Convergence Center for Policy Resolu on
Our Aspira on Create unlikely alliances to solve our na on’s most challenging issues.
Who We Are We are a lean, determined, 501c3 non-profit organiza on focused on solving social challenges through collabora on. We bring deep knowledge of policy and process and work with leaders and doers to move past divergent views to iden fy workable solu ons to seemingly intractable issues. The Convergence team has been instrumental in tackling a range of social issues throughout careers spent in the public and private sectors. We are building on past successes to spread the word and the tools for use in solving a broad array of challenges.
What We Do At Convergence, we focus on solu ons. We convene people and groups with conflic ng views to iden fy specific ac ons that will make a las ng difference. We get there through structured, facilitated dialogue and long-term rela onship building. Our process builds trust and understanding and shi s the focus from conflict to ac on. The products of our con nuous effort throughout the life of a project include breakthrough coali ons working toward transforma ve ac on and a renewed sense of what is possible through shared goals and long-term coopera on.
Our Approach Wise and Leaders and durable doers with Dialogue solu ons to leading to passionate society’s most ac on points of view challenging issues
What Our Projects Achieve • Bipar san federal and state legisla on • Public educa on and awareness campaigns • Public/private partnerships • Changes in research and philanthropic priori es • Civil society and business partnerships • Ongoing collabora on
Our Process Since Convergence’s launch in 2009 we have undertaken projects in four areas:
Iden fy and Convene Solu ons and Structured research an stakeholders ac on dialogue Guided ac on issue and build trust planning
Nutri on & Wellness In progress ✓ ✓ ✓ K-12 Educa on ✓ ✓ In progress
Long-Term Care ✓ ✓ In progress US-Pakistan Rela ons In progress ✓ ✓ ✓ What’s Next Convergence is at a turning point. With our proven process genera ng workable solu ons to four challenging issues, we want to do more. By 2020, our plan calls for: • 10 projects of na onal consequence completed or under way • Implementa on of key ac on programs iden fied by our project teams • R&D into new areas of focus • Development of a turnkey toolkit for organiza ons looking to adopt a culture of collabora ve problem solving 123
BOARD OF TRUSTEES LEADERSHIP COUNCIL John Steiner Transpartisan Center Richard S. Alper Robert Chase Longmont, CO Attorney/Mediator Intersections International Fort Collins, CO New York, NY Rita Walters Washington National Cathedral Bill Belding Rehan Dawer Baltimore, MD Adjunct Professor, Ethica Global Alliance American University Reston, VA Jeff Weissglass Washington, DC Political Bridge Building Advocate Maggie Dunne Chicago, IL Stuart Butler Lakota Children's Enrichment, Inc. Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Scarsdale, NY The Honorable Rebecca Westerfield The Brookings Institution Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Washington, DC Tom Dunne Services (JAMS) – San Francisco, CA U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project Jessica Dibb Rockville, MD Founder and Director ADVISORY BOARD David Fairman Inspiration Community, Inc. The Honorable William E. Brock Consensus Building Institute Owings Mills, MD Former U.S. Senator, Tennessee Cambridge, MA Washington, DC Robert J. Fersh Cherie S. Harder Founder and President The Honorable Michael Dukakis The Trinity Forum Convergence Center for Policy Resolution Former Governor of Massachusetts Washington, DC Washington, DC Boston, MA Chris Hayes John R. Jacob The Honorable Mickey Edwards Edelman PR Partner Former U.S. Representative, Oklahoma Washington, DC Akin Gump Washington, DC Washington, DC Roxana Bahar Hewertson The Honorable Victor H. Fazio Highland Consulting Group, Inc. Kelly D. Johnston Former U.S. Representative, California Trumansburg, NY Vice President for Government Affairs Washington, DC Campbell Soup Company Carol Hexner Camden, NJ The Honorable Scott Harshbarger Global Novations Former Massachusetts Attorney New York, NY Richard Korn – Chair General – Boston, MA President and Founder Marvin Johnson Korn Consulting Group The Honorable Bob Kerrey Center for Alternative Dispute New York, NY Minerva Institute Resolution – Greenbelt, MD New York, NY Maja Kristin Alan Jones Co-Founder The Honorable Harris Wofford Dean Emeritus, Grace Cathedral RockRose Institute Former U.S. Senator, Pennsylvania San Francisco, CA Kentfield, CA Washington, DC Gay Legg David Lipsky Stephen B. Heintz Consultant, Marketing+Intersect Professor of Dispute Resolution Rockefeller Brothers Fund Baltimore, MD Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution New York, NY Cornell University – Ithaca, NY Bradley McMillan Richard Land Institute for Principled Leadership In Virginia Molino Southern Evangelical Seminary Public Service – Peoria, IL General Counsel and Partner Nashville, TN McKinsey and Company Dennis Passis Daniel J. Siegel New York, NY Mediator UCLA School of Medicine Chicago, IL Louise Phipps Senft Los Angeles, CA Mediator and Founder Faith Roessel William Ury Baltimore Mediation Attorney Harvard Law School Program on Baltimore, MD Bethesda, MD Negotiation – Boulder, CO Riaz Siddiqi Rob Stein Daniel Yankelovich Founder and Managing Partner Democracy Alliance Founder and Chairman, Public Agenda Denham Capital Management LP Washington, DC La Jolla, CA Houston, TX
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Project on Nutrition and Wellness Creating Alliances for Action
What is the Project on Nutrition and Wellness (PNW)? The Project on Nutrition and Wellness leverages the knowledge, influence and resources of the public interest and private sectors to improve the nutritional health of the nation. PNW brings together individuals and groups – with expertise in consumer behavior, marketing, public health, nutrition education and public policy – to create a major, unified shift in demand for healthier foods and put market forces to work to address obesity, diabetes and other nutrition-related conditions. Why Is This Important? Currently, 35.7% of adults – 78 million people – and 17% of children and adolescents in America are obese; many more are overweight. This alarming trend has led to increased rates of Type 2 Diabetes and many other adverse health outcomes, costing the U.S. an estimated $190 billion a year in medical expenditures, $4.3 billion in business losses, and posing a threat to our nation’s future. How Can PNW Create Change? PNW’s unprecedented alliance of over 50 influential thought-leaders – The Project on Nutrition and including consumer advocates, food industry executives, local and national Wellness has “confirmed the alliances, foundations, physician and public health groups, health insurers, possibility of genuine academic experts and others – works in a sustained manner. Stakeholders collaboration and interaction pool their expertise and resources to: across sectors” and • Reach a shared understanding of the key factors influencing “developed a market-based consumer food choices; framework for helping to • Identify incentives, messaging and other initiatives that promote solve the obesity issue.” healthier food choices, including use of new technologies; and, • Leverage this information to develop and implement a shared plan - PNW Participants of action through private and public initiatives.
The Project aims to create measurable change in American food consumption habits. Over a year of interviews and research suggest that shaping consumer demand toward healthier food choices – while recognizing that consumer behavior is not influenced solely by individual choice, but by many factors – provides a unifying framework for cooperation across diverse groups. Shaping consumer demand has the added advantage of putting market forces to work, creating a virtuous cycle that encourages the production and marketing of healthier food.
PNW is a project of the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution, in association with the Consensus Building Institute (CBI). For more information on PNW, contact Julie Garel at [email protected] or Amy Slechta at [email protected]. For more information on Convergence, please go to www.convergencepolicy.org. For more information on CBI, please go to www.cbuilding.org. PNW Participants
Joshua Anthony, Vice President, Global Nutrition and Health, Laura Lundin, Director, Strategic Communications, Corporate Campbell Soup Company Social Responsibility, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Niiobli Armah IV, Program Manager, Childhood Obesity and Michel Nischan, CEO, Founder and President, Wholesome Health & Wellness Programs, NAACP Wave Richard Black, Vice President, Global Nutrition, PepsiCo C. Tracy Orleans, Senior Fellow, Senior Scientist, Robert Wood Deanne Brandstetter, Vice President, Nutrition & Wellness, Johnson Foundation Compass Group North America Cathy Polley, Vice President, Health and Wellness, Food Hank Cardello, Director, Obesity Solutions Initiative, The Marketing Institute, Executive Direction, FMI Foundation Hudson Institute Elizabeth Pivonka, President, Produce for Better Health Skye Cornell, Vice President of Programs, Wholesome Wave Foundation William H. Dietz, Former Director, Division of Nutrition, Physical Mary Pat Raimondi, Vice President of Strategic Policy and Activity and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Partnerships, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Prevention Barry Popkin, W. R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Joy Dubost, Director of Nutrition and Healthy Living, National Nutrition, University of North Carolina School of Public Health Restaurant Association Todd Putman, Chief Marketing Officer, Bolthouse Farms, Inc Sylvia Emberger, Corporate Nutritionist, Ahold USA Ruth Raskas, Vice President, Clinical Health Policy, WellPoint Scott Faber, Vice President of Government Affairs, Inc. Environmental Working Group Sue Roberts, Fellow, Partnership for a Healthier America Tracy Fox, Founder and President, Food, Nutrition & Policy Tausha Robertson, Senior Director, Alterity Group LLC/National Consultants LLC Financial Partners Lisa Gable, President, Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation Kate Rogers, Vice President, Communication and Engagement, Ben Gardner, Founder & President, Linkwell Health H-E-B Stores Marcia Greenblum, Senior Director, Health & Wellness Karl Saliba, Founder and President, Saliba Action Strategies for Communications, International Food Information Council Burger King Corporation Julie Greene, Director of Healthy Living, Hannaford Bros. Co. Robin Schepper, Senior Advisor, Nutrition and Physical Activity Chavanne Hanson, Wellness Champion, Nestlé USA Initiative, Bipartisan Policy Center Linda Harelick, Director of Operations and Communications, Robert Schwartz, American Academy of Pediatrics, Professor ChildObesity180, Tufts University Emeritus of Pediatrics, Wake Forest School of Medicine Kathryn Harrington, Vice President, Edelman Marlene B. Schwartz, Deputy Director, Rudd Center for Food Monica Hobbs Vinluan, Project Director, Healthier Policy & Obesity, Yale University Communities Initiatives, YMCA of the USA Darren Singer, Senior Vice President, Pharmacy, Health & Kate Houston, Federal Affairs, Cargill Inc. Wellness, Safeway, Inc Terry Huang, Professor and Chair, Dept of Health Promotion Marianne Smith-Edge, Senior Vice President, Nutrition & Food and Social and Behavioral Health, College of Public Health, Safety, International Food Information Council University of Nebraska David Socolow, Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Pinnacle Beth Johnson, Founder and Principal, Food Directions LLC Foods Kelly Johnston, Vice President, Government Affairs, Campbell Neal Sofian, Director, Member Engagement, Premera Blue Soup Company Cross Marc Jones, MBA, Senior Vice President, Merchandising and Mary Sophos, Executive VP for Policy and Strategic Planning, Marketing, The Fresh Market Grocery Manufacturers Association Meg Jones, MPH, Director, Rabin Martin Brian Wansink, John Dyson Professor of Consumer Behavior, Allison Karpyn, Director of Research and Evaluation, The Food Cornell University Trust Patricia Zecca, MS, Nutrition Program Manager, Campbell Soup Lisel Loy, Director, Nutrition and Physical Activity Institute, Company Bipartisan Policy Center
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Re-imagining Education
A project of the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution
The Challenge: Our national challenge is to create a future where all children experience extraordinary learning. Despite multitudes of public and private initiatives and investments, the U.S. school system remains antiquated and unable to meet the needs of far too many children. Hot button issues, such as school choice, testing, and tenure, divide the leaders and groups who most need to come together to forge a new path forward to create an education system equal to the needs and aspirations of our 21st century children and society. The Project: We are convening an extraordinary group of influential education leaders, thinkers, and practitioners for a sustained dialogue to re-imagine education for the 21st century. Despite their differing and often conflicting perspectives, these participants are committed to transforming our national vision of children’s education, defining pathways to advance that vision, and taking joint action to make that transformation possible. The participants are eager to move past the debates and fissures deeply embedded in the current PreK-12 education system. Working with skilled facilitators from the Consensus Building Institute and others, our stakeholders are creating a vision of learning that re-imagines what is possible for every child. Their work is informed by the latest research and practice in, for instance, technology, neuroscience, collaborative systems change, and student-centered learning. Together, the participants have begun seeking answers to questions such as these: • How should we define and measure success in children’s learning to meet the challenges of the coming decades? • What are the possibilities for the roles of adults in a newly imagined future for education? How will we recruit and support them? • How can technology transform when, where and how learning occurs? • How do we create a collaborative learning environment, one that harvests a child’s intrinsic motivation to learn? • What might a day, a week, and a year in a child's life look like as we imagine 21st century learning, within and beyond school buildings? The dialogue process began with a stakeholder meeting in April 2013 and will continue with five more two-day stakeholder meetings through Fall 2014. Why This Project Can Make a Difference: This project brings together people of significant experience and influence who often disagree on the best paths forward. Together, they will identify what it takes to provide children with a high quality education and how that education can be delivered. Their individual endeavors are often siloed or in competition with each other, but collectively, these stakeholders have the capacity to catalyze a true shift in the way we look at and provide quality education to every child. Their success will be measured not by whether a report is written and well-received, but by whether concrete actions are taken. Funding: Our funders include: American Federation of Teachers, Microsoft, NoVo Foundation, Lisa and John Pritzker Family Fund, Nellie Mae Education Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, LEGO, National Education Association, Einhorn Family Charitable Trust, an anonymous foundation, and individual donors. The project is actively seeking new funding partners.
J Re-imagining Education is a project of the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution. For more information on Re-imagining Education, contact Kelly Young at [email protected], Laura Perrault at [email protected], Demi Edwards at [email protected], or call (202) 830-2310. For more information on Convergence, please go to www.convergencepolicy.org. 12
Re-imagining Education
A project of the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution
Dialogue Participants
David Andrews, Dean, Johns Hopkins University Bobbi Macdonald, Executive Director, City School of Education Neighbors Foundation, Inc. Sig Behrens, Education Technology Marc Porter Magee, President & Founder, 50CAN Advisor/Consultant; Former President of Global Peter McWalters, Former Rhode Island Sales, Blackboard Inc.; Former General Manager for Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary the U.S. Education Business, Microsoft Corp. Education Stuart Butler, Director of the Center for Policy Robert O’Brien, Principal, New York City Public Innovation, The Heritage Foundation School Sam Chaltain, Strategic Communications Consultant Judy Peppler, President & CEO, KnowledgeWorks and Author Becky Pringle, Vice President, National Education Dwight Davis, Teacher, DC Public Schools Association Rehan Dawer, Founder, Ethica Global Alliance Stephen Robinson, President, Southern Association Nick Donohue, President & CEO, Nellie Mae of Independent Schools Education Foundation; Former New Hampshire Megan Shackleton, Strategist, Einhorn Family Commissioner of Education Charitable Trust Lily Eskelsen, President, National Education Shruti Sehra, Partner, New Profit Inc. Association Robert Sherman, Consultant, Social and Emotional Maddie Fennell, Literacy Coach; 2007 Nebraska Learning Teacher of the Year Stephan Turnipseed, President Emeritus and Lizabeth Fogel, Director of Education, Walt Disney Executive Director, Strategic Partnerships, LEGO Company Education Michael Hinojosa, Former District Superintendent, Marla Ucelli-Kashyap, Assistant to the President for Cobb County School District, GA Education Issues, American Federation of Teachers Gisèle Huff, Executive Director, Jaquelin Hume Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation Foundation of Teachers Jennifer Humke, Program Officer of Digital Media Jeff Weissglass, Vice President, Oak Park and River and Learning, MacArthur Foundation Forest High School Board of Education, IL John Jackson, President & CEO, The Schott Lara Wheatley, School Leader, KIPP Houston High Foundation for Public Education School Andrew Ko, General Manager, Partners in Learning, Mark Wilding, Co-Executive Director, PassageWorks Microsoft; Appointed Member, Virginia Board of Institute Education
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Long-Term Care Financing Collaborative
A project of the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution
The Project The Long-Term Care Financing Collaborative (Collaborative) brings together national experts and stakeholders who cross ideological divides in pursuit of a common goal: to develop and work to implement consensus-based, concrete policy recommendations to address the national problem of financing long-term supports and services for the frail elderly and people with disabilities.
The Challenge Long-term supports and services are non-medical assistance, such as food preparation, personal hygiene, assistive devices and transportation, as well as help with activities such as bathing and eating. Today, 10-12 million adults require supports that help them maintain the best possible quality of life, a number that is expected to double by 2030. As our nation’s 78 million baby boomers age, demographic trends show declining availability of family caregivers and increasing reliance on paid care, either at home or in residential facilities.
The out-of-pocket costs of such assistance can be catastrophic, and few people have the necessary resources, through savings or private long-term care insurance, to meet this need. Contrary to popular belief, Medicare does not pay for long-term services and supports. Most people who need paid assistance impoverish themselves, and then rely upon Medicaid, the federal-state, means-tested welfare program.
Medicaid is now the single largest payer of long-term services and supports, funding about half of paid assistance. In 2011, it spent $110 billion, or one-third of its total budget, for this assistance. Medicaid long-term care spending is projected to grow faster than overall health spending. As it grows, it will create increasing pressures on the Medicaid program’s ability to pay for other priorities, such as medical care for the poor.
Next Steps The Collaborative has developed a shared vision for long-term care financing reform and is now engaged in a series of focused, monthly plenary meetings, to identify specific issues and obstacles to building consensus.
The meetings are designed to forge trusting relationships and create common understanding and shared principles, as participants identify widely supported, viable, and creative policy recommendations to engage the public and inspire public policy and private sector responses to financing long-term supports and services. The Collaborative has been meeting for nearly two years and fosters cooperation across many other long-term care financing initiatives. Through this cooperation, the Collaborative identified a shared need for economic and actuarial research around LTSS financing options and works to strengthen relationships with other initiatives and their support for such research.
The Long-Term Care Financing Collaborative is a project of the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution. For more information on the LTCFC, contact Caryn Hederman at [email protected]. For more information on Convergence, please go to www.convergencepolicy.org.
Steering Committee and List of Participants *Members listed below may have joined in their individual capacities. Participation in this project does not necessarily reflect views held by members’ past or current employers.
Mike Fogarty, Former CEO, Oklahoma Health Care Authority STEERING COMMITEE: William Galston, Brookings Institution Sheila Burke, Harvard Kennedy School
Lee Goldberg, National Academy of Social Insurance Stuart Butler, Convergence Center for Policy
Resolution Board Member; The Heritage Jennie Chin Hansen, American Geriatric Association; Foundation Former President, AARP; Former MedPAC Commissioner Michael Cheek, American Health Care Association Robert Moffit, The Heritage Foundation
Marc Cohen, LifePlans, Inc. John Rother, National Coalition on Healthcare
Howard Gleckman, Urban Institute Nelson Sabatini, The Artemis Group Former Maryland State Medicaid Director Ron Pollack, Families USA Allen Schmitz, Milliman Donald Redfoot, AARP Dennis Smith, McKenna Long & Aldridge, Former Jonathan Westin, The Jewish Federations of Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Health Services; North America Former Director, U.S. Center for Medicaid and State Operations at CMS
Ronald Soloway, UJA- Federation of New York MEMBERS AT LARGE: Paul Van De Water, Center on Budget & Policy Gretchen Alkema, SCAN Foundation Priorities
Robert Blancato, Matz, Blancato & Associates; Audrey S. Weiner, LeadingAge Former Executive Director, White House Council on Aging Debra Whitman, AARP
James Capretta, The Ethics & Public Policy Center; Gail Wilensky, Project HOPE The American Enterprise Institute Former Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration Lisa Ekman, Health & Disability Advocates Richard Teske (1949-2014) John Erickson, Erickson Living Former U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Official
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U.S.-Pakistan Leaders Forum
A collaboration of Convergence, the Consensus Building Institute, and the Institute for Resource and Security Studies
The U.S.-Pakistan Relationship Faces Daunting Challenges Relations between the United States and Pakistan are deeply challenged. The relationship is threatened by high levels of societal mistrust and suspicion, divergent national security interests, polarized public communication, and the lack of effective forums for sustained dialogue and relationship building. “I would like to do all over again, what we have done this time [at the The two governments are constrained in what they can achieve given how they view Forum]. This needs to be repeated the threats posed to their citizens. This is why the U.S.-Pakistan Leaders Forum is so regularly. The underlying thing is needed. that we need each other. Anything that we can do to get that across to
our people and to yours, [that] there The U.S.-Pakistan Leaders Forum Is Making a Difference are ups and downs but we must For four years, we have been engaged in convening diverse American and Pakistani overcome them.” leaders to discuss common challenges and shared opportunities. A broad cross- Syed Babar Ali section of societal leaders in the U.S. and Pakistan remains committed to improving CEO of Packages Ltd, and Founder, communication, dialogue, and partnerships between the two countries. Lahore University of Management Sciences These efforts have produced tangible results – new linkages between businesses, ~ entrepreneurs, and investors; new levels of cooperation in education; and “The Forum has the potential to collaboration among media, cultural, and religious leaders. With your help, the fundamentally shift the negative narrative that dominates the Leaders Forum can build many new partnerships between our two counties. relationship between the United
States and Pakistan and deepen the Promoting Cooperation and Partnership Building ties and understanding between the The United States and Pakistan need strong “shock absorbers’’ for the tensions that peoples of these two countries.” arise in official ties. By focusing on citizen engagement, the United States can invest in Brian Katulis areas that lead to positive transformations in Pakistan and its relationship with Center for American Progress America. ~ “The USPLF has the potential to Who We Are create greater understanding The Forum is a non-governmental initiative organized by three U.S.-based, non- between Americans and Pakistanis profits: the Consensus Building Institute, the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution, about the threats and concerns each and the Institute for Resource and Security Studies. Key partners include the Atlantic nation faces, and create Council, the Asia Society, and Intersections International. Key advisors include the opportunities for influential Center for American Progress, the Heritage Foundation, Georgetown University, the members of civil society to work Middle East Institute, CARE Foundation Pakistan, PAIMAN Trust, Heartfile, Rural together toward mutually beneficial Support Program Network, HUM Network and GEO Network. Key funders include: the goals.” Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Mellon Foundation, the Stuart Family Foundation, Lisa Curtis Collegiate Church, the Babar Ali Foundation, and the Pakistani-American community.
We Take Initiative to Achieve Breakthrough Results Priority areas for building partnerships and new pathways of understanding include: primary & higher education; agriculture; media, arts & culture; business & entrepreneurship; health & social services and governance.
Dozens of partnerships have launched since February 2011, connecting students, teachers, business executives, media, cultural and religious leaders, and others. Many more are under consideration.
Without greater citizen involvement to deepen our ties, the United States and Pakistan will remain trapped in mutual mistrust.
We invite you to help change the conversation and invest in improving this most critical relationship. For more information, please visit www.convergencepolicy.org, email Aakif Ahmad at [email protected], or call (202) 468-3799. 123
Partial List of Forum Participants 2011-2014
Ms. Alicia Adams Ms. Vishakha Desai Ms. Arfana Mallah The Kennedy Center Asia Society Sindh University; Kawish TV
Mr. Terry Adamson Mr. Saif Hameed Mr. Simon Marks National Geographic Society CEO, Punjab Youth Council Feature Story News
Mr. Owais Aslam Ali Mr. Saad Haroon Ms. Ellen McDonnell Pakistan Press Foundation Writer and Comedian National Public Radio
Mr. Syed Babar Ali Ms. Salima Hashmi Mr. Paul Miller Packages, Ltd Beaconhouse National University; N.A. Independent Schools
Mr. Cyril Almeida Ms. Catherine Herridge Ms. Samar Minallah Dawn Newspaper Fox News Channel Ethno Media and Development
Mr. Imran Aslam Ms. Dana Hughes Mr. Charles Montgomery GEO Network ABC News MidAmerican Energy Company
Mr. Jeffrey Avina Mr. Azhar Hussain Dr. Adil Najam Microsoft Pakistan Education Foundation Lahore University of Management Sciences
Mr. Arieb Azhar Mr. Salman Iqbal Musician ARY Digital Network Mr. Shahid Nadeem Ajoka Theatre Mr. Sartaj Aziz The Honorable Javed Jabbar Beaconhouse National University JJ Media Ltd.; Former Minister of Dr. Sania Nishtar Information of Pakistan Heartfile Pakistan Ms. Seema Aziz CARE Foundation and Bareeze Mr. Mark Jurkowitz Ms. Mossarat Qadeem Pew Center on Journalism PAIMAN Alumni Trust Ms. Zeb Bangash
Musician Mr. Syed Mustafa Kamal Mr. Mir Ibrahim Rahman Former Mayor of Karachi GEO Networks, Ltd Ms. Ellen Blackler The Walt Disney Company Mr. Brian Katulis The Honorable Cynthia Schneider Center for American Progress Georgetown University Mr. Jeffrey Brown PBS News Hour Ms. Azmat Khan Dr. Asif Ali Shah PBS FRONTLINE Pioneer Pakistan Seed, Ltd. Mr. Patrick Butler International Center for Ms. Shandana Khan Ms. Asma Shirazi
Journalists Rural Support Program Network SAMAA TV
Mr. Frank Carrere Mr. Taher Khan Sultana Siddiqui Fox International Interflow Group HUM Networks, Ltd.
The Hon. Wendy Chamberlin Mr. Kevin Klose Mr. Nelson Smith Middle East Institute University of Maryland N.A. Public Charter Schools
Ms. Rachel Chanoff Mr. Bilal Lakhani Mr. Hasan Zaidi Sundance Institute Express Media Group Karachi Kara Film Festival
Rev. Robert Chase Ms. Katherine Liu Mr. Fasi Zaka Intersections International Viacom International Radio Talk Show Host
Ms. Lisa Curtis Mr. Aaron Lobel Mr. Muhammad Ziauddin Heritage Foundation America Abroad Media Express Tribune
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