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AN IDEAS FESTIVAL | JULY 27-29, 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS

2 Schedule 4 Welcome 6 Topics and Sessions 6 Aperitifs 6 Education 7 Economics 8 Global Affairs 9 Health and Medicine 10 Law and Politics 11 Liberal Arts 11 Science, Technology and Environment 12 Social Issues 12 Visual Arts 13 Presenter Biographies 25 Attendees, Presenters and Guests 26 Charitable Grants 27 Acknowledgments Useful Information Meet the KentPresents Team SCHEDULE Detailed schedule available in Welcome Kit at Registration.

THURSDAY, JULY 27 FRIDAY, JULY 28 SATURDAY, JULY 29

9:00-6:00 Registration 7:00-8:30 Continental 7:00-8:30 Continental 11:30-12:30 Light Lunch Breakfast Breakfast 12:45-5:35 Sessions 8:30-12:45 Sessions 8:30-12:45 Sessions 5:35-6:45 Reception 12:45-2:10 Lunch 12:45-2:10 Lunch 2:20-5:30 Sessions 2:20-5:30 Sessions 5:30-7:00 Reception 5:30-6:30 Reception 7:00 Dinner on 6:30-8:00 Kent Arts Night Campus in Village

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Dear Friends,

Welcome to the third annual KentPresents. This event started as an idea that struck Donna and me one summer afternoon in 2014. We were looking for a way to help support deserving but often overlooked small charities, those that serve people in need. The idea became KentPresents. In a fairly short time, it’s not only achieved its original goal but has become a nationally recognized ideas festival. We like to think our festival is different. Most striking to many is that compared with others, we’re smaller. Much smaller. That’s fine with us, because we’ve discovered that size is overrated. Indeed, one of our most cited attributes is our intimacy. Aspen and Davos and TED may be larger, but few offer as we do the opportunity to chat with just about anyone attending or speaking. Another differentiation—our programming. In addition to covering the major global, intellectual and cultural topics of the time, we like to look at them in fresh ways. We also enjoy presenting fresh topics. Here are three in the next three days: • THE GENDER GAP This gap will surprise you. “The Lost Boys” asks what can be done to re-engage boys in school worldwide. All over the world, wherever girls have access to school, they eventually do better than boys. And nowhere is this gap larger than in the Middle East—where girls are consistently outperforming boys. • FORGETTING We feel that forgetting in our normal lives reflects a failure or glitch of our memory system. We are wrong. In “Forgetting: The Benefits of an Open Mind,” we learn that the benefits of normal forgetting are wide-ranging, from cognition to creativity and emotional well-being, and even to mental and societal health. • MASS INCARCERATION Reform results have been disappointing because reformers tend to focus on a conventional wisdom that emphasizes secondary causes in ways that render the primary causes almost invisible. Successful reform must target the unchecked power and peculiar incentives of prosecutors; the harshness with which we treat violent crime; and the influence of public sector unions—all areas that have generally received little to no attention. By the way, you’ll have your choice of deciding which among these and 40 more sessions to attend during your three days at KentPresents. Good luck.

Ben and Donna Co-founders, KentPresents

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TOPICS AND SESSIONS  ECONOMICS THE WORLD ECONOMY: CALM BEFORE THE STORM  All over the world, wherever girls have access to school, they MATTISON, Friday, 8:30am-9:20am APERITIFS eventually do better than boys. And nowhere is this gap larger In these parlous times, few economists other than Paul than in the Middle East—where girls are consistently out- MATTISON, Thursday, 1:45pm-3:00pm Krugman would dare to undertake analyzing the world- performing boys at every age level and in every subject in a wide economic outlook. Nobel laureate and former Princ- It’s a dilemma. This year there will be 43 sessions at diverse set of countries (including Saudi Arabia, Jordan and eton faculty member, Professor Krugman for last two years KentPresents. But the most any one person can attend over Oman). Why are so many millions of boys disengaged from has been at the Graduate Center of the City University of Kip Thorne on Gravitational Waves 2016 the three days is 18. You just cannot see them all. So you have school worldwide? And what can we learn about possible New York. This is his second appearance at KentPresents. to make choices. How to decide? With the Aperitifs. For solutions—from the places where the problem is at its most Jared Bernstein moderates. 75 minutes, one speaker after another will give you a brief extreme? Panelists are Amanda Ripley and Safwan Masri. PERMANENT SABBATICAL: WHAT preview of his/her forthcoming panel session. In just 150 Valerie Strauss moderates. IS INEQUALITY UNSTOPPABLE? HAPPENS TO US WHEN ALGORITHMS seconds. Max. Any longer and they get the hook from MATTISON, Friday, 10:50am-11:40am LEADING AN ELITE UNIVERSITY: WASN’T TAKE OUR JOBS moderator John Donvan. RECITAL HALL, Saturday, 2:20pm-3:10pm IT SIMPLER ONCE? This panel will discuss the forces responsible for the growth RECITAL HALL, Friday, 10:50am-11:40am in the inequality of economic outcomes in the US and other This past year, the prognostications have picked up pace: the  EDUCATION economies. To what extent are these forces structural, mean- chilling futurist forecast of a world where automation has Woodrow Wilson was considered a powerful college presi- ing the inevitable outcome of technological change and glo- so fully overtaken the workplace that available slots in most dent (Princeton, 1902-10). Dwight Eisenhower, not quite REINVENTING AMERICAN EDUCATION balization, and to what extent are they the result of skewed occupations—yes, most—will be handled by algorithms and as much (Columbia, 1948-53). Neither man, however, likely DICKINSON, Thursday, 3:40pm-4:30pm policies that favor the wealthy at the expense of the poor and machines. The timeframe? Mere decades, according to some imagined the kinds of challenges that face university heads middle class? The panelists will also discuss whether public crystal balls, which project advances in artificial intelligence The fastest improving cities in American education also today, required not only to function as educators and man- policies can or should push back on inequality. Panelists are as happening so fast that white collar professionals will be as happen to be those that have embraced charter schools. In agers, but also to serve as diplomats, media personalities, and Jared Bernstein, Paul Krugman and Paul Romer. Darren vulnerable as blue collar workers are already, crushing career 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, negotiators through choppy waters related to race on campus, Walker moderates. options in medicine, law, IT, financial services and more. Is the city got an unexpected opportunity to recreate its school arguments over what constitutes free speech, the status of this dour picture of mass joblessness an exaggeration? Is it system from scratch. The state’s Recovery School District the liberal arts education, and the resiliency of students. And TYLER COWEN AND PAUL ROMER something technology itself will solve? How do we prepare (RSD), created to turn around failing schools, gradually then, there’s the fundraising. Oh, the fundraising. University IN CONVERSATION for it? And, is there any upside here? Panelists are Jim Bessen, transformed most New Orleans schools into charters, and presidents Michael Roth, of Wesleyan, and Ronald Daniels, RECITAL HALL, Saturday, 8:30am-9:20am Jared Bernstein and Tyler Cowen. John Donvan moderates. the results have been dramatic. Test scores, graduation and of Johns Hopkins, talk with moderator John Donvan about dropout rates, ACT scores, college-going rates, and indepen- learning the leader’s job, and getting it done. Two of America’s leading economists consider the long- IN SEARCH OF THE ELUSIVE TAX REFORM run challenges facing both the rich and poor nations, dent studies all tell the same story: the city’s RSD schools DICKINSON, Friday, 11:55am-12:45pm have doubled or tripled their effectiveness in eight years. Now THE OLYMPICS OF THE MIND: WHAT WILL and what we can do to bring about a better future. What other cities are following suit, from Washington D.C. to Indi- IT TAKE FOR THE U.S. EDUCATION SYSTEM causes economic miracles, and how can we extend those How should America reform its tax system? How much anapolis and Denver to Memphis. In today’s world, author TO BECOME WORLD-CLASS? principles more broadly? The myriad interests of George can this boost economic growth, wages, and job creation? David Osborne argues, we should treat every public school RECITAL HALL, Friday, 8:30am-9:20am Mason’s Tyler Cowen and the World Bank’s Paul Romer Who will be the winners and losers? What is actually likely like a charter school, with operational autonomy, accountabil- add to the fun. to happen in the Trump Administration? Panelists are Larry ity for performance, diversity of school designs, and paren- We now know more than ever about how much kids are Kudlow and Tyler Cowen. Jared Bernstein moderates. tal choice. Panelists are David Osborne and Tom Loveless. learning all around the world. We can identify more than a Valerie Strauss moderates. dozen countries where governments spend less on education than the U.S.—but achieve substantially better results. We THE LOST BOYS: WHAT CAN BE can even find countries with significant levels of child poverty DONE TO RE-ENGAGE BOYS IN SCHOOL and immigration and strong and equitable education systems. WORLDWIDE? What do these nations have in common? Which policies and DICKINSON, Friday, 3:25pm-4:15pm innovations have boosted their systems in the past decade— and which (if any) US states or districts are following in their In 2015, teenage girls outperformed boys on a sophisticated footsteps? And finally, how can the stories and opinions of test of reading in 69 countries—every place in which the test real-life students help us go beyond test-score data to solve was administered. In America, girls are more likely to take the mysteries of learning? Panelists are Amanda Ripley and Advanced Placement tests, to graduate from high school and Tom Loveless. David Nasaw moderates. to go to college. On average, American women continue their schooling two years longer than men—a glaring disparity in a world that values higher-order skills more than ever before.

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DIPLOMACY IN THE 21st CENTURY  GLOBAL AFFAIRS MATTISON, Friday, 3:25pm-4:15pm  HEALTH AND MEDICINE WORLD AT RISK No one is better placed to describe the role of diplomacy in THE HEALTH CARE MORASS: HOW’D WE MATTISON, Thursday, 12:45pm-1:35pm the midst of so many world problems than former Secretary GET INTO IT AND WHAT’S THE WAY OUT? of State Henry Kissinger. Nicholas Burns, himself a former MATTISON, Friday, 4:40pm-5:30pm Relations between the U.S. and most other nations are a mess. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, leads Kissinger David Sanger kicks off this year’s festival with a deep dive through the thicket. Michael Kramer moderates. What is it about the U.S. health care system that’s making into the challenges and opportunities facing the United State reform so difficult? This discussion will break down the cur- in the age of Trump. Sanger, chief Washington correspon- FREE TRADE vs. PROTECTIONISM rent debate over health care reform by examining the econom- dent of the New York Times, has been one of the nation’s most RECITAL HALL, Friday, 4:40pm-5:30pm ics and politics of the issue, with an emphasis of the impact of insightful journalists for over 30 years. He has written exten- The Trump Administration’s disdain for settled trade agree- different visions of reform for the lives of the people affected sively about foreign policy, national security, nuclear prolifer- ments threatens the global system of commerce among by it. Panelists are Jared Bernstein and Aaron Carroll. ation, globalization, cybersecurity and the presidency. Among nations. The future of free trade is in doubt as the U.S. with- many other awards, he was a member of Times teams that won ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND THE draws from the Paris climate accord, abandons Barak Obama’s MYTHS, HALF-TRUTHS, AND OUTRIGHT LIES two Pulitzer prizes. Michael Kramer moderates. effort to fashion a Trans-Pacific Partnership and pushes to AGING BRAIN ABOUT YOUR BODY AND HEALTH RECITAL HALL, Thursday, 4:45pm-5:35pm CHINA’S RISE re-negotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. RECITAL HALL, Friday, 2:20pm-3:10pm Robert Hormats and Lawrence Kudlow join a discussion MATTISON, Saturday, 3:25pm-4:15pm All of us will experience memory decline as we age. Alzhei- No matter how many times science tries to beat back myths that John Micklethwait moderates. mer’s disease typically begins in later life starting with mild With the U.S. abandoning many of its traditional global about health, they seem to return. Even after they’ve been THE ARAB MESS memory decline. Is the memory decline associated with aging carefully refuted, people still hold onto them. While some leadership positions, Xi Jinping’s China is rushing to fill the and the early stages of Alzheimer’s one and the same? We will MATTISON, Thursday, 3:40pm-4:30pm may not matter in the overall scheme of things, others are vacuum. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and review studies that show they each target different regions China expert John Pomfret discuss China’s goals and its consequential and keep us from achieving our full potential. Iran and Saudi Arabia are at loggerheads, with much of the of a brain structure called the hippocampus. These distinct simultaneous role as friend and foe of the West. Christopher Understanding how such myths take hold and how a misun- rest of the Arab world choosing sides between them. Trump anatomical patterns establish that memory decline associated Hill moderates. derstanding of science can reinforce them, can lead us to a has thrown in with the Saudis, and despite the nuclear accord with aging and Alzheimer’s are fundamentally different, and more appropriate skepticism. Even more important, they can PUTIN’S RUSSIA fashioned by the Obama Administration, the future of rela- must have different causes. These patterns have already pro- lead us to a better understanding of health and the things we vided clues into these causes, and have formed the basis of MATTISON, Saturday, 9:35am-10:25am tions between Iran and the U.S. is more worrisome than ever. can do (or not do) to achieve it. Last year Dr. Aaron Carroll William Luers and Jessica Mathews will help make sense of ongoing projects designed to ameliorate the memory decline enlightened us about nutrition myths; this year, health myths. Over the past year, Vladimir Putin’s ambitions have continued it all as Joshua Landis moderates. of aging and to develop novel therapies for Alzheimer’s Corby Kummer moderates. to position Russia as the West’s greatest foe. Jessica Mathews disease. Panelists are Scott Small and Greg Petsko. and Peter Zwack are particularly well placed to explain ISIS, SYRIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST WARS John Donvan moderates. THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC: PAST, PRESENT Russia’s expansionism and the strange relationship between RECITAL HALL, Saturday, 11:55am-12:45pm AND LOOKING AROUND THE CORNER its messianic leader and Donald Trump. Robert Kaiser FORGETTING: THE BENEFITS OF Is ISIS really on the ropes? Will the Syrian civil war ever end? MATTISON, Friday, 11:55am-12:45pm moderates. AN OPEN MIND Can Iraq and Afghanistan reemerge as stable nations? Joshua RECITAL HALL, Friday, 9:35am-10:25am Dr. Andrew Kolodny will provide an overview of the EUROPE UP and DOWN Landis and Hussein Ibish explore these vexing questions prescription opioid and heroin crisis, including factors that RECITAL HALL, Friday, 11:55am-12:45pm with Chase Robinson as moderator. Most of us complain about our memory abilities. We feel that led to a sharp rise in the prevalence of opioid addiction over forgetting in our normal lives reflects a failure or glitch of the past twenty years. The relationship between prescrip- In the wake of Brexit and the emergence of new leaders CYBERSECURITY AND CYBERWAR our memory system. We are wrong, according to Dr. Scott tion opioid, heroin, and fentanyl morbidity and mortality in countries such as England and France—and with U.S.- MATTISON, Friday, 9:35am-10:25am Small. Recent studies are showing the opposite. They are will be discussed. His talk will include a critique of opioid European relations increasingly strained—the future of Europe Everyone hacks — both “us” and “them.” How widespread beginning to explain how normal forgetting (not forgetful- prescribing practices, pharmaceutical company marketing is more problematic than at any time since World War Two. is the practice? When should they be welcomed and when ness caused by disease) is naturally engineered into our mem- and policymaker responses to the epidemic. He will recom- Nicholas Burns and Robert Hormats guide us though the should they be fought? David Sanger and Nicholas Burns ory system as a beneficial operation. The benefits of normal mend public health strategies and polices that can help bring maze. Kathleen Stephens moderates. discuss the covert operations conducted by state and non- forgetting are wide-ranging, from cognition to creativity and the opioid addiction epidemic to an end. From the perspec- state actors and discuss the diplomacy designed to stanch the emotional well-being, and even to mental and societal health. tive of Dr. Regina LaBelle, a physician and leading advocate, THE NORTH KOREAN THREAT André Aciman moderates. MATTISON, Saturday, 10:50am-11:40am most pernicious invasions. John Micklethwait moderates. as well as a former Obama Administration official, the session will explore the factors that led to the epidemic, along with How serious is Kim Jong-un’s nuclear threat? Can China or the current state of the issue. In addition, participants will any other nation persuade the North to retreat short of war? examine how the opioid epidemic has influenced the nation’s Three former U.S ambassadors to South Korea illuminate the approach to substance-use disorders, raising the question options available to retard the problem. Christopher Hill of whether we are ushering in a new approach to addiction moderates the discussion, joined by Kathleen Stephens and in America. Mark Lippert.

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 LAW & POLITICS  LIBERAL ARTS  SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY WHERE IS THE SUPREME COURT GOING? THE MYSTERY OF MASTERY: HOW WE AND ENVIRONMENT RECITAL HALL, Saturday, 9:35am-10:25am LEARN TO DO DIFFICULT THINGS THREE TECHNOLOGIES POISED RECITAL HALL, Saturday, 4:40pm-5:30pm With Neil Gorsuch joining the Court, the Supremes are at TO DISRUPT full strength. Sensitive cases involving everything from the Taking off from a series of essays he’s written forThe New MATTISON, Saturday, 11:55am-12:45pm Trump Administration’s travel ban to civil rights, religious Yorker in the past five years, Adam Gopnik will talk about Three technologies on the verge of feasibility that could liberty, free speech and many more are on the docket or soon his immersion in the strange business of learning hard skills change the world. Synthetic biology enabling organisms will be. Trevor Morrison, dean of the NYU law school, joins —piano playing, life drawing, baking, even driving—in to order, quantum computing solving currently intractable Wall Street Journal Supreme Court reporter Jess Bravin and advanced middle age. What do difficult things each have in problems, and fusion providing cleaner, inexhaustible energy. Court watcher James Zirin in a look behind the curtain. Deborah Willis, Sarah Lewis and LaToya Ruby Frazier 2016 common with each other, and what role does craft and skill A panel of experts will review the status of each of these play in modern life—and modern art? TRUMP’S LEGAL TROUBLES technologies and what it will take to bring them to fruition: MATTISON, Saturday, 2:20pm-3:10pm DEMOCRATIC WAY BACK RETHINKING THE REPUBLIC: Richard Murray (synthetic biology), Dario Gil (quantum DICKINSON, Friday 10:50am-11:40am computing) and Steve Koonin (fusion). Supporters and detractors of the President are wonder- FOUR LESSONS FROM CICERO ing: Can the cascade of political troubles facing Trump rise The Democratic Party has been devastated, losing not just DICKINSON, Saturday, 2:20pm-3:10pm AUTONOMOUS DRIVING: CHALLENGES both Houses of Congress and the Presidency but control of to the level of impeachment, indictment or removal from The Roman republic inspired the 18th century American TO OVERCOME BEFORE WE UNLEASH IT a majority of States. What are realistic strategies for winning office via the 25th amendment to the Constitution? With founders’ political values, institutional designs, and civic ON THE WORLD back Congress over the next two elections? And, at the same congressional committees on the case and Special Coun- ideals. What does ancient Rome offer us today? This RECITAL HALL, Thursday, 3:40pm-4:30pm time, how can Democrats reverse Republican control of the sel Robert Mueller investigating, NYU law school dean conversation explores four lessons from Cicero, the Roman States and avoid in 2020 a repeat of the distorted redistrict- The last 20 years have seen enormous progress in autonomous Trevor Morrison explores the President’s legal difficulties with politician and intellectual, who developed his thinking about ing of 2010 that led to a decade of Republican Congressio- vehicles, from planetary rovers to unmanned aerial vehicles to two other NYU law professors, Samuel Issacharoff and republics and the roots of what we now call “liberal education” nal dominance? So this involves both winning key Congress the self-driving cars that we are starting to see on the roads Ryan Goodman. just at the moment when autocratic rule was taking shape campaigns and broad structural changes that can impact around us. What are the technological breakthroughs that are at Rome. Joy Connolly will make the presentation on what GRADING TRUMP: TRIUMPH OR DISASTER? hundreds of state races. Panelists are Stephanie Cutter and making these advances possible, and what are the challenges kind of public speech he valued and why, and bring his MATTISON, Friday 2:20pm-3:10pm Greg Speed. Matthew Dowd moderates. ahead as we attempt to create machines that can reason about insights to bear on both contemporary political rhetoric and the world around them and operate in complex environments Half the country wants to impeach him. The other half exults debates over free speech in our colleges and universities. REPORT FROM THE FRONT: SENATOR such as our cities and highways? Can we make self-driving his bold leadership in delivering on his promise to remake the Jonathan Burnham moderates. CHRIS MURPHY cars that are safer than human-driven cars, and what advances country. A bipartisan panel of three nationally known analysts MATTISON, Saturday, 8:30am-9:20am will be required to do so? In this panel, representatives from will grade the Trump presidency to date and discuss what to BALANCHINE’S 20TH-CENTURY GENIUS academia and industry will talk about the current state of expect when Congress returns from its summer recess. We In just his fourth year in the U.S. Senate, Chris Murphy has RECITAL HALL, Friday, 3:25pm-4:15pm technology in self-driving cars, their potential uses (and will also explore the effect the President’s tenure has had on become a major voice for the Democratic Party, particularly Darren Walker and Jennifer Homans will discuss the life business models), and the technological challenges that must the country as a whole, the international community and on health care and European security. He is already being seen and dances of George Balanchine. Balanchine was born in be overcome before we unleash them on the world. Panel- democracy in general. How disruptive has he been, and why as a leader of the next generation, an unusually sophisticated Russia under the last Czar, he experienced the upheavals ists are Richard Murray and Emilio Frazzoli. Alex Taylor have his supporters stayed solid with him, but the rest of the observer and practitioner of national politics and policy- of World War I, the Russian Revolution, exile, World War moderates. country seems appalled. Panelists are Matthew Dowd, Larry making. Jay Kriegel introduces Senator Chris Murphy, the II and the cultural Cold War. He was part of the Russian Kudlow and Stephanie Cutter. Jane Whitney moderates. Senator gives his report from the front, and Matt Dowd has modernist moment, a key player in Paris in the 1920s, and FROM CLIMATE SHOCK TO SOLAR a conversation with him. in New York he revolutionized ballet, pressing it to the fore- GEOENGINEERING front of modernism and making it a serious—and popular— RECITAL HALL, Saturday 10:50am-11:40am American art. Our discussion will range broadly across the work, touching on particular dances and questions of politics, The shock in Climate Shock is real. While climate catastroph- race, abstraction, and the importance of love in art. izing is bad, complacency is worse. We will take a sober look at what’s known, what’s unknown, and how not knowing makes the case for climate action stronger. Action must involve cut- ting carbon. So much is clear. We will also explore the specter of solar geoengineering to see whether it, too, ought to be part of our climate policy portfolio. Panelists are Gernot Wagner and Radley Horton. Corby Kummer moderates.

Henry Kissinger, J. Stapleton Roy, Jack Matlock, Thomas Pickering and James Hoge 2016

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 SOCIAL ISSUES  VISUAL ARTS PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES PUNCTURING STRUCTURAL RACISM IN WRESTLING WITH ART OUR CITIES DICKINSON, Thursday, 4:45pm-5:35pm MATTISON, Saturday, 4:40pm-5:30pm What are the challenges of the painter today? What are the Fifty years after the riots in Newark and two years after subjects of the artist? How does one rethink and refresh Freddie Gray’s death in Baltimore, the panel will explore time-honored tropes? Carroll Dunham is one of the most the ways which structural racism has hampered effective intriguing, idiosyncratic and confounding artists of our day. ANDRÉ ACIMAN was born in Alexandria, JESS BRAVIN covers the U.S. Supreme change in our cities. Panelists will discuss language, new His art makes us reconsider the very act of painting and Egypt, and is an American memoirist, essay- Court for The Wall Street Journal, after ear- kinds of partnerships that create change and a new vision of seeing itself. ist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth-cen- lier postings as United Nations correspondent race. Panelists are Charles Blow, Rebecca Carroll and tury literature. He has also written many and editor of the WSJ/California weekly. Mr. CURATORIAL INSIGHTS Ronald Daniels. Laura Walker moderates. essays and reviews on Marcel Proust. His Bravin is the author of “The Terror Courts”, DICKINSON, Friday, 4:40pm-5:30pm work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of an award-winning account of military trials at Guantanamo Bay, WHY THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ABOUT New Yorker staff writerAdam Gopnik will discuss with two Books, The New York Times, The New Republic, Condé Nast Traveler and “Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme”, THE CAUSES OF MASS INCARCERATION of the museum world’s leading curators, Ann Temkin of as well as in many volumes of The Best American Essays. and a contributor to books including “Violence in America: An THWARTS REFORM Encyclopedia”, “Crimes of War 2.0” and “A Concise Introduc- MoMA and Scott Rothkopf of The Whitney, their observa- JAMES BESSEN MATTISON, Thursday, 4:45pm-5:35pm tions regarding creative thinking in the 21st Century. , an economist, serves as tion to Logic,” Second Edition. His work twice has been recog- Executive Director of the Technology & Pol- nized with the Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize, the American Despite the fact that reining in U.S. incarceration is one of WOMEN WHO COLLECT ART icy Research Initiative at the Boston Univer- Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award and, for team coverage of the few, rare spots of bipartisan agreement today, nearly ten RECITAL HALL, Saturday, 3:25pm-4:15pm sity School of Law. Mr. Bessen has done the Supreme Court’s healthcare case, prizes from the National years of concerted reform efforts have fairly little to show for research on whether patents promote innova- Press Foundation, the New York News Publishers Association Moderator Ann Temkin will discuss this subject with themselves. Reform results have been disappointing because tion, why innovators share new knowledge, and how technology and the New York Press Club. reformers tend to focus on a conventional wisdom that three distinguished art collectors: Agnes Gund, Nathalie affects jobs, skills, and wages. With Michael J. Meurer, Bessen emphasizes secondary causes in ways that render the primary de Gunzberg, and Marguerite Hoffman. The history of art wrote Patent Failure, highlighting the problems caused by poorly JONATHAN BURNHAM is the Senior Vice causes almost invisible. Digging through the data, it becomes cannot be told without serious attention to the role of patrons defined property rights. His latest book, Learning by Doing: The President and Publisher of the Harper Divi- clear that successful reform must target the unchecked power and collectors alongside that of artists, dealers, curators, and Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth, looks at sion at HarperCollins and previously Presi- and peculiar incentives of prosecutors; the harshness with art historians. This panel will address the importance of history to understand how new technologies affect wages and dent of Miramax Books. The Harper list which we treat violent (not just drug) crime; and the influ- remarkable women in the history of art collecting. We will skills today. Bessen’s work has been widely cited in the press as includes Barbara Kingsolver, Louise Erdrich, ence of pubic sector unions (not private prisons)—all areas consider what particular qualities being a woman may or well as by the White House, the US Supreme Court, judges at Harper Lee, Nicole Krauss, Milan Kundera, Anderson Cooper, that have generally received little to no attention. Panelists are may not bring to this endeavor, and whether the panelists the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the Federal General Colin Powell and many others. He is also on the board John Pfaff and James Forman Jr. Adam Gopnik moderates. believe that their gender has brought with it certain obsta- Trade Commission. of Senior Conservators at New York Public Library and is a cles or advantages. Each panelist will speak to the reasons she faculty member at New York University. THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY began to collect art in a serious way, and how her collecting JARED BERNSTEIN joined the Center on DICKINSON, Saturday, 11:55am-12:45pm has evolved over decades of involvement in the contemporary Budget and Policy Priorities in May 2011 as a AMBASSADOR (RET.) NICHOLAS BURNS art world. Senior Fellow. From 2009 to 2011, Bernstein is the Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Majoritarianism has recently produced some potentially was the Chief Economist and Economic Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy dangerous results in England, Europe, and even the United ARCHITECTURE MATTERS Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, Execu- and International Relations at the Harvard States, giving ground for a greater distrust of democracy. And, DICKINSON, Friday, 2:20pm-3:10pm tive Director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Kennedy School of Government. He is in this era of cyber warfare, democracy is more vulnerable to Class, and a member of President Obama’s economic team. Prior Faculty Director of the Future of Diplomacy Project and Faculty manipulation than ever before. If we don’t scrap democracy, From Beaux Art to Brutalism, The Metropolitan Museum to joining the Obama administration, Bernstein was a senior Chair of the programs on the Middle East and South Asia. He how do we preserve its most valuable features? How does the of Art and The Met Breuer together embody an architectural economist and the director of the Living Standards Program at is Director of the Aspen Strategy Group and a Senior Counselor issue of race fit into the current crisis? How can we In the dig- span that is the starting point for a conversation addressing the Economic Policy Institute, and between 1995 and 1996, he at the Cohen Group. He was a member of Secretary of State ital age achieve what Chief Justice Warren called an “evolving a set of propositions by the renowned architects Annabelle held the post of Deputy Chief Economist at the U.S. Depart- John Kerry’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board at the U.S. Depart- standard of decency that marks the progress of a maturing Selldorf and Shohei Shigematsu. Moderated by Sheena ment of Labor. ment of State. He served in the United States Foreign Service society?” Panelists are Eddie Glaude Jr. and Charles Blow. Wagstaff, topics under consideration include the response for twenty-seven years. He was Under Secretary of State for Jim Zirin moderates. of architecture to new urban conditions, alternative ways of CHARLES BLOW is a New York Times col- Political Affairs. He was Ambassador to NATO, Ambassador to building community, how to contend with corporate tyranny, umnist. Blow previously served as the paper’s the challenge of addressing security concerns, architecture as Greece, and State Department Spokesman. He worked on the graphics director and then Design Director National Security Council staff and was Special Assistant to experience and the generosity of tectonics, and the conten- for News before leaving in 2006 to become tious issue of bicycle paths. President Clinton and Director for Soviet Affairs for President the Art Director of National Geographic Mag- George H.W. Bush. azine. Blow is the author of “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” released in September 2014. He graduated magna cum laude from Grambling State University in Louisiana, where he received a B.A. in mass communications.

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AGNES GUND is president emerita of the JENNIFER HOMANS is the author of SAMUEL ISSACHAROFF is the Reiss Pro- STEVEN E. KOONIN was appointed as the Museum of Modern Art and chair of its Inter- Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet and is cur- fessor of Constitutional Law at New York founding Director of NYU’s Center for national Council. She is also chair of MoMA rently writing a biography of George University School of Law. His research deals Urban Science and Progress in April 2012. PS1. She is the founder and board chair of Stu- Balanchine. She is the Founder and Director with issues in civil procedure (especially com- This consortium of academic, corporate and dio in a School. A philanthropist and collector of The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New plex litigation and class actions), law and government partners pursues research and of modern and contemporary art, Ms. Gund currently serves on the York University, where she is also a Distinguished Scholar in economics, constitutional law, particularly with regard to voting education activities to develop and demonstrate informatics boards of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Foundation for Con- Residence. Homans holds a Ph.D. in Modern European History. rights and electoral systems, and employment law. He is one of technologies for urban problems in the “living laboratory” of temporary Arts, the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Before becoming a writer and scholar, she was a professional the pioneers in the law of the political process and one of the New York City. Previously, he served as Under Secretary for Sci- Embassies, the Morgan Museum and Library, and Chess in the dancer. To learn more about the Center for Ballet and the Arts at co-authors of the seminal Law of Democracy casebook. His work ence at the Department of Energy, where he oversaw technical Schools, among others. She is co-founder of the Center for Cura- New York University, please visit balletcenter.nyu.edu. on procedure includes serving as the Reporter for the Project on activities across the Department’s science, energy, and security torial Leadership, as well as an Honorary Trustee of the Indepen- Aggregate Litigation of the American Law Institute. He is the activities, and led the Department’s first Quadrennial Technol- ROBERT HORMATS dent Curators International and the Museum of Contemporary is a Vice-Chairman author of more than 100 books, articles and other academic ogy Review for energy. Art, Cleveland. Ms. Gund currently serves on the Mayor’s Cultural at Kissinger Associates Inc. Previously works. Professor Issacharoff is a Fellow of the American Acad- MICHAEL KRAMER Affairs Advisory Commission of New York City and has served on Mr. Hormats served as Under Secretary of emy of Arts and Sciences. is a playwright and the boards of such wide-ranging organizations as the Aaron State for Economic, Energy and Environ- award-winning journalist. He was New York ROBERT G. KAISER Diamond AIDS Research Center, the Frick Collection and others. mental Affairs. Mr. Hormats is former Assis- retired from The Wash- Magazine’s political columnist and Time tant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, ington Post early in 2014 after a career on the magazine’s political columnist, covering NATHALIE DE GUNZBURG joined Dia Art Ambassador and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative and Senior paper that spanned half a century. Kaiser is national and foreign affairs. He was also chief Foundation’s Board of Trustees in 2004, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs. the author or coauthor of eight books. The political correspondent for U.S. News and World Report and man- has been the Chairwoman since May 2006. Mr. Hormats has worked extensively in Western Europe, China, News About The News won Harvard Universi- aging editor of the New York Daily News. The Shubert Organiza- Mrs. de Gunzburg is also a member of the India, Russia, the Middle East and South East Asia. His areas of ty’s Goldsmith prize for the best book of 2002 on politics and tion is producing his drama, “Divine Rivalry,” about Machiavelli, International Council of The Museum of expertise and experience include international trade and invest- the news media. Kaiser’s work has also appeared in the New York Leonardo and Michelangelo. Modern Art, New York; and a member of the Chairman’s ment, intellectual property, foreign investment in the US, protec- Review of Books, Esquire, Foreign Affairs,and many other publi- JAY KRIEGEL Council at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Raised tion of trade secrets and global energy issues. cations. He has been a commentator on NPR’s All Things Consid- is Senior Advisor for the in France, Mrs. de Gunzburg completed two years of studies in ered, and has appeared often on television, on Meet the Press, the Related Companies, developer of Hudson RADLEY HORTON finance, followed by a four-year political science degree, at the is an Associate Research Today show, and other programs. His dispatches from Moscow Yards, the largest project in NYC history. Institut Supérieur de Gestion. As an art collector, she developed Professor at Columbia University’s Lam- won the Overseas Press Club award for best foreign correspon- He was Mayor John V. Lindsay’s Chief of a passion for minimalist and contemporary art upon moving to ont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Radley was dence of the year in 1975. In 2003, he won the National Press Staff from 1966 to 1973. Kriegel ran New New York in 1998. a Convening Lead Author for the Third Club prize for best diplomatic reporting of the year. York’s bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games and co-founded National Climate Assessment. He currently The American Lawyer magazine. He serves on the boards of Prep AMBASSADOR CHRISTOPHER ROBERT Co-Chairs Columbia’s Adaptation Initiative, and is the Lead HENRY KISSINGER, 1973 Nobel laureate, for Prep, New Visions for Public Schools, and The After School HILL is a former career diplomat, a four-time Principal Investigator for the WWF-Columbia University was the 56th U.S. Secretary of State. Prior to Corporation. ambassador, nominated by three presidents, ADVANCE partnership, and the NOAA-Regional Integrated that, he was Assistant to the President for PAUL KRUGMAN whose last post was as Ambassador to Iraq. Sciences and Assessments-funded Consortium for Climate Risk National Security Affairs. He is currently Nobel Laureate. Professor Previously he served as U.S. Ambassador to the in the Urban Northeast. Radley has also been a Co-leader in the Chairman of Kissinger Associates, an interna- of economics and distinguished scholar at the Republic of Korea, Poland, the Republic of Macedonia and development of a global research agenda in support of the United tional consulting firm. Author of 18 books, they range from Luxembourg Income Study Center, The Special Envoy to Kosovo. He also served as a Senior Director on Nations Environmental Program’s Programme on Vulnerability, “Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy” in 1957 to “World Order” Graduate Center, City University of New Fred R, Conrad/NYT the staff of the National Security Council. He was the head of the Impacts, and Adaptation (PROVIA) initiative. in 2014. York, where he joined the faculty in 2015. US delegation to the Six Party Talks on the North Korean nuclear Op-ed columnist and blogger for The New York Times. In 2008, HUSSEIN IBISH ANDREW KOLODNY, MD, issue. Currently he is the Dean of the Josef Korbel School of is a senior resident scholar at is one of the Krugman was the sole recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in International Studies at The University of Denver. the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. nation’s leading experts on the prescription Economic Sciences for his work on international trade theory. In He is a weekly columnist for The National opioid and heroin crisis devastating families 2011, his blog, “The Conscience of Liberal,” was ranked number MARGUERITE HOFFMAN is an art collec- (UAE) and a monthly contributing writer for and communities across the country. He is one of The 25 Best Financial Blogs byTime magazine. He makes tor, philanthropist and civic volunteer. She The International New York Times. Ibish is also Co-Director of Opioid Policy Research at the frequent appearances on Charlie Rose, PBS NewsHour, served as Director of Marketing and Public a regular contributor to many other U.S. and Middle Eastern pub- Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis Bloomberg Television, CNBC and MSNBC. Relations at the Dallas Museum of Art and lications. He has made thousands of radio and television appear- University. He is also the executive director of Physicians for then as an art gallery director and private ances and was the Washington, DC correspondent for the Daily Responsible Opioid Prescribing, an organization with a mission to dealer working with major collectors. Marguerite has focused on Star (Beirut). Many of Ibish’s articles are archived on his Ibishblog reduce morbidity and mortality caused by overprescribing of opi- volunteer opportunities in the non-profit arena, serving as Chair website. His most recent book is What’s Wrong with the One-State oid analgesics. of the Board for four major non-profits: Planned Parenthood of Agenda? Why Ending the Occupation and Peace with Israel is Still the North Texas, Child Care Group, the Dallas Museum of Art and Palestinian National Goal (ATFP, 2009). Ibish was included in all currently Public Radio International. From 2000 to 2004, she three years (2011, 2012, and 2013) of Foreign Policy’s “Twitterati and her late husband, Robert Hoffman, co-chaired the Centen- 100,” the magazine’s list of 100 “must-follow” Twitter feeds on nial Campaign for the Dallas Museum of Art, which resulted in foreign policy. adding over $150 million dollars to the museum’s resources as well as boosting the museum’s encyclopedic collections by over 2000 works of art through acquisition and bequest.

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LAWRENCE KUDLOW is CNBC’s Senior MARK W. LIPPERT is Vice President of JESSICA TUCHMAN MATHEWS is a dis- RICHARD M. MURRAY received the B.S. Contributor. He was previously host of Boeing International, based in the Washing- tinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endow- degree in Electrical Engineering from Califor- CNBC’s primetime “The Kudlow Report.” ton DC metropolitan area, where he reports to ment for International Peace. She served as nia Institute of Technology in 1985 and the He is also the host of “The Larry Kudlow the President of Boeing International. From Carnegie’s president for 18 years. Before her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engi- Show,” which broadcasts each Saturday from September 2014 until January 2017, he served appointment in 1997, her career included neering and Computer Sciences from the Uni- 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. on WABC Radio and is syndicated nationally as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Korea. He posts in both the executive and legislative branches of govern- versity of California, Berkeley, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He by Cumulus Media. Mr. Kudlow is a nationally syndicated col- previously held senior positions in the Department of Defense ment, in management and research in the nonprofit arena, and in is currently the Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Con- umnist. He is a contributing editor of National Review maga- from May 2012 until September 2014. This included Chief of journalism and science policy. She was director of the Council on trol & Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering at Caltech. Mur- zine, as well as a columnist and economics editor for National Staff to the Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, and Assistant Foreign Relations’ Washington program and a senior fellow from ray’s research is in the application of feedback and control to Review Online. He is the author of “American Abundance: The Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, where 1994 to 1997. Mathews is a member of the Harvard Corpora- networked systems, with applications in biology and autonomy. New Economic and Moral Prosperity,” published by Forbes in he was the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense on all tion, the senior governing board of Harvard University. She has Current projects include analysis and design biomolecular feed- January 1998. “JFK and the Reagan Revolution,” published by international security strategy and policy issues related to the served as a trustee of leading national and international nonprof- back circuits, synthesis of discrete decision-making protocols for Penguin Random House, was released September 6, 2016. nations and international organizations of Asia and the Pacific. its including, currently, the Nuclear Threat Initiative. reactive systems, and design of highly resilient architectures for autonomous systems. CORBY KUMMER is a senior editor of TOM LOVELESS is an education researcher JOHN MICKLETHWAIT is the Editor-in- The Atlantic, editor-in-chief of Ideas: The and non-resident senior fellow at the Brook- Chief of Bloomberg where he oversees edito- DAVID NASAW is the author of The Patri- Magazine of the Aspen Institute, restaurant ings Institution. From 2000-2017, he rial content across all Bloomberg platforms, arch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times critic of Boston Magazine and Atlanta Maga- authored The Brown Center Report on American including its news, newsletters, magazines, of Joseph P. Kennedy, a biography of Joseph P. zine, columnist on food and food policy for Education, an annual report analyzing import- opinion, television, radio and digital proper- Kennedy, selected by the New York Times as The New Republic, frequent contributor to other magazines ant trends in education. Loveless has published widely in scholarly ties, as well as its research services including Bloomberg one of the Ten Best Books of the Year and a including Technology Review, The New York Times, and Vanity journals and appeared in popular media to discuss school reform, Intelligence. Prior to joining Bloomberg in February 2015, 2013 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography. His bestseller Andrew Fair, and author of The Joy of Coffee and The Pleasures of Slow Food. student achievement, and other education topics. Micklethwait was Editor-in-Chief of The Economist where he Carnegie, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, the led the newspaper into the digital age while expanding its read- recipient of the New-York Historical Society’s American His- REGINA LABELLE, JD WILLIAM LUERS , works at the inter- is an adjunct professor ership and enhancing its reputation. He is the co-author of six tory Book Prize, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Nasaw’s section of politics and policy, advising govern- at Columbia University and Director of books, most recently The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to other publications include Schooled to Order: A Social History of ments and non-profit organizations on The Iran Project (www.theiranproject.org). Reinvent the State. In 2010, Micklethwait was named Editors’ Public Schooling, Children of the City: At Work and At Play, and effective strategies to address today’s opioid As Director of The Iran Project he has worked Editor by the British Society of Magazine Editors. He is a Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements. Professor epidemic. A trained attorney and senior exec- with a dozen former senior US Government trustee of the British Museum. Nasaw is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History at utive, Regina’s experience spans the state, local, and federal levels officials for nearly 14 years to promote a diplomatic solution to the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a TREVOR MORRISON of government. As a political appointee in the White House the nuclear standoff with Iran. Up to June, 2009, Ambassador is currently the Dean past president of the Society of American Historians. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) in the Luers served as president of the United Nations Association of and Eric M. and Laurie B. Roth Professor of Obama Administration, Regina co-authored and helped to the USA (UNA-USA), a position which he held for ten years. In Law at New York University School of Law. DAVID OSBORNE is Director of the Rein- implement the Administration’s plan to address the opioid epi- 1986 Ambassador Luers was named president of The Metropol- He spent 2009 in the White House, where venting America’s School Project at Progres- demic. At ONDCP, Regina served as the chief policy advisor to itan Museum of Art, New York City and remained in the posi- he served as associate counsel to President sive Policy Institute, supported by the Walton the Director and was promoted to Chief of Staff. While at tion until 1999. During his 13 years as president, he lead in Barack Obama. He is a member of the American Law Institute Family Foundation, the Broad Foundation, ONDCP, Regina represented the Agency before Congress, at organizing the significant growth in the museum’s spaces and and the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on Inter- and the Arnold Foundation. In February 2017 national conferences, and with the media. programs, in running several successful capital campaigns, in national Law. Prior to becoming NYU Dean he was a professor at he published his first novel, The Coming, a historical novel based managing its business and financial affairs, and in strengthening Columbia Law School and had held many posts in the Justice on the life of explorer William Clark’s Nez Perce son, Daytime JOSHUA LANDIS is Director of the Center relations with New York and the US Government. Department. Smoke. His non-fiction book, Reinventing America’s Schools: Cre- for Middle East Studies and Associate Profes- ating a 21st Century School System, will be published by Blooms- PROFESSOR SAFWAN M. MASRI CHRIS MURPHY sor at the University of Oklahoma. He writes is Exec- , the junior United States bury in September 2017. David also serves as a fellow of the “SyriaComment.com,” a daily newsletter on utive Vice President for Global Centers and Senator for Connecticut, has dedicated his National Academy of Public Administration, a Congressionally Syrian politics that attracts some 200,000 Global Development at Columbia University. career to public service as an advocate for chartered organization similar to the National Academy of Sci- page-reads a month. Dr. Landis publishes frequently in Foreign Professor Masri is responsible for the develop- Connecticut families. Senator Murphy has ences, and a member of the National Selection Committee for the Policy, Middle East Policy, and other journals. He speaks regularly ment of an expanding network of Columbia been a strong voice in the Senate fighting for Innovations in American Government Awards. Much of David’s at think tanks in Washington and is a frequent analyst on TV, Global Centers, located in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Mumbai, job creation, affordable health care, education, sensible gun laws, work, including two of his books, can be found at his web site, radio, and in print. He has appeared recently on the PBS News Nairobi, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Santiago. The Centers promote and a forward-looking foreign policy. www.reinventgov.com. His more recent work on education can be Hour, the Charlie Rose Show, and Frontline. He is a regular on and facilitate the engagement of faculty, students, and alumni with found at www.progressivepolicy.org. NPR and the BBC. He is Past-president of the Syrian Studies the world, address global challenges, and advance knowledge and Association, has received several Fulbright and other grants to its exchange. He has been Director of the Columbia Global support his research, and won numerous prizes for his teaching. Centers | Amman since its founding in 2009. He has lived for 4 years in Syria and 14 in the Middle East.

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GREGORY A. PETSKO, D. PHIL. is the CHASE F. ROBINSON is President of the DAVID E. SANGER is Chief Washington GREG SPEED is the president of America Arthur J. Mahon Professor of Neurology and Graduate Center of the City University of Correspondent for The New York Times and Votes. He has led AV as president, and previ- Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical Col- New York, the doctorate-granting institution one of the newspaper’s senior writers. He is ously as executive director, since late 2007. lege in New York City, and also Director of of the nation’s largest university. A historian of the author of bestsellers on foreign policy and Under Greg’s leadership, AV has experienced the Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer’s the pre-modern Middle East, he is also Dis- national security: “The Inheritance: The significant growth as an organization, part- Disease Research Institute. He also holds appointments as tinguished Professor of History. From 2008 through June 2013, he World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American nership network, and a pillar of progressive infrastructure nation- Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell Uni- served as Provost and Senior Vice President of the Graduate Cen- Power” (2009) and “Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars ally and in the states. He has led the development of a strong and versity, Adjunct Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical ter. In 1993 he joined the Faculty of Oriental Studies and Wolfson and Surprising Use of American Power” (2012). He served as the stable fundraising base, and built robust campaign operations School, and Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, College, Oxford, where he taught until 2008. A specialist in early Times Tokyo Bureau Chief, Washington Economic Correspon- and coordination of independent programs delivering millions of Emeritus, at Brandeis University. He was Professor of Chemistry Islamic history, Robinson is the author or editor of seven books dent, White House correspondent during the Clinton and Bush voter contacts. at MIT from 1978 until 1990, when he moved to Brandeis Uni- and more than 40 articles. Administrations and Chief Washington Correspondent. KATHLEEN STEPHENS versity as Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry was American DR. PAUL ROMER ANNABELLE SELLDORF and Chemistry, Director of the Rosenstiel Basic Medical took office as the World , FAIA is the Prin- ambassador to the Republic of Korea from Sciences Research Center, and Chair of the Department of Bank’s Chief Economist and Senior Vice Pres- cipal of Selldorf Architects, which she 2008 to 2011. Stephens’ other diplomatic Biochemistry. He moved to Weill Cornell Medical College in ident in October, 2016. Romer is on leave from founded in New York City in 1988. The firm’s assignments over three decades included post- April 2012. his position as University Professor at New clients include cultural institutions and uni- ings in India, China, and fracturing Yugoslavia. York University. His initial interest in techno- versities such as the Frick Collection, Museum She was U.S. Consul General in Belfast, Northern Ireland from JOHN PFAFF is a Professor of Law at Ford- logical progress led to research on topics ranging from an abstract of Contemporary Art San Diego, The Clark Art Institute, Neue during the negotiations leading to the 1998 Good Friday Agree- ham Law School where he teaches criminal analysis of how the economics of ideas differs from the economics Galerie New York, and Brown University. They recently com- ment. In Washington, she was Director for European Affairs law, sentencing law, and law and economics. of objects to practical suggestions about how to improve science pleted Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility on the Brooklyn during the Clinton Administration, negotiator on post-conflict His research focuses primarily on empirical and technology policy. More recently, his research on catch-up waterfront, which is the largest facility of its kind in the United issues on the Balkans as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for matters related to criminal justice, especially growth in low- and middle-income countries has emphasized the States. In addition, the firm has created numerous galleries for European Affairs, and acting Under Secretary of State for Public criminal sentencing. He has paid particular attention to trying to importance of government policies that encourage orderly urban David Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth, and Gladstone Gallery among Diplomacy and Public Affairs. She led the U.S. diplomatic mission understand the causes of the unprecedented 40 year boom in US expansion. others. Ms. Selldorf is a member of the American Academy of to India as interim ambassador (Charge) in working with the incarceration rates. John’s findings have been featured in major Arts and Letters and serves on the boards of the Architectural newly-elected Indian government led by Prime Minister Modi. MICHAEL S. ROTH publications including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The ’78 became the 16th League, Chinati, and Bard Center for Curatorial Studies. Ambassador Stephens is currently the William J. Perry Fellow at Economist, and The New Yorker, as well as prestigious legal opinions president of Wesleyan University in 2007, after Stanford University in California. SHOHEI SHIGEMATSU and law review articles, including one written by former President having served as Hartley Burr Alexander is a Partner at VALERIE STRAUSS Barack Obama. Professor of Humanities at Scripps College, OMA and the Director of the New York is an education writer at Associate Director of the Getty Research office. He has been a driving force behind The Washington Post, where she has worked for JOHN POMFRET is an award-winning jour- Institute, and President of the California College of the Arts. many of OMA’s projects. Sho’s designs for nearly 30 years. At the Post, she has covered a nalist and writer. He has won numerous jour- Author and curator, Roth describes his scholarly interests as cen- cultural venues include a new museum for the variety of education beats and now authors nalism awards for his work in China and in tered on “how people make sense of the past.” His fifth book, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; the Faena Forum, a The Answer Sheet blog, which focuses on edu- Washington. For the past five years, John has Memory, Trauma and History: Essays on Living with the Past was multi-purpose venue in Miami Beach; an extension the Albright cation and everything connected to it, which, in her view, is just devoted himself to the first narrative history published in 2012. His most recent book, Beyond the University: Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York and an event space for the about every subject under the sun. She views it as much a news of America’s relationship with China from the 18th century until Why Liberal Education Matters, is a stirring plea for the kind of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. Sho also designed magazine as a blog, with book excerpts, guest writers, news sto- the present day. The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: education that has, since the founding of the nation, cultivated exhibitions for Prada, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the ries, analysis and pictures. Before that, she worked as the Post’s America and China, 1776 to the Present was published to critical individual freedom, promulgated civic virtue, and instilled hope Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Park Avenue Armory. He has assistant foreign editor for Asia, and weekend foreign editor. acclaim. John is the author of the 2006 best-seller, Chinese Les- for the future. collaborated with multiple artists—including Cai Guo Qiang, ALEX TAYLOR sons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China. John has also Marina Abramović, Kanye West and Taryn Simon—and is , Senior Editor-at-large (ret.), SCOTT ROTHKOPF spent eight years covering wars and revolutions from Afghani- is the Deputy Director currently redesigning Sotheby’s New York headquarters. Fortune magazine, has covered the auto industry stan, to Bosnia, to Congo. John was most recently a Fulbright for Programs and Nancy and Steve Crown for more than 30 years and is the author of DR. SCOTT A. SMALL Senior Scholar in Beijing. Family Chief Curator at the Whitney is the Boris and Rose “Sixty to Zero: An inside look at the collapse of Museum of American Art. Rothkopf previ- Katz Professor of Neurology at Columbia Uni- General Motors – and the Detroit Auto Indus- AMANDA RIPLEY is a writer and a senior ously served as a guest curator at Harvard’s versity, where he is the Director of the Alzhei- try.” The author of the “MotorWorld” column on Fortune.com, he fellow at the Emerson Collective. She is the Fogg Art Museum. Rothkopf was a senior editor of Artforum mer’s Disease Research Center. With an has won numerous awards for his automotive writing, including author of The Smartest Kids in the World—and International. He is a member of the board of trustees of the expertise in Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive three first prizes from the Detroit Press Club Foundation and How They Got That Way, a New York Times Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and has been a visiting aging, Dr. Small’s research focuses on the hippocampus, a circuit in “Journalist of the Year” from the Washington Automotive Press bestseller about what it’s like to be a teenager critic at Hunter College and Yale University’s School of Art, the brain targeted by these and other disorders, notably schizophre- Association. A former adjunct professor at Columbia University’s in the world’s education superpowers. Her first book, The among others. nia. Dr. Small has co-authored over 120 articles and his neuroimag- Graduate School of Journalism, in 2000 he was selected one of 100 Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why, was ing and molecular work has led to numerous patents. Dr. Small is Notable Business Journalists Of The 20th Century. published in 15 countries and turned into a PBS documentary. the recipient of numerous awards, including the Beeson Scholar In her books and magazine writing, Amanda explores the gap Award in Aging Research from the American Federation on Aging, between public policy and human behavior. For Time, The Atlan- the McKnight Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Award, the Derek tic and The New York Times, she has written stories on drones, Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Award from the Amer- U.S. soccer, the upside to teenage defiance and the college dreams ican Neurological Association, and the Lamport Award for Excel- of Starbucks baristas. lence in Clinical Science Research from Columbia University.

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ANN TEMKIN assumed the role of Chief DARREN WALKER is President of the Ford JAMES D. ZIRIN is a leading litigator, having BRIGADIER GENERAL PETER B. ZWACK Curator of Painting and Sculpture in 2008, Foundation, the nation’s second largest philan- served as an Assistant United States Attorney served as the United States Senior Defense after joining The Museum of Modern Art in thropy, and for two decades has been a leader for the Southern District of New York in the Official and Attache to the Russian Federa- 2003 as Curator. During her tenure, Ms. in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. He Criminal Division under the legendary tion from 2012-2014. By interacting with Temkin has focused especially on the acquisi- led the philanthropy committee that helped Robert M. Morgenthau. He has represented Russians at multiple levels since 1989, includ- tions program of the Department of Painting and Sculpture, and bring a resolution to the city of Detroit’s historic bankruptcy and clients for over 40 years in some of the most notorious financial ing defense, security, academia, policy, veterans, and private citi- on reimagining the Museum’s collection galleries. The acquisi- chairs the U.S. Alliance on Impact Investing. Prior to joining Ford, scandals of our time. He is the author of two books, “The Mother zens, BG Zwack developed a unique hands-on perspective on tions program has followed a three-pronged approach: to he was Vice President at the Rockefeller Foundation where he Court—Tales of Cases That Mattered in America’s Greatest Russia and Eurasian security affairs during a turbulent period strengthen the holdings of landmark works by modern artists managed the rebuild New Orleans initiative after Hurricane Trial Court,” and “Supremely Partisan—How Raw Politics Tips that included the recent strife in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. whom the Museum collects in depth; to widen its breadth with Katrina. He serves as a trustee of Carnegie Hall, New York City the Scales in the United States Supreme Court.” Jim is the host Inducted into the OCS Hall of Fame in 2015, BG Zwack is a works by historical artists new to the department’s collection, Ballet, the High Line and the Arcus Foundation. In 2016, TIME and producer of the critically acclaimed cable television talk recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, especially women, artists of African descent, and artists working magazine named him to its annual list of the “100 Most Influen- show, “Conversations in the Digital Age,” www.digitalage.org Defense Superior Service Medal, the Bronze Star, and many outside of Europe and North America; and to collect actively tial People in the World.” He is a member of the Council on For- which can be seen weekly throughout the New York metropoli- other awards. He was also honored as the Joint Chief ’s of from the new generation of artists working today. eign Relations, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and tan area on CUNY-TV. Staff “Action Officer of the Year” for 1999. He proudly wears the the recipient of ten honorary degrees. Ranger Tab and Airborne Wings. HAROLD VARMUS, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for studies of the genetic basis of LAURA R. WALKER is President and CEO of cancer, became the Lewis Thomas University New York Public Radio, the largest public radio Professor at the Meyer Cancer Center at station group in the nation. Ms. Walker was Weill Cornell Medicine in April 2015. For- honored with an Edward R. Murrow Award merly he served as Director of the National Cancer Institute and from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as Director of the National Institutes of Health. He is a member the industry’s highest honor. She was named one of New York of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Institute City’s Most Powerful Women by Crain’s New York Business, was of Medicine. He is the author of over 350 scientific papers and chosen for the Crain’s New York Business special feature on “The five books, including a recent memoir, “The Art and Politics 100 Most Influential Women in NYC Business,” and was one of of Science.” New York Moves magazine’s “Power Women.” She was named to City & State’s Above & Beyond list honoring women of public and GERNOT WAGNER is a research associate at civic mind, and The Executive Council honored her with a NY Ten Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Award in the category of Best Media Executive. Sciences, a lecturer on Environmental Science and Public Policy, executive director of Har- ADAM D. WEINBERG became the Alice vard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Pro- Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney gram, and an associate at the Harvard University Center for the Museum in 2003. During his tenure, the Environment. Wrote “Climate Shock,” with Harvard’s Martin Whitney has presented dozens of exhibitions Weitzman and “But will the planet notice?” Served as an econo- on emerging, mid-career and senior artists, mist at the Environment Defense Fund (2008 – 2016), most offered award-winning educational programs, experienced expo- recently as its lead senior economist (2014 – 2016) and member nential growth in the permanent collection and dramatically of its Leadership Council (2015 – 2016). expanded its performance program. In 2015, the Museum opened its new 220,000-square-foot Renzo Piano-designed SHEENA WAGSTAFF leads The Met’s work building in the Meatpacking District. Weinberg serves as a board in Modern and Contemporary Art both at The member of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Breuer. Since Storm King Art Center; The American Academy in Rome, Terra 2012, Wagstaff has initiated and directed the Foundation for American Art the Colby College Museum of Met Breuer’s international exhibition program, Art. In 2015 he was awarded the insignia of Officer of the Order with a core program strand combining ancient and modern art— of Arts and Letters by the French government. by taking its cue from The Met’s encyclopedic collections. She is also responsible for building and expanding the collection cultur- JANE WHITNEY was a correspondent for ally and geographically, working with her team of curators holding NBC News based in Central America and a deep expertise and art historical experience in art from the 20th reporter for “Entertainment Tonight.” and 21st Centuries. She is currently a member of the Founding During her 25-year career in television, she International Advisory Committee of Istanbul Modern, the US has anchored broadcasts for PBS, CNN and nominating committee for the Praemium Imperiale prize and is a CNBC. She was dubbed a “recovering talk show host” by Top left: Henry Kissinger and Sir Richard Dearlove 2016 member of the Professional Fine Arts Committee of Foundation New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd after she hosted the Top right: Charles Blow 2016 for Art & Preservation in Embassies (FAPE). Warner Bros. nationally syndicated TV program “The Jane Bottom left: Arati Prabhakar 2016 Whitney Show.” Her political columns and social commentary Bottom right: Paul Krugman and Darren Walker 2015 have appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine and The New York Observer.

22 | PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES | PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES 23 ATTENDEES (cont’d.) ATTENDEES, PRESENTERS AND GUESTS Jane Klein Dave McKinney Amanda Ripley Frances Sweeney Carolyn Klemm Nancy McKinney Rosemary Ripley Rian Tanenbaum 2017 Barbara Kohn George McNeil Janet Rivkin Teri Tanenbaum Gene Kohn Kate Medina Anna Robinson Gary Tanigawa Andrew Kolodny Nina Mehta Chase Robinson James Taub Ciera Abbate Nick Burns Judith Ehrlich Lida Greenberg Lynda Kommel-Browne Diane Meier Ellen Roman Ann Temkin André Aciman Dan Cahill Arthur Einstein Mike Griffin Thomas Koobatian, MD Edmond Meier Ken Roman Nia Terezakis Bruce Adams Phoebe Campbell Alexis England-Small Peter Grubstein Laurie Koonin Charles Melcher Paul Romer Oakleigh Thorne Lynn F. Angelson Tom Campbell Helen W. Drutt English Aggie Gund Steven Koonin Elina Melmon Paul Roossin Paul J. Tines Chrissy Armstrong Amy Cappellazzo Bess Enloe Leo Guthart Catherine Korsant Richard Melmon Elihu Rose Barbara Tober Lisa Atkin Aarron Carroll Ted Enloe Kathy Guttman Philip Korsant Linda Michaels Susan Rose Donald Tober Dale Atkins Aimee Carroll Betsy Ennis Steve Guttman Evan Kost John Micklethwait James Roselle Nancy Trowbridge Barbara Bacewicz Rebecca Carroll Fay Ennis Holly Hager Elissa Kramer Donald K. Miller Joanne Rosen Thomas Trowbridge Bob Bailey Judy Carson Margaret Evangeline Charles Hale Michael Kramer Priscilla Miller Robert Rosen John Van Doren Colin Bailey Russell Carson Judy Evnin Kaaren Hale Jay Kriegel Karl Mills Eric Rosenfeld Sally Van Doren Julie Bailey Connie Casey Tony Evnin Jim Harpel Paul Krugman Rudy Molho Michael Roth Harold Varmus Betsy Barbanell Alexandra C. Chamaplimaud Linda Fendley Judy Harpel Judith Kudlow Avery More Scott Rothkopf Peter Vaughn Robert Barbanell Nicole Charbonnet Walter Fiederowicz Christine Harper Larry Kudlow Eleanor Morgan Warren Rubin Peter Vermilyea Hope Barkan Ashvin B. Chhabra Susan Firestone Jay Harris Corby Kummer Howard Morgan Fred Rubinstein Burt Visotzky Mel Barkan Kate Clark Barbara Fleischman Gurnee Hart Regina LaBelle Trevor Morrison Susan Rubinstein Gernot Wagner James Barron Steve Clark Shelley Floyd Marjorie Hart Joshua Landis Barbara Motley Albert Salama Sheena Wagstaff Jeanette Barron Arnold Cohen James Forman Jr. Molly Hart Manar Landis Biff Motley Anya Salama Tim Walch Anne Bass Bryn Roberts Cohen Ann Marie Foss Catherine Heald Jennifer Lapine Chris Murphy Jerry Saltz Darren Walker Joe Baxer Lynn Connelly Francis Fraenkel Donald Heald Mark Lapine Bernadette Murray Thomas Sanderson Laura Walker Robert H. Beeby Donald Connery Mark Francis George Heller Dominique Lasseur Richard Murray David Sanger Caroline Weber Marla Behrman Leslie Connery Emilio Frazzoli Peter Heller Carolee Lee Ashleigh Myers Sherill Sanger Kerry Weber David Beitzel Joy Connolly Jerry Friedman Phyllis Heller Tom Lentz David Nasaw Sam Sawyer Kari Weil Kristin Benjamin Madge Conway Sheree Friedman Kerin Hempel Ruby Lerner John Naud Fr. Richardson Schell Adam Weinberg Brook Berlind Tom Conway Anne Fuchs Marlene Hess Sahra Lese Francis Naumann Bruce Schnitzer Julie Weindling Roger Berlind Valerie Cooke Nick Galluccio Christopher Hill Stephanie Lester Terry Naumann Diane Sculley Jerry Weissman Jared Bernstein Ken Cooper Teri Galluccio Cynthia Hill Keith Lieberthal Joyce Nelson John Sculley Lucie Weissman James Bessen Rob Copen Shane Galvin Hugh Hill Anita Lienert Ron Nelson Arthur Selkowitz Bert Wells Joyce Bessen Marion Cotron Ron Garfunkel Julie Ann Hill Kathleen Lindenmayer Jay Newman Betsey Selkowitz Chuck Werner Sydney Besthoff Peter Courtney Jacquie Garrett Marguerite Hoffman Marty Lindenmayer Ben Nickoll Annabelle Selldorf David Whitman Walda Besthoff Tyler Cowen Gary Gartsman Jennifer Homans Mark Lippert Siri Nippita Amy Shapiro Steve Whitman RuthAnne Bevier Sara Crismon Philip H. Geier Jr. David Horing Jeanette Loeb Sharon Norton Stephen Shapiro Jane Whitney George Beylerian Scott Cutler Barbara Georgescu Ellen Horing Albert Loshkajian MC O’Connor Daniel Sharp Saundra Whitney Louise Beylerian Stephanie Cutter Peter Georgescu Robert Hormats Tom Loveless Kathleen O’Grady Shohei Shigematsu Hiram Williams Flora Biddle Ronald Daniels Marsha Ghormley Radley Horton Ann Lozman Richard Olcott Aimee Siegel Alan Wintermute Joe Biondo Donald Davis Dario Gil Barbara Houston Bill Luers Jeanne Olivier Mike Siegel Michael Wolfe Ronnie Biondo Gabriella De Ferrari Larry Gile Eric Houston Wendy Luers Mary Oppenheimer Scott Small Susan Wolfe Jim Blackketter Charles de Gunzburg Barry Ginsburg Hussein Ibish Al Maiolo Philip Oppenheimer Joel Smilow Bernice Wollman Maxine Bleiweis Nathalie de Gunzburg Merle Ginsburg Eve Iselin Massyl Mallem David Osborne Jean Smith Peter Wright Donald Blinken Robert Dineen, Jr. Eddie Glaude Jr. Samuel Issacharoff James Marcus Richard Pandisco Roberta Smith Reva Wurtzburger Vera Blinken Hans Doerr Warren Goda Penny Brandt Jackson Nancy Marcus Martha Parker Tyler Smith Abbie Wyman Charles Blow Jr. Fiona Donovan Amanda Godsoe Thomas Campbell Jackson Juliana Margulies Samir Patel Emily Soell David Yaun Roxanne Bok Mark Donovan Ryan Goodman Alexandra Jarislowsky Barnaby Marsh Gregory Petsko Jill Spalding Nina Zagat Scott Bok John Donvan Chip Goodyear Robert Kaiser Ted Mason John Pfaff Greg Speed Tim Zagat Daniela Bonafede-Chhabra Matthew Dowd Elizabeth Goodyear Ram Kapur Safwan Masri Charmian Place Pam Steeg Gabe Zaitland Barbara Boxer Noreen Doyle Adam Gopnik Chris Kasabach Jessica Mathews Marianne Pollak Robert Steeg Jane Zaitland Richard Boxer Mike Dumas Janet Gornick Beth Katzoff Dana Matthow Dali Pomfret Kathleen Stephens Irene Zelinsky Jessica Brackman Carroll Dunham Susanne Graves Karen Kennedy Lia Matthow John Pomfret Geoff Stewart Elyn Zimmerman Jess Bravin Pamela Dunn Tom Gray Kevin Kennedy Kathryn McAuliffe Bran Raskovic Peter Stiglin Jim Zirin Sande Breakstone Elizabeth Easton Dr. Michael Green Tony Kiser Diahn McGrath Eugenia Revson Sallie Strand Peter Zwack David Browne Todd Eberle Lisa Green Henry Kissinger Tom McGrath W. Ann Reynolds Valerie Strauss Stephanie Zwack Florence Budge Malcolm Ehrhardt Jeff Greenberg Andy Klein Ashley McKinless Lynda Richards Ian Strever Jonathan Burnham Pia Ehrhardt Kim Greenberg Charles Klein

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One of the principal missions of KentPresents is to support local charitable organizations, primarily those that serve people in need. We would like to express our great appreciation for the generous USEFUL Last year, we made contributions to 29 such charities. Many of the them say KentPresents grants have had a lasting impact, on both help and donations that the following have so graciously provided INFORMATION the organizations and the people they reach. KentPresents. There is no way that this event could have happened without you. EMERGENCY DELI, COFFEE, SNACKS After School Arts Program Gathering Place of Torrington Kent Village Housing for Elderly Bruce Adams Mark Lapine In case of medical Foster learning through the arts Improves the quality of life of homeless Housing for low and moderate income Lisa Atkin Marty Lindenmeyer emergency, call 911. JP Giffords individuals by providing housing, seniors Catherine Bachrach Kathleen Lindenmayer New Milford Hospital Berkshire Taconic Community 12 N. Main St. advocacy and referral services Betsy Barnbanell Jeanette Loeb Foundation-Jane Lloyd Fund Kent Youth Hockey 21 Elm St. Kent CT 06757 Robert Barbanell Kathryn McAuliffe and 860-592-0200 Greenwoods Counseling Hockey for ages 5-14 New Milford, CT 06776 Pays living expenses including the costs Jeannette and James Barron Jay Kriegel of transportation, housing, food, utilities Referrals 800-585-7198 The Villager Anne Bass and Ben Nickoll and Mental healthcare and related Literacy Volunteers on the Green and other expenses of cancer patients. Julian Lethbridge Christine Armstrong Sharon Hospital 28 N. Main St. social services Promote English literacy Kent CT 06759 Children’s Center of New Milford Walda and Sydney Besthoff Howard Morgan 50 Hospital Rd. Loaves and Fishes Hospitality Jim Blacketter Terence Miller Sharon, CT 06069 860-927-1555 Early childhood education and care for Hotchkiss Library of Sharon House Kathleen O’Grady 860-364-4000 SoDelicious Bakery community Contribute to the quality of life in the Tom Bouldin community by providing access to Distributes food to the needy Mardee Cavallaro Pergola Kent Station 1 Kent Green Blvd. Chore Service Inc books, dvds, audio books, reference Ken Cooper and Elissa and George Potts Pharmacy Kent CT 06757 Primetime House Allan Priaulx Home care for senior and disabled materials, computers, cultural and literary Charmian Place 38 N. Main St. 860-592-0743 Donald Connery Leah Pullaro residents programming for all ages Support for mentally ill Kent CT 06757 109 Cheese Market Sara Fraser Crismon Roaring Oaks Florist Kent Affordable Housing Robotics and Beyond 860-927-3725 Civic Life Project Annette de la Renta Adriana and Robert Mnuchin 14 N. Main St. Kent CT 06757 Promotes youth civic engagement Develop affordable housing Provide STEM education to young Shelley Floyd and Janet Rivkin CAR SERVICES through production of documentaries people through robotics Albert Loshkajian Kee Limousine 860-592-0366 Kent Center School Ken Roman Gary Gartsman GENERAL Community Culinary Institute Scholarship Fund Sharon Playhouse Elihu Rose New Milford, CT Lawrence Gile Fr. Richardson Schell 860-355-4509 Post Office of NW CT College scholarships Teaching theater Agnes Gund Lorry Schiesel Qualifying unemployed and low Golden Carriage 31 Kent Green Blvd. UWWC Back to School Darin Hudson Eileen Smith income persons for jobs in the food Kent Community Fund Limousine Kent CT 06757 Janette Ireland Patsy Strobel service industry and helping to feed the Financial support for emergency need and Supply low income children with clothing Library Karen and Kevin Kennedy 914-925-1000 community while doing so charitable programs and school supplies Burton Visotzky Kent Chamber of Commerce Roger White BOOKS 32 N. Main St. Corner Food Pantry Kent Education Center and Wassaic Project Kent Volunteer Fire David Whitman Kent CT 06757 Nursery School House of Books 860-927-3761 Provide food to needy residents Foster positive social change, build local Department Joe Wolinski 10 N. Main St. of Litchfield County Pre-K Education pride through art and arts Kent Wine & Spirit, James Zirin and BEAUTY education Ira D. Smith Kent CT 06757 Marlene Hess David Gavin Salon EMS Institute Kent Historical Society KentPresents Board of Advisers 860-927-4104 Wheels of Greater New Milford Western Connecticut Promote the advancement of Collect, preserve and interpret the history KentPresents Volunteers State University 25 N. Main St. pre-hospital care in towns that of Kent and provide educational and Provide transportation for seniors and Kent School Board of Trustees Kent CT 06757 service Sharon Hospital research material to enrich the public citizens with disabilities to their Kent School Faculty 860-927-4671 understanding of Kent’s artistic and non-emergency medical appointments. and Staff Five Points Gallery cultural heritage Women’s Support Services Challenging perceptions through visual arts Kent Memorial Library Services to support and advocate for Provide materials, programs and services victims of domestic violence to encourage reading, learning and Meet the 2017 Team imagination

This year KentPresents is again going green. We ask that you bring your water bottles provided in your welcome bags to campus each day and use the water stations for fresh drinking water. Also this year there are recycling bins, which you will see around campus. Please use them for any plastic and/or paper you need to dispose of during your time at KentPresents. Thank you. Julia Benedict Abbie Bouldin Sam Cournoyer Marian Dar

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