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| The Roosevelt Advisory BoardOur advisory board consists of prominent individuals who have offered us their help in providing organizational consulting, helping us refine our ideas, and introducing us to policymakers who can help put those ideas into practice. Advisory board members include:
Daniel L. Appleman, JD, PhD, is a partner at the prestigious law firm Heller, Ehrman, White, & McAuliffe. As legal counsel for the Roosevelt Institution, Mr. Appelman is assisting with our incorporation as a nonprofit, with the aquisition of tax-exempt status, with intellectual property issues, and with general legal affairs. Mr. Appelman's practice focusses on complex technology-related transactions and intellectual property law, and he has over twenty years experience with both early stage and established companies and nonprofits. He chairs the California State Bar's Cyberspace Law Committee and is an Advisory Member of the Entrepreneurs Forum of the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. John Q. Barrett is a Professor of Law at St. John's University in New York City and the Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow at the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, New York. Professor Barrett recently discovered, edited and introduced That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (Oxford University Press, paperback 2004), the late Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert Jackson's previously unknown and now-acclaimed memoir of FDR and the New Deal. Professor Barrett, who teaches constitutional law, criminal procedure and legal history, writes and speaks regularly about FDR, the Supreme Court, Justice Jackson and Nuremberg in venues throughout the country . Professor Barrett is writing a biography of Justice Jackson that will include the first inside account of his year (1945-1946) away from the Supreme Court as the chief American prosecutor of the principal surviving Nazi leaders at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. Barrett is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Law School. He has served as a law clerk to Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; as Associate Counsel in the Office of Iran/Contra Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh; and as Counselor to the Inspector General in the U.S. Department of Justice. Jonathan Bendor is a political economist at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research interests include the evolution of cooperation, models of adaptive behavior and bounded rationality, organizational decision making under uncertainty, and the political control of bureaucracy. In 1996, Bendor revitalized the debate over whether to make large, radical changes in programs and organizations or to take small, incremental steps, referred to as "muddling through." He did so with a formal model that gives structure and analytical depth to incrementalism, an informal theory first espoused in the early 1960s. Rich Benjamin is Senior Fellow at Demos, a think tank based in New York City. His work at Demos focuses on social alienation, civic engagement and popular culture. He has a background in media, politics and academia. From 2001-2, he was Visiting Scholar at Columbia University Law School. Benjamin has also served as senior editor of The Race Relations Reporter and a campaign staffer for President Clinton's 1996 re-election effort. Rich has lectured on youth, media and American politics in the US and Europe. His commentary has been featured in newspapers nationwide, NPR, Fox Radio, the blogosphere, and many scholarly venues. This scholarship earned professional support from Brown University and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Benjamin's public service includes serving as senior advisor to Why Tuesday?, a bi-partisan grassroots campaign to increase civic engagement, chaired by Jack Kemp, Bill Bradley and Andrew Young. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Realizing the Dream. Benjamin holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University, a professional certificate from the New York Film Academy, and a PhD from Stanford. Coit D. Blacker During the first Clinton administration, Professor Blacker served as special assistant to the president for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council (NSC). At the NSC, he oversaw the implementation of U.S. policy toward Russia and the New Independent States, while also serving as principal staff assistant to the president and the National Security Advisor on matters relating to the former Soviet Union. From 1998 to 2003, he served as co-director of the Aspen Institute's U.S.-Russia Dialogue, which twice each year brings together prominent U.S. and Russian specialists on foreign and defense policy for discussion and review of critical issues in U.S.-Russian relations. He was a study group member of the U.S. Commission on National Security in the 21st Century (The Hart-Rudman Commission) throughout the Commission's tenure. Coit Blacker is the director of the Stanford Institute for International Studies. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, he also serves on the Board of Directors of the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) in Washington, DC. Robert Borosage Robert L. Borosage is the president of the Institute for America's Future and co-director of its sister organization, the Campaign for America's Future. The organizations were launched by 100 prominent Americans to challenge the rightward drift in US politics, and to develop the policies, message and issue campaigns to help forge an enduring majority for progressive change in America. Mr. Borosage writes widely on political, economic and national security issues for a range of publications, including The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is a Contributing Editor at The Nation magazine, and a regular contributor to The American Prospect magazine. He is a frequent commentator on television and radio, including Fox Morning News, RadioNation, National Public Radio, C-Span and Pacifica Radio. He teaches on presidential power and national security as an adjunct professor at American University's Washington School of Law. John H. Bunzel, a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, specializes in current political and educational problems and frequently writes and lectures on issues of public policy. He is a former commissioner of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. He is an expert in the field of civil rights, race relations, higher education, U.S. politics, and elections. His current research centers on race and race relations in U.S. society, with a focus on affirmative action, multiculturalism, and diversity in higher education as well as U.S. politics and elections. From 1970 to 1978, when he joined the Hoover Institution, he was president of San Jose State University. He has taught at San Francisco State College (1953-56, 1965-70), Michigan State University (1956-57), and Stanford University (1956-63). The American Voter, his 1964 weekly television program on KPIX (CBS affiliate) in San Francisco, won a national award. Richard Celeste is the president of Colorado College. He served as director of the Peace Corps, Governor of Ohio, and U.S. Ambassador to India under President Clinton. Elizabeth Coleman is the ninth president of Bennington College, a position she has held since 1987. Following her graduation with honors from the University of Chicago, where she was a Ford Foundation Scholar, she completed her master's degree in English and American Literature at Cornell University, where she was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. She received her Ph.D. with distinction at Columbia, where she was a Woodbridge and President's Fellow. She has worked in education since that time, first as a professor of literature at SUNY Stony Brook and then at the New School for Social Research, where she founded and served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Coleman's vision of a liberal arts education has been recognized nationally by her place on the Select Committee of the Association of American Colleges and the board of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation; she also has served as chair of the Vermont Rhodes Scholarship Trust. She has been a consultant to the Annenberg Corporation on a public broadcasting project and a visiting fellow at the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California; she currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Council for a Community of Democracies and on the Executive Committee of The Annapolis Group, an organization of leading independent liberal arts colleges. Jon Cowan Mr. Cowan, like the other co-founders of Third Way, has over 15 years experience at senior levels of progressive politics and government. Prior to co-founding Third Way, Mr. Cowan founded and ran Americans for Gun Safety, which the Washington Post dubbed the “dominant” group on the gun safety side of that debate. In the spring of 2000, Mr. Cowan was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, teaching a course on youth and political advocacy. During the second Clinton administration, Mr. Cowan served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, helping to manage a federal agency of 9,000 employees with a $27 billion annual budget. Previously, he was Senior Advisor to the HUD Secretary and was Acting Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs. In 1992, he co-founded Lead…or Leave, which became the nation’s leading Generation X advocacy group. He was featured on the cover of U.S. News & World Report, in Time, on Nightline, 60 Minutes, Today and in many other media outlets as a generational spokesperson. He also co-authored Revolution X and has published op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. Jim Dean Jim Dean is the chair of Democracy for America (DFA), a political action committee founded by his brother, Governor Howard Dean. DFA's mission is to strengthen citizen participation in the political process, including the recruitment, support, and election of fiscally responsible and socially progressive candidates to all levels of government. Jim has worked with Democracy for America since it was founded in March of 2003. He had previously worked on Howard Dean's Presidential Campaign since its beginning in 2002, and was responsible for a variety of campaign functions, including fundraising, surrogate work, political organizing in his home state of Connecticut, and supporting several additional DFA state organizations. Rep. Rosa DeLauro Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro was first elected to Congress from Connecticut's Third District in 1990, and is currently serving her eighth term. Congresswoman DeLauro sits on the House Appropriations Committee, and serves as ranking member of the Agriculture Subcommittee and as a member of the Labor-Health and Human Services-Education Subcommittee. She also serves on the House Budget Committee. In 1999, she was elected Assistant to the Democratic Leader by her colleagues, making her the second highest ranking Democratic woman in the House of Representatives. She was re-elected to this position in 2000. In 2002, she was appointed co-chair of the House Democratic Steering Committee, a position she was re-elected to in 2004. Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also professor of political science and sociology (by courtesy) at Stanford University, and coordinator of the Democracy Program of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford's Institute for International Studies. From January through March 2004, he served as a senior advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, advising on issues related to the political transition in Iraq. His book, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq, will be published by Henry Holt in June 2005. Diamond has been co-editor of the Journal of Democracy, published by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), since the Journal was launched in 1990. He also serves (since 1993) as co-director of the NED's International Forum for Democratic Studies, which sponsors scholarly research and publications and coordinates an international network of democracy research institutes. In that capacity, he helps to provide oversight of the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program, which offers fellowships, based at NED (and funded by the U.S. Congress), for democracy scholars and practitioners from around the world. Diamond has lectured in over twenty countries on problems of democratic development. He was a visiting scholar at the Academia Sinica (Taiwan, 1997-98) and a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer at Bayero University, Kano (Nigeria, 1982-83). Larry Diamond received all of his degrees from Stanford University, including a B.A. in 1974, an M.A. in 1978, and a Ph.D. in Sociology in 1980. He taught Sociology at Vanderbilt University from 1980-85 before joining the Hoover Institution. Professor Diamond's Stanford Webpage Stephen Elliott is the author of the novels Jones Inn, A Life Without Consequences, What It Means To Love You, and Happy Baby. If you live in Norway the answer is yes, the Norweigan rights to Happy Baby have been purchased, so keep your eyes peeled. Same for Italy. He is also the author of Looking Forward To It Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The American Political Process and the editor of the Politically Inspired anthologies, of which there are currently two. Jim Fearon Kate A. Forest, MD, MPH, is Director of Operations and co-founder of the Commonweal Institute, and a public health physician by training. For over 20 years, she served as a consultant to the pharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostics industries, with heavy emphasis on marketing strategy, market research, and product safety; she also served as a consultant to both nonprofit and governmental organizations regarding health issues. Dr. Forrest's professional experience also includes training, clinical medicine, and psychosocial research. Her previous positions include: Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research, Palo Alto; Associate Medical Director, Syntex, Inc.; Medical Director of a Planned Parenthood affiliate based in San Jose, California; and Assistant Professor of Public Health and Medical Computer Science, Yale University. She founded and was the first Director of the Office for Women in Medicine at Yale University. She holds B.A., M.D., and M.P.H. degrees from Harvard University, and is Board certified in Preventive Medicine. Richard E. French, Jr. is the President of WRNN-TV, a news and talk television station covering 5,300,000 homes in the New York region, including Albany, the Hudson Valley, Westchester/Rockland, New York City, Connecticut and New Jersey. He serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Mercy College and also Chairs its Finance Committee. In addition, he serves as: Chair, Budget Committee and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) in Hyde Park, NY; a member of the Board of Trustees, Historic Hudson Valley, Tarrytown, NY; and as a member of the Board of the Westchester County Association. He resides with his wife, Cristina, in Harrison, New York. Their three children, Richard III (General Manager, WRNN-TV), Christian (VP, New Business Ventures) and Mark (VP, NBC) are all involved in the communications business. Al From is founder and chief executive officer of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), a dynamic idea action center of the "Third Way" governing philosophy that is reshaping progressive politics in the United States and around the globe. He is also chairman of the Third Way Foundation and publisher of the DLC's flagship bi-monthly magazine, Blueprint: Ideas for a New Century. As a founder of the DLC Professor Gitlin is a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He has also taught at New York University, the University of California at Berkelely, and San Jose State University. He has been a visiting professor at Yale, Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales (Paris), University of Iowa, University of Oslo (Norway), and Wesleyan. He is the author of several books, and is a contributing writer to Mother Jones. Jay Jackman, JD, MD is a psychiatrist who consults with businesses and health agencies to facilitate changes in management styles and organizational change, and also works as an expert witness in the criminal court system, particularly in murder and death penalty cases. Dr. Jackman completed his psychiatric residency at Stanford Medical Center and his internship at San Francisco County General Hospital. He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his B.A. from Columbia University. In 1999 he received a J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of the Law. Terry Karl is a professor of political science at Stanford University. Her research interests include comparative democratization in developing countries, democracy and inequality, Latin American politics, and US policies towards the developing world. Zoe was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994 as the only freshman Democrat from west of the Rocky Mountains. She serves on the Committee on Homeland Security, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on House Administration. Zoe Lofgren has been a key voice for high-tech, for immigrants, and for women. She is chair of the California Democratic Delegation. Chairman & CEO of Polestar Capital, LLC, (www.polestarcapital.com) a specialty finance company focused exclusively on the financing of leasehold improvements. Polestar Capital holds a patent on its financing technique and its client base consists of major REITs, Pension Funds, Private RE Equity Investment Funds, and many notable Fortune 500 Companies. Charles R. "Chuck" Middleton has served as the fifth President of Roosevelt University since July, 2002. He has worked closely with the faculty, staff and Board of Trustees to develop and implement a comprehensive Strategic Plan for the University. Focusing on student success and high quality academic programs, the plan sets forth Roosevelt's major goals and objectives for the future. His academic expertise is in modern British history from the late 18th Century to the early 19th Century, and he has an interest in the history of sport in America. He has written more than 60 scholarly papers; and he is also the author of the book The Administration of British Foreign Policy, 1782-1846. Dr. Middleton earned a B.A. degree with honors in history from Florida State University and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Duke University. Dr. Middleton is active in educational and community organizations. He is a Fellow of the Institute for International Education (Midwest), and a member of the American Council on Education, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, Illinois Federation of Independent Colleges and Universities, American Historical Association, and North American Conference on British Studies. Mat Morgan is a social entrepreneur from Los Angeles, California. As a founder of the BrainTrust Project, an organization dedicated to engaging university professors in public policy debate, he supports the Roosevelt Institution's outreach efforts and strategic planning. Morgan produces an annual benefit CD and also serves on a national council for the American Red Cross. He graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in international relations. Dee Dee Myers is a political analyst and commentator. Currently, she is a Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair Magazine; a popular lecturer on politics, the media and women's issues; and a frequent guest on numerous broadcast and cable television programs. Myers served as White House Press Secretary during President Clinton's first term. She was the first woman and youngest person ever to hold that job. Asked how she dealt with an often combative press corps, Myers once said: "Never take it personally--and never lose your sense of humor." In addition to Vanity Fair, she has written for publications including Time Magazine, The New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. She also worked as a consultant on the popular NBC series "The West Wing," where she helped shape the show for six years. Before joining the Clinton for President campaign in the fall of 1991, Myers worked on a number of local, state and national campaigns. A 1983 graduate of the Santa Clara University, she currently lives in Washington with her husband, Todd Purdum, a correspondent for The New York Times, and their children, Kate and Stephen. Mark Newberg has served as an advisor during New Orleans' recovery. He is working with the Office of the Federal Coordinator’s intergovernmental task force to resolve issues in the ongoing recovery. He is also working with the Clinton Climate Initiative to promote sustainable economic development and carbon emissions reduction. Mark has previously served as Deputy Director of Operations for the Democratic GAIN Training Program at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and has experience in communication strategy, policy, and speechwriting. He is a founding member of the Roosevelt Institution's Tulane Chapter, and presented his paper "Courting Disaster: Law and Jurisdiction in Crisis Management" at the Roosevelt Institution’s SCEPR conference. Mark holds a JD from Tulane Law School, and was a visiting student at Harvard Law School following Hurricane Katrina. He also holds a BA in Political Science from Tulane University. Amy Overton is a Director of Government and Industry Relations for Fannie Mae in Washington, DC, where she serves as the Chief of Staff to the Government and Industry Relations department. As Chief of Staff, Amy oversees all policy, political and administrative issues for the department. Amy also is the Director of the Fannie Mae Political Action Committee. She directs all aspects of PAC strategy and communications to over 4000 PAC-eligible employees, including fundraising and candidate contributions. Nick Penniman is an independent media producer. He is the founder and director of the American Media Project. Previously, he served as the Washington Director of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, the publisher of The Washington Monthly, the editor of TomPaine.com[1], program director of the Campaign for America's Future, associate editor of the American Prospect [2]magazine, director of the Alliance for Democracy and editor of the Lincoln Journal. He has served on multiple nonprofit boards, including the Homeless Empowerment Project, is currently on the board of the Poplar Institute [3]and the advisory board of the Roosevelt Institution[4]. He graduated from St. Lawrence University [5]in 1992 with a degree in philosophy. While there, he was a member of the student senate and won the school's top prize for poetry writing. He grew up in St. Louis and currently lives in Silver Spring, MD, with his wife, Sarah Harding (the co-director of the DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence[6]), and their two sons. Dr. William J. Perry was the 19th Secretary of Defense for the United States, serving from February 1994 to January 1997; he previously served as Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering from 1977 to 1981. Perry is a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for International Studies and is a professor at the Stanford School of Engineering. Dr. Perry is on the board of directors of several emerging high-tech companies and is chairman of Global Technology Partners. His previous business experience includes serving as a laboratory director for General Telephone and Electronics for 10 years before founding ESL Inc., of which he was the president for 14 years. Dr. Perry was also executive vice-president of Hambrecht & Quist Inc. from 1981 to 1985 and founder and chairman of Technology Strategies & Alliances from 1985 to 1993. Dr. Perry is a graduate of Stanford. From 1946 to 1947, Perry was an enlisted man in the Army Corps of Engineers, and served in the Army of Occupation in Japan. He joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps in 1948 and was a second lieutenant in the Army Reserves from 1950 to 1955. He has received a number of awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1997), the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal (1980 and 1981), and Outstanding Civilian Service Medals from the Army (1962 and 1997), the Air Force (1997), the Navy (1997), the Defense Intelligence Agency (1977 and 1997), NASA (1981) and the Coast Guard (1997). He received the American Electronic Association's Medal of Achievement (1980), the Eisenhower Award (1996), the Marshall Award (1997), the Forrestal Medal (1994), and the Henry Stimson Medal (1994). The National Academy of Engineering selected him for the Arthur Bueche Medal in 1996. He has received awards from the enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, and the Air Force. He has received decorations from the governments of Germany, England, France, Korea, Albania, Poland, Ukraine, Bahrain, Slovenia and Hungary. John Podesta is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for American Progress. Podesta served as Chief of Staff to President William J. Clinton from October 1998 until January 2001, where he was responsible for directing, managing, and overseeing all policy development, daily operations, Congressional relations, and staff activities of the White House. He coordinated the work of cabinet agencies with a particular emphasis on the development of federal budget and tax policy, and served in the President's Cabinet and as a Principal on the National Security Council. A frequent guest of Sunday morning news programs, Podesta is known for his straight talk, acerbic wit, and fierce defense of the Clinton Administration - which he also served from 1997 to 1998 as both an Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff. Earlier, from January 1993 to 1995, he was Assistant to the President, Staff Secretary and a senior policy adviser on government information, privacy, telecommunications security and regulatory policy. Podesta is currently a Visiting Professor of Law on the faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center, a position he also held from January 1995 to 1997. He has taught courses on technology policy, congressional investigations, legislation, copyright and public interest law. Podesta is considered one of Washington's leading experts in technology policy, and has written a book, several articles and lectured extensively in these areas. John Prendergast served as Director of African Affairs at the National Security Council from 1996-1999 and was Special Advisor to the State Department from 1999-2001. He has published numerous op-eds and commentary pieces for major newspapers, including most recently in The Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Boston Globe. He currently serves as Special Adviser to the President of the International Crisis Group. Neil Thomas Proto is a partner in the Washington, D.C. firm of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis. He also is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute, where he has taught on environmental values and energy choices and urban sprawl and the environment.He also was a Visiting Lecturer at Yale University. As a law student, he chaired Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP), which resulted in the first United States Supreme Court decision to consider the National Environmental Policy Act (1973). His memoir, To A High Court, The Tumult and Choices That Led To United States of America v. SCRAP, is due for publication in late 2005. Miles S. Rapoport is President of Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action. Based in New York City, Demos is a public policy research and advocacy organization, committed to creating a vibrant and inclusive democracy and achieving more broadly shared prosperity. Robert B. Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written ten books, including The Work of Nations, which has been translated into 22 languages; the best-sellers The Future of Success and Locked in the Cabinet, and his most recent book, Reason. His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Mr. Reich is co-founding editor of The American Prospect magazine. His weekly commentaries on public radio’s "Marketplace" are heard by nearly five million people. In 2003, Reich was awarded the prestigious Vaclev Havel Foundation Prize, by the former Czech president, for his pioneering work in economic and social thought. In 2005, his play, Public Exposure, broke box office records at its world premiere on Cape Cod. As the nation’s 22nd Secretary of Labor, Reich implemented the Family and Medical Leave Act, led a national fight against sweatshops in the U.S. and illegal child labor around the world, headed the administration’s successful effort to raise the minimum wage, secured worker’s pensions, and launched job-training programs, one-stop career centers, and school-to-work initiatives. Under his leadership, the Department of Labor won more than 30 awards for innovation. A 1996 poll of cabinet experts conducted by the Hearst newspapers rated him the most effective cabinet secretary during the Clinton administration. Reich has been a member of the faculties of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and of Brandeis University. He received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, his M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and his J.D. from Yale Law School.Peter A. Reiling is Executive Vice President, Leadership and Policy An Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow (Class of 1998), he Paul Rich is the senior professor in the Department of International Relations and History at The University of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico. He is a Visiting Fellow at The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the President of The Policy Studies Organization, the scholarly organization for political and social policy scholarship to which more than 700 universities belong. He is Past President of the International Society Phi Beta Delta, Chancellor of the General Grand Chapter of Phi Sigma Omega, and Chair of the Library Committee of the American Political Science Association. Much of Dr. Rich's career has been involved with the establishment and nurturing of universities outside of the United States. He went to Saudi Arabia as Adviser in the Ministry of Higher Education and Professor in the University of Riyadh, now King Saud University. He then spent more than a decade in the Emirate of Qatar as head of supervisory training programs in the Ministry of Education and Culture and adviser to the then Crown Prince. Joel Rogers is professor of law, political science, and sociology, and director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS), a research center and project laboratory for progressive state and local policy (see "Devolve This!," The Nation, August 30, 2004). Rogers has written widely on democratic theory, American politics, and comparative public policy. Recent books include Working Capital: Using the Power of Labor's Pensions, America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters, and Metro Futures: Economic Solutions for the Cities and their Suburbs. As reflected in the Public Law & Private Power course he regularly teaches at the law school, his major legal interests follow from essentially political ones, viz. finding a successor to the institutions and mass politics of social democracy and the Keynesian welfare state. Rogers is a contributing editor of The Nation and Boston Review, and a MacArthur Foundation fellow. Newsweek recently identified him as one of the 100 Americans most likely to affect U.S. politics and culture in the 21st century. For more information on Joel Rogers's work and publications, please visit http://www.cows.org/about_staff_detail.asp?id=1. Anne Roosevelt In 1987, Ms. Roosevelt began pursuing her lifelong interest in politics by working for the Democratic National Committee. In 1989, she managed U.S. Senator Paul Simon's Chicago office and his 1990 re-election campaign. In 1990, she also served as a consultant for the "Daley for Mayor" campaign. In 1991, she became the first Executive Director of the Museums in the Park, an organization representing the political interests of the nine museums located on Chicago Park District land. From 1996 through 1998, she served as the Director of the Mayor's Office of Program Development for the City of Chicago. In January, 1998, Ms. Roosevelt began as Executive Director of the Brain Research Foundation, which is an affiliate of the University of Chicago. When the Boeing Company relocated its world headquarters to Chicago, Ms. Roosevelt became the Director of Community and Education Relations for Boeing World Headquarters. Ms. Roosevelt is a member of the Board of Trustees for the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. She also serves as a board member of Spelman College, the Advisory Board of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, the Advisory Board for the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Old Town School of Folk Music, and is a member of the Chicago Sister Cities Casablanca Committee. She is Chairman of the Board of the Roosevelt Warm Springs Foundation, Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Center for New Deal Studies at Roosevelt University, and Co-Chair of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in New York City. sident and CEO of Tufts Health Plan, Waltham, MA. He is Co-Chairman of Tufts Health Care Institute and Past President of the American Health Lawyers Association. He is also chief legal counsel for the Massachusetts Democratic Party and co-chair of the Rules and By-laws Committee of the Democratic National Committee. He was Associate Commissioner for Retirement Policy of the Social Security Administration and a partner in Choate, Hall & Stewart in Boston. He is a frequent lecturer and author on legal and public policy topics and he is Clinical Instructor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Tufts University School of Medicine. He completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2003, earned his J.D. in 1971 from Harvard Law School and his A.B. from Harvard College in 1968. He is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia, Massachusetts and the U.S. Supreme Court. Susan Rose-Ackerman is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence (Law and Political Science) with joint appointments between Yale Law School and the Yale Departmant of Political Science. She has taught and written widely on corruption, law and development, administrative law, law and regulatory policy, the nonprofit sector, and federalism. Her recent books are Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences and Reform, which has been translated into 13 languages, and From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable Government in Hungary and Poland. Professor Rose-Ackerman has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at Collegium Budapest, where she co-directs a project on Honesty and Trust in Post-Socialist Societies. She has also been a visiting research scholar at the World Bank. She holds a Ph. D. in Economics from Yale University and has held Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships. She has a B.A. from Wellesley College. Armin Rosencranz is a lawyer, political scientist and consulting professor of human biology. He teaches several environmental policy courses at Stanford, and has also taught courses on India and Pakistan. His courses are multi-disciplinary and have been listed or sponsored by ten different departments. His recent work has dealt with India's environment, climate change policy and the Alien Tort Claims Act of 1789. He has had three Fulbright awards, including two to India. He was the founder and president of Pacific Environment, an international environmental NGO. Earlier in his life, Armin was president of the Stanford student body, and persuaded the university to remove Jane Stanford's prohibition of "partisan political activity" on campus. He also co-founded Stanford in Government, worked on a White House task force, and was an assistant to Sen. Robert Kennedy. He has served as an alumni-elected member of Stanford's board of trustees. In 2003, Armin received Stanford's Phi Beta Kappa award for distinguished teaching. David J. Rothkopf is the President and CEO of Garten Rothkopf, a Washington, D.C. and New York City based international advisory firm focusing on transformational trends worldwide, notably those associated with emerging markets and alternative energy. Previously, he was chairman and CEO of Intellibridge Corporation, a provider of international analysis and open source intelligence to the U.S. national security community, a role he assumed immediately following his tenure as managing director of Kissinger Associates, the consulting firm founded and chaired by U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. Prior to joining Kissinger Associates, he served as deputy under secretary of Commerce for International Trade. Mr. Rothkopf has also served as chairman, CEO and founder of International Media Partners, publishers of CEO Magazine and Emerging Markets Newspapers. He is a frequent commentator in major media worldwide on global affairs and is the author of over 150 articles on international economic, security and political issues, and is the author, co-author or editor of half a dozen books on international topics. Mr. Rothkopf is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where, in addition to chairing the Carnegie Economic Strategy Roundtable, he has written “Running the World,” a behind-the-scenes history of how foreign policy is made in the White House, and most recently “Superclass: the Global Power Elite and the World they are Making,” due out from Farr, Straus & Giroux in early 2008. Mr. Rothkopf is a member of the chairman’s advisory council of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a fellow of the Truman National Security Project, and serves on the advisory board of the Center for Global Development. He is an adjunct professor of international affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Since 2002, Andrea Batista Schlesinger has led the effort to turn the Drum Major Institute, originally founded by an advisor to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the civil rights movement, into a progressive policy institute with national impact. Under Andrea's leadership as Executive Director, DMI has released several important policy papers to national audiences, including ŒPrinciples for an Immigration Policy to Strengthen and Expand the American Middle Class², 'Middle Class 2004: How Congress Voted', and 'People and Politics in America's Big Cities'; launched its nationally recognized Marketplace of Ideas series highlighting effective public policy; and, created a Fellows program to enable grassroots activists to translate their experiences into the conversation about public policy. From appearing on the Lou Dobbs Show talking about Congress and the middle class, to speaking on radio stations across the country on topics including immigration and the President¹s State of the Union address and to repeated mentions in The Nation.com and regular features on Huffington Post, Andrea is a dynamic young voice speaking about the role of policy in people¹s lives. She has moderated panels featuring noted guests such as Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Andy Stern, president of SEIU, Congressman Jerry Nadler, Congresswoman Hilda Solis, Editor of The Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel and Rev. Forbes of Riverside Church. An expert on young people and Social Security reform, Andrea has also served on panels on the subject for The Century Foundation and the Institute for Women In Policy Research. Andrea has been profiled in the New York Times, New Yorker magazine, Latina Magazine and in 'Hear us Now,' an award-winning documentary about her tenure as the student member of the New York City Board of Education. She has been published in Alternet.org, New York Newsday, New York Sun, Crain¹s New York Business, TomPaine.com, City Limits magazine and The Mississippi Sun Herald. Andrea studied public policy at the University of Chicago. She has worked in various capacities to promote educational equity and youth empowerment. She directed a national campaign to engage college students in the discussion on the future of Social Security for the Pew Charitable Trusts, and served as Director of Public Relations of Teach For America before working as the education advisor to Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer. She grew up and currently lives in Brooklyn. Carol Shloss was educated at Swarthmore, Harvard and Brandeis University. She has taught at Wesleyan University, the University of Pennsylvania and Penn State, West Chester. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockerfeller Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. In 1994 she won the Fellowship for Creative Non-Fiction Writing from the Pew Fellowships in the Arts. Prior to coming to Stanford, she held research positions at the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University, the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College at Harvard, the Center for Documentary Photography at Duke University, the Rockefeller Institute at Bellagio, Italy, the Alice Paul Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania, the Center for the Cross Cultural Study of Women at Oxford University, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of four books: Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies, In Visible Light: Photography and the American Writer, Gentlemen Photographers and Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake, which will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2003.She continues on the editorial boards of the Joyce Studies Annual and College Literature. She is currently at work on her next book about Ezra Pound and his daughter Mary de Rachewiltz: The Real Estate of the Pounds. California State Senator Joe Simitian State Senator Joe Simitian was elected to the California State Senate in November 2004, to represent the 11th Senate District, which includes all or part of 13 cities in San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. He previously served in the California state assembly. Senator Simitian is an attorney, businessman and city planner. He is a member of the California State Bar and the American Planning Association, and holds an AICP certification from the American Institute of Certified Planners. Theda Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. From 2001 to 2003 she served as President of the 14,000-member American Political Science Association. The author of nine books including Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (1992), nine edited collections, and more than seven dozen articles, Skocpol is recognized as one of the most cited and widely influential scholars in the modern social sciences. Skocpol’s recent books include Boomerang: Health Reform and the Turn Against Government (1996); Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life (2003); and Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn (edited with Lawrence R. Jacobs, 2005). Her newest book, What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality (with Ariane Liazos and Marshall Ganz) is soon to appear from Princeton University Press. Active in civic as well as academic life, Skocpol was included in policy discussions with President Bill Clinton at the White House and Camp David. Melissa Sterry is a Desert Storm veteran and an advocate for veterans issues. She spent 7 years with the American Red Cross Disaster Response specializing in Logistics, Training and Community Education. She has worked on a variety of political campaigns in fund raising, operations, and strategy. Building on her training from Bangor Theological Seminary, she currently teaches people how to be effective in the political process and is a political consultant for several campaigns covering military, veterans, homeland security and disaster response.
Kai Stinchcombe is a PhD candidate in political science at Stanford, writing a dissertation on the California budget process. He is the founder and former executive director of the Roosevelt Institution, where he served on staff for two years. Before founding the Roosevelt Institution he was president of the Stanford Democrats during the 2004 election, the editor of the Stanford Progressive, and a columnist and editorial board member of the Stanford Daily. While earning a BA in history and math at Colorado College he led one of the first successful campus living wage campaigns in the country. He is on the California Democratic Party Central Committee and has served as an advisor, board member, or consultant to several Bay Area nonprofits including the Rockridge Institute, the Peninsula Democratic Coalition, and the Saga Foundation. Steven Swig is president of the Presidio World College, a sustainable business school in San Francisco. A graduate of the University of Oregon and the University of Santa Clara School of Law, Steven Swig was formerly with the Law Office of Joseph Alioto. He has also been Partner and Managing Director of Titchell, Maltzman & Mark; Executive Vice-President of Swig, Weiler & Dinner; and Counsel with Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin. A long-time San Francisco resident, he has served on many boards including the University of Oregon, the ACLU, and the American Conservatory Theatre. Katrina vanden Heuvel has served as Editor In Chief of The Nation since 1995. She is the co-editor of Taking Back America--And Taking Down The Radical Right and the collection A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy and September 11, 2001. She is a frequent commentator on American and international politics on MSNBC, CNN and PBS. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and The Boston Globe. She has received awards for public service from numerous groups, including The Liberty Hill Foundation, The Correctional Association and The Association for American-Russian Women. In 2003, she received the New York Civil Liberties Union's Callaway Prize for the Defense of the Right of Privacy. She is also the recipient of The American-Arab Anti-discrimination Committee's 2003 "Voices of Peace" award. Vanden Heuvel is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations, and she also serves on the board of The Institute for Women's Policy Research, The Institute for Policy Studies, The World Policy Institute, The Correctional Association of New York and The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. Ambassador William vanden Heuvel Mr. vanden Heuvel served as Deputy US Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1979 until 1981 and as US Representative to the European Office of the UN from 1977 to 1979. Former Senior Partner, now Of Counsel to the law firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, he is also Senior Advisor to Allen & Company, a New York investment banking firm. He is Chairman and CEO of Amromco Energy LLC. Ambassador vanden Heuvel has served as President of the International Rescue Committee; Chairman of the New York City Board of Corrections and as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the United Nations Association. A graduate of the Cornell University Law School, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell Law Review and later served as Executive Assistant to General William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan, Special Counsel to Governor Averell Harriman and Assistant to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Chairman of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, and Chairman of the Council of American Ambassadors. He received an honorary doctoral degree from Hofstra University (1997), Roosevelt University (Chicago, 1999), and Hunter College (New York City, 2004). In May 2002, the Special Exhibits Gallery of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York, was renamed in honor of Ambassador vanden Heuvel who also received the Four Freedoms medal on that occasion. In October 2003, he received the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Medal. Dr. Weissinger-Baylon is the director of the Center for Strategic Decision Research California State Controller Steve Westly Steve is the State Controller of California and serves as the Chief Financial Officer of the 5th largest economy in the world. As Controller, Steve has the power of the audit over every state agency and is an independent fiscal watchdog for the people of California. He is also a member of more than 50 boards and commissions including CalPERS, CalSTRS, the Franchise Tax Board, the Board of Equalization, the State Lands Commission and the major housing commissions of the state. Steve has more than twenty years of experience in business, government and education. Throughout his career, Steve has developed expertise in fiscal management. In the private sector, Steve guided the online auction company eBay through a period of rapid growth, including serving as a senior vice-president of marketing, business development, mergers and acquisitions and international operations. Before becoming active in the Internet sector, Steve served on the faculty of Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Steve has also worked on Capitol Hill and for the U.S. Department of Energy. As an undergraduate student at Stanford University Steve ran for student senate and won. This served as his entree into the world of politics. He was also co-student body president at Stanford with Greg Larson, currently his chief of staff and most trusted political advisor. He has been an active member of the Democratic Party since college -- the 2004 Democratic National Convention was Steve's eighth straight convention as a delegate. Steve later went on to receive his M.B.A. from Stanford and served for five years on the faculty at the university's Graduate School of Business, teaching public management. Steve speaks highly of Stanford because, "the university did a lot to help change my life." Steve has lived most of his life within ten miles of Hoover Tower on the Stanford campus. His parents moved there when he was just 2 years old. Jamie is the Managing Director of Platform Equity, responsible for leading and managing Platform’s relationships with our extensive network of investors. He comes from Diamond Edge Capital, a capital placement/third-party marketing firm focused on alternative investments. Prior to Diamond Edge, he was the New York Finance Director for John Kerry. Before that, Jamie was a Partner at the Marwood Group, a strategic business development consulting firm. Jamie serves on the Board of Directors of Amend.org, a non-profit founded to address the epidemic of childhood injury in developing nations and advocate for better, fairer policy toward those nations. Quinn Wilhelmi Quinn Wilhelmi would otherwise be a religious studies major at Stanford University but is currently completing a leave of absence during which he served as executive director and then as president of the Roosevelt Institution. In 2002 he took time off of high school to join and help build the Bus Project – an organization dedicated to engaging young people in progressive politics and reclaiming state legislatures. In 2004 he returned as the Bus Project's director of organizing and then helped to found the Roosevelt Institution after the election. Quinn has long been active in a variety of other Oregon political initiatives and misses the state dreadfully. He will return to Stanford in the fall. Mayor Kitty Piercy Kitty Piercy has served as Mayor of Eugene, Oregon since January of 2005. She also currently sits on the Advisory Board for the Center for Women Policy Studies in
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