member on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, and host of Foreign Exchange on PBS. At age 28, he was appointed managing editor of Foreign Affairs.

One of Jon Stewart’s favorite guests on The Daily Show, Zakaria has appeared on Charlie Rose, The NewsHour and BBC World News and written for such publications as The New Yorker and The New York Times.

His numerous honors include the Overseas Press Club Award and the Deadline Club Award for Best Columnist.

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Globalization: A New World The Future of Freedom The Energy Problem - And Solution The Next Security Crisis: Global Threats & U.S. Foreign Policy Emerging Markets: Challenges & Opportunities The Politics & Culture of the Global Economy

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