CURRENTLY AVAILABLE SPEAKER SERIES DVDS Updated March 2020
George A. Andrews Distinguished Speaker 2016
Henry M. Paulson Jr. 2016 George A. Andrews Distinguished Speaker
April 14, 2016
Henry M. Paulson Jr., former Secretary of the Treasury, draws on his extensive public service experience and his work in the private sector to share his perspective on the issues confronting the United States today, particularly its economic policy regarding China. Prior to serving as Secretary of the Treasury, Paulson had a 32-year career at Goldman Sachs, serving as chairman and chief executive officer beginning in 1999. Earlier in his career, he was a member of the White House Domestic Council as well as staff assistant at the Pentagon. Mr. Paulson is founder and chairman of the Paulson Institute at the University of Chicago, which aims to advance sustainable economic growth in the United States and China. Formerly, he served as chairman of The Nature Conservancy Board of Directors and is currently co-chair of the Conservancy’s Latin America Conservation Council, made up of global business and political leaders. He also co-chairs, with former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the Risky Business Project, a non-partisan initiative that focuses on quantifying and publicizing the economic risks of climate change.
Ed Viesturs 2016 George A. Andrews Distinguished Speaker
October 13, 2016
Washington resident Ed Viesturs is widely regarded as this country's foremost high-altitude mountaineer. He is familiar to many from the 1996 IMAX Everest Expedition documentary and in 2002, he was awarded the historic Lowell Thomas Award by the Explorer's Club for outstanding achievement in the field of mountaineering. In winning the award, he joined an elite group of climbers including Sir Edmund Hillary. In 1992 he was awarded the American Alpine Club Sowles Awards for his participation in two rescues on K-2. Viesturs has successfully reached the summits of all the world's fourteen 8000-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen, an 18-year project he christened Endeavor 8000. His goal was completed on May 12, 2005 with his ascent of Annapurna one of the world's most treacherous peaks. He is one of only a handful of climbers in history (and the only American) to accomplish this. That year Viesturs was awarded National Geographic's Adventurer of the Year. 1
Captain James Lovell, Fred Haise, and Gene Kranz “Failure is Not an Option”
2014 George A. Andrews Distinguished Speaker
November 13, 2014
“Houston, we've had a problem.” These words, uttered by Captain James Lovell during the dramatic Apollo 13 mission, are now part of the American lexicon. Apollo 13 was to be NASA’s third mission to land on the moon. The space vehicle launched on April 11, 1970, with Captain James Lovell (center), Fred Haise (left), and John Swigert aboard. The lunar landing was aborted when an oxygen tank exploded after about 56 hours of flight, crippling the service module. The three astronauts were faced with the possibility of becoming marooned in space. Oxygen was running short, carbon dioxide accumulations began to climb, and the cabin temperature dropped. If they were able to navigate the spacecraft back to Earth, they needed to enter its atmosphere at precisely the right angle. Through teamwork and decisive leadership, the crew modified the lunar module, orbited the Moon without landing, and returned safely to Earth. Lovell later called the Apollo 13 mission "a successful failure," and mission flight control director, Gene Kranz described it as “NASA’s finest hour.” President Richard Nixon awarded Lovell, Haise, and Kranz the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1970.
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21rst Century Speaker Series
John O’Leary January 11, 2018
Author of "On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life"
John O’Leary has lived through worse than most can imagine. At age nine, a fire exploded and burned 100 percent of his body. Given a one-percent chance to live, he fought extraordinary odds. O’Leary spent five months in the hospital, underwent dozens of surgeries, lost all his fingers to amputation and had to relearn to walk, write, and feed himself. He endured, persevered, and survived—largely because others emerged, served, and inspired. He now lives to share the life-giving lessons from his story in hopes that he can spark the extraordinary possibility of your story. As O’Leary puts it, “I share these lessons as an invitation for you to choose to wake up to the fullness of your life, to embrace the amazing gift of each moment, and to celebrate the joy of your inspired life!”
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Ernie and Lucha Vogel Moral Courage Speakers
The Vogel Moral Courage program was established to nurture, encourage, and promote the idea of moral courage through speakers, seminars, and special activities as well as a special collection located in the Marshall Brooks Library. The speaker series has brought to the Principia College campus individuals from around the world who have been significant exemplars of—or writers on—moral courage. The purpose of the speaker series is to foster an appreciation of the importance of moral courage in every aspect of life.
Anthony Menendez –
2017 Ernie and Lucha Vogel Moral Courage Speaker
March 30, 2017
Anthony Menendez is best known as the “Accountant Who Beat Halliburton,” Menendez is widely recognized for his decade-long legal battle with Halliburton as a corporate whistleblower under Sarbanes-Oxley. Despite having no formal legal training, he represented himself during the appeals process and ultimately prevailed in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The ruling has had a positive impact on that body of law and has resulted in significantly increased protections for corporate whistleblowers. Menendez was honored in recognition of ethical leadership, integrity, and distinguished service in the public interest with both the ACFE Sentinel Award and the Accounting in the Public Interest Award from the Center for Accounting Ethics, Governance, and the Public Interest. He has been interviewed by the New York Times, ProPublica, National Public Radio’s Marketplace, The CPA Journal, and the ACFE’s Fraud Magazine and often lectures at prominent universities and organizations related to the topics of accounting, whistleblowing, corporate compliance, and business ethics.
Dr. Yang Jianli
2016 Ernie and Lucha Vogel Moral Courage Speaker
One of the protestors of the Tiananmen square uprising in 1989
February 2, 2016
Pro-democracy activist Dr. Yang Jianli hails from the Shandong Province in northern China. Though a rising star in the Chinese Communist Party in the early 1980s, Dr. Yang quickly became disenchanted by the corruption he witnessed in the communist system, so he left China to pursue an education in mathematics. While earning a graduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley in 1989, his fellow Chinese students elected him to return to Beijing to support the demonstrations for democracy taking place in Tiananmen Square. Dr. Yang arrived in time to witness the massacre of hundreds, if not thousands, by the Chinese army, and narrowly escaped capture himself. He returned to the United States to study democracy, earning a doctorate in political economy at Harvard University and PhD in mathematics from Berkeley.
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Ziauddin Yousafzai
2015 Ernie and Lucha Vogel Moral Courage Speaker
February 26, 2015
Ziauddin Yousafzai is an educator, human rights campaigner, and social activist. Originally from Pakistan’s Swat Valley, he peacefully resisted the Taliban’s efforts to shut down schools and spoke out on national and international media for children’s right to education. Mr. Yousafzai also inspired his daughter, Malala Yousafzai, recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, to advocate for girls’ education. After Ms. Yousafzai survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban in 2012, she and her father co-founded the Malala Fund to empower girls worldwide through education. Mr. Yousafzai serves as board chairman for the Malala Fund and also acts as the United Nations special advisor on global education and the educational attaché to the Pakistani Consulate in Birmingham, UK.
School Speaker
Erik Weihenmayer – 2016 Upper School and College Speaker
In 2001 Erik became the only blind climber to reach the summit of Mt. Everest, returns to Principia this fall. A year after his first visit to the College in 2007, Weihenmayer climbed Carstensz Pyramid on the island of Papua New Guinea. With this climb, he completed his ascent of the Seven Summits (the highest points on each continent). More recently, in 2014, Weihenmayer took on a different type of challenge. Together with a blinded Navy veteran, he kayaked the 277 miles of the Colorado River flowing through the Grand Canyon. In an effort to share what he has learned about overcoming limitations, Weihenmayer co-founded the organization No Barriers, whose motto is “What's within you is stronger than what's in your way.” He is the author of The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles into Everyday Greatness and Touch the Top of the World, which was made into a feature film.
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Principia Public Affairs Conference Speakers PAC 2019: Education: Your Asset for Global Change
Brittany Packnett
Keynote Speaker
PAC, April 2019
Brittany serves as Teach for America’s Vice President of National Community Alliances, where she leads partnerships and civil rights work with communities of color. Beyond Teach for America, Brittany was a Fall 2018 Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics. She was a Ferguson protestor and continues in activism as, among other things, co-founder of Campaign Zero, a policy platform to end police violence. She is a contributor to the Crooked Media network, most notably contributing to the weekly news roundup on Pod Save The People, which earned the team two 2018 Webby Awards for Best News Podcast. Brittany is a Video Columnist for Mic News and writes for many publications. Brittany was an appointed member of the Ferguson Commission and President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. She is an alum of Washington University in St. Louis, American University in Washington, and is a Pahara-Aspen Institute Education fellow.
She has appeared on the cover of Essence Magazine, been named one of TIME Magazine’s 12 New Faces of Black Leadership and honored at the 2018 BET Awards as “one of the fiercest activists of our time.” Brittany has been named to Marie Claire’s New Guard, LinkedIn’s Next Wave, received the Peter Jennings Award for Civic Leadership and shares the number three spot on Politico’s 2016 50 Most Influential list. She has been honored by Emily’s List, The Women’s Choice Awards, the NAACP, Ebony Magazine, Public Allies, and Washington University, among others.
John Dau
PAC, April 2019
As one of the 27,000 “Lost Boys of Sudan”, John Dau has experienced challenges that most people could never imagine. He spent the years from 1992 to 2001 in the camp, where he learned to read, write and speak English, and received a basic education. In 2000, he earned a prestigious Kenyan Certificate for Secondary Education. In 2001, Dau was selected to emigrate to the United States and settled in Syracuse, New York. Following his initial culture shock, John Dau regularly worked 60 hours a week at two or three jobs, ultimately earning an Associate’s and bachelor’s degree from
Syracuse University. He was the subject of the film God Grew Tired of Us, which won several awards at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. As a human rights activist for the people of South Sudan, John has lived a remarkable life of cultural adaptation in America. He has received many prestigious awards (including the National Geographic Emerging 5
Explorers Award) and was a Volvo for Life finalist in the Quality of Life category, which brought a financial contribution from Volvo to the John Dau Foundation. John was also named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader for 2008; also received a Most Caring Award from the Caring Institute in addition to other 38 awards.
Ted talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ7VVXvtM_Y
Robin Pendoley
PAC, April 2019
Born and raised near San Francisco, he discovered at an early age that youth can affect the disparities and challenges of our world. Robin also learned the need to truly understand a problem and oneself before proactive changes can be made. He sees Thinking Beyond Borders as the actualization of those lessons.
Robin equipped himself by earning a B.A. in International Development Studies from UCLA and a master’s in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has lived and worked abroad extensively, both as a student and educator. Robin committed eight years to public schools in Los Angeles and Boston. He served as a teacher, administrator, coach, and college access program administrator.
Rebecca Ginsburg
PAC, April 2019
Rebecca Ginsburg is a co-founder and current director of the Education Justice Project (EJP), a unit of the University of Illinois. EJP is a community of scholars, students, and teachers who are dedicated to the vision of a more just and humane world. Through its educational programs, events, outreach, and advocacy, EJP supports critical awareness of incarceration and reentry, with special focus on the responsibility of institutions of higher education to engage systems-involved individuals during and after incarceration.
Hundreds of University of Illinois faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, and staff, community members, and incarcerated scholars have been involved in EJP’s initiatives since it was formed 10 years ago. Rebecca received her bachelor’s degree in English from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, her JD from the University of Michigan Law School, and a PhD in Architectural History from the University of California at Berkeley. It was while she was a graduate student at Berkeley that she first became involved in prison education.
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Flynn Coleman
PAC, April 2019
Flynn Coleman is an international human rights attorney, an author, a professor, a public speaker, a social innovator, an ethical fashion designer, a mindfulness, innovation, and creativity teacher, a social justice activist, a former competitive athlete, and a founder and CEO. She has taught at The New School, Parsons School of Design and was also the founding fellow at the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship at NYU School of Law.
She has worked with the United Nations, the United States federal government, and international corporations and human rights organizations around the world. Flynn has written extensively on issues of global citizenship, the future of work and purpose, emerging technologies, political reconciliation, war crimes, genocide, human and civil rights, humanitarian issues, innovation and design for social impact, and improving access to justice and education. Her book on the future of human rights, technology, AI, and humanity, A Human Algorithm, was recently published in 2019.
She holds a BSFS from Georgetown University, a JD from UC Berkeley School of Law, and an LLM from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has also studied at La Sorbonne, the University of Cambridge, Trinity College Dublin, La Universidad de Chile, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal, and Université de Genève.
A native of Los Angeles, Flynn has lived in France, Switzerland, England, Ireland, Italy, Hong Kong, Fiji, Cambodia, Senegal, the Netherlands, and Chile. She currently calls New York home. She speaks five languages, and her wanderings have taken her from rebuilding homes and schools in New Orleans and Fiji, to distributing gifts to children in Haiti and school supplies in Guatemala and Ethiopia, to teaching How to Make a Difference in a Mongolian yurt in the English countryside, to huffing up Mount Kilimanjaro with her dad, to zodiac boating in Alaska with her mom.
PAC 2018 Sustainability: Define, Design, Evolve
PAC, April 2018
David Miller is the North American Director, C40 Climate Leadership Group, and Global Ambassador of Inclusive Climate Action. Prior to joining the C40, Mr. Miller served as President and CEO of World Wildlife Fund-Canada, Canada’s foremost conservation organization. The WWF creates solutions to the most serious conservation challenges facing our planet, including helping people and nature to thrive together. Mr. Miller was also Mayor of Toronto from 2003 to 2010. Under his leadership, Toronto became admired internationally for its environmental leadership, economic strength, and social integration. He is a leading advocate for the creation of sustainable urban economies and a strong and forceful champion for the next generation of jobs through sustainability.
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Pandora Thomas PAC, April 2018
Pandora Thomas is a passionate global citizen who works as a caregiver, teacher, writer, designer and speaker. Her work emphasizes the benefits of applying ecological principles to social design. She has designed curriculum for and taught groups all over the world including Iraqi and Indonesian youth, men serving in San Quentin, and men and women returning home from incarceration. Pandora’s most recent projects include co-founding the Black Permaculture Network, working for 6 years with Toyota in design, and serving as a coalition member of the Toyota Green Initiative, which supports African Americans in understanding the benefits of adopting sustainable lifestyles. We are grateful to share that Pandora’s talk is sponsored in part by the Resilience Studies Consortium, of which Principia College is a founding member.
Caroline Assaf PAC, April 2018
Caroline Assaf is a social entrepreneur and a sustainability professional with a passion for youth and cities. She is an advisory board member for the World Economic Forum initiative “Shaping the Future of Urban Development and Services” and the president of Sustainable Cities International, positions which allow her to work closely with a network of international cities and cross-industry partners on knowledge mobilization and exchange. As previous director of a government funded Youth Internship Program, she is very active in the international development field, working closely with youth in Latin America and Africa to address local and global issues through innovation and collaboration.
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PAC 2017 Media as a Tool for Social Change
Kevin Adler
PAC, April 2017
Kevin Adler is the Founder and CEO of Miracle Messages, a nonprofit messaging service for people isolated by homelessness to reconnect with their loved ones. To date, Miracle Messages has reunited 131 families. Kevin has been honored as a 2018 Jefferson Award recipient, a 2017 Mass Challenge winner, a 2017 Ashoka/American Express emerging innovator, a 2016 TED Resident, and a 2010-11 Rotary Ambassadorial scholar. He is the author of Natural Disasters as a Catalyst for Social Capital (Rowman & Littlefield), a ground-breaking book that demonstrates the role of shared traumas in bringing communities together. He has written for the New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor among others.
Bill Siemering
PAC, April 2017
Bill Siemering is a radio innovator and advocate. He was a member of the founding board of NPR and the author of its original “mission statement,” the National Public Radio Purposes. As NPR's first director of programming, Siemering helped shaped its flagship program All Things Considered into an influential and enduring fixture of American media. After a decades-long career in public radio, Siemering embarked on a second career of nurturing independent radio in the developing world, discussing the role of radio in affecting social change.
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PAC 2016 Innovation with Purpose
David Gutelius (C’93)
PAC, March 2016
David Gutelius is co-founder at The Data Guild, an incubator based in Palo Alto, California. A serial entrepreneur, he drove data science and technology innovation at Jive Software (JIVE) as Chief Scientist, part of the team that led Jive through a successful IPO in 2011. He joined Jive in 2011 after it purchased the company he founded, Proximal Labs, a startup focused on machine learning over big data to personalize enterprise social networks. Prior to Proximal, David was the co-founder and CTO at Social Kinetics. Previously he co-founded the Social Computing Group at SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center. He is an active early-stage investor and an advisor to GE Ventures, Accenture Technology Labs, the World Economic Forum, and the InHealth Program at Johns Hopkins University. He taught at Stanford University and holds an MA and PhD in economic history from the Johns Hopkins University.
Suli Breaks PAC, March 2016
Suli Breaks is a spoken word poet working to inspire, motivate, and inform current generations. After receiving his law degree from the university of Sheffield, he decided to pursue a career in spoken word poetry due to his frustration with the current educational system and a desire to share that message. In his innovative way of communicating a message, Suli has harnessed the power of social media to further share his message reaching 250K subscribers and over 12 million views on his YouTube channel. Suli’s most popular video ‘Why I Hate School but Love Education’ has had over 7 million views. Suli has also recently debuted an audio project called ‘The Dorm room’ 2013, which has debuted on the top 20 list of the spoken word charts on iTunes.
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Principia International Perspectives Conference Speakers
IPC 2019 Connecting Through Change
Janet Horton
IPC, October 2019
Now retired Chaplain (Col.) Janet Horton was the first woman promoted to Colonel in the Army Chaplain Corps. She entered the U.S. Army in June 1976 and served for 28 years as a Christian Science Chaplain. She became the first female chaplain to serve as a Division Chaplain (1st Armored Division). Horton and her Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge, Iraida Velazquez, were the first Division-level all-female Unit Ministry Team. Now, she serves as a Christian Science practitioner and lecturer.
Rob and Harriet Fraser IPC, October 2019
Harriet and Rob Fraser work together as somewhere-nowhere. Their work uses the power of curiosity and pause to engage with all the elements that give a sense of place, and let stories gradually reveal themselves. These stories may provoke further investigation or action, or touch on issues of struggle or loss in a local-global system where everything is connected, and balance can be elusive. Through photography and writing, with installations in rural spaces, they deliver creative projects that tap into and tell the stories of the natural environment and the people connected with it. They blend documentary with creativity and aim to inspire others to engage in debate and to go and find out more for themselves. They are based in Cumbria, England, but their work is not limited by geography.
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Vincent Herr Berlin
IPC, October 2019
Vincent-Immanuel Herr is an author, activist, and consultant from Berlin, Germany. His work focuses on youth empowerment, European integration, and gender equality. Vincent has successfully lobbied the European Parliament and the European Commission to launch a pilot project giving free train tickets to European 18-year-olds in a bid to improve European cohesion. He has published two books and written articles that appeared in numerous countries, his TEDx talk has been viewed more than 10,000 times. In 2018, Vincent received the Jean Monnet Prize for European Integration as well as the Good Lobby’s Citizen Lobbyist of the Year Award for his work. He is also one of four catalysts for the German UN Women HeForShe campaign.
Samuel Aloyo Kitengela IPC, October 2019
Sammy Aloyo, is the co-founder and CEO of Sunrise of Africa School which is an elementary school located outside of Nairobi. His school provides quality education for over 300 students from the community, emphasizing the motto of “Strive for excellence, trust in God”. The school, which is based on Christian Science values, also aims to teach students from a spiritual foundation to demonstrate their God-given qualities of intelligence, self-reliance, honesty, kindness and leadership. In addition to these values, the students are taught the importance of environmental sustainability and the urgency of protecting our wildlife heritage. Above all, we encourage our youth to become responsible citizens, develop the necessary skills to obtain work in their own country, take pride in their homeland and build a positive future for Kenya.
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IPC 2018 Limitless
Killian Stokes
IPC, Keynote Speaker October 2018
“Limitless”
Killian Stokes has worked for more than 20 years in telecoms and NGO sectors all across Africa, Asia, Europe and America. Killian’s practical work as a global social entrepreneur focuses on social justice and reformation of economic models, engaging directly with farmers and local communities in Africa as full partners. For over a decade, Killian has worked as a consultant to philanthropic organizations and as an active fundraiser. He has goal to transform a key component of international trade for many African nations on earth. So far, he has helped raise €8m for good causes and focuses on overcoming climate change and poverty through the power of business, shared values, and ethical sustainable trade. Additionally, Mr. Stokes lectures in business and global development at University College of Dublin.
Sulaiman Khatib
IPC, October 2018
“Transformation from Enemy to Friend – A Personal Journey”
Sulaiman Khatib was born and raised in the village of Hizme, northeast of Jerusalem. Growing up, Sulaiman and his family were severely impacted by the ongoing conflict between the Israelites and Palestinians. As a result, he decided that he wanted to make a difference. Unfortunately, he didn’t see any other option but to join, informally, the “Fatah” movement, which participated in violent protests against Israeli soldiers. At just 14 years old, Sulaiman threw stones, wrote graffiti on public buildings, and prepared Molotov cocktails. At one point, he and a friend decided to steal weapons from the Israeli soldiers, stabbing two Israelis in the process; this resulted in Sulaiman being sentenced to 15- 18 years in jail. During his imprisonment, he watched Schindler’s List which changed his life forever and reconstructed his world view. He began to see the Israeli soldiers as human beings who were suffering as well, and he discovered that the only enemy he needed to face was hatred and fear. After he was released from 10 years in prison, he and some friends established an organization that fought the conflict through peaceful means. He is currently the co-director and co-founder of the Combatants for Peace, a grassroots nonviolence movement in Israel and Palestine.
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Selina Leem IPC, October 2018 “Lolelaplap (Our Ocean)”
Selina Leem is an islander from the republic of the Marshall Islands. She graduated from the UWC Robert Bosch College in Freiburg, Germany. Before moving to Germany for her education, Selina spent much of her life in her home, Majuro, which is the capital of the Marshall Islands. Growing up, her grandfather told her stories about how climate change would soon cause her island to flood. Selina took on the role of becoming an advocate for the fight against climate change in her country and was the youngest delegate at the 2015 COP21 in Paris. She currently works at the United World Colleges Changshu China as an International Educator Intern.
Patricia McFadden
IPC, October 2018
“Feminism in the African Contemporary Moment: Social and Political Imperatives” Patricia McFadden is an African feminist, sociologist, writer, educator, and publisher from Swaziland. She has worked in the anti-apartheid movement for more than 20 years. She attended the University of Botswana and Swaziland where she studied politics and administration, with minors in economics and sociology. She then continued her education and earned her master’s degree in sociology from the University of Dar es Salaam as well as her PhD from Warwick University. Her research focuses on gender in southern Africa, racism, sexuality, and AIDS. She has been teaching at universities since 1975 and is the former director of the Feminist Studies Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe. She is also the former editor of the Southern African Feminist Review and of African Feminist Perspectives. She currently works at the SAPES Trust, a civic research foundation in Zimbabwe.
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IPC 2017 Breaking Stereotypes Around the World
Farah Cherif D'Ouzzaine
IPC, Keynote Speaker October 2017
Fara Cherif D’Ouzzaine gave the Keynote Address for the 2017 PIC conference. Farah started her career as an Arabic teacher to non-native speakers since 1989 at the school for International Training (SIT) and Marlboro College, in Vermont, USA and in various French and Moroccan schools in Morocco. She has also been a co-Director of the SIT Study Abroad semester program between 1993 and 2013, and a lecturer on Gender and Religion as well as an advisor to several students in their Independent Study Projects. Her academic interest has led her to conducting modules, seminars and workshops on religion and culture in Morocco for all CCCL programs. She teaches SIT students in Morocco a course on Religion in which she lectures about women and the veil, Mary in the Qur’an, Islam and Human Rights and Sufism in Morocco. She has a degree in Arabic Language and Literature, in Comparative Literature and Religion from the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences at Mohamed V University in Rabat, Morocco as well as from the International Women’s University in Hanover, Germany. She is currently the Founder and Director of the Center for Cross Cultural Learning (CCCL), as well as the President of Thaqafat Association Morocco, and has served since April 2014 to May 2017 as President of the Federation Experiment in International Living (FEIL).
Daniel Sekepe Matjila
IPC, October 2017
Professor Daniel Sekepe Matjila was one of Principia college’s Annenberg Scholars in the fall of 2017. An active author and scholar in both the United States and South Africa, Matjila is Director of the Centre for Pan African Languages and Cultural Development at the University of South Africa; a research fellow at the University of Michigan; a member of the Academy of African Languages; an advisor to the South African Ministry of Education. A prolific author and writer, Matjila has co-written and published several scholarly articles along with Principia College Associate Professor Dr. Karen Haire, who spent several years teaching and studying in South Africa. And, more recently, he served as the doctoral advisor to Dr. William Miller (C’72), Associate Professor of Sociology at the College, who accompanied him on his visit to the School. As one of the featured speakers at the International Perspectives Conference (IPC, his talk was entitled “Undoing Stereotypes About African Peoples and Cultures: Indigenizing Education.”
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Sheryl Winarick IPC, October 2017
Sheryl Winarick is a U.S. immigration lawyer who is committed to providing high quality legal advice and representation to her clients and treating each of them with respect and dignity. In 2017 Sheryl merged her immigration and naturalization practice with Blue Dot, in part to strengthen her capacity to serve her clients’ needs while engaged in a year-long U.S. Listening Tour, exploring culture & identity and our relationship to change through civil, civic discourse in communities around the country. With over 18 years of experience, through her work Sheryl enables individuals, families, businesses and organizations to maximize their potential in the U.S. She advises on a wide range of immigration matters.
IPC 2016 From Conflict to Peace
Rick Barton IPC, Keynote Speaker September 2016
“Most Effective Means for Creating Stabilization After Conflict”
Rick Barton was the Keynote Speaker and Annenberg Scholar at Principia College in 2016. Mr. Barton is a United States diplomat, educator and author. He served as the Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations at the U.S. Department of State until September 2014. Currently a Lecturer at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School he is also the co-director of the University's Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative (SINSI) with his wife, Kit Lunney.
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Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko
IPC, October 2016 “No Peace Without Justice: Accountability Matters”
Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko is a Judge of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), Appeals Chamber, since March 2012. As a professor and scholar, he specialized in the areas of Public International Law, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, and International Humanitarian Law. He is an advocate and has practiced law in Uganda. Before his election as Judge, he was included on the List of Counsel eligible to represent accused persons and victims before the ICC. He also served on the Advisory Committee of the War Research Office of the American University Law School in Washington DC. He holds the LLB degree from the University of East Africa, MJC in Comparative Jurisprudence from Howard University and LLM and JSD from New York University.
Rais Bhuiyan IPC, September 2016
“A World Without Hate”
Rais Bhuiyan is a Bangladeshi American working as a technology professional in Dallas. He was a student of Sylhet Cadet College and traveled to New York City to study computer technology. After the September 11 terror attacks, Mark Anthony Stroman shot Bhuiyan, attempting to kill him. Bhuiyan survived, but lost sight in one of his eyes. Bhuiyan gained media attention after revealing that he would appeal to the court to save Stroman from the death penalty. He told MSNBC, "I'm trying to do my best not to allow the loss of another human life. I'll knock on every door possible". He said, "In Islam it says that saving one human life is the same as saving the entire mankind. Since I forgave him, all those principles encouraged me to go even further, and stop his execution and save another human life". He started a movement named World Without Hate to prevent hate crimes through education and worked with Amnesty International. He is quoted as saying “We are responsible for one another; we must learn to respect, understand and accept each other if we want to bring about the world we all deserve – a world without violence, a world without victims, a world without hate.” -Rais Bhuiyan, Founder & President, World Without Hate.
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Adriana Beltran IPC, September 2016
“Twenty Yeats of Elusive Peace: The Continued Fight Against Impunity in Post- Conflict Guatemala”
Adriana Beltran works on tackling insecurity, violence and the growing influence of organized crime in Central America. She is head of the Citizen Security Program for the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), a U.S.- based advocacy and research organization, and she promotes policies that identify and address the root causes of violence and improve the effectiveness and accountability of police and judicial systems. She is the co- author of the ground-breaking study Hidden Powers, which documents the rise and impact of clandestine criminal organizations in Guatemala following the 1996 Peace Accords. Ms. Beltrán was a long-time advocate for the establishment of a UN-sponsored commission to investigate and prosecute organized criminal networks — an effort that culminated in the creation of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) in 2007. She continues to be actively engaged in ensuring local and international support for the CICIG’s fight against organized crime and institutional corruption.
IPC 2015 Empowerment as Equals
Dr. Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo
IPC, Keynote Speaker October 2015 “Empowering and Humanizing Visions for the World by Progressive African Orature Artists and Writers”
Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo, Emeritus Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence, is a poet, playwright and literary critic from Kenya. Due to her activism, she was forced to seek refuge in Zimbabwe in 1982 during the Daniel Arap Moi dictatorship. She is the recipient of a myriad of honors. “The East African Standard Century” listed her among “The Top 100: They Influenced Kenya Most During the 20th Century.” A committed community activist, Mĩcere is a passionate advocate for human rights, especially with regards to historically marginalized groups.
Khaled Hasan
IPC, October 2015 “Leave me Alone: Women fighting for their rights”
Khaled Hasan is a documentary photographer and filmmaker born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1981. He believes in immersion photography, and spends months listening, observing and talking with his subjects over the course of a project. As an indigenous photographer, he tells narratives of the land that shaped him. Documenting stories about its people and their interaction with nature, healing and surviving from times of distress, fighting for rights, toiling for food, standing against injustice are the primary issues he features in his works. Hasan’s
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documentary project ‘Living Stone’ has won numerous international awards including the 2008 All Roads Photography Contest of National Geographic Society.
Urmi Basu
IPC, October 2015 “Development in the context of marginalization and exclusion”
Urmi Basu is from Kolkata, India and fights for the social justice of the marginalized community of sex workers, women in prostitution, and survivors of trafficking. She founded a non-profit organization called New Light which works on issues related to urban and rural economic development, empowerment and protection of vulnerable groups including women engaged in sex work, street children and trafficked child laborers. In July 2015, Urmi delivered a talk at the prestigious TEDxCibeles event in Madrid, Spain where she spoke on fighting stigma with education at the event named Impossible. She was chosen as a recipient of a blessing from the Dalai Lama under the title Unsung Heroes of Compassion 2009 for her work.
Susan Dane Setin
IPC, October 2015 “Global impact of leadership in business”
Susan's successful career in marketing and branding began in incentive travel, where she produced corporate events for over 22,000 people in 30 countries. Parallel to her successful career as an entrepreneur, spirituality has played an integral role in Susan’s life. She worked as a Christian Science practitioner for 10 years and spoke worldwide on Christianity, ethical business and cross-cultural traditions. She is an internationally published writer and has addressed groups from 20-400, speaking worldwide on Christianity and cross-cultural traditions. This dual experience brings a depth and vision to her work rarely found in business circles. Fluent in French, Spanish and Portuguese, Susan is dedicated to bridging the gap between the monastery and the marketplace—getting the real visionaries into the work-force where they are most needed and maximizing the power of socially-conscious enterprise and ethical business to change the world.
Jeff Perera IPC October 2015
“Striving to be a better man: being an ally”
Jeff Perera is a Canadian activist. He is the founder of Higher Unlearning, an online space to explore ideas of gender and true masculinity. In addition of having worked for White Ribbon, the largest men’s movement working to end violence against women and girls, he founded the annual ‘What Makes a Man’ Conference and directed the first TEDxWomen event in Toronto. He has delivered two TEDx talks on Masculinity and men’s toxic pursuits of identity. Perera has won many awards in his field. 19
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