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David Ignatius Personal Patrons Ashley Swearengin Ian Morris Maureen Plunkett and Family Anonymous Jefferson Trustee Leonard Calabrese Gen. Michael Hayden, Ret. believed a citizenry that was educated on issues and shared its ideas through public discourse had the power to make a difference in the world. Doris Kearns Goodwin Howard Dean The Jefferson Educational Society of Erie is a strong proponent of that belief, offering courses, seminars,and lectures that explain the ideas that formed the past, assist in exploring the present,and offer guidance in creating the future of the Erie region. Elise Jordan Doris Kearns Goodwin James and Deborah Fallows Bill Plante Thomas B. Hagen Dignitas Award Winners 3207 State Street Ann Compton Erie, Chris Matthews 16508-2821 James Fallows XXDeborah Fallows Dear Friends: Welcome to the Jefferson Educational Society’s Global Summit X! This important lecture series could not come at a more opportune time, as we address some of the key issues facing the Erie community, our country, and the world. As this event enters its 10th year, we can reflect proudly on last year’s summit, which marked the first time the Global Summit stretched into a third week! We heard nine great presentations from 13 of the most respected scholars, writers, and leaders in their respective fields. Global Summit IX kicked off with a return visit by then-Brookings Centennial ScholarBruce Katz discussing his latest book, “The New Localism,” as he offered candid advice for Erie’s political leaders. He was joined by former Pittsburgh Mayor and current Senior Fellow at the Urban Land Institute Tom Murphy for a dynamic and engaging conversation about the future of cities. From there, we were “Linking Founding Fathers to Issues of the Day” with ’s senior contributor Jay Cost. One of the summit goals is to learn from the past, understand the present and anticipate the future. That was evident in our discussion with three “Washington Insiders” – ’s Philip Rucker, ABC News’ Tara Palmeri, and the ’s Byron York – as we explored the American presidency. And from Lake Erie naval history to spending time with Hunter S. Thompson, renowned historian and author captivated a sold-out audience on a blustery Friday in Erie. We examined German-American relations in the Age of Trump with Jackson Janes, the President of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington, D.C.; discussed a post-9/11 world with former Chief of StaffAndrew Card; addressed food sourcing in the 21st century with Erie nativeCaitlin Welsh, the Acting Director of the Secretary of State’s Office of Global Food Security at the U.S. Department of State; and posed the question: “Is DIY Tech the Future of Science” with Ellen Jorgensen, Co-Founder and President of Biotech Without Borders, answering it with a discussion of biohacking’s impact on the scientific community. We concluded the Summit with the tradition of honoring an Erie native with the Thomas B. Hagen Dignitas Award. Lt. Gen.James Dubik, Ret., received the award and delivered an impassioned speech about “America’s Leadership Challenge.” All of that in just one Summit in just one year. In the past nine years we have made a mark in the Erie community with 78 presenters over the course of 66 events, including the following national leaders:E.J. Dionne, Paul Kennedy, Alice Rivlin, Francis Fukuyama, , David Brooks, Harry Markopolos, , Laura Bush, , , Danielle Allen, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Tom Ridge – just to name a few. The Summit began as a simple idea: Invite some of the best thinkers to Erie to tell us about their body of work, cutting-edge studies, or insightful research on important issues. From there, we can point the focus on Erie’s challenges and opportunities. The Global Summit is now part of Northwestern Pennsylvania’s civic calendar, and we embrace the future with more thought-provoking lectures and panel discussions. In the following pages, you’ll read about those joining us for the tenth annual Global Summit – a list I believe to be our best yet. You’ll see some familiar faces, as some of the best and brightest agreed to make a return visit, and some new faces as we showcase Erie’s splendor. Event Sponsors Returning to the Global Summit stage are famed historian and archeologist Ian Morris, former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden, former presidential candidate and Vermont governor Howard Dean, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, and The Thank You LSUMM Atlantic’sJames and Deborah Fallows, authors of “Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into Platinum A I B T X the Heart of America,” who will receive this year’s Thomas B. Hagen Dignitas Award for their LO contributions to shaping Erie’s narrative. And, of course, I’m happy to say that this will make the G eighth Global Summit appearance for me. 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3207 State Street Global Summit X Chairman Erie, Pennsylvania 16508-2821 X An Evening with Acclaimed journalist, novelist, and scholar David Ignatius kicks off Global Summit X with a discussion of national and international issues. Ignatius, an associate editor and nationally syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, frequently offers his analysis of national security issues on national news networks. Before joining the staff of the Washington Post, Ignatius covered the steel industry in Pittsburgh Event Sponsors for and served as the publication’s Middle East correspondent from 1980 to 1982. In 1985, he received the Edward Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting. Ignatius has also been awarded many other professional honors, including a lifetime achievement award from the International Committee for Foreign Journalism. An Evening with His writing has also appeared in Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, Talk Magazine, and The Washington Monthly. David Ignatius David Ignatius M In addition to his career as a journalist, Ignatius, 68, has also written 10 fictionThank novels that draw You SU M on his experience and interest in foreign affairs and intelligence operations. His latest novel, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018 L I Platinum T Quantum Spy, is a thriller about the race to build the world’s first hyper-fast quantum computer. A 7:30 p.m. V Past best-selling novels include Body of Lies and The Increment, among others. “Fact and fiction B converged for me in a story that change my life – and turned me into a novelist,” he noted. Body Gannon University Yehl Ballroom, of Lies was adapted into a film by director Ridley Scott. In 2015, it was announced that Ignatius Waldron Campus Center, O II would work on a political opera called “The New Prince,” based on the teachings of Niccolo 124 W. Seventh St., Erie, Pa. L Machiavelli, with composer Mohammed Fairouz. Ignatius grew up in Washington, D.C., and studied political theory at and Gold Valet parking available at Gannon Silver G economics at Kings College, Cambridge. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Dr. Eve arches on West Seventh Street. Thornberg Ignatius, and they have three daughters.

Fresno’s Story: Our Journey of Transformation and Community Renewal During her two terms as Mayor of Fresno, Calif., from 2009 to 2017, Ashley Swearengin steeredBronz e Copper her city away from an impending financial crisis, helped rebuild the downtown, and worked to T get the city’s water system upgraded. Those were just a few of the transformational reforms H Y Swearingen led, including successfully urging more people to use public transportation. E T IE Her accomplishments were recognizable enough to catch the attention of national JE C correspondents for The Atlantic, James and Deborah Fallows. GOHRS F O “There was no other city about which we changed our minds more fully than Fresno,” James Event Sponsors F S p: (814) 455-0629 · f: (814) 454-2718 ER L Fallows praises in the critically acclaimed Our Towns: A 100,00-Mile Journey into the Heart of SO NA America. “The first time we heard the cheesy civic-booster motto – “Fresno? It’s Fres-yes!!” – all Fresno’sPat Story:ron Sponsor s N EDUCATIO we noticed was the cheesiness. After a while we started saying it ourselves…” Our Journey of The Fallows outline the tough but necessary decisions made by this “liberal Republican, who ran Transformation and in a strongly Democratic state.” With “professionalism and laserlike focus,” Swearengin won her first election with just 55 percent of the vote but her second with 75 percent and had Fresno Community Renewal UMM natives and visitors alike saying “yes” to her city and its progress. S ThankAshley Swearengin You Personal Patrons L IT And Swearengin, 46, was an experienced administrator when she entered office. She was the Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018Plat inum A Director of the Office of Community and Economic Development at California State University in V 7:30 p.m. Maureen Plunkett and Family Anonymous Jefferson Trustee B Fresno, co-founded the Regional Jobs Initiative (RJI), and served as the Chief Operations Officer. She was also the lead executive for the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley. Today, Jefferson Educational Society, O II she is the deputy chairwoman of the Partnership’s board of directors. 3207 State St., Erie, Pa. L She holds a B.S. and an MBA degree from California State University, Fresno. Thomas Jefferson believed a citizenry that was educated on issues and shared its ideas through public discourse had the power to make a difference in the world. While in office Swearengin was the consummate representative of working moms, as she workedGol d Silver G with her husband, Paul, to raise their two children, Sydney and Samuel.The Jeffe Afterrson leaving Educational office, Society she of Erie is a strong proponent of that belief, offering courses, seminars,and lectures that explain the ideas that became President of the Central Valley Community Foundation, formed the past, assist in exploring the present,and offer guidance in creating the future of the Erie region. a charitable foundation that serves Central California and has provided more than $100 million to more than 650 community organizations. 3207 State3 Street Erie, Pennsylvania 16508-2821 Bronze Copper VII T H Y E T IE JE C GOHRS FF SO p: (814) 455-0629 · f: (814) 454-2718 E RS NAL Patron Sponsors ON EDUCATIO

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3207 State Street Erie, Pennsylvania 16508-2821 VII War! What Is It Good For? Ian Morris – archaeologist, historian, and academic – tells tales from the world’s 15,000 years of war as he examines how deadly fighting has affected the world for centuries. That’s the topic of his most recent and compelling book, War! What is it Good For? Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots, which was met with popular and critical acclaim as a finalist in the 2014 California Book Awards nonfiction competition. British born and educated, Morris, 68, has been a scholar and author based at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., since 1995 as the Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics and History. At Stanford, Morris has held a number of positions, including Associate Dean of Humanities and Sciences, Chairman of the Classics Department, and Director of the Social Science History Institute. War! What Is It He will take the audience through the “good and bad” of warfare from the points of view Good For? of archaeology, history, and biology, noting how humans have gone from having a one-in- Ian Morris five chance of dying in violent conflict to a fewer than one-in-a-hundred chance in the 21st century. Only after knowing the extent of war – including the good – can we know where Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018 it’ll take us next, argues Morris. 7:30 p.m. Morris formerly taught at the University at Chicago after growing up in Stone, Staffordshire, Jefferson Educational Society, England, and studying ancient history and archaeology at the University of Birmingham. He 3207 State St., Erie, Pa. earned his Ph.D. at Cambridge University. He is also no stranger to Erie. Morris lectured on the future of humanity at the Jefferson’s Global Summit V in 2013, and has written and lectured extensively throughout the on ancient Mediterranean history and world history.

The Human Immune System 2018: How Behavior Affects Wellness and Longevity Dr. Leonard Calabrese, who lectures nationally and internationally on the subjects of HIV, immunology and rheumatology, will help the audience better understand the relationship between good behavior and wellness in his presentation on the human immune system. A timely topic, wellness-based programs are on the rise, and more attention is being continually paid to preventive medicine. Calabrese, D.O., is a rheumatologist, osteopathic physician, and an internationally recognized HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C researcher at the Cleveland Clinic, where he serves as director of the clinic’s R.J. Fasenmyer Center for Clinical Immunology. He specializes in diseases of the immune The Human Immune system, in particular, immunodeficiency diseases, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) System 2018: and other chronic viral infections. Dr. Calabrese is also co-director of the Center for Vasculitis How Behavior Affects Care and Research and has a particular interest in vascular inflammatory disease of the central Wellness and Longevity nervous system. An Erie native and graduate of John Carroll University and the Kansas City University of Leonard Calabrese, D.O. Medicine and Biosciences, Dr. Calabrese, 61, is the author of more than 300 published peer- reviewed articles, book chapters, and reviews. He has received many honors over the years but Monday, Nov. 5, 2018 none greater than being named American Osteopathic Foundation Physician of the Year in 2014. 7:30 p.m. Among those attending the ceremony were his wife and two daughters, including Dr. Cassandra Calabrese, a rheumatologist who works down the hall from him at the Cleveland Clinic. Jefferson Educational Society, His other honors include an honorary of Humane Letters from the Kansas City 3207 State St., Erie, Pa. University of Medicine and Biosciences, the Phillips Medal of Public Service from the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, the Bruce Hubbard Stewart Award for humanitarianism, and the Leonard Tow Humanitarianism in Medicine Award from the Arnold P. Goldman MD Foundation. When he was awarded the Theodore F. Classen, D.O. Chair in Osteopathic Research and Education in 2008 he became the first dual-chair holder in Cleveland Clinic history.

4 Understanding President Trump: An Insider’s View of the 45th President If you watch cable news, the odds are good that you’ve heard his name. A former Deputy Assistant to President , he remains one of the President’s staunchest defenders long after he left the White House amid the ouster of Trump aide in August 2017, and continues to make regular appearances to discuss the Trump White House. And while calling the Trump White House unconventional may be an understatement, studying and understanding its inner-workings makes the feat all the more exciting and fascinating, as the populace, be draped in either red or blue, remains intrigued by the 45th President’s approach to the executive branch of the United States. Enter Sebastian Gorka. Gorka, 47, who was born in to Hungarian parents, lived in Hungary from 1992 to 2008, and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 2012. He has worked for the Understanding Hungarian Ministry of Defense and, following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, President Trump: An became a public figure in Hungary as a counterterrorism expert. He has since served in a Insider’s View of the number of roles related to terrorism and security. 45th President After leaving the White House, Gorka, who earned a B.A. degree from the and a Ph.D. from Corvinus University of , became Chairman and CEO of the Sebastian Gorka Threat Knowledge Group and a national security strategist for FOX News. From 2014 to 2016, he was an editor for national security affairs for , where he worked for Bannon, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018 whom he followed in and out of the White House. 7:30 p.m. To better understand President Trump and his headline-inducing White House, who better to hear from than someone who generates and comments on those headlines? Especially just one Jefferson Educational Society, day after the mid-term elections. 3207 State St., Erie, Pa.

The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies What do a retired United States Air Force four-star general, a former Director of the National Security Agency, a former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency all have in common? In this case, they’re all Michael Hayden. A Pittsburgh native who will make his second appearance at the Jefferson’s Global Summit, Hayden rose to the top ranks of the Air Force and federal government administration while becoming an expert in global terrorism. Since then, he has become a co-chairman of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Electric Grid Cyber Security Initiative, a national security analyst for CNN, and an author twice over. The Assault on His first book, Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror, which was published in 2016, focused on surveillance polices, interrogation, and targeted killing. His second book, Intelligence: American The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies(published earlier this year), National Security in an began with him back in Pittsburgh sharing a few pints with fellow Pittsburghers. Why was he Age of Lies there, and why now? Was it to revel in some of his past memories as an equipment manager for the Pittsburgh Gen. Michael Hayden, Ret. Steelers? Was it to tell the tales of his quarterbacking at St. Peter’s Elementary School for Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018 volunteer coach Dan Rooney, later owner and chairman of the Steelers? No, he was looking for clues as to why America had elected Donald Trump president. What 1 p.m. results is an alarming look at the effect on the intelligence community and the public’s perception Jefferson Educational Society, of it. “The more important, absorbing and disturbing aspect of Hayden’s book is the analysis from his 3207 State St., Erie, Pa. professional perspective of what Trump and mean for the intelligence community,” Event in partnership with writes the Washington Post’s Mark Galeotti. “It is sober, nuanced and, quite frankly, scary as hell.”

5 What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America In 1963, Attorney General Robert Kennedy met with James Baldwin and some of Baldwin’s friends to discuss the conflicts that threatened Black America. The meeting angered Kennedy, but his anger evolved into empathy. The meeting then changed Kennedy’s thinking in Event Sponsors fundamental ways. Michael Eric Dyson, 60, will discuss that fateful meeting, which he featured in his latest book, What Truth Sounds Like: RFK, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in What Truth Sounds America. Dyson addresses the impact of the meeting on history and events leading to today’s Like: Robert F. Kennedy, Black Lives Matter movement. He also takes an in-depth look at whether political resolution or James Baldwin, moral redemption will mend our broken racial landscape. SUMM An ordained minister who was born and raised in Detroit, Dyson is a prolific author and Thankwriter, You and Our Unfinished L IT authoring and editing more than 20 books dealing with topics such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther Platinum A Conversation About King, Jr., Marvin Gaye, Nas’s debut album Illmatic, Tupac Shakur, and Hurricane Katrina. He is a B V Race in America sociology professor at Georgetown University, a New York Times contributing opinion writer, and a contributing editor for The New Republic. O II Michael Eric Dyson Dyson regularly appears on various talk shows, such as The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Real L Friday, Nov. 9, 2018 Time with Bill Maher, Good Morning America, The Today Show, NPR’s All Things Considered, , and This Week with to debate people from all walks of life. 7:30 p.m. Gold Silver G He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University and has taught at several Jefferson Educational Society, other universities, such as Brown University, the University of at Chapel Hill, , and the University of Pennsylvania. 3207 State St., Erie, Pa.

Presidential Leadership in Turbulent Times Are leaders born or made? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader Bronze Copper make the times or do the times make the leader? This and more will be discussed by Doris Kearns Goodwin, a world-renowned presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. T H Y Goodwin’s latest book, Leadership in Turbulent Times, culminates five decades of studying E T American presidents, including , Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, IE and Lyndon B. Johnson. Through studying these presidents and notable historical leaders, JE C Goodwin develops a road map for aspiring and established leaders in allG fieldsOHR andS for everyone FF SO in their everyday lives. p: (814) 455-0629 · f: (814) 454-2718 ER L Presidential Leadership Goodwin, 75, who lectured before a sold-out crowd at Global Summit VIII in 2016 at S A Patron Sponsors ON ON in Turbulent Times Mercyhurst University, is the author of six critically acclaimed and New York Times best-selling EDUCATI books, including her 2013 book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, , and Doris Kearns Goodwin the Golden Age of Journalism. Winner of the Carnegie Medal, The Bully Pulpit is a dynamic history Monday, November 12, 2018 of the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios has acquired the 7:30 p.m. film rights to that book and boasts previous work with Goodwin’s material, having drawn from Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln for the Academy Award-winning Lincoln. Personal Patrons Gannon University Her storied career has also involved working closely with President Johnson, being the first Maureen Plunkett and Family Anonymous Jefferson Trustee Hammermill Center, female journalist to enter the Boston Red Sox locker room, and she appears regularly on NBC’s South Park Row and Peach Street, Meet the Press. Erie, Pa. Goodwin, who earned a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University, was married to the late Richard Goodwin. She has two sons, Michael and Joseph. Thomas Jefferson believed a citizenry that was educated on issues and shared its ideas through public discourse had the power to make a difference in the world. Valet parking available at Gannon arches on West Seventh Street. The Jefferson Educational Society of Erie is a strong proponent of that belief, offering courses, seminars,and lectures that explain the ideas that formed the past, assist in exploring the present,and offer guidance in creating the future of the Erie region.

6 3207 State Street Erie, Pennsylvania 16508-2821 VII The Debate: Howard Dean and Elise Jordan In the spirit of democratic argument, not partisan politics, political experts Howard Dean and Elise Jordan will represent liberal and conservative thought, respectively, in a debate moderated by Global Summit X Chairman Steve Scully. Dean, who will turn 70 on Nov. 17, is an American physician, author, and retired politician who served as Governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003. After competing for the Democratic nomination for president in 2004, he chaired the Democratic National Committee for four years and has been a political consultant, commentator, and unofficial voice of the Democratic Party ever since. Dean appeared at the Jefferson’s Global Summit V in 2013. The Debate: Dean, a graduate of , earned his M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Howard Dean and He is married to Judith Steinberg, M.D., and they have two children, Anne and Paul. Elise Jordan Elise Jordan, 28, a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC and a contributor to Time magazine, was a policy adviser to U.S. Senator ’s 2016 presidential campaign. During Howard Dean and Elise Jordan, the George W. Bush administration, Jordan worked in the of Presidential moderated by Steve Scully Speechwriting and at the State Department as a speechwriter and adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Tuesday, November 13, 2018

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Front Row Seat to History: From President Ford to President Trump While Who frontman Roger Daltrey famously sang “meet the new boss, same as the old boss” in the 1971 classic “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” it’s safe to say that from politics to leadership styles and everything in between, things have changed throughout the years in the Oval Office. So who better to bring perspective to the national news media scene and coverage of the White House throughout the decades than award-winning veterans Bill Plante, Ann Compton, and Steve Scully? Front Row Seat to Plante, 80, a retired senior White House correspondent for CBS News, also reported regularly for CBS Evening News and CBS This Morning during his 52 years at CBS. In addition to History: From President covering seven presidents, Plante covered the 1965 civil rights marches, the , Ford to President Trump and the fall of Saigon. A graduate of Loyola University, he also attended Columbia University. Bill Plante and Ann Compton Plante, who grew up in Chicago, is married to television producer Robin Smith. He has two sons, Michael and Dan, from a previous marriage, and four other adopted children. moderated by Steve Scully Ann Compton, 71, was an award-winning journalist at ABC News during her trailblazing Wednesday, November 14, 2018 41-year career. In 1974 she became the first female to cover the White House for a network news organization and has reported on every president since . 7:30 p.m. A Chicago native, Compton was raised in Winnetka, Ill., and is married to Dr. William Hughes, Gannon University Yehl Ballroom, a Washington, D.C., physician. They are the parents of three sons and a daughter. Despite her Waldron Campus Center, many achievements, Compton said that her most valued award is a golden statuette from the National Mothers’ Day Committee naming her a Mother of the Year in 1988. 124 W. Seventh St., Erie, Pa. Scully, 58, born and raised in Erie, is the political editor and host of C-SPAN’s popular daily show, . In addition to his extensive experience in journalism, Scully Valet parking available at Gannon interned for U.S. Senator and served as staff assistant in Sen. Edward arches on West Seventh Street. Kennedy’s media affairs office. He earned his Master’s degree in Journalism at ’s Medill School of Journalism. Steve and his wife, Katie, have four children, Mary Cate, Danny, Cristen, and Natalie Cathleen.

7 A Conversation with Chris Matthews “Hardball” is more than just the title for Chris Matthews’ long-running news show on MSNBC. He made a name for himself by asking the tough questions and demanding answers during his three- decade journalism career. But Matthews, 72, is no one-dimensional talk-show host. After working in the Peace Corps in Africa as a young man, he worked in the U.S. Senate, served as a presidential speechwriter, and became the top aide to legendary House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill. Matthews had already experienced a full career when “Hardball” was launched on MSNBC in 1997, with its title taken from Matthews’ best-selling handbook on real-life politics published in 1988. As his network biography points out, he has been “on the air every weekday night since” – more than A Conversation with 21 years. He is the author of eight best-selling books, including: Tip and The Gipper: When Politics Worked; Chris Matthews Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero; Hardball: How Politics is Played, Told by One Who Knows the Game; Chris Matthews Kennedy & Nixon: The Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America; Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think; American: Beyond our Grandest Notions; and Life’s a Campaign. Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018 His most recent book, Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit, published in November 2017, has earned 11:30 a.m. critical acclaim as well as becoming an instant best-seller. Gannon University 60 Minutes Correspondent Lesley Stahl writes: “If you love reading about politics, if you ever loved the Kennedys or were fascinated by them, if you love biographical history or if you just like Hammermill Center, a good yarn about a brooding soul who turns into an uplifting, magnetic force, Bobby Kennedy: A South Park Row and Peach Street, Raging Spirit should be your next read. It’s well-researched, dramatically told. It brings those times – Camelot and after – back to life.” Erie, Pa. Matthews, born and raised in Philadelphia, is married to Kathleen Matthews, former journalist and Executive Valet parking available at Gannon Vice President of . They have arches on West Seventh Street. three children, Michael, Thomas, and Caroline.

Our Towns: Erie and America Perhaps New York Times columnist David Brooks said it best about authors, scholars, and journalists James and Deborah Fallows when their new book, Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America (which features Erie, Pennsylvania as the final city they visit), was published in 2018: “James and Deborah Fallows have always moved to where history is being made. … They have an excellent sense of where world-shaping events are taking place at any moment – and a fervent commitment to be there to see it happen. … In these cities, the Fallows argue, citizen participants are coping with declining industries, creating new civic cultures, assimilating waves of immigration, and collaborating Our Towns: across party-lines to revive everything from arts programs to tech seedbeds.” Erie and America The Fallows are the recipients of the 2018 Hagen Dignitas Award for these very reasons – their great skills at shining on everyday Americans in the communities where their work, live, play, James Fallows and hope, and struggle. They are experts on politics, China, middle America, economics, aeronautics but, Deborah Fallows most of all, communication.

Friday, November 16, 2018 Born in Philadelphia and raised in Redlands, Calif., Jim Fallows, 69, graduated from Harvard University and studied economics at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He has worked for decades as a correspondent 7:30 p.m. for The Atlantic, and many other journalism challenges have taken him around the world many times – which may have at times been easier for him since he pilots his own plane. He is the author Gannon University Yehl Ballroom, of numerous books, including 2012’s China Airborne, 1996’s Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy, and 1989’s More Like Us: Making America Great Again. at Waldron Campus Center, Deborah Fallows, a native of Vermillion, Ohio, grew up sailing on Lake Erie. She is a linguist and writer 124 W. Seventh St., Erie, Pa. with a Ph.D. in theoretical linguistics from the University of Texas in Austin. Among her celebrated books is Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language, about which Lesley Downer for the The New York Times Book Review writes: “Rather than draw sweeping conclusions Fallows Valet parking available at Gannon sticks to her own experiences and observations, which makes her book all the more valuable. China arches on West Seventh Street. hands will have many moments of recognition. For others, Dreaming in Chinese will be a fascinating introduction to a foreign culture.” The two met on a blind date while students at Harvard – James Fallows was three hours late. “But in a way it was kind of a good introduction to life with a journalist,” she later said, “forever after.”

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AL S LOB UM From a humble start as a two-day conference in 2009, the Jefferson’s annual Global Summit has G M grown to become an annual staple on Erie’s civic calendar. Over its first nine years, the Summit has E I H T become the largest and most esteemed speaker series in the region, featuring 78 of the most respected T scholars, writers, and leaders in the nation and the world. The idea is simple: Invite some of the best thinkers to Erie to tell us about their cutting-edge studies or insightful work on important issues, and point the focus on Erie and its challenges. The Global Summit T H Y E T J IE has grown in number of speakers and attendees each year and remains the signature series of events EF OC FE S RS AL for Jefferson members and the entire Erie regional community. ON EDUCATION

GLOBAL SUMMIT I (2009) GLOBAL SUMMIT VI (2014) E.J. Dionne (columnist, ethicist): “The money matters. Sister Joan Chittister (writer, ethicist, religious leader): And secret money is corrupting, secret money is “Beware the religion that turns you against another one.” dangerous, secret money leads to scandal.” Other speakers: Donna Brazile, Stephen Burt, Ph.D., Laura Other speakers: Kevin Fickenscher, M.D., George S. Howard, Bush, M.A., Bruce Katz, J.D., Charles C. Mann, Michele Ridge, Ph.D., Stephen Porter, J.D., William A. Smith, Ed.D. M.A., Gregory Skomal, Ph.D., Michael Steele, J.D. GLOBAL SUMMIT II (2010) GLOBAL SUMMIT VII (2015) Paul Kennedy (historian and author): “Sometimes we Cokie Roberts (writer, commentator): “The truth is, the don’t see the Palestinian side because no one is willing notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage is sort of to take them seriously because they have a reputation of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get being terrorists.” married.” Other speakers: Elaine C. Kamarck, Ph.D., Harvey A. Bender, Other speakers: Danielle Allen, Ph.D., Anthony Atala, M.D., Ph.D., G. Terry Madonna, Ph.D., Dave Porter, DEcD, Alan J. Nile Gardiner, Ph.D., Norman Gevitz, Ph.D., Bas Lansdorp, Russell, Ph.D. M.S., Aaron David Miller, Ph.D., Eric Raimy, Ph.D., Darrell West, Ph.D., Gov. Tom Wolf, Ph.D. GLOBAL SUMMIT III (2011) Alice M. Rivlin (economist, founding Director of the GLOBAL SUMMIT VIII (2016) Congressional Budget Office): “The increase in inequality Doris Kearns Goodwin (Pulitzer Prize winning historian, in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on the author): “It used to be that people had figures – political middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly, leaders, or people like Walter Cronkite in the old days especially if they live in an area where there are high –where you had a sense of trust in their authority. But housing and gas prices.” I’m not sure that those figures exist in the same way that Other speakers: General Michael V. Hayden, Joel Parker, they used to.” Ph.D., Freddie H. Fu, M.D., Francis Fukuyama, P.D., Steve Other speakers: Antoine von Agtmael, M.B.A., M.A., Fred Scully, M.S., Michael J. Songer, J.D. Barnes, Rev. Jeffrey Brown, M.Ed., M.Div., Lesley Lee Francis, Ph.D., Robert Hass, Ph.D., Andres Lozano, M.D., M.R. O’Connor, M.S., GLOBAL SUMMIT IV (2012) David Orr, J.D., Gov. Tom Ridge, J.D., Donald Sheehy, Ph.D. Karl Rove (GOP political expert, operative): “I spent part of my childhood in Utah. I went to a high school GLOBAL SUMMIT IX (2017) that is 95 percent Mormon, and only in Utah could a Andrew Card (former White House chief of staff): “I grew Presbyterian and a Jew both be gentiles.” up in a family where ‘politics’ was not a dirty word. My Other speakers: David Brooks, Ira Byock, M.D., Barry father’s mother had a great influence on my political life, Casselman, M.F.A., Tom Flynn, Robert Kirschner, Ph.D., my public life, because she had been a suffragette.” Norman Ornstein, Ph.D. Other speakers: Bruce Katz, J.D., Jay Cost, Ph.D., Steve Scully, M.S., Philip Rucker, B.A., Tara Palmeri, B.A., Byron York, M.S., GLOBAL SUMMIT V (2013) Douglas Brinkley, Ph.D., Jackson Janes, Ph.D., Caitlin Welsh, Harry Markopolos (whistle blower, author): “Failure M.P.A., Ellen Jorgensen, Ph.D., Lt. Gen. James Dubik, Ret., is a great teacher. There is no such thing as overnight Ph.D. success. The (Bernie) Madoff case was like that for myself and my team (of investigators) for nine years. We repeatedly went to the government about Madoff and no one would listen.” Other speakers: Howard Dean, M.D., Crislyn D’Souza- Schorey, Ph.D., David Gergen, J.D., William Kristol, Ph.D., , B.A., Thomas E. Mann, Ph.D., Ian Morris, Ph.D., , Edith Widder, Ph.D.

10 www.JESerie.org THOMAS B. HAGEN The Summit Mission DIGNITAS AWARD HONOREES Jefferson audiences easily recognize the “big names” from Global Summits over the years, and there were many – Doris Kearns Goodwin, Cokie Roberts, E.J. Dionne, David Brooks, Governors Tom Ridge and Tom Wolf, Douglas Brinkley, Andrew Card, Howard Dean, David Gergen, Karl Rove, Michael Steele, William Kristol, Jeffrey Brown, Steve Scully, Lt. Gen. James Dubik, Philip Rucker, and Donna Brazile, to name a few.

But a great deal of the Summit’s impact, we think, has been sponsoring perhaps less- well-known experts speaking on absolutely groundbreaking subjects. That is how Dr. 2011 2012 Andres Lozano, for example, wowed a Global Summit VIII audience with his incredible Steve Scully Barry Casselman work on deep brain stimulation. Urban planning experts like Bruce Katz, Darrell West, and Antoine van Agtmael were able to model their presentations specifically to Erie and our challenges, while medical experts gave hope to those craving new information. Those experts included Anthony Atala (3D printing of human tissue), Norman Gevitz (Future of Osteopathic medicine), Crislyn D’Souza-Schorey (Insights on cancer research), Freddie Fu (Orthopedic surgery and sports medicine), and Harvey Bender (Science, politics, and human genome). 2013 2014 Perhaps most intriguing of all were the speakers who discussed trends and the future Harry Markopolos Sister Joan Chittister regarding issues that tap into our passion for learning and wonder. The list is long and impressive: Bas Lansdorp (Mission Mars: Dreams into reality), M.R. O’Connor (Wilderness in the 21st century), Ellen Jorgensen (Biohacking and do-it-yourself science), Ian Morris (The future of humanity), Edith Wilder (Unexplored potential of the Deep Sea), Gregory Skomol (Insights into ecology of the Great White Shark), Ira Byock (Dying well in America: End of life care), Robert Kirshner (The Runaway Universe: Einstein’s blunder undone), and Stephen Porter (Climate change and international 2015 cooperation). Drs. John and Silvia Ferretti

Our mission will never change. We try to find special speakers working on the cutting edge of their academic disciplines, to bring them to Erie to share their truly global ideas.

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“I was very impressed with the community engagement at the Global Summit. … It was clear the Jefferson has had a huge impact on Erie.” Darrell West, Ph.D., Vice President of Governance Studies, Steve Scully interviews Doris Kearns Goodwin at Brookings Institution Global Summit VIII.

“The Global Summit meets a real need, providing a forum for raising big questions. … Any city would be proud to have an organization like the Jefferson.” Ian Morris, Ph.D., Stanford University

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