Westminster Town Hall Forum

Donna Shalala - A Conversation With Secretary Donna Shalala - 04/27/95 by westminsterforum

Deborah Prothrow-Stith is a nationally recognized expert on teen violence and the assistant dean for Government and Community Programs at Harvard University's School of Public Health. She is the author of the first violence-prevention curriculum for schools and of the critically-acclaimed book, Deadly Consequences: How Violence Is Destroying Our Teenage Population and a Plan to Begin Solving the P...

Dean Rusk is professor of International Law at the University of Georgia. He served as U. S. Secretary of State from 1961-1969 and is a former president of the Rockefeller Foundation. He now serves as an advisor to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency at the State Department.

Curtis and Lisa Sliwa are the founders of New York City's Guardian Angels. For the Guardian Angels, citizen involvement is the key to controlling crime in any community. They challenge traditional law-enforcement tactics and advise citizens to learn to defend themselves. Today, more than 5,000 Guardian Angels volunteers patrol subways, city streets, and suburban shopping malls in a number of Ameri...

Cornel West - The Politics Of Race In America - 10/13/94 by westminsterforum

Christine Vladimiroff - Hunger In The Land Of Plenty: A Paradox - 02/25/93 by westminsterforum

Wilma Mankiller was the first woman elected Principal Chief by the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma in a historic tribal election in 1987. She was re-elected in 1991. Her roots are deeply planted in the rural community of Rocky Mountain in Adair County, Oklahoma. She is committed to the empowerment of people at the local level, to rural development, and to the concept of community self-help. She is dev...

Alan Page - The Student Athlete - 02/25/82 by westminsterforum

Ashley Montagu - To Die Young - As Late As Possible - 03/24/88 by westminsterforum

Sanford Ungar is a journalist with long experience in sub-Saharan Africa and the author of The People and Politics of an Emerging Continent. Noting the cultural gap between the Arab north and the rest of the continent, he is an observer and interpreter of the multi-faceted changes within the African continent and the African nations' relationship to the United States.

Dr Martin E. Marty - The Larger Vision In American Religion - 05/29/82 by westminsterforum

Abraham Verghese was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and came to the U.S. in 1973. He attended medical school at East Tennessee State University, then accepted a position at Boston City Hospital conducting research. In 1985, he returned to Tennessee as an assistant professor at East Tennessee State University School of Medicine. In his role as an infectious disease specialist, he witnessed firsthan...

Jim Wallis is a public theologian, political activist, author and international commentator on ethics and public life. He is president and CEO of Sojourners, a network of people committed to spiritual renewal and social justice, and editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine. He teaches at Georgetown University and recently served on the White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Par...

Andrew Bacevich is an historian, expert on national security, and former professor of International Relations and History at Boston University. Before serving on the faculty at Boston University, he taught at Johns Hopkins University and his alma mater, West Point. He holds a Ph. D. in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. After serving in the U. S. Army in Vietnam, Germany, and t...

Jennifer Lawless is a professor of government at American University where she also serves as the director of the Women and Politics Institute. An expert on electoral politics, she received her Ph. D. in political science from Stanford University. She is the author of several books, including Becoming a Candidate: Political Ambition and the Decision to Run for Office; It Still Takes a Candidate: W...

Patrick Kennedy served in the U.S. House of Representatives for sixteen years and is the son of Senator Ted Kennedy. While serving in Congress, he authored dozens of bills aimed at increasing the understanding and treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders. In particular, he was the lead sponsor of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, which provided access to mental...

Dan Buettner is an explorer, educator, three-time world record holder for endurance bicycling, and the founder of Blue Zones, an organization committed to helping Americans live longer, healthier, and happier lives. He teamed with National Geographic and the world's best longevity researchers to identify lifestyle choices in specific parts of the globe where people live measurably longer lives. Th...

Tavis Smiley is an author, publisher, social justice advocate, and host of the late-night PBS television talk show, Tavis Smiley, and the public radio program, The Tavis Smiley Show. He has written or edited eighteen books, including The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto, co-authored with Cornel West; My Journey with Maya, a memoir of his friendship with Maya Angelou; Death of a King, a...

Pete Docter is a film director, animator, screenwriter, and voice actor at Pixar Animation Studios. He contributed to the story and characters of Toy Story, Pixar's first full-length animated feature film, and served as the supervising animator for the film. He wrote story treatments for Toy Story 2 and Wall-E and directed Monsters, Inc., Up, and his latest release, Inside Out. He has been nominat...

Pavel Litvinov is a leading Soviet intellectual, scientist, and dissident leader who was forced out of the Soviet Union for his activism on behalf of human rights and political prisoners. He is the grandson of Maxim Litvinov, Stalin's Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the United States.

C. Everett Koop began his appointment as Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service in 1982. Previously, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services and as surgeon-in-chief at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia. As surgeon general, he oversees the activities of the 7,200-member Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. In keeping with...

Jean Kilborne - How Freed Is Our Press? The Truth About Censorship - 12/07/95 by westminsterforum

Craig Kielburger became aware of the problem of child labor and the exploitation of children after reading a newspaper article about the death of a 12-year-old boy from Pakistan. At age four, Iqbal Masih was sold into slavery and shackled to a loom to make carpets. When he was ten, he escaped, and at twelve, he was murdered. Shocked by the differences in their lives, Craig researched the issue of...

Harold Kushner is the author of the bestselling book When Bad Things Happen to Good People. His current book, When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough, continues the effort to bring a theological perspective to modern life. The book was recently awarded the Christopher Medal for its "contributions to the exaltation of the human spirit." A native of Brooklyn, New York, and a graduate of Columbia Un...

Bob Keeshan - Growing Up In America - 10/24/85 by westminsterforum