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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. **Only two copies available. This DVD is on a first-come, first-served policy 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!” 2 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. 3 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. 4 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.