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Bill Schneider

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Bill Schneider

Political analyst

Bill Schneider, a leading US political analyst, is a professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He has been a visiting professor at UCLA, Brandeis University, and Boston College. He is the author of Standoff and coauthor, with Seymour Martin Lipset, of The Confidence Gap. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, Politico, Reuters, and National Journal. He was CNN’s senior political analyst from 1990 to 2009. (1)

Schneider attended The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards, May 21st, 2018, and spoke on “Political Landscape: Panel: Future of Elections, Campaigns, & Parties” with Susan Del Percio, John Della Volpe, and former Congressman David Jolly, moderated by John Harwood.

Twitter: @BillSchneiderDC

Stephen Roach

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Stephen S. Roach

Economist

Stephen Roach is a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and a Senior Lecturer at Yale’s School of Management. He was formerly Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm’s Chief Economist for the bulk of his 30-year career at Morgan Stanley, heading up a highly regarded team of economists around the world. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1982, Roach served on the research staff of the Federal Reserve Board and was also a research fellow at the Brookings Institution. Roach’s current teaching and research program focuses on the impacts of Asia on the broader global economy. (1)

Roach has long been one of Wall Street’s most influential economists. His work has appeared in academic journals, books, congressional testimony and has been disseminated widely in the domestic and international media. Roach’s opinions on the global economy have been known to shape the policy debate from Beijing to Washington. (1)

Stephen Roach participated in The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards on May 21st, 2018, giving a talk entitled “The Coming Economic Clash”.

Twitter: @SSRoachUSChina

(1) Material from the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs website.

Mark Green

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Mark J. Green

Author

Mark Green currently hosts the nationally syndicated weekend radio program, Both Sides Now, and writes a weekly column for the Huffington Post. He was previously a public interest lawyer, working with Ralph Nader from 1970 to 1980, ultimately as director of Public Citizen's Congress Watch. He founded and ran The Democracy Project in NYC from 1981 to 2014. Green served for 11 years in citywide offices, first as the Commissioner of Consumer Affairs under Mayor David Dinkins (1990 to 1993); then as the twice-elected Public Advocate (1993 and 1997), before narrowly losing the mayorality to Michael Bloomberg in 2001. (1)

Green co-hosted an event at The Common Good on Citizen Action Sweeping the Country: INDIVISIBLE with Gail Furman and Richard Farley, and spoke at The Common Good on the The Primaries and the Presidential Election panel alongside Jonathan Alter, Kellyanne Conway, and Joel Benson, moderated by Cynthia McFadden.

Twitter: @markjgreen

(1) Material from the Bright Infinite Future website.

Jim Hoge

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James Hoge Jr.

Editor

James Fulton Hoge Jr. was the editor of Foreign Affairs and was the Peter G. Peterson Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations. Hoge is currently a senior advisor in Teneo's intelligence division. (1)

Hoge was editor in chief of the Chicago Sun-Times and served concurrently as editor in chief of the Sun-Times's sister publication, the Chicago Daily News. He was later appointed president and publisher of the New York Daily News. The Sun-Times won six Pulitzer Prizes during his tenure there, and the Daily News won one during his presidency. (1)

He has previously served as the chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Human Rights Watch and the Foundation for a Civil Society, and is the vice chair of the International Center for Journalists. (1)

Hoge was the moderator of the Global Threats & Opportunities portion of The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2017.

(1) Material from Wikipedia.

Max Read

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Max Read

Senior editor for New York Magazine

Max Read is a writer and editor at New York magazine, where he writes Life in Pixels, a column about the internet and other signs of the apocalypse. He also writes and edits feature stories and packages about the culture of technology for print and web. He was previously editor-in-chief at Gawker, and is a founder of IRL Club. (1)

Read spoke at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2017 on the panel “Protests, Populism, & New Political Landscape” alongside Ari Melber, David Burstein, and Shauna Thomas.

Twitter: @max_read

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(1) Material from Max Read’s website.

Shaunna Thomas

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ShaunNa Thomas

Co-founder, Executive Director of UltraVoilet

Shaunna Thomas is co-founder and Executive Director of UltraViolet. Shaunna has had a fifteen year career in progressive organizing, building progressive infrastructure projects and winning critical policy fights at the national level. Shaunna has appeared numerous times on network and cable TV including NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and CNBC as a political commentator. (1)

Before founding UltraViolet, Shaunna was the Executive Director of the P Street Project, a 501c4 nonprofit dedicated to organizing progressive members of Congress and connecting federal legislative strategy with online grassroots mobilization efforts. Prior to that, Shaunna was the COO of Progressive Congress, a nonprofit supporting the policy and organizing work of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. (1)

Thomas spoke at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2017 on the panel “Protests, Populism, & New Political Landscape” alongside Ari Melber, David Burstein, and Max Read.

Twitter: @SLThomas

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(1) Material from the UltraViolet website.

John Podhoretz

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John Podhoretz

Writer, editor, columnist

John Mordecai Podhoretz is an American writer. He is the editor of Commentary magazine, a columnist for the New York Post, the author of several books on politics, including Bush Country and Can She Be Stopped?: Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President of the United States Unless..., and a former speechwriter for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. (1)

Podhoretz spoke at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2017 on the panel “Press Under Fire”, alongside Steven Brill, Floyd Abrams, and Elizabeth Spayd.

Twitter: @jpodhoretz

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(1) Material from Wikipedia.

Elizabeth Spayd

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Elizabeth Spayd

The New York Times public editor

Elizabeth Spayd is currently the public editor at The New York Times. Previously, she was editor in chief and publisher at The Columbia Journalism Review and a longtime editor at The Washington Post. (1)

Spayd spoke at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2017 on the panel “Press Under Fire”, alongside Steven Brill, Floyd Abrams, and John Podhoretz.

Twitter: @spaydl

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(1) Material from The New York Times. (Author: Sydney Ember)

Floyd Abrams

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Floyd Abrams

American attorney

Floyd Abrams is Senior Counsel in Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP's litigation practice group. Floyd has a national trial and appellate practice and extensive experience in high-visibility matters, often involving First Amendment, securities litigation, intellectual property, public policy and regulatory issues. He has argued frequently in the Supreme Court. Floyd's clients have included The New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case and others, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Time Magazine, Business Week, The Nation, Reader's Digest, Hearst, AIG, and others in trials, appeals and investigations. (1)

Floyd, who served as chairman of Mayor Edward Koch's Committee on Appointments, New York City, served as the Chairman of the New York State Zenger Commemoration Planning Committee. Previously, he served as the Chairman of the Communications Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, as well as Chairman of the Committee on Freedom of Speech and of the Press of the Individual Rights Section of the American Bar Association and of the Committee on Freedom of Expression of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association. Floyd served on the Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Defense in 2003-4 and as the Chair of the New York State Commission on Public Access to Court Records in 2004. For fifteen years, Floyd was the William J. Brennan, Jr. Visiting Professor of First Amendment Law at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. (1)

Abrams spoke at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2017 on the panel “Press Under Fire”, alongside Steven Brill, John Podhoretz, and Elizabeth Spayd.

(1) Material from the Cahill website.

Jane Abraham

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Jane Abraham

Full-time volunteer

Jane Abraham is a full-time volunteer with a wide range of experience on educational, cultural and social service boards. Currently, she serves as a member of the board of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists. Prior to that, she served as a member of the board of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Advocacy Alliance. Jane is also a member of the board of The Nurturing Network, an international charitable organization that responds to the immediate and comprehensive needs of a woman facing the crisis of an unplanned pregnancy and chairman of the board of the Susan B. Anthony List, a bipartisan, pro-life organization devoted to elected more pro-life women to political office. Abraham was nominated to the American Museum of Women's History Congressional Commission by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. (1)

In her professional career, Abraham was a senior Republican Party official at both the state and national levels and also was the founder of Abraham Strategies, LLC, a strategic marketing, government affairs and event planning business. (1)

She was hosted by The Common Good at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2017.

Honorary Advisory Board Member: Silda Wall Spitzer

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Silda Wall Spitzer is a prominent businesswoman, lawyer, and former first lady of New York State. Currently, she is director and principal at NewWorld Capital Group, a private equity firm investing in environmental opportunities, including energy efficiency, clean energy, waste-to-value, and environmental products. She is also co-founder and CEO of New York Makers, the first digital marketplace and magazine for the state curating it’s best and most interesting makers, products, happenings, places, and ideas.

As First Lady of New York State, she worked to support the Administration’s goal to significantly reduce fossil energy consumption. She spearheaded initiatives to promote green buildings, alternative energy, and local food sourcing. Her "I LIVE NY" program engaged constituents to create livable communities and sustainable jobs.

Spitzer’s current environmentally-related nonprofit endeavors include serving as Vice Chair of the Urban Green Council, the New York Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), which advances sustainability in the urban built environment. She is also on the Advisory Board of The Sustainable Endowments Institute, and is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, and the New York State and City Bar Associations, Silda holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA summa cum laude and an Honorary Doctorate from Meredith College.

Spitzer presented the American Spirit Award for Citizen Activism to Teresa Shook at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2017. She currently serves as a member of The Common Good Honorary Advisory Board.

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Teresa Shook

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Teresa Shook

Founder of the Women’s March

Teresa Shook is a retired lawyer in Hawaii and the founder of the Women's March. Shook created a Facebook event for a march in Washington, D. C. following the inauguration of Donald Trump. Within a single day, hundreds of thousands of individuals were "attending" the march's Facebook event. This surge in interest was a catalyst for creating the organization that led to the 2017 Women's March. (1)

In November 2018, Shook criticized the leadership of the Women’s March national organization as being “anti-Semitic and anti-gay rights”. Shook called for the Women’s March leadership to step down. (1)

Shook was presented with the American Spirit Award for Citizen Activism by Silda Wall Spitzer at the The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2017.

Twitter: @TeresaShookWM

(1) Material from Wikipedia.

Orville Schell

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Orville Schell

Writer

Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and Dean at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Schell worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, covered the war in Indochina as a journalist, and has traveled widely in China since the mid-70s. (1)

Schell is the author of fifteen books, ten of them about China, and a contributor to numerous edited volumes. He has written widely for many magazine and newspapers, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Time, The New Republic, Harpers, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Wired, Foreign Affairs, the China Quarterly, and The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. (1)

Schell is a Fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg School of Communications at USC and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Schell is also the recipient of many prizes and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Overseas Press Club Award, and the Harvard-Stanford Shorenstein Prize in Asian Journalism. (1)

Schell spoke at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2017 on “Global Threats and Opportunites” in China and North Korea.

Twitter: @orvilleschell

(1) Material from the Asia Society website.

Larry Kudlow

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Larry Kudlow

Director of the United States National Economic Council

Larry Kudlow is an American financial analyst and former television host serving as Director of the National Economic Council under President Donald Trump since 2018. (1)

Kudlow began his career as a junior financial analyst at the New York Federal Reserve. In 1981, Kudlow joined the administration of Ronald Reagan as associate director for economics and planning in the Office of Management and Budget. After leaving the Reagan Administration during the second term, Kudlow returned to Wall Street and Bear Stearns, serving as the firm's chief economist from 1987 until 1994. In the late 1990s, Kudlow left Wall Street to become an economic media commentator – first with the National Review, and later hosting several shows on CNBC. (1)

Larry Kudlow spoke at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2016.

(1) Material from Wikipedia.

Davis Guggenheim

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Davis Guggenheim

Film director

Philip Davis Guggenheim is an American film and television director and producer. His credits include NYPD Blue, ER, 24, Alias, The Shield, Deadwood, and the documentaries An Inconvenient Truth, The Road We've Traveled, Waiting for 'Superman' and He Named Me Malala. (1)

Guggenheim was hosted by The Common Good in 2015 for a Special Screening of "He Named Me Malala" - September 23, 2015.

(1) Material from Wikipedia.

Richard E. Farley

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Richard E. Farley

Writer

Richard E. Farley is a partner in the leveraged finance group of the law firm of Paul Hastings. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, and many other publications. He is the 2012 recipient of Bloomberg BNA’s Burton Award for Legal Achievement for best law firm writers. (1)

Farley co-hosted Rethinking the Afghanistan War with Erik Prince - October 3, 2017, Citizen Action Sweeping the Country: INDIVISIBLE, and a discussion on Hurricanes, Climate, and Responsible Energy Policies for the Future in 2017 at The Common Good. He also presented the American Spirit Award for Public Service to Judge Jed Rakoff at The Common Good’s American Spirit Awards 2015.

Twitter: @REFarley

(1) Material from Amazon’s author description.

J.R. Martinez

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J.R. Martinez

Actor

J.R. Martinez is a burn survivor Army veteran, a New York Times best-selling author, and a keynote speaker at events all over the world. He stars in the television series All My Children. (1)

Martinez joined the U.S. Army in 2002. On April 5, 2003, the Humvee that he was driving hit a roadside bomb. In the years following the accident, Martinez had over 34 different surgeries including multiple skin grafts and cosmetic surgeries. During his recovery, he found solace in helping other wounded survivors. Since then, he has traveled the world as a motivational speaker. His book, Full of Heart: My Story of Survival, Strength and Spirit, was released in 2012 and quickly reached the New York Times Bestsellers list. (1)

Martinez awarded Bob Woodruff the American Spirit Award for Citizen Activism at The Common Good’s American Spirit Awards 2015.

Twitter: @iamjrmartinez

(1) Material from J.R. Martinez’s website.

Dr. Naomi Wolf

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dr. Naomi Wolf

Author

Naomi R. Wolf is an American liberal progressive feminist author, journalist, and former political advisor to Al Gore and Bill Clinton. (1)

Dr. Wolf first came to prominence in 1991 as the author of The Beauty Myth. She has since written other books, including the bestseller The End of America and Vagina: A New Biography. Her journalism career began in 1995 and has included topics such as abortion, the Occupy Wall Street movement, Edward Snowden and ISIS. She has written for media outlets such as The Nation, The New Republic, The Guardian and The Huffington Post. (1)

Dr. Wolf presented the American Spirit Award for Citizen Activism to Andrea Pino and Annie Clark at The Common Good’s American Spirit Awards 2015.

Twitter: @naomirwolf

(1) Material from Wikipedia.

John Lewis

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U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 5th congressional district

John Lewis has dedicated his life to protecting human rights, securing civil liberties, and building what he calls "The Beloved Community” in America. (1)

During the height of the Movement, from 1963 to 1966, Lewis was named Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which he helped form. SNCC was largely responsible for organizing student activism in the Movement, including sit-ins and other activities. By 1963, he was dubbed one of the Big Six leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. At the age of 23, he was an architect of and a keynote speaker at the historic March on Washington in August 1963. Lewis went on to become the Director of the Voter Education Project (VEP). In 1977, John Lewis was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to direct more than 250,000 volunteers of ACTION, the federal volunteer agency. (1)

He was elected to Congress in November 1986 and has served as U.S. Representative of Georgia's Fifth Congressional District since then. He is Senior Chief Deputy Whip for the Democratic Party in leadership in the House, a member of the House Ways & Means Committee, a member of its Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, and Ranking Member of its Subcommittee on Oversight. (1)

John Lewis is the recipient of numerous awards from eminent national and international institutions. (1)

Lewis attended The Common Good Trip to Selma, Alabama and is a recipient of the American Spirit Award for Distinguished Public Service, awarded by The Common Good in 2016.

Twitter: @repjohnlewis

(1) Material from Congressman John Lewis’s website.