Westminster Town Hall Forum

Rajmohan Gandhi - Today's Lost Certainties - 10/05/95 by westminsterforum

Roger Fisher - Iran- What Next? - TBA by westminsterforum

Douglas Edwards has been a broadcaster and journalist since 1948. He is an anchor for award-winning news programs on both radio and television.

Michael DeBakey - Ethical Issues In Cardiovascular Disease - 03/26/87 by westminsterforum

Michael Doris - Rewriting American History - 12/03/92 by westminsterforum

Faith Daniels - Violence Against Women - 07/11/91 by westminsterforum

Frederick Buechner - - 05/18/88 by westminsterforum

Emilio Castro - The Unknown Christ - 04/10/97 by westminsterforum

Jesse Allen - Women On The Front Lines- Meeting The Challenge Of An Aging America - 04/26/93 by westminsterforum

Jonathan Kozol has devoted nearly 25 years to issues of education and social justice. His book Death at an Early Age described his first year as a teacher in the Boston public schools and received the National Book Award in 1986. He later focused on adult literacy, and his subsequent book, Illiterate America, looked at the consequences of having nearly a quarter of the U. S. population unable to r...

Ernest Boyer is the president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He is the former U.S. Commissioner of Education and a former Chancellor of the State University of New York. He is the author of two books, High School and College: The Undergraduate Experience. He is currently working on a policy study on education in children's early years.

Helen Caldicott is the national president of Physicians for Social Responsibility. She is a pediatrician at the Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at Boston Children's Hospital and a former faculty member at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do, and one of the foremost leaders in the anti-nuclear movement.

Isabel Allende is one of Latin America's most celebrated writers and the author of three international bestsellers, The House of Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, and Eva Luna. Born in Lima, Peru, and raised in Chile, she is the niece and goddaughter of Salvador Allende who was the president of Chile until a bloody coup in 1973 took his life. Forced to flee her homeland, Ms. Allende resettled in Venez...

James Comer is a psychiatrist, social scientist, activist and educator. He is a Professor of Child Psychiatry and Director of the School Development Program at Yale University's Child Study Center. Identified as one of the key leaders at the forefront of reforming troubled urban schools, he has gained national prominence for his success in improving the academic performance of high-risk children i...

Jill Conway is a scholar, author, and professor in the fields of history, education, and women's studies. Born in New South Wales, Australia, she received a B. A. from the University of Sydney and a Ph. D. from Harvard University. She was president of Smith College from 1975 to 1985, and since 1985, she has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to numero...

Joyce Brothers is widely-known for helping Americans understand how their emotions influence their lives. She brings her message to America through broadcasts on NBC Radio's program Newsline and as a regular columnist for Good Housekeeping magazine. Her daily column appears in more than 350 newspapers, and her books have been translated into 26 languages.

Maya Angelou is a poet, dancer, historian, and one of America's leading performing artists. She is the author of the book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

Philip Boffey is the science policy correspondent for The New York Times. He recently visited relief camps in Ethiopia and examined the medical effects of the chemical accident in Bhopal, India. He is President of the National Association of Science Writers.

Ramon Cortines has served as chancellor of the New York public school system since 1993. Before accepting this position, he had been Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs in the U.S. Department of Education during the Clinton Administration. In a career spanning more than 30 years, he has taught and held administrative positions in virtually all levels of the public school system. He s...

Reeve Lindbergh Brown - The Lindbergh Heritage, What Do We Do With It Now? - 05/22/85 by westminsterforum

Robert Ballard is the director of the Center for Marine Exploration at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and director and founder of the JASON Foundation for Education. He is a marine scientist and oceanographic explorer, researching advanced deep-water exploration technology to study the ocean floor. He is the author or co-author of over fifty journal articles and scientific papers and is...

Robert Coles is professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities at Harvard Medical School and an award-winning author and editor. He is acclaimed for his ongoing research on how children obtain their political convictions and moral values.

Robert McAfee Brown is professor of Theology and Ethics at the Graduate Theological Union's Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. He has taught at Amherst College, Union Theological Seminary, Macalester College, and Stanford University. In his presentation, he will respond to the issues raised by the Moral Majority and similar movements in America today.

Rollo May is a psychoanalyst, a leader in the existential school of psychoanalysis, and the author of Love and Will, The Courage to Create, and The Meaning of Anxiety , among others. Born in Ohio, he was educated at Oberlin College, Union Theological Seminary, and Columbia University.

Shirley Chisholm has made history throughout her long career of public service. She was elected to Congress in 1969, and for thirteen years, she served on key congressional committees as the first woman and first African American to hold those positions. In 1972, she was the first Black woman to seek the Presidential nomination. She is the author of two books, Unbought and Unbossed, her autobiogra...