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Barack Obama:
Senator Obama is currently seeking the Democratic Nomination to run for President in 2008.
Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr.:
Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. was first elected to the United States Senate in 1972 at the age of twenty-nine and is recognized as one of the nation’s most powerful and influential voices on foreign relations, terrorism, drug policy, and crime prevention. He is currently, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Mitt Romney:
Mitt Romney is the former Governor of Massachusetts who is currently seeking the Republican Party's nominaton to run for president of the United States.
Bill Clinton:
FORMER UNITED STATES PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON. The forty second President of the United States and husband of presidential hopeful Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton.
Governor Bill Richardson:
Governor Richardson is currently a candidate in the 2008 United States presidential election. He previously served as a U.S. Representative, Ambassador to the United Nations, and as the Secretary of Energy. He was chairman of the 2004 Democratic National Convention as well as Chairman of the Democratic Governors' Association. [Rebroadcast]
Michelle Obama:
Michelle Obama is the wife of United States Senator and presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Ms Obama has her BA from Princeton University and her law degree from Harvard University.
Rudy Giuliani:
Rudy Giuliani is the former mayor of New York City who is currently seeking the Republican Party's nomination to run for president of the United States.
Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton:
Senator Clinton is the U.S. Senator from New York, and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election. She is married to Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States, and was the First Lady of the U.S. from 1993 to 2001.
John Edwards:
The running mate of presidential nominee Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts in 2004. John Edwards is currently a Democratic candidate in the 2008 Presidential election.
Senator Art Torres (Ret.):
Senator Art Torres (Ret.) was elected Chairman of the California Democratic Party in 1996. He has been a leader in the Latino community, fighting for better representation and more rights for the state's large and important Latino/Chicano population.
Former Governor Jesse Ventura:
Former Governor Jesse Ventura was elected in the Minnesota gubernatorial election of 1998 as an Independent and member of the Reform Part. His victory is considered one of the greatest political upsets in U.S. history. His most recent book is entitled, Don't Start the Revolution Without Me.
Senator Charles Grassley:
Charles Grassley has been ranked as high as the third most powerful senator.
Former Congressman Mickey Edwards:
Former Congressman Edwards was a member of Congress for 16 years and chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee. He was national chairman of the American Conservative Union and one of three founding trustees of the Heritage Foundation.
Mike Huckabee:
Mike Huckabee was the Governor of Arkansas from 1996 - 2007. He is currently seeking the Republican Party's nomination to run for President of the U.S. in 2008.
John Thune:
John Thune is the United States Senator from South Dakota whose has endorsed Senator John McCain in his bid to become the Republican Party's presidential candidate in 2008.
Tom Vilsack:
Tom Vilsack is the former Governor of Iowa. He is currently serving as the national co-chairman for Hilary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign.
Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards:
Mrs. Edwards is the wife John Edwards, the former U.S. Senator from North Carolina who is currently seeking the Democratic Party's nomination to run for President in 2008.
Senator Christopher Dodd:
Senator Dodd served as a U.S. Representative from Connecticut from 1975 until 1981, when he became a U.S. Senator. He served as general chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1995 to 1997. He is now the state's senior Senator. He currently serves as Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. On 11 January 2007, Dodd announced his candidacy for the office of President of the United States on the Imus in the Morning show. On 19 January 2007, Dodd made a formal announcement with supporters at the Old State House in Hartford.
Congressman Tom Udall:
Congressman Udall serves on the House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittees on the Interior and Environment; Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education; and, the Legislative Branch. He is also the Co-Vice Chair of the House Native American Caucus and a member of the Bipartisan Rural Caucus, the Democratic Hispanic Working Group, the Education Task Force, and the Congressional Law Enforcement Caucus, among others. He is currently campaigning on behalf of Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico who is seeking the Democratic Party's nomination to run for president in 2008.
Steve Forbes:
Steve Forbes is the editor-in-chief of Forbes Magazine as well as the President and CEO of it's publisher, Forbes Inc.
Jim Leach:
The former United States Congressman from Iowa has recently been named the new director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics.
Mrs. Jackie Dodd:
Jackie Dodd, wife of U.S. Senator and presidential hopeful Christopher Dodd of Connecticut [D] Jackie Dodd spent 20 years working in national security policy, foreign affairs and trade for the US Government. As CEO and Vice Chair of the Export-Import Bank during the Clinton administration, Mrs Dodd visited over 90 countries around the world, leading trade negotiations and opening new markets to US goods. Prior to her executive branch experience Mrs Dodd worked on issues of national security in the Congress, she holds a MA in National Security Studies from Georgetown University.
Joseph Wilson:
Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson is a retired diplomat of the U.S. Foreign Service, who was posted to African nations and Iraq during the George W. Bush administration. Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, is the CIA covert operative allegedly outed by administration officials in retaliation for Wilson's Op-ed piece in the NY Times.
Walter Mondale:
Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale were elected president and vice president of the United States on Nov. 2, 1976. On the president's behalf, Mondale traveled extensively throughout the nation and the world advocating U.S. policy.
Congressman Dennis Kucinich:
U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich was first elected the US House of Representatives. Kucinich has been a tireless advocate for worker rights, civil rights and human rights. He is currently seeking the Democratic Party nomination to run for President in 2008. Former U.S. Congressman David Bonior from Michigan. He served as a Congressman from January 1977 to January 2003. Congressman Bonior is currently serving as Senator John Edwards national campaign manager. U.S. Congressman Ron Paul was first elected to Congress in 1976. For more than two decades, Dr. Paul has advocated the abolishment of income taxes and cutting the size and power of the federal government. In 1988, Dr. Paul was the Libertarian Party nominee for the U.S. Presidency. On November 5, 1996, Dr. Paul was re-elected to Congress by the people of the 14th Congressional District. He serves on the House of Representatives' Financial Services Committee and the International Relations Committee. On the Financial Services Committee, he is the vice-chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee. Commonly referred to as "The First Lady of the Press," former White House Bureau Chief Helen Thomas is a trailblazer, breaking through barriers for women reporters while covering every President since John F. Kennedy. For 57 years, Helen also served as White House correspondent for United Press International. She recently left this post and joined Hearst Newspapers as a syndicated columnist. Dr. Wilensky, an economist, and a Senior Fellow at Project HOPE which analyzes and develops policies relating to health care reform and to ongoing changes in the health care environment. Interview III: A contributing writer for The Nation Magazine. Austan Dean Goolsbee is a senior economic adviser to the Obama campaign. He is an economist and is currently the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Dr. George Weiner is one of the chief authors of the Obama - Biden Plan to Combat Cancer, announced by Senator Obama September 5, 2008. Dr. Weiner is an Iowa cancer doctor and researcher who worked on the plan in a personal capacity. Elizabeth Becker is an author and journalist. She began her career as a war correspondent for The Washington Post and has been the senior foreign editor at National Public Radio and a Washington correspondent at The New York Times. She is an expert on the Khmer Rouge and is currently a fellow at the German Marshall Foundation. Middle East expert and author of Israel Undercover, Secret Warfare and Hidden Diplomacy in the Mideast. BACK TO TOP Professor of Education at New York University and leading authority on urban education in America. Vice President of the David Lynch Foundation and author of Transcendental Meditation. Andy Zelleke is the co-director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Austan Dean Goolsbee
Austan Dean Goolsbee is a senior economic adviser to the Obama campaign. Professor Hannah Riley Bowles is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School and on the staff of the Center for Public Leadership. Brigadier General (retired) Kevin Ryan is a Senior Fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center. Omar Mcdoom is a research fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Robert J. Blendon is Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis at Harvard University’s School of Public Health. He also directs the Harvard Opinion Research Program and the Henry J. Kaiser National Program on the Public, Health, and Social Policy. Ralph Marino was an elite athlete excelling in baseball and golf. Ralph was drafted by professional baseball’s Pittsburg Pirates. Over thirty years ago, in a collision at home plate, Ralph Marino received a neck injury that left him paralyzed from his shoulders to his toes. Since that day, Ralph has gone on to graduate from college and has been a successful high school basketball coach and school social worker. Chris Hull teaches as an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University. He also runs Issue Management, Inc., a Washington, D.C. public affairs firm. His first book, Grassroots Rules: How the Iowa Caucus Helps Elect American Presidents, was published in November, 2007 by Stanford University Press. Maxine Isaacs is an adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She received her PhD from the University of Maryland, where her dissertation was on the relationship between elite and mass opinion on American foreign policy. Omer Ismail is the former Operations Manager for the United Nations Operation Life Line Sudan. He is currently a Fellow at Harvard University’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. ARTHUR S. BERGER, THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM'S SENIOR ADVISOR FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS. In this position, he focuses on the Museum’s international relations, VIP and Development-related outreach, and key aspects of the Museum’s public relations. Rashi Glazer is Professor at the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley and Co-Director of the School’s Management of Technology Program. He has also served as the Director of the Haas School’s Center for Executive Education and the Director of the Center for Marketing and Technology.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper
Rabbi Abraham Cooper is the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish Human Rights organization he helped found in 1977. For over three decades, Rabbi Cooper has overseen the Wiesenthal Center’s international social agenda ranging from worldwide anti-semitism, Nazi war crimes and Restitution, to extremist groups and tolerance education.
Thomas Morgan:
Mr. Morgan founded Intercultural Insights in 1994 to provide the highest quality training and consulting to enhance intercultural competencies - the ability to perform confidently and effectively overseas, or with foreign nationals in the United States.
Gustavo Collantes:
Gustavo Collantes is a Research Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, who focuses on energy and climate change policy, particularly as they relate to transportation, and the economics and politics of low-carbon energy alternatives. Seymour Fliegel: Educational reformer and author of the book, Miracle in East Harlem.
Jacqueline Murekatete:
Jacqueline Murekatete, internationally recognized for her work as a humanitarian, speaking out for victims and survivors of genocide. Jacqueline was not yet ten when she lost her immediate and extended family in the Rwanda genocide of 1994. Her story has been featured in the NY Times, the Washington Times, NPR, CNN, PBS, NBC, ABC, and other leading media outlets worlwide. Sandile Ndlungwane: Sandile Ndlungwane is the co-founding member of Cida City Campus and currently Director: Operations. He holds a position as the President of the Peace Government Southern Africa. He also served in various leadership positions of the African National Congress.
Dr. Darren Petersen:
Dr. Darren Petersen is a recent recipient of a Fullbright Fellowship. The Fellowship allowed him to teach in the Eastern Free State of South Africa. Donathan Brown: Donathan Brown is a Graduate Teaching Fellow and Instructor in the department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University. Non-Profits / Religion BACK TO TOP Father Thomas Keating: Father Thomas Keating is a Trappist Monk and the former Abbot of St. Joseph’s Monastery in Spencer, Massachusetts. Robin Lim: Ms. Robin Lim is the executive director of Yayasan Bumi Sehat, the Healthy Mother Earth Foundation, based in Bali, Indonesia and the Medical director of the Bumi Sehat Tsunami Relief clinic in Indonesia. She operates two general health and maternal /child survival clinics, one in Aceh, the other in Ubud. The clinics deliver approximately 500 babies per year. She also operates a youth center in Bali. In 2006, Ms. Lim was awarded the Alexander Langer International Peace Award.
Ben Cohen:
Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream. Founded in 1978 the company sold in 1999 for over three hundred million dollars. Ben is a member of Businesses for Social Responsibility. He is currently campaigning for presidential hopeful US Senator John Edwards. Noel Boxer: Country coordinator in the Republic of the Congo for the non-profit, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. Kevin Clawson: President of the non-profit, Reach the Children.
Paul Dalio
Mr. Paul Dalio is a second year student in New York University's Graduate School of Film. Graduates include Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese.
Ayni Raimondi
Ayni Raimondi will discuss her non-profit work in Bali, Indonesia over the last two years. She will give her impressions of what it is like adjusting to living and working in a foreign culture - the challenges and rewards.
Rianna Koppel:
Rianna Koppel is an undergraduate student at Maharishi University of Management who recently returned from teaching orphans in Kenya, Africa with the Children's Orphange of Kenya. Michael Otterson: Michael Otterson is the director of media relations for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dr. Connie Shabbaz: Founder of Books for Africa.
Tom Newmark:
Mr. Newmark is CEO and President of New Chapter, Inc. of Brattleboro, Vermont and a co-owner of Luna Nueva Farm in Costa Rica. He and New Chapter's founder Paul Schulick are the formulators of Zyflamend, one of the world's most respected herbal formulations, and Tom has been awarded multiple patents for innovative herbal formulations.
Dr. Chris Wege:
Chris is a crusader for the cause of mandatory labeling of genetically modified substances in our food and is working to pass legislation in 2009 to protect the consumer’s right to know what is in our food. Dr. Stanley Cheren: Founder of non-profit working with Mayan Indians in Guatemala.
Sara Estrin:
Ms.Estrin recently returned from working with Robin Lim, founder, director, and head midwife of the nonprofit clinic Yayasan Bumi Sehat in Bali, Indonesia. Lisa Baum: Director of the Children’s Miracle Network at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
Stephanie Brancaforte:
Stephanie Brancaforte has worked in the areas of international justice, human rights and development issues. In 2007, she served as an international legal advisor and analyst in the Defence Office at the Iraqi High Tribunal in Baghdad.
Hunter and Andrea Payne:
Hunter and Andrea run AidStillRequired.org. It is a non-profit organized around entering post crisis situations to build back better and build green whenever possible.
Jacob Soboroff:
Jacob Soboroff is the Field Director of WhyTuesday.org Why Tuesday is an effort to make America's democracy stronger through increase voter participation. Father David Rodney Fox: Father David Rodney Fox is the Pastoral Minister for Covenant House New Jersey. He has been involved in street ministry to urban kids, going to jails, courts, food banks, and shelters with homeless youth, working with a diverse staff of social workers, attorneys, doctors, nurses, and addiction counselors, and leading classes and retreats. Tim and Laya Hawthorne: Tim is founder and director of Hawthorne Direct. Laya is a documentary producer and director. Nicki Lehrer: Nicki Lehrer is the Founder and President of Children of Guayaquil. Mahen Bonetti: Founder and Director of the African Film Festival. Dal LaMagna: Executive director of the documentary, The Ground Truth. Art and Entertainment BACK TO TOP
Philippe Petit
PHILIPPE PETIT, subject of this year's Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary Film, Man on Wire. The man who on the morning of August 7, 1974, rigged 200 feet of 3/4" steel cable between the twin towers of the World Trade Center and walked between them repeatedly, lying down at one point and making eight crossings in all. The film is based on Philippe Petit's book, Man on Wire. Ellen Chenoweth: One of Hollywood’s top casting directors. Ben Newmark: Ben Newmark starred in the Academy Award winning film, West Bank Story. The movie received the Oscar for Best Short Film in 2007. Buddy Biancalana: Former major league baseball player and star of the 1985 World Series.
Laura Dawn
Laura Dawn is a political activist and singer/songwriter. She has been the Cultural Director for MoveOn.org and the MoveOn PAC since March 2004. She appears on Moby's latest album Hotel, and she toured the world with him for 7 months in 2005.
Craig Jessop:
Craig Jessop has been the Musical Director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir since October 1999. The Choir has performed for 10 U.S. Presidents, at five Presidential Inaugurations, and has been called by President Reagan, America's Choir.
Robby Benson
Robby Benson is an American film and television actor, television director and educator. As an actor he was nominated for the three Golden Globe Awards.
Martha Frankel:
Martha is the author of Hats and Eyeglasses: A Family Love Affair With Gambling, published by Jeremy P. Thatcher/Penguin a member of the Penguin Group (USA).
Sondra Ward:
Recently appointed as Director of Strategic Marketing for the Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts in Fairfield, Iowa, Sondra had recently served as the spokesperson for the Tennis Channel based in Santa Monica, California. Ms. Ward has her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Stanford University.
Randy Jones
Dennis Raimondi speaks with Broadway and popular star Randy Jones who was featured in the Stephen Sondheim Center production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor live in the studio. Ed Sarath: Director of the program in jazz and improvisation at the University of Michigan. Keelan Dimick: Award winning jazz pianist. Jerry Yellin: Jerry is a former fighter pilot who participated in the first land based fighter mission over Japan on April 7, 1945 and the last, on August 15, 1945. He is the author of the book, Of War and Weddings, The Legacy of Two Fathers, which has been published in English and Japanese.
Paul Fauerso
Paul Fauerso founded the Loading Zone in 1966. They were the opening act for such legendary groups as The Who, Rod Stewart, the Grateful Dead, Sam and Dave, Big Brother and the Holding Company with lead singer Janice Joplin, and dozens more. Mel Sauerbeck : Mel Sauerbeck is an awarding photographer. His photos have appeared in major magazines worldwide including Time, Life, People, and Sports Illustrated. Robin Frick: Private jet pilot for the stars.
Constance Brenneman
Constance Brenneman has an undergraduate degree in drama with a minor in creative writing from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Master’s degree as a Marriage and Family Therapist. Constance has worked in television, film, voiceover and hosting. Steven White: Producer, director, and actor, and founder and director of the Shakespeare Ensemble Company, Fairfield, Iowa.
Melchior Digiacomo:
Mel Di Giacomo is a photojournalist and fine art photographer. He has shot over twenty cover photographs for Newsweek Magazine as well as producing several photo essays for Newsweek. Law Enforcement and Military BACK TO TOP
Jack Garcia
Jack Garcia is considered by his peers and leading FBI experts to be the most successful undercover agent in the history of the Bureau.
Jack Garcia:
Joaquin "Jack" Garcia is considered by his peers and leading FBI experts to be the most successful undercover agent in the history of the Bureau. In his 26 years of service with the FBI, Garcia is best known for his undercover role as "Jack Falcone," a self-described Sicilian jewel thief and drug dealer from Miami, Florida, who penetrated the Gambino crime family of La Cosa Nostra in New York for nearly three years. The case resulted in the arrest and conviction of 32 mobsters, including the top members of the Post John Gotti Gambino crime family. Garcia, played his undercover role so convincingly that he was even proposed for membership into La Cosa Nostra.
Major Joseph Kopser
Major Joseph Kopser has been an officer in the U.S. Army for fifteen years. He currently assists in the Army in the integration of the largest modernization effort in its history, known as Future Combat Systems. John J. Farley III: John J. Farley III is a retired Federal Judge and a highly decorated Vietnam War Veteran. Judge Farley is the recipient of four Bronze Star Awards, two Purple Hearts, and the Army Commendation Medal. Drew Petersen: Drew Petersen is a recipient of the 2007 Scholar Athlete Milk Mustache of the Year Award. His picture recently appeared in USA Today and Sports Illustrated. The SAMMY is sponsored by USA Today and America’s Milk Processors.
Vincent J. Bove:
A nationally acclaimed leadership and security educator. Gil Alba: Former NY City Police Department Detective, now heading up Alba Investigations. Self Help BACK TO TOP
Allan Cox:
Allan Cox, the author of Your Inner CEO, and founder of Allan Cox and Associates, Inc. Allan has authored seven previous books, including the best seller, Confessions of a Corporate Headhunter. |
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