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President Mikhail Gorbachev
One of the 20th century's most pivotal leaders, Pres. Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary leadership and the democratic reforms that ended the Cold War. As a keynote speaker he continues to inspire the rest of us to lead the way towards peace, a better environment, and global democracy.

Available Programs

  • Peace in the 21st Century.
  • International Leadership.
  • Restricting Global Priorities. 

Ambassador Munir Akram
Following a long and distinguished diplomatic career as the former Permanent Representative to the United Nations from Pakistan, Ambassador Munir Akram is now ready to step out from behind the diplomatic curtain and tell what he knows and offer his perspective on what the goals of the United States should be in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and how they can be obtained.

Available Programs

  • What the united states Policy and goals should be in Pakistan and Afghanistan and how they can be obtained.
  • Economic development and climate change.
  • Nuclear proliferation and nuclear policy.

Dr. Oscar Arias
Awarded the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in ending political violence in Central America, Dr. Arias champions such issues as human development, democracy, and demilitarization, and has travelled the globe spreading his message of peace.

Available Programs
  • The Struggle for peace and justice.
  • People-centered Policy: Human Development and Human Security.
  • Moral Leadership in today's world.
  • Priorities and Ethics for the 21st Century.

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
With her father former President of Sri Lanka and mother the world’s first women Prime Minister, Kumaratunga was destined to be the first woman President of Sri Lanka. Renowned for her energy and intellect, she describes leading a nation through challenging times, including the 2004 tsunami, fighting terrorism, and assassination attempts on her life.

Available Programs
  • Conflict Resolution and Peace Building.
  • For larger freedom: Pursuit of Peace in Sri Lanka.

Dr. Mary Frances Berry
Former Chairperson of the US Civil Rights Commission, law professor, and esteemed civil rights historian, Berry continually defends the rights of all people with her actions and dedication to equality. From fair housing to equal opportunity to voter's rights, she has been a strong advocate for the disempowered and continues to emphasize the importance of developing and fostering a rich, diverse nation.

Available Programs
  • The state of Civil Rights Movement in a Post/Cosby world.
  • Race, Politics and the 2008 Elections.
  • Woman and Politics and the 2008 Elections.
  • Race, gender and the American Courts.
  • Affirmative Action: Are Political Opportunists' Exploiting Racial Fears?.

Julian Bond
Beginning with his pivotal role in the Civil Rights movement, Bond has always been on the cutting edge of social change and leadership. Legendary as the first black US vice presidential nominee, he is now Chairman of the NAACP and continues to deliver a powerful message of equality, freedom, and justice with a renewed sense of relevance.

Available Programs
  • The Road to Freedom: From Alabam to Obama.
  • Race to the White House: The politics of Civil Rights.
  • Mentoring and the Corporate Way.
  • Civil Rights: In the Day, Today and the Tomorrow.
  • Black, Jewish, Muslim: Common cause with those who share our condition.
  • Crossing the Colour Line: From Rhythm 'n Blues to Rock 'n Roll.

Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Silver Professor of Politics at New York University. An expert on international conflict, foreign policy formation, and nation building, his current research focuses on the links between political institutions, economic growth, and political change.

Available Programs
  • The Strategy of Political Campaigning.
  • Democracies and Dictatorships: Their Motivations.
  • The political Economy of Power.

The Right Honourable Kim Campbell
Having made history as Canada's first female Prime Minister, The Right Honourable Campbell is among the most celebrated world leaders. Expanding her global influence, she was instrumental as Co-Founder of Club of Madrid, an organization of current and former heads of state and government dedicated to strengthening democracy worldwide. An expert on issues relating to international politics and conflict resolution, democratization, international trade, gender, and leadership, she is like no other former head of state, making informative and engaging media appearances ranging from network news programs to Real Time with Bill Maher.

Available Programs
  • Trade, Economic Development, and Migration of People.
  • Gender and Power: How it plays out.
  • The important Role of Education and Economic Empowerment of Woman to achieve development.
  • The Role of leaders in Democratic Transitions.
  • Healthcare Systems of Canada and the US: What works where and why.
  • The Social dimensions of Climate Change.

Geoffrey Canada
Profiled on 60 Minutes, Canada has achieved great success as President and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, an agency that fuses community building with academic achievement to improve the futures of inner city youth. An innovative educator, youth advocate, and the author of Reaching Up for Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America, he offers a unique vision of leadership.

Available Programs
  • Leadership is only as great as those around you.
  • Improving the lives of Children, One poor child at a time.
  • Levelling the playing field, Helping poor children to succeed.

Harvey Z. Chen
Chen is founder and Chairman of the First Light Academy, an innovative executive education institution for Chinese and international executives doing business with China. He is also CEO-China Operations of First Light’s parent company, Global EduTech Management Group (GEM), an educational investment holding and management group dedicated to developing private education ventures in China and Southeast Asia.

Available Programs
  • Reforming from within: Economy, Education, Enterprise in China.
  • Global Partnerships for Education in China: Breaking down the Barriers.
  • A Western Understanding of China from the Eastern Holistic Point of View.
  • The legal Opportunities and Mine Fields of Doing Business in China.
  • Going Overseas: General Trends and Decision Making for Businesses.

Mr. Ted Childs
As IBM's Vice President of Global Workforce Diversity, Childs oversaw IBM's model workforce diversity programs and policies. Called "perhaps the most effective diversity executive on the planet," by Hewitt Magazine, he helps companies, organizations, and communities understand the importance of diversity education to succeed in today's global environment.

Available Programs
  • The link between Diversity and Global Competitiveness.
  • Go Global, Go Diverse, Get Ahead.
  • The Business Case for Diversity.
  • The Promise of Diversity and Changes in the Market Place.
  • The Diversity Imperative: Strategies for Success in the Global Workplace.

Steve Curwood
We all know the doom and gloom about our lifestyles and the planet. But Curwood, Host and Executive Producer of “Here on Earth” on NPR, details how we have the power to keep the Armageddon of our planet from happening. All we have to do is act smart about how we live, transforming challenges into opportunities for change.

Available Programs
  • The Good News about Global Warming.
  • Investing in the New Energy Economy.
  • Media and the environmental crisis.
  • Living on Earth.

Robert Draper
In his best selling book, Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, Robert Draper pulls back the curtain on the Bush White House in a truly objective portrait of President George W. Bush as the man and the President, thoroughly examining America’s first MBA President, his leadership, and management style. Neither a hatchet job nor a puff piece, Draper offers a view into The White House unfettered by any personal political perspective.

Available Programs
  • Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W Bush.
  • America's First MBA President: The Leadership and Management of the Bush Administration.

Dr. Michael Eric Dyson
Named by Essence magazine as one of the 50 most inspiring African Americans, Dyson is one of the nation's most renowned public intellectuals, revitalizing the role with the fervor of an ordained Baptist minister. Called "a street fighter in a suit and tie," he takes on the toughest and most controversial issues of the day, including race, politics, and pop culture with his fearless and fiery rhetoric.

Available Programs
  • Race Rules.
  • What have we come to? Wars between Generations.
  • African American Influence on Pop Culture.
  • Dr King for the 21st Century.
  • Is Bill Cosby Right? Or has the Black Middle Class Lost its mind?
  • Come hell or high water: Hurricane Katrina and the colour of disaster.

Shirin Ebadi
An extraordinary woman of many firsts, Iranian lawyer and activist Ebadi has made history as the first Muslim to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous defence of human rights in Iran. One of the most intelligent, passionate, and respected voices of dissent from within this complex nation, she speaks to the world about democracy and the fundamental rights of women, children, and all individuals.

Available Programs
  • Iran Awakening: A Story of Revolution and Hope. The Role of Women in World Peace. True Islam: Human Rights and the Role of Faith..

Maria Echaveste
As the former Assistant to President Clinton and Deputy Chief of Staff, Echaveste was the highest-ranking female Hispanic Official at the White House. She previously served as Administrator of the US Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, and worked extensively on the Department's anti-sweatshop effort.

Available Programs
  • The growing political, social and Economic influence of Hispanic Americans: Myth or Reality?.
  • Globalization: Can consumers make a difference?
  • The Border: Are we Ready for it to disappear?
  • The Intersection among politics, policy and communications.

Jonah Edelman
One of the most inspiring leaders of his generation and one of the country’s leading voices for children, Edelman is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Stand for Children. In his inspirational presentation he teaches advocacy skills to those who work with at-risk populations. By pioneering innovative strategies for advocacy, he galvanizes the next generation to stand for children.

Available Programs
  • Making a Bigger Impact for Children: A new model for Child advocacy.
  • Education Reform and Innovation: Equipping students to succeed in the Global Economy.
  • From good to great: Creating a higher Performing Organization.
  • What works: Identifying and supporting children's' programs that make the greatest impact.

Mickey Edwards
Serving as a member of Congress for 16 years, he was a senior member of the House Republican leadership as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, a member of both the House Appropriations and Budget Committees, and ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Foreign Operations. He is now a lecturer at Princeton, political columnist and author of Reclaiming Conservatism.

Available Programs
  • Reclaiming conservatism.

David Eisenhower
Grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, David is an esteemed political scientist and historian with great insight into American history and the leaders who have shaped it. He is also author of "Eisenhower: At War".

Available Programs
  • The War in Europe: 1943-45.
  • The Cold War.
  • The Historical Context of recent presidencies.

Dr. David Elkind
Renowned psychologist and author of "Reinventing Childhood". Provides the information and guidance that parents and teachers need to work effectively with the new generation of children in our care.

Available Programs
  • The Hurried Child.
  • All grown up and no place to go.
  • Miseducation: Pre-school are at risk.
  • Children in Crisis.
  • The Power of play: Rearing Healthy Children in a stressful world.

President Cesar Gaviria
Former Colombian President César Gaviria --known in Latin America as a conflict mediator, advocate of democracy, staunch supporter of regional integration and defender of human rights-- also served as the first elected Organization of American State (OAS) Secretary General.

Available Programs
  • Doing business in Latin America: Understanding the economical and Political Climate.
  • Conflict resolution.
  • Challenges faced by China, India, and Latin America.
  • Leadership in an uncertain world.
  • The Socio-Econmic importance of Protecting our world's oceans.
  • The war on drugs.

Rob Gifford
Serving as NPR's China correspondent from 1999-2005, he now is NPR's London correspondent and recently published his first novel, China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power.

Available Programs
  • China Road: A journey into the Future of a Rising Power.
  • A view of the rest of the World from Europe.

Dr. James Gilligan
Psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School. Author of Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic. Known for his insight into the psychology of crime and punishment and the prevention of violent behaviour.

Available Programs
  • Violent Children: An American crisis.
  • Understanding the Epidemic of Youth Violence.
  • Crime and Punishment.
  • Apocalyptic Fundamentalism, Terrorism and suicide bombers.
  • Political and economic causes of violent crime in the US.

Dr. Peter J. Gomes
As minister of Harvard University’s Memorial Church, Rev. Gomes is one of the most distinguished and respected preachers as well as author of numerous best-selling books, including The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart and his most recent, The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus. Deeply vested in humanity and compassion for mankind, he offers a clarion call to embrace joy, rise to the good life, and enact Biblical wisdom in daily living.

Available Programs
  • The Good Life: Truths that last in times of need.
  • Strength for the journey: Biblical wisdom for Daily Living.
  • The bible today: Tough Truths for tender people.
  • Values and Morals in an age of uncertainty.
  • Race, Anti-Semitism, Feminism, Homosexuality: The challenge of Inclusion.

David Goodman
David Goodman is an award-winning journalist and author of seven books, three bestsellers and the critically acclaimed Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa. He has reported from Sudan, Liberia, and elsewhere throughout Africa on war, AIDS, and travelled secretly inside apartheid South Africa.

Available Programs
  • Standing up to the Mandess: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary times - How citizens can change the ??<text cut off>
  • Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders and the people who fight back - war media censorship and ???<text cut off>
  • Truth and Reconciliation: A rare Eyewitness account of South Africa's transformation from apartheid to ???<text cut off>.

Lou Gossett Jr.
As one of the most sought after veteran actors, Oscar winner Gossett has reached the heights of success. His unique talent for portraying powerful and charismatic characters has charmed audiences worldwide. As Founder of the Eracism Foundation, he is dedicated to fighting racism, ignorance, and social apathy.

Available Programs
  • Our way of living is killing the planet.
  • Eracsim: eradicating racism for the future.
  • Hollywoods red light for African American History and Heroes.
  • Stop crying and do something: African American Empowerment.

Erin Gruwell
Erin Gruwell leveraged the power of education to transform Long Beach's "unteachables," by teaching tolerance through literature and writing. Her tenacity and commitment to her students is chronicled in The Freedom Writers Diary - How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. Paramount Pictures has developed this remarkable story into a major film, Freedom Writers, featuring Hilary Swank as Gruwell.

Available Programs
  • Becoming a catalyst for change.
  • Teaching Tolerance.
  • Nurturing the leader within.

Roya Hakakian
A celebrated poet and filmmaker, Roya Hakakian has collaborated on over a dozen hours of programming for some of the most prestigious journalism units on network television, and has authored two highly acclaimed collections of poetry. Her most recent publication, Journey from the Land of No, is a memoir of growing up a Jewish teenager in post-revolutionary Iran.

Available Programs
  • Journey from the land of No: A girlhood caught in revolutionary Iran.
  • The fundamentals of an Iranian in Exile.
  • Iran 101: An insiders guide to a country in turmoil.
  • The Jews of Iran today.

Chris Hedges
A graduate of Harvard Divinity School and a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, he writes and speaks extensively on war, religion and the conflict in the Middle East. He is the author of the bestseller War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a book that draws on the many conflicts he covered to explore what war does to societies and individuals. His most recent work is I Don’t Believe in Atheists.

Available Programs
  • War is a force that gives us meaning.
  • American Fascists: The Christian right and the war on America.
  • The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
  • The new atheists as Secular Fundamentalists.
  • Covering War and conflict as a foreign correspondent.
  • Moral Choice in the Times of War.

Marc Lamont Hill
As an activist, scholar, and cultural critic, Marc Lamont Hill is one of America’s leading Hip-Hop generation intellectuals. His work, covering topics such as popular culture, politics, sexuality, education, and religion, has appeared in numerous journals, magazines, books, and anthologies. He has lectured widely and provides commentary for media outlets which include NPR, Washington Post, Essence Magazine, and New York Times.

Available Programs
  • The state of the Hip Hop nation.
  • The Obama Effect: Does the real left wing still Exist?
  • Education Matters: Creating Educational Equality for all students.
  • The War on Youth.
  • The New Black church.
  • Black sexuality.
  • Race, Politics and American Life.
  • The role of Public Intellectuals in America.

Gish Jen
Refusing to follow tradition, Jen blazes her own trail. Named one of the premier novelists of the 21st century by John Updike, she writes on the experiences of diverse cultures and their joys and struggles adapting to America. She is the best-selling author of Typical American and The Love Wife.

Available Programs
  • Rewriting America: One writers Experience.
  • Updating the American Dream.
  • Ethnic Identity in America.

President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Internationally known as Africa’s “Iron Lady,” President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became the first woman to lead an African nation. A Harvard educated former World Bank economist, she is a leading promoter of peace, justice, and democratic rule, working tirelessly end the corruption that has plagued her country.

Available Programs
  • Combating corruption and crime to foster Peace.
  • Poverty and Development, conflict and Peace.
  • The challenges of lasting Peace.
  • Africa and its place in the World.
  • Leading the World with the Iron Lady's touch.

David Cay Johnston
As one of America's top investigative reporters, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times, and author of Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else, Johnston easily breaks down the wealth of information on disparities of the US tax system, including his revelation that the tax system really is stacked in favor of the wealthy.

Available Programs
  • Incomes: How government Policies affect how much you make.
  • Pocketbook stories of the rich and famous: From Bill Gates to the millionaire next door.
  • Why Adam Smith would be aghast at how "deregulation" has remade the American economy.

Robin Kelley
Author and historian Robin D.G. Kelley is one of the most distinguished experts on African American studies and a celebrated professor who has lectured at some of America’s highest learning institutions. He is currently Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.

Available Programs
  • Before Obama: How black folks saved American Democracy.
  • Teaching to change the world: Transforming Public Education.
  • The secret Racial History of American Prosperity.
  • Thelonious Monk: The life and Music of an American Genius.
  • Another Reconstruction?: Race Respirations in Post Katrina America.
  • 'We Threaten the World': African Americans and the US Empire.

Rami George Khouri
Khouri knows the Middle East like few other journalists. As the Editor-at-Large of The Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon, he reports from ground zero of the conflict as it unfolds. A Palestinian-Jordanian, educated in both the Middle East and the US, he is a widely respected international political columnist. He travels from the Middle East to offer current and fresh reports and analysis on what is happening beyond "the green zones."

Available Programs
  • The US a good Umpire: Understanding America's role in the middle east using the rules of baseball ??<text missing> 
  • What has broken down? The perils and promise of communication between the Arab world, the middle east ???<text missing>
  • Ethics and philosophy of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish relations: a full circle viewpoint.
  • The truth about Muslim nations: coming to grips with the Issues of culture, governments, business and ???<text missing>
  • Truths and untruths about the Middle East in American Media.
  • A view from the Arab world: A fair, accurate, detailed perspective of the US.
  • All people are Equal: Its in the gospels, Koran, the Torah, the UN Charter and the baseball rule book.

Naomi Klein
Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of the international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Exploring the flaws of neoliberal economics and globalization, her stunning revelations and well-researched insight provides a backdrop to the connections between the environment, economy, and politics.

Available Programs
  • The shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.

Jay Kopelman
During his last tour of duty in Iraq, international bestselling author Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman of the US Marines adopted an abandoned puppy left behind during the battle for Fallujah. Upon his return to the US, he recounted the remarkable story in The New York Times bestselling memoir, From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava.

Available Programs
  • From Baghdad with Love: A Marine, The War and a dog named Lava.
  • A Marine's eye view of the war in Iraq.
  • Leadership under Difficult Circumstances.
  • How do we win the war on terror.

Mr. Nicholas Kristof
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, Kristof is an extraordinary thinker, human rights advocate, and astute chronicler of humanity. As a seasoned journalist who has travelled the major roads and minor byways of China, Africa, India, and South Asia, he offers a compassionate glimpse into the issues focusing on global health, poverty and gender in the developing world. As co-author of China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, he explores the people, culture, and power of China.

Available Programs
  • One woman at a time: Turning Oppression into Opportunity worldwide.
  • Reporting the truths of the world.
  • The World as I see it: Moving to a do-it-yourself Foreign Policy.
  • A Haunting Portrait of genocide in Darfur.

Robert Kuttner
Robert Kuttner is a leading political economist, speaker and author who seeks to broaden the public debate on how to achieve a prosperous and fair economy.

Available Programs
  • Obama's Challenge: The Promise and Perils of the Obama Presidency.
  • The Challenge of Rescuing the Financial System.
  • Restoring America as a Middle Class Society.
  • Globalisation and the Good Society.
  • A new Deal for America's youth.

Gerald Levin
Gerald M. Levin, until May of 2002, was the Chairman and CEO of Time Warner Inc., at that time the world's largest media and entertainment company, with industry-leading businesses in publishing and news, cable networks, filmed entertainment, cable systems, music and interactive services.

Available Programs
  • Globalization and Corporate Social Responsibility.
  • Management as a Humanist Art.
  • Media and Entertainment.
  • Spirituality and the human condition.

Judith Levine
After 30 years as a journalist, activist, and author, Levine became environmentally motivated to cut her consumerism back to the basics. She spent one year buying only the necessities of life, and then penned her experiences in the memoir Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping.

Available Programs
  • Not Buying it: Frugal, Fun and freeing – Lessons from my year without shopping.
  • Changing Budgets, Changing Values: How the recession might make life better.
  • Youth Sexuality: What we fear and what we ought to fear.
  • Still there: What my fathers alzheimers taught me about love, family and personhood.
  • Children's sexuality and pleasure: Do we dare say the words?

Bernard-Henri Levy
Lévy is one of the most highly acclaimed philosophers, journalists, activists and best-selling authors in Europe today. A celebrated thinker, his works of philosophy, fiction, and biography included in his over 30 books, have made him one of the world’s most admired intellectuals. Now Lévy has crossed the Atlantic with his newest bestseller, American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville.

Available Programs
  • American Vertigo: Travelling America in the footsteps of Tocqueville.
  • The rise and fall of Anti-Americanism.
  • What is the new meaning of American in the world?
  • Why it still is a great Nation.
  • Is American still an Empire? Where does it figure in with with emerging superpowers China and India?
  • The war on Terror in the US, Europe and the middle East.
  • Who killed Daniel Pearl?

Rich Lowry
Lowry is considered the gatekeeper of the mainstream conservative moment in our country as the editor of National Review and as a political analyst for Fox News. Intellectual, yet down to earth, conservative and fair-minded, he examines the issues of today with a challenging and engaging perspective.

Available Programs
  • The Future of Politics.
  • War on Terror.
  • Whither the GOP.
  • What is Conservatism?

Michael Patrick MacDonald
Author of the incendiary New York Times bestselling memoir All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, and the companion bestseller Easter Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion, MacDonald shares his remarkable story of survival and redemption while examining the tangled relationship between poverty and class he witnessed growing up in South Boston. Looking ahead, he encourages everyone to find their personal voice through their struggles, engage in civic participation, activism, and the political process to impact change.

Available Programs
  • All souls: A Family story from a Southie.
  • Easter Rising: A Memoir of roots and rebellion.
  • Trauma, Healing and Social Justice Work: Finding voice in the aftermath of trauma.
  • Race and class in America.
  • Coalition building for Change.
  • Non fiction writing around Social Justice Issues.

Dr. Manning Marable
One of America's most influential and widely read scholars, Marable is Professor of History and Founding Director of the African American Studies Institute at Columbia University. A fervent activist and prolific author, he explores issues of black leadership and politics, culture and society.

Available Programs
  • Rediscovering Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.
  • Diversity and Democracy in American Education: Making Multiculturalism work.
  • Living Black History: How Re-imaging The African-American past can remake America's Racial Future.

Jack McGuire
Jack McGuire served as interim President and CEO of the American Red Cross from December 13, 2005 – May 28, 2007. He will continue to serve as Executive Vice President of Biomedical Services, the position he assumed in March 2004, through July 15, 2007.

Available Programs
  • Strategic Leadership,Change management and culture change.
  • Corporate Governance and Ethics: What could they have done differently.
  • Turnaround Management.
  • Succession Planning.
  • Disaster Preparedness: Things you can do to avoid major losses in disaster.

Aaron McGruder
Creator of "The Boondocks" comic strip and animated series, McGruder is a young, fresh, and outspoken political satirist who dispenses social commentary with subversive humor. In his insightful presentation, "Negrology, the State of Black America," he demystifies all aspects of the truth about where African Americans are today and peers into the future of where they will be tomorrow.

Available Programs
  • Because I know you don't read the newspapers.
  • A right to be hostile.
  • The ethics of dissent.
  • The Politics of the Boondocks.

Rigoberta Menchu-Tum
Menchu-Tum's passionate efforts for simple and basic human rights for the indigenous and aboriginal Indians of Guatemala have established her as one of the premier advocates of peace. Her work has gained international attention, improved human rights, and earned her the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize.

Available Programs
  • Culture of Peace. Human Rights: Justice and the Fight Against Impurity.
  • Identity and Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Kweisi Mfume
Former President and CEO of the NAACP, Maryland Congressman, and Chairman of the Black Congressional Caucus, Mfume is credited with rebuilding and revitalizing the NAACP. As a leader, activist, and seasoned political voice for diversity, he continues to follow his dream of impacting society and shaping a more humane public policy to create important change in America.

Available Programs
  • Obama's America: Where do we go from here.
  • Coalition Politics in the making of a Black President.
  • Racism, Sexism and Anti-Semitism (old wine in new bottles)
  • Ending disparities in Public Health.
  • Race, Leadership, Faith and Philosphy – Why Jesus was a revolutionary.
  • Gender, Race and Public Opinion in 2009 and Beyond.
  • Benefiting from Corporate Diversity (Making Multiculturalism work)
  • Corporate Diversity for Repositioning and productivity Blacks, Whites and Latinos – A Conversation before Crisis.

Judith Miller
Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent at The New York Times, Miller writes about national security issues, with special emphasis on the Middle East, terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction. A remarkable speaker, Miller balances the frightening issues we need to face with hope for the future.

Available Programs
  • Ethica and Journalism: Does the right to know Trump the Right to Security?
  • First Amendment Threats, Growing Government Secrecy, what it means to the Average Citizen.
  • Is Journalism Failing us? The Tenuous state of the third estate in our time.
  • US Foreign Policy.
  • Islamic Militency in the Middle East.
  • National Security.

Larry Miller
More that just a brilliant comedic actor who has appeared in Seinfeld and Pretty Woman, Miller is also a contributing humorist for The Weekly Standard where he displays his true colors as a political everyman. He says the things everyone wants to say about politics and American life in his book, Spoiled Rotten America: Outrages of Contemporary Life.

Available Programs
  • Its not Left of Right: Its up or Down.
  • Saying things everybody is thinking: The political everyman Looking for peace of mind.
  • Spoiled rotten America: Outrages of Contemporary Life.

Marc Morial
In a distinguished professional career that has spanned 25 years, Marc Morial has served as one of the most accomplished servant-leaders in the nation.

Available Programs
  • Redefining Civil Rights.
  • Economic Empowerment of Africna Americans.
  • Energizing our Youth - Definng your generation!
  • Recommendations for our new president.
  • Government, Leadership and Management.
  • Urban Development and Politics.

Carlos Munoz
Dr. Muñoz has been honored as one of 28 1960s civil rights activists "Who accomplished Extraordinary Deeds that changed the face of the Nation and gave birth to the Modern Civil Rights Movement." He was the founding chair of the first Chicano Studies department in the nation in 1968 at the California State University at Los Angeles and is a pioneer in the creation of undergraduate and graduate curricula in the disciplines of Ethnic Studies. Dr. Muñoz has been honored as one of 28 1960s civil rights activists "Who accomplished Extraordinary Deeds that changed the face of the Nation and gave birth to the Modern Civil Rights Movement." He was the founding chair of the first Chicano Studies department in the nation in 1968 at the California State University at Los Angeles and is a pioneer in the creation of undergraduate and graduate curricula in the disciplines of Ethnic Studies. He is the author of numerous works on the Mexican American political experience and on African American and Latino political coalitions.

Available Programs
  • Latinos and their growing impact on the 2008 Presidential Elections.
  • Diversity and Multicultural Democracy.
  • The Chicano Civil Right Movement.
  • Immigration Rights and Social Justice.
  • Latino/as and the Politics of Race.
  • Latino/as and Dr King's Legacy.

Ralph Nader
Former Green Party candidate for president and one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential Americans of the 20th Century," Ralph Nader has always been a voice fighting for the people on the issues that matter most: healthcare, safety, environment, ethics, education, economic and social equality. As a keynote speaker and the world's most renowned consumer advocate, many of his once "controversial ideas," such as seat belts and air bags are now a vital part of our safety as Nader continues to soldier on, offering wise solutions to many of America's problems.

Available Programs
  • Democracy and its erosions: Big business and the American Duopoly.
  • Going Green: Getting it to the Bottom Line.
  • The Corporatisation of America: What it means for your dreams.
  • Careless Healthcare, Denied Healthcare - Why do we take them?
  • Losing control, Recovering Control in the consumer marketplace.

Jehane Noujaim
Noujaim's controversial documentary Control Room, about the Arabic-language cable news station Al Jazeera, called into question the prevailing images and positions offered up by the US news media about the war in Iraq. The Los Angeles Times said Control Room gives us a "glimpse of a world where everything is reversed, where our most cherished preconceptions are called into question and reality proves to be a more complex business than we imagined."

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  • Different Channels, Different Truths.

Mr. John Passacantando
As Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, Passacantando leads the fight for clean air, clean water, and survival of the planet. Offering a chilling “State of the Planet” address, he does his job well, raising awareness, proposing solutions and actions that will spur everyone to work harder and smarter to save our planet.

Available Programs
  • Your Environment, My Environment: A fight for Survival.
  • The state of the Planet.

Raj Patel
A controversial author, journalist and food policy expert, he continuously challenges our presumptions about the global food economy with his work both as a policy analyst and activist. He has worked for some of the most prestigious international organizations and protested against them, and constantly works to find ways to improve the global food system. In his newest work, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, Patel discusses the growing worldwide food crisis and what needs to be done to solve it.

Available Programs
  • Stuffed and Starved: the Hidden battle for the world food system.
  • Promised Land: Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform.


Kevin Powell
As a talented political activist, poet, journalist, essayist, hip-hop historian, public speaker, and entrepreneur, Powell is widely considered one of America's most important voices in these early years of the 21st Century. An astute and enlightening observer, he comments on race, gender, class, and American pop culture and politics.

Available Programs

  • The Politics of Media Activism: A public conversation between John Buffalo Mailer and Kevbin Powell.
  • Black and Male America.
  • From Rose Parks to Hurricane Katrina: Civil Rights in America.
  • Living in a Multicultural America.
  • Who's Gonna take the weight? Developing New Leaders for a new century.
  • Let's get it started: Redefining American Manhood.
  • History is a People memory: The importance of Black History Month.
  • American Politics and Civic Engagement.
  • Social Activism.
  • Sexism from a Male Perspective.
  • Black and Male in America.
  • Someday we'll all be free: Young America, Voting, and the New Activism.

Dan Rather
For decades, Rather was the face of the news as CBS News anchorman and reporter, he delivered audiences the most defining moments in our recent history. He continues to call them as he sees them as a keynote speaker on media and national issues, and as the host of Dan Rather Reports on HD Net. As a speaker, his breadth of experience in news and politics and characteristic folksy wit always leave the audience informed, awed, and entertained.

Available Programs
  • An Evening with Dan Rather: My thoughts and Observations.
  • What I have learned from a lifetime of Reporting.
  • Changing the dynamics of Media: Keeping Citizens informed.
  • The substance of Leadership in the Modern Presidency.
  • Economy as the first line of defence.
  • Hard Times, Then and Now.
  • The new world of Journalism, Internet, blogging and podcasting.
  • All Foreign Policy is local, All economics is global.
  • Journalism in Crisis.
  • After the Election.
  • From Selma to Obama and Beyond.

Tom Ricks
Seasoned by reporting on global military conflict for decades, Washington Post Pentagon Correspondent Ricks spent five tours of duty in Iraq to get to the nitty gritty in his New York Times bestseller Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. Ricks has also been recognized as a Pulitzer Prize winner for his coverage of the US military and counterterrorism during his lengthy tenure at The Wall Street Journal.

Available Programs
  • The War in Irag: Where we go from here.
  • Fiasco: The inside story of what went wrong in the Iraq war.
  • Bombs over Baghdad: What a long, strange war its been.
  • The long Journey Home: The road since 9/11.

Rev. Eugene Rivers
A firebrand preacher from the streets of Boston, Rev. Rivers is an eloquent and impassioned voice of faith. Through his activism and sheer force of conviction, he speaks the truth about fighting violence and crime, resurrecting hope for our children and ourselves.

Available Programs
  • Racial Politics of 2008 Presidential Campaign.
  • Black-on-Black Violence.
  • Marital Instability in Black Families.
  • Us Foreign Policy as it Relates to AIDS in Africa.
  • Trends in Islamic Presence in the Black Community.
  • Impact of China in Africa on US Foreign Policy.

President Mary Robinson
As first female President of Ireland, Robinson increased the status of the nation. Formerly the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, she now advises businesses worldwide on ethical practices and management. In addition to her role as Executive Director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative, she is one of five members of the MasterCard Foundation that focuses on microfinance, youth entrepreneurship, and education.

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  • Enterprise and ethical globalization.
  • Making human rights the compass for all ethical globalization.
  • A woman leading the world.
  • United Nations/Office of the high commissioner.
  • Corporate social responsibility.

Paul Rusesabagina
Considered the "Rwandan Schindler," Rusesabagina saved over 1,200 lives during the Rwandan Genocide. His story is chronicled in both his book, An Ordinary Man, and the Oscar-nominated film, Hotel Rwanda, a riveting account of a man finding strength within himself to save others in the midst of his country's darkest moment. As a global humanitarian, he works tirelessly to make certain we understand the lessons of Rwanda to prevent future disasters.

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  • Hotel Rwanda: A lesson yet to learned..

Mr. Josh Rushing
Rushing has gone from US Marine Corps Captain conducting daily press briefings in Iraq to celebrated military correspondent and analyst for Al Jazeera English to author of Mission Al Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World. He delivers news from a unique prism of experience, providing accurate and impartial reporting with an international perspective.

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  • Al-jeer and America's Image: What's at stake. Spin: The art of selling war..

Roberto Salas
Photographer and photojournalist, Salas is an American citizen who lived in Cuba for nearly 50 years. He has documented the stories of the controversial nation, the saga of the its revolution, and the life of its enigmatic leader, publishing some of the last photos taken of a robust Castro.

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  • Fidel's Cuba: A revolution in Pictures.

Jeremy Scahill
An award-winning investigative journalist and frequent contributor to The Nation magazine, Scahill is widely viewed as one of the world's leading experts on privatized warfare. His first book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army is a New York Times bestseller.

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  • Blackwater: The rise of the worlds most powerful Mercenary Army.

Mr. Anthony Shadid
He is the Middle East Correspondent for the Washington Post. Since 9/11, he has reported from most of the countries in the Middle East, from Egypt to Syria to Israel and Palestine, where he was wounded in the back while covering fighting in 2002 in the West Bank.

Available Programs
  • Night draws near: Iraq's people in the shadow of America's war.
  • Dispatches from the middle east: Current reporting from the front lines.
  • Legacy of the prophet: Despots, Democrats and the new politics of Islam.

Claire Shipman
An experienced broadcast journalist who has covered stories in both the United States and Moscow, Shipman can be seen as the senior national correspondent for ABC News' Good Morning America. She has also reported on presidential policy and politics for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw and The Today Show.

Available Programs
  • A view from Washington.
  • Observations: Leadership in changing world.
  • On the Campaign Trail.

Bob Simon
During the last quarter of a century Simon, an Emmy Award-winning CBS news correspondent, has covered every major armed conflict suffered by the world. In his edge-of-the-seat presentation, he shares first-hand accounts of Lebanon, Serbia, Namibia and the terrifying forty days he was held hostage in Iraq during the Gulf War.

Available Programs
  • Bringing the event of the globe home.
  • Reporting from the Frontline.
  • Forty Days: My own story of the Golf War.

Gillian Sorensen
Sorensen, Senior Adviser at the United Nations Foundation is a national advocate on matters related to the UN and the US – UN relationship, addressing audiences as diverse as Rotary International and the Air Force Academy; University students; staff and Members of Congress; newspaper editorial writers and television correspondents.

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  • Women World Leaders.
  • The Power of Personal Diplomacy.
  • Create a better World.
  • See Beyond the Borders: Having a worldview.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu
A Nobel Peace Laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu served as South Africa's voice of conscience during its long struggle against apartheid, soothing the spirits and rallying the hearts of his people as head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. As a highly regarded and inspirational keynote speaker, he continues to speak out for the causes of justice, peace, and reconciliation throughout the world.

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  • Crying in the wilderness: The struggle for justice in South Africa.
  • Bridging the Chasm between Black and White.
  • Africa's rebirth.
  • The hunger for transcendence: The search for spiritual values in today's world.

Craig Unger
Craig Unger is author of the New York Times bestseller, House of Bush, House of Saud. Unger and his work are featured prominently in Michael Moore's blockbuster, Fahrenheit 9/11. He appears frequently as an analyst on terrorism, Saudi-American relations and the oil industry on CNN, the ABC Radio Network and many other broadcast outlets. He has served as deputy editor of the New York Observer and editor of Boston Magazine.

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  • Elephant in the Living: How and why the mainstream Media Missed the story behind Wao <text missing>
  • Endgame: Ho global politics, Terrorism and the Iraq war led to the energy Crisis of the Next Decade.
  • The fall of the House Bush: How a group of true believers put American on the road to Armageddon.

President Lech Walesa
Using his power of persuasion to promote his vision of peace and equality, Walesa led the Solidarity Labor Movement that brought about the downfall of Poland's Communist leadership. For his heroic efforts, Walesa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and went on to become the first democratically elected President of Poland. He remains an influential global leader today, offering his unique perspective on the US and the status of the new world economic order.

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  • The impact of an expanded NATO on Global Security.
  • Democracy: The never ending battle.
  • Solidarity: The new Millennium.

Armstrong Williams
Most recognized conservative voice in America. Entrepreneur and third-generation Republican. Host of "The Right Side with Armstrong Williams".

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  • Civil Rights and Relations: From a conservative viewpoint.
  • Provocative and refreshing: Examining issues close to America's heart.
  • Morality and the media.

Juan Williams
Prize-winning columnist and editorial writer for The Washington Post, Juan Williams is also NPR’s Senior Correspondent and a keynote speaker on issues including diversity, ethics, leadership, media and national issues. There are few voices as clear and intelligent on the power of diversity within today's business, political and cultural climates.

Available Programs
  • Enough - The phony Leaders, dead end movements and the culture of failure that we are.
  • American Leadership - stories of inspiration and power behind proven leaders.
  • Changing votes - The changing faces of US politics.
  • Eyes on the prize: The truths of American Race Relations.
  • Understanding the changing face of America: Business Media and the work place.
  • The latest from Washington - An insiders view.

Patricia J. Williams
She writes the monthly "Diary of a Mad Law Professor" for the Nation magazine. Her wry, witty columns cover broad issues of social justice, including the rhetoric of the war on terror, race, ethnicity, gender, all aspects of civil rights law, bioethics and eugenics, forensic uses of DNA, and comparative issues of class and culture in the US, France, and Britain.

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  • The eradication of prejudice.
  • Seeing a colour-blind future.
  • Black-Jewish relations.
  • Martin Luther King.
  • Bioethics and the marketing of a new Eugenics.
  • Comparative Ethic, cultural, class and religious clashes in the US, Britain and France.
  • History of and contemporary crises in Civil Rights.

John Zogby
President and CEO of Zogby International, and author of The Way We’ll Be, John Zogby remains by all accounts the hottest and most accurate pollster in the United States today. No one can tell you more about what’s happening—from politics to social trends—than Zogby.

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  • The way we'll be: The zogby report on the transformation of the American dream.
  • Keeping ahead of the curve: The science of making informed strategic decisions.

Peter Thum
Nestled in the coolers of more than 8,000 Starbucks stores, sits Ethos Water, a 23.6-ounce bottle festooned with a map of the world. What distinguishes it from other brands? The company was founded by Peter Thum, a former McKinsey consultant, who dreamed of providing clean drinking water to Third World countries by selling bottled water in the West.

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  • Ethos water: realising my dream to help millions and address the world water crisis.
  • What does it take to overcome the tyranny of instrumentalism.
  • Ethical branding and corporate responsibility.