A.R.T./New York's Town Hall Meeting Moving Forward with a New Administration Monday, December 19Th at 10:00Am Studio 54
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A.R.T./New York's Town Hall Meeting Moving Forward with a New Administration Monday, December 19th at 10:00am Studio 54 Program for A.R.T./New York's Town Hall Meeting “Moving Forward with a New Administration” Welcome Julia Levy, Executive Director, Roundabout Theatre Company Introduction of Panelists Ginny Louloudes, Executive Director of A.R.T./New York and ProGram Moderator Panel Discussion Bruce Gyory, Senior Advisor, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips Earl Lewis, President of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Barbara Caress, Health Care Consultant, Actors Fund Hon. Jerrold Nadler, New York ConGressman, 10th District Hon. Jimmy Van Bramer, Majority Leader of the New York City Council Lameece Issaq, FoundinG Artistic Director of the Obie Award-winning Noor Theatre Lauren Wainwright, Executive Director of Tectonic Theater Project Questions From the Audience There will be two ushers with microphones for audience members who wish to ask questions. Who’s Who Barbara Caress Barbara Caress has over 40 years of experience as a union, non-profit, and public agency manager, consultant, and administrator. Most recently she served as Director of Strategic Policy and Planning for the SEIU Local 32BJ Health, Pension, Legal and Training Funds, which provide benefits to 250,000 people living in seven states where she oversaw the a substantial re-design effort dedicated to developing incentives for members to use, and providers to offer, patient centered medical homes and other certified quality providers. She is currently advising a number of health funds and others on benefit design, primary care, and evaluation. Ms. Caress has spent many years as a health care consultant working for such clients as the NYC and State Health Departments, the Community Service Society, Local 1199, SEIU and the United Hospital Fund. She is currently a member of NCQA’s Standards Committee and the NYC Primary Care Improvement Project Advisory Board. Author of a wide range of health policy reports and reviews, Ms. Caress received her undergraduate and graduate education at the University of Chicago. She is currently a faculty member in the Program in Health Administration at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY and at the Sarah Lawrence Masters in Health Advocacy program. Bruce Gyory Bruce N. Gyory was born in Queens but was raised in the Bronx. He went to New York City public schools and then graduated from Columbia University and NYU Law School. He cut his teeth in New York politics. He helped coordinate the election day operations which lead to three upset victories in Special Elections against the old Bronx organization in the late 1970’s. Two of which were building blocks for the Bronx’ emerging Minority Majority. He ran and lost for City Council at Large from Bronx in 1977 after serving as a scheduler and speechwriter in Mario Cuomo’s 1977 Mayoral Campaign. He had done macro vote targeting for three successful gubernatorial campaigns. He served fist as Assistant and then Deputy Appointments Office to the Governor, in the second Carey Administration and more recently served as Senior Advisor to Governors Spitzer and Paterson. In between those periods of public service, Bruce was a lawyer lobbyist with the firm of Hinman Straub here in Albany from 1983 until November of 2007. Now Bruce is a Senior Advisor of the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, focusing on strategic and political consulting and services as an adjunct professor of Political Science at SUNY Albany. He no longer practices law nor does he do any lobbying. In recent years he has been a political consultant to Bill Thompson, Tom Suozzi and Sean Coffey after advising the Carey, the first Mario Cuomo and Spitzer gubernatorial campaigns. In 2012, Bruce consulted on David Soares’ re-election as District Attorney and for NARAL’s successful Independent Expenditure Campaign in State Senate races. But his friends know that Bruce’s true passion is his over 30 year study of demographic and voting trends in NYC and NYS politics. Bruce’s passion for tracking and understanding these trendlines underlying New York as well as national politics is what unites his academic pursuits and his political consulting work. He has a deep understanding of the New York’s distinct regional based political rivalries and cultures, including how they compete and ultimately coalesce. Bruce is a regular guest on YNN’s Capital Tonight’s Insiders segment hosted by Liz Benjamin. He has written op-eds for Newsday, The Hill, the Daily News, as well as City and State News. He also appears on NY1’s Inside City Hall with Errol Louis and Susan Arbetter’s radio program the Capital Pressroom. Bruce serves on the board of the Government Law Center at Albany Law School. Bruce lives with his wife Amy in Delmar, New York. The have 3 children, a son-in-law and two granddaughters. Lameece Issaq Lameece Issaq is an actor and writer, and Founding Artistic Director of the Obie-winning company Noor Theatre, dedicated to the work of artists of Middle Eastern descent. As an actor she has appeared in several regional and off-Broadway productions, including: When The LiGhts Went Out (New York Stage and Film); Food and Fadwa (New York Theatre Workshop [NYTW]); The Fever Chart (The Public Theatre); The Black Eyed (NYTW); Girl BloG From Iraq: BaGhdad Burning (Barrow Street Theater/Edinburgh Fringe Festival [Stage Theater Award Nomination, Outstanding Ensemble]); Stuff Happens (Public Theater [Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble]) and others. As a playwright, she’s written various short pieces produced in The New York Arab-American Comedy Festival; Nooha’s List, part of the compilation play, Motherhood Outloud (Hartford Stage, The Geffen and Primary Stages); and Food and Fadwa, 2011 recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award (Noor Theatre and NYTW co-production, Spring 2012). Lameece is a member of the Actors Center Workshop Company, League of Professional Theatre Women, The Dramatists Guild, AEA and SAG-AFTRA. Lameece is a 2016 NYFA Finalist in Playwriting/Screenwriting. Earl Lewis Earl Lewis became the sixth President of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in March 2013. Under his guidance, the Foundation has reaffirmed its commitment to the humanities, the arts, and higher education by emphasizing the importance of continuity and change. A noted social historian, Mr. Lewis has held faculty appointments at the University of California at Berkeley (1984–89), and the University of Michigan (1989–2004). He has championed the importance of diversifying the academy, enhancing graduate education, re-visioning the liberal arts, exploring the role of digital tools for learning, and connecting universities to their communities. Prior to joining The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mr. Lewis served as Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies at Emory University. As Provost, Lewis led academic affairs and academic priority setting for the university. He is the author and co-editor of seven books, including Our CompellinG Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society (with Nancy Cantor, Princeton University Press, 2016), The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present (with Joe William Trotter and Tera W. Hunter, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004); DefendinG Diversity: Affirmative Action at the University of MichiGan (with Jeffrey S. Lehman and Patricia Gurin, University of Michigan Press, 2004); Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White (with Heidi Ardizzone, WW Norton, 2001); the award-winning To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans (with Robin D.G. kelley, Oxford University Press, 2000); In Their Own Interests: Race, Class and Power in 20th Century Norfolk (University of California Press, 1991); as well as the 11-volume The YounG Oxford History of African Americans (with Robin D.G. kelley, Oxford University Press, 1995–1997); and the award-winning book series American Crossroads (University of California Press). A native of Tidewater, Virginia, Mr. Lewis earned an undergraduate degree in history and psychology from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, and a PhD in history from the University of Minnesota. He has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2008. In 2016, Mr. Lewis was named an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Carnegie Mellon University. He was previously awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Rutgers University-Newark and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Dartmouth College in 2015; he also received an honorary Doctor of Humanities from Concordia College in 2002; Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of Minnesota in 2001; and the Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award from the University of Michigan in 1999. Congressman Jerrold Nadler A well-regarded source of political opinion and policy expertise, Rep. Nadler has been a featured guest on nearly every significant public affairs and news program, including NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’s Face the Nation, and various shows on MSNBC. Nadler is also a reliable commentator for major print news sources, both nationally and internationally, and is often quoted in outlets such as the Associated Press, the New York Times, the New York Post, the New York Daily News and the Washington Post. As the former Chair of the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Rep. Nadler has also focused much of his career advancing the cause of civil rights. As a staunch supporter of equal rights and a House Vice-Chair of the LGBT Equality Caucus, he led the effort to oppose attempts at writing discrimination into the Constitution in the form of the so-called Federal Marriage Amendment. He has also authored landmark bills that would grant equal access to immigration and Social Security benefits to all Americans, regardless of sexual orientation.