Media Archive
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July 2nd, 2008--
Dr. Mia Bloom is an assistant professor of international and public affairs at the University of Georgia at Athens. An expert on international terrorism, Bloom is the author of Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror (2005), and has discussed terrorism and ethnic conflict on “Nightline,” “News Hour with Jim Lehrer,” CNN, MTV, and Fox News.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=248
LOCATION: Athens, GA
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July 2nd, 2008--
Laura R. Olson is professor of political science at Clemson University. Her research focuses on contemporary religion, civic engagement, and American politics, with special emphasis on the religious left and the political attitudes and behaviors of clergy. She is currently working on a new book on the Protestant left in American politics.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=605
LOCATION: Clemson, SC
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July 2nd, 2008--
Malou Innocent is a Foreign Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute, specializing in China’s military expansion and Asian security issues. Her articles on China’s military have appeared in publications such as Asia Times Online, the San Francisco Chronicle, United Press International, and WashingtonPost.com.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=620
LOCATION: Washington, D.C.
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July 2nd, 2008--
Samina Ahmed is a Director at the International Crisis Group, focusing on international military intervention in Afghanistan. She has written and commentated extensively on the impact of a military presence on the rate of terrorism and level of stability in Afghanistan, and has briefed international governments on military relations in the region.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=408
LOCATION: Islamabad, Pakistan
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June 30th, 2008--
Nichole Argo is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at MIT. Her recent work as a journalist and research consultant for the United States Institute for peace led her to Israel and the Palestinian territories, interviewing would-be suicide bombers and their communities.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=247
LOCATION: Cambridge, MA
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June 30th, 2008--
Lisa Schirch is the Director of the 3D Security Initiative. Her work in Africa has focused on negotiation and military diplomacy, as well as military-civilian relations and development within African states. She has appeared on Fox News, NPR, and the Washington Post, and is the author of “Civilian Peacekeeping: Reducing Violence and Making Space for Democracy.”
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=292
LOCATION: Washington, D.C.
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June 30th, 2008--
Sherri Goodman is the general counsel at the Center for Naval Analyses Corporation, where she recently led a project focusing on the national security implications of climate change. As former Deputy UnderSecretary of Defense, Goodman served as the chief environmental, safety, and occupational health officer for the Department of Defense.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=317
LOCATION: Alexandria, VA
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June 30th, 2008--
Mara Rudman is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. Prior to joining the CAP, Rudman served as a deputy national security advisor to President Clinton, where she was involved in Middle East peace efforts as part of her role in coordinating and directing activities within the National Security Council. As former chief counsel to the House International Relations Committee, Rudman managed committee and floor action on legislation related to the Middle East peace process.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=270
LOCATION: Washington, D.C.
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June 27th, 2008--
Muadi Mekenge is an expert on women’s health and rights in Africa. Ms. Mukenge is currently the program officer for Africa at The Global Fund for Women, an international network of women and men who advocate for and defend women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups around the world.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=301&qsn=Africa
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA
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June 27th, 2008--
Known for her research prowess and strategic acumen, Beth Schapiro is a nationally recognized expert on campaign strategy and public affairs. With over 30 years of experience in the field, she has developed campaign strategy for successful candidates for all levels of office throughout the Southeast.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=636
LOCATION: Atlanta, GA
Lisa Witter is a political strategist, blogger and co-author of The SheSpot: Why Women are the Secret to Changing the World and How to Reach Them. She is also COO of Fenton Communications, the country’s biggest public interest communications firm.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=220
LOCATION: New York
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June 27th, 2008--
Helga West is co-founder, president and chief executive officer of Witness Justice, a national nonprofit organization working to fill gaps in victim services for survivors of violent crime across the United States. She understands that violent crime impacts not just the victim, but friends, family members, co-workers, and others. Through Witness Justice, she works tirelessly to identify gaps, serve victims, and create innovative programs to address the wide range of victim needs.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=516&qsn=crime
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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June 27th, 2008--
Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and professor of political science in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego. She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea, and North Korea.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=521&qsn=South%20Korea
LOCATION: La Jolla, CA
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June 25th, 2008--
Nichole Argo is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at MIT. Long-interested in ethnic mobilization and violence, Ms. Argo previously lived and worked in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Rwanda. She holds a Masters Degree in International Policy Studies (Conflict and Security Emphasis) from Stanford University, and a certificate in Peace Studies from the University of Oslo.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=247
LOCATION: Cambridge, MA
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June 25th, 2008--
Known for her research prowess and strategic acumen, Beth Schapiro is a nationally recognized expert on campaign strategy and public affairs. With over 30 years of experience in the field, she has developed campaign strategy for successful candidates for all levels of office throughout the Southeast.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=636
LOCATION: Atlanta, GA
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June 25th, 2008--
Leslie Crocker Snyder is currently a partner at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP. In 2005 she was a candidate for Manhattan District Attorney. After leaving the New York County District Attorney's Office, Leslie Crocker Snyder was named the Chief of Trials at the Office of the Special Prosecutor against Corruption.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=219
LOCATION: New York, NY
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June 25th, 2008--
Helena Cobban is a writer and internationally syndicated columnist on global affairs. She also is a Contributing Editor of Boston Review, where her recent articles have included lengthy essays, incorporating interviews along with analysis, on Lebanon's Hezbollah, on Hamas in Palestine, and on the July 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=385
LOCATION: Virginia
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June 18th, 2008--
Professor Naomi Chazan is Head of the School of Government and Society at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo. She completed three terms as a Member of Knesset on behalf of the Meretz (Democratic Israel) party in February, 2003. During her parliamentary career (l992-2003) she served as Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, and as a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee (concentrating on issues of the peace process and Israel’s foreign relations). She also has authored and edited eight books on comparative politics and written numerous articles on Arab-Israeli relations, Israeli politics, African politics, and women and politics.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=363
LOCATION: Jerusalem, IS
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June 18th, 2008--
Marcela Donadio is the Southwest Sub-Area Energy Industry Leader and Americas Oil & Gas Sector Leader for Ernst & Young, a global professional services firm that provides auditing, accounting, tax, and transactions services for clients in 140 countries. As Americas Oil & Gas Sector Leader, she is responsible for leading one of the firm’s most well-established and highest revenue-generating industry groups. In this capacity, she manages more than 60 partners and 500 professionals serving oil and gas companies throughout the United States, Canada, and Central and South America.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=594
LOCATION: Houston, TX
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June 18th, 2008--
Belinda Cooper is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute, where she co-founded the Program on Citizenship and Security, and an adjunct professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs. Cooper teaches and lectures on human rights and international law, especially as related to the current “war on terror.” She has worked with the lawyers for Murat Kurnaz, a German of Turkish origin imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba until 2006, and visited Guantanamo briefly in 2004.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=556
LOCATION: New York, NY
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June 18th, 2008--
Michelle Turk has worked as a freelance journalist and editor for fifteen years, primarily covering women’s health issues for consumer magazines and web sites. Turk recently published her first book, Blood, Sweat and Tears: An Oral History of the American Red Cross (2006). Her involvement with the Red Cross began in 1987, when she worked as a disaster specialist for the American Red Cross in Greater New York, coordinating volunteers to work on local and large-scale disasters.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=512
LOCATION: Greenwich, CT
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June 16th, 2008--
Teresa Hall Bartels is the President and Chief Executive Officer of United Way International. In that capacity, she works with volunteers and professionals from around the world, building community capacity for a better quality of life. Prior to her current position, Bartels was a United Way professional for nearly ten years. She became the Associate Regional Director for the Mid-America Region, United Way of America, in 1982. In that capacity, she was responsible for volunteer training and support services for more than 500 local United Way organizations in 14 states.
BIO:http://uwint.org/devfinal/about/bios/teresa.html
LOCATION: Alexandria, VA
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June 16th, 2008--
Dr. Kimberley Marten is professor and chair of the Political Science Department at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is an expert on international security issues, including the use of U.S. and NATO military forces in peace enforcement and stability operations (such as those in the Balkans and Afghanistan). She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=557&qsn=afghanistan
LOCATION: New York, NY
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June 16th, 2008--
Carah Ong joined the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation as a Policy Analyst in July 2006. She currently maintains Iran Nuclear Watch, a blog that provides news, analysis and resources on Iran’s nuclear program and US-Iran relations.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=403&qsn=iran
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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June 16th, 2008--
Debra Callahan is the president of the League of Conservation Voters (LCV). The League of Conservation Voters is the only national organization devoted full-time to shaping a pro-environment congress and White House. Callahan is nationally recognized as an expert on politics and the environment, appearing regularly on television and in print, including such programs as PBS' "The Newshour with Jim Lehrer", MSNBC’s "Hardball with Chris Matthews", Fox News’ "The O’Reilly Factor" and "Hannity and Colmes", as well as on CNN.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=169&qsn=environment%20congress
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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June 13th, 2008--
Ann Lee is an expert on financial derivatives and the global financial system. With a decade of experience on Wall Street, she worked through both boom and bust cycles and has traded almost every type of fixed income financial security, ranging from convertible bonds to credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations that have fueled the recent rise and fall of subprime lending. She understands and can explain with clarity how these bubbles were created, where current problems lie, the magnitude of the problems, economic and political implications of these problems, and what needs to happen to correct them.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=593
LOCATION: New York, NY
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June 13th, 2008--
Muadi Mekenge is an expert on women’s health and rights in Africa. Ms. Mukenge is currently the program officer for Africa at The Global Fund for Women, an international network of women and men who advocate for and defend women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups around the world.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=301&qsn=Africa
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA
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June 13th, 2008--
Morra Aarons is the Political Director of BlogHer.com as well as an Independent Democratic Political Consultant and a blogger. Morra Aarons specializes in online political campaigns and blogging, and in particular, on mobilizing women online for political campaigns and activist projects. During the 2004 Presidential Election, Morra was the Director of Internet Marketing for the Democratic National Committee, where she oversaw online fundraising, online organizing and marketing. Previously, she worked in the same capacity at the Kerry-Edwards campaign
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=617
LOCATION: Cambridge, MA
Lisa Witter
is a political strategist, blogger and co-author of The SheSpot: Why Women are the Secret to Changing the World and How to Reach Them. She is also COO of Fenton Communications, the country’s biggest public interest communications firm.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=220
LOCATION: New York
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June 13th, 2008--
Frances Moore Lappe, author and Co-Founder of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, Center for Living Democracy, wrote Diet for a Small Planet, which awakened a whole generation to the human-made causes of hunger and the significance of our everyday choices. She sits on the advisory council of the Union of Concerned Scientists
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=396
LOCATION: New York
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June 11th, 2008--
Rachel Bronson is a nationally recognized expert on U.S. national security and foreign policy toward the Middle East, with an emphasis on political strategy in the Persian Gulf and Iraq. Dr. Bronson joined The Chicago Council on Global Affairs in January 2007 as Vice President, Programs and Studies. Prior to that, she served as Senior Fellow and Director, Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=223
LOCATION: Chicago, IL
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June 11th, 2008--
Annette Nellen, CPA, Esq. is a professor at San José State University teaching graduate-level tax courses. She is also a Fellow with the New America Foundation where she focuses on California tax reform. She is a frequent speaker and author on tax policy matters, tax reform, e-commerce taxation and high technology tax issues.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=580
LOCATION: San Jose, CA
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June 11th, 2008--
Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and professor of political science in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego. She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea, and North Korea.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=521&qsn=South%20Korea
LOCATION: La Jolla, CA
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June 11th, 2008--
Teresa Hall Bartels is the President and Chief Executive Officer of United Way International. In that capacity, she works with volunteers and professionals from around the world, building community capacity for a better quality of life. Prior to her current position, Bartels was a United Way professional for nearly ten years. She became the Associate Regional Director for the Mid-America Region, United Way of America, in 1982. In that capacity, she was responsible for volunteer training and support services for more than 500 local United Way organizations in 14 states.
LOCATION: Alexandria, VA
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June 9th, 2008--
Marcela Donadio is the Southwest Sub-Area Energy Industry Leader and Americas Oil & Gas Sector Leader for Ernst & Young, a global professional services firm that provides auditing, accounting, tax, and transactions services for clients in 140 countries. Donadio has more than 31 years of domestic and international audit and accounting experience, serving all facets of the energy industry.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=594
LOCATION: Houston, TX
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June 9th, 2008--
Since 2002 Dr. Johanna Mendelson-Forman has served as Senior Program Officer for Peace, Security, and Human Rights at the UN Foundation. For over a decade, Dr. Mendelson has worked to develop a network of organizations in Latin America concerned with improving civil-military relations and good governance.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=332
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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June 9th, 2008--
Deborah DeShong Reed is a veteran communicator with experience in strategic planning and crisis communications. She has held high level communications positions in the private sector, on Capitol Hill, in state and national political campaigns, and in the media.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=454
LOCATION: Panama City, FL
Lisa Witter is a political strategist, blogger and co-author of The SheSpot: Why Women are the Secret to Changing the World and How to Reach Them. She is also COO of Fenton Communications, the country’s biggest public interest communications firm. Ms. Witter is a seasoned public speaker on the political, nonprofit and philanthropic circuits on politics, social change and communications for organizations such as the Women's Funding Network and Campaign for America's Future.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=220
LOCATION: New York, NY
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June 9th, 2008--
An expert on energy efficiency national and international policy, Kateri Callahan is the president of the Alliance to Save energy, one of the world’s premier nonprofit organizations promoting energy efficiency. Callahan oversees the Alliance’s key mission of promoting energy efficiency worldwide to achieve a healthier economy, a cleaner environment, and greater energy security.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=273
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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June 4th, 2008--
Lisa Witter is a political strategist, blogger and co-author of The SheSpot: Why Women are the Secret to Changing the World and How to Reach Them. She is also COO of Fenton Communications, the country’s biggest public interest communications firm. Ms. Witter is a seasoned public speaker on the political, nonprofit and philanthropic circuits on politics, social change and communications for organizations such as the Women's Funding Network and Campaign for America's Future.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=220
LOCATION: New York, NY
Margie Omero is President of Momentum Analysis, LLC, a Democratic public opinion research firm based in Washington, DC. Momentum Analysis provides quantitative and qualitative research for Democratic campaigns and progressive causes. Her clients have included the DNC, the DLCC, EMILY’s List, Gubernatorial races, Congressional campaigns, state parties, labor unions, and nonprofits around the country. Margie blogs about the intersections of gender and polling at Pollster.com
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=332
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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June 4th, 2008--
Lael Brainard is Vice President and Founding Director of the Brookings Global Economy and Development Program. As the US Sherpa to the G8, she helped shape the 2000 G8 Development Summit that for the first time included leaders of the poorest nations and laid the foundations for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=446
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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June 4th, 2008--
An expert on energy efficiency national and international policy, Kateri Callahan is the president of the Alliance to Save energy, one of the world’s premier nonprofit organizations promoting energy efficiency. Callahan oversees the Alliance’s key mission of promoting energy efficiency worldwide to achieve a healthier economy, a cleaner environment, and greater energy security.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=273
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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June 4th, 2008--
Muadi Mekenge is an expert on women’s health and rights in Africa. Ms. Mukenge is currently the program officer for Africa at The Global Fund for Women, an international network of women and men who advocate for and defend women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups around the world.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=301
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA
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June 2nd, 2008--
Ilana Goldman is president of Women’s Campaign Forum (WCF). WCF is a nonpartisan 501(c)(4) membership organization dedicated to ensuring that pro-choice women become leaders in politics. Ms. Goldman has also worked with numerous political leaders including former Presidential advisor David Gergen, former Senator Alan Simpson and New York City Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=520
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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June 2nd, 2008--
Samina Ahmed oversees Crisis Group’s work in Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Nepal. Together with our analysts throughout the region, she prepares reports on the political, social, economic and military factors that increase the risks of extremism, internal conflict and war, and she makes policy recommendations to overcome these threats.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=408
LOCATION: Islamabad, Pakistan
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June 2nd, 2008--
Patricia Monahan is the deputy director for the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Clean Vehicles Program. She specializes in transportation energy issues, and is currently working to reduce global warming pollution from cars and fuels in California. Patricia also has expertise in reducing harmful diesel pollution from trucks, buses, and heavy equipment. She has worked on federal and state legislation to fund cleaner school buses, and well as regulations to reduce diesel pollution.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=455
LOCATION: Berkeley, CA
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June 2nd, 2008--
Kennette Benedict is the Executive Director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Before joining the Bulletin in October 2005, she had been the Director of International Peace and Security at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, where she also served as Senior Advisor to the President. She is an expert on nuclear weapons policy, and can speak generally about science, technology and security, including aspects of biological weapons, and nuclear energy. She is also knowledgeable about general issues of international peace and security, including peacekeeping, regional conflicts, and U.S. foreign policy.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=445
LOCATION: Chicago, IL
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May 30th, 2008--
An expert on energy efficiency national and international policy, Kateri Callahan is the president of the Alliance to Save energy, one of the world’s premier nonprofit organizations promoting energy efficiency. Callahan oversees the Alliance’s key mission of promoting energy efficiency worldwide to achieve a healthier economy, a cleaner environment, and greater energy security.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=273
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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May 30th, 2008--
Margie Omero is President of Momentum Analysis, LLC, a Democratic public opinion research firm based in Washington, DC. Momentum Analysis provides quantitative and qualitative research for Democratic campaigns and progressive causes. Her clients have included the DNC, the DLCC, EMILY’s List, Gubernatorial races, Congressional campaigns, state parties, labor unions, and nonprofits around the country. Margie also blogs about the intersections of gender and polling at Pollster.com.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=332
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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May 30th, 2008--
Daphne Wysham is a Fellow and board member of the Institute for Policy Studies, founder and director of the Sustainable Energy & Economy Network, a project of IPS, and founder and co-host of Earthbeat Radio: The Climate Crisis Broadcast, which airs in 21 states nationwide. Her research and writings on climate change, international financial institutions, oil, coal, human rights, carbon trading, and corporate crimes have appeared in local, national and international media.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=371&qsn=coal
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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May 30th, 2008--
A former deputy national security advisor to President Clinton on Middle Eastern affairs, Mara Rudman is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress as well as founder and senior partner at Quorum Strategies, LLC. She also has been a counselor, vice president, and general counsel to The Cohen Group on Middle Eastern affairs. She monitored the Palestinian elections in 2005.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=270
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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May 28th, 2008--
Professor Naomi Chazan is Head of the School of Government and Society at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo. She completed three terms as a Member of Knesset on behalf of the Meretz (Democratic Israel) party in February, 2003. During her parliamentary career (l992-2003) she served as Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, and as a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee (concentrating on issues of the peace process and Israel’s foreign relations). She also has authored and edited eight books on comparative politics and written numerous articles on Arab-Israeli relations, Israeli politics, African politics, and women and politics.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=363
LOCATION: Jerusalem, IS
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May 28th, 2008--
Deborah England is a civil rights attorney in San Francisco, California, with a private practice focusing on employment discrimination, sexual harassment and family and medical leave law. For the past 21 years, England has represented individuals challenging illegal actions by some of the largest corporate and governmental employers in the country.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=496
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA
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May 28th, 2008--
Dee Dee Myers is the first woman and youngest person ever to serve as White House Press Secretary. During the first years of the Clinton Administration, Ms. Myers explained the actions of the new president to a vigilant press corps and to the nation. Since leaving the white house, Ms. Myers has worked as a political analyst, commentator and writer. She is uniquely qualified to comment on the complex dynamics at work in the relationship between the president and the press.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=315
LOCATION: Washington, DC
Debra DeShong Reed is a veteran communicator with experience in strategic planning and crisis communications. She has held high level communications positions in the private sector, on Capitol Hill, in state and national political campaigns, and in the media.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=454
LOCATION: Panama City, FL
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May 28th, 2008--
Dr. Kimberly Marten is professor and chair of the Political Science Department at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is an expert on international security issues, including the use of U.S. and NATO military forces in peace enforcement and stability operations and the politics and security of the post-Soviet space, including both military issues, and Russian efforts to use energy investments to regain control in post-Soviet Central Asia.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=557
LOCATION: New York, NY
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May 23rd, 2008--
Anne Richard is Vice President, Government Relations & Advocacy of the International Rescue Committee. . She is a former fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Robert Bosch Foundation and is on the boards of the Henry L. Stimson Center, the US Global Leadership Campaign and Americans for Informed Democracy.
BIO: http://www.theglobalist.com/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=297
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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May 23rd, 2008--
Jane Swift, former Massachusetts Governor, is the founder of WNP Consulting, LLC, providing expert advice and guidance to early stage education companies. Swift remains actively involved in politics by serving on the Board of Directors of It’s My Party Too (IMP-PAC), and in advisory board capacities with the Republican Majority for Choice, the WISH List, and the Berkshire County Republican Association.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=355
LOCATION: Boston, MA
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May 23rd, 2008--
Anita Dancs is research director of the National Priorities Project. She researches and writes on the federal budget especially as it pertains to national security issues. Much of her recent work has focused on the budgetary costs of the Iraq War, military recruiting, homeland security, and energy security.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=417
LOCATION: Northampton, MA
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May 23rd, 2008--
Violet Woodhouse, one of the leading authorities on divorce, is an author, educator, speaker and attorney. Ms. Woodhouse is also a member of the Professionalism & Ethics Committee of the Orange County Bar Association, and the association's Family Law and Tax Law Sections. Ms. Woodhouse is also a regular speaker for the OCBA, and serves as a Judge Pro Tem for Orange County's Family Law Court.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=418&qsn=family%20law
LOCATION: Newport Beach, CA
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May 21st, 2008--
Margie Omero is President of Momentum Analysis, LLC, a Democratic public opinion research firm based in Washington, DC. Momentum Analysis provides quantitative and qualitative research for Democratic campaigns and progressive causes. Her clients have included the DNC, the DLCC, EMILY’s List, Gubernatorial races, Congressional campaigns, state parties, labor unions, and nonprofits around the country. Margie also blogs about the intersections of gender and polling at Pollster.com.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=332
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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May 21st, 2008--
Naomi Chazan is Head of the School of Government and Society at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo. As a member of Knesset on behalf of the Meretz (Democratic Israel) party in 2003, she served as Deputy Speaker and as a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee (concentrating on issues of the peace process and Israel's foreign relations).
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=363
LOCATION: Jerusalem, Israel
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May 21st, 2008--
Marcela Donadio is the Southwest Sub-Area Energy Industry Leader and Americas Oil & Gas Sector Leader for Ernst & Young, a global professional services firm that provides auditing, accounting, tax, and transactions services for clients in 140 countries. Donadio has more than 31 years of domestic and international audit and accounting experience, serving all facets of the energy industry.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=594
LOCATION: Houston, TX
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May 21st, 2008--
Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning New York-based journalist and commentator and an international lecturer on Arab and Muslim issues. Ms Eltahawy was a news reporter in the Middle East for many years, including in Cairo and Jerusalem as a correspondent for Reuters and she reported from the region for The Guardian and U.S. News and World Report.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=467&qsn=Lebanon
LOCATION: New York, NY
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May 19th, 2008--
Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and professor of political science in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego. During 1997-2000, Dr. Shirk served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=521
LOCATION: La Jolla, CA
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May 19th, 2008--
A creative and respected media brand-builder and visionary, Erica Gruen is a recognized leader in television, advertising, and new media technologies. She is a management consultant specializing in providing integrated business advice to media and entertainment companies such as Microsoft, Pearson Digital Learning, the Comcast Networks, and many others.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=614
LOCATION: New York, NY
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May 19th, 2008--
Pauline Baker is President of The Fund for Peace, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that is dedicated to preventing war and alleviating the conditions that cause conflict. She won a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to conduct research in Southern Africa and became a specialist in the U.S. response to countries in political transition.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=296&kwd=South%20Africa
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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May 19th, 2008--
Jane Swift, former Massachusetts Governor, is the founder of WNP Consulting, LLC, providing expert advice and guidance to early stage education companies. Swift remains actively involved in politics by serving on the Board of Directors of It’s My Party Too (IMP-PAC), and in advisory board capacities with the Republican Majority for Choice, the WISH List, and the Berkshire County Republican Association.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=355
LOCATION: Boston, MA
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May 16th, 2008--
Sarah Tobias is a Senior Policy Analyst in the Democracy program at Demos. Formerly a consultant to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute, Tobias is the co-author of Family Policy: Issues Affecting Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Families. Her forthcoming book on LGBT family policy will be published by the University of Michigan Press.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=341
LOCATION: New York, NY
Kate Kendell is the Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Prior to joining the NCLR, Kendell argued many high-profile LGBT cases as a civil liberties litigator. She is a nationally recognized spokesperson for LGBT rights, and a frequent contributor to media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Advocate, NPR, and CNN.
BIO: http://www.nclrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=About_Staff_KateKendell
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA
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May 16th, 2008--
Carol Boggert has been the Associate Director of Human Rights Watch since June 2003, overseeing the organization’s external relations, publicizing the work of Human Rights Watch and drawing attention to human rights issues in more than 70 countries.
BIO: http://www.hrw.org/about/bios/cbogert.htm
LOCATION: New York, NY
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May 16th, 2008--
Stacy Bannerman is the author of WHEN THE WAR CAME HOME: The Inside Story of Reservists and the Families They Leave Behind and a charter Board member of Military Families Speak Out, the first and largest organization of military families to actively protest a war that their loved ones are fighting. In 2006, she testified before the House Appropriations Sub-Committee on Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs (the only anti-war activist to do so), and has met with over 60 Senators and Congressmen, calling for an end to the war in Iraq, improved veteran and family benefits, and comprehensive post-combat mental health care.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=630
LOCATION: Fife, WA
Laura MacCleery is Director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division. She is dedicated to improving access to civil justice for consumers and to producing a more ethical and sound government with public financing of elections and other reforms.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=586
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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May 16th, 2008--
Muadi Mekenge is an expert on women’s health and rights in Africa. Ms. Mukenge is currently the program officer for Africa at The Global Fund for Women, an international network of women and men who advocate for and defend women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups around the world.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=301&qsn=Africa
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA
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May 14th, 2008--
Ilana Goldman is president of Women’s Campaign Forum (WCF). WCF is a nonpartisan 501(c)(4) membership organization dedicated to ensuring that pro-choice women become leaders in politics. Ms. Goldman has also worked with numerous political leaders including former Presidential advisor David Gergen, former Senator Alan Simpson and New York City Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=520
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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May 14th, 2008--
Dechen Tsering is the Program Officer for Asia & Oceania at The Global Fund for Women, an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice. In addition, Dechen has worked for the Trace Foundation, which promotes the cultural continuity and sustainable development of Tibetan communities within China, and has a strong activist background.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=519
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA
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May 14th, 2008--
Naomi Chazan is Head of the School of Government and Society at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo. As a member of Knesset on behalf of the Meretz (Democratic Israel) party in 2003, she served as Deputy Speaker and as a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee (concentrating on issues of the peace process and Israel's foreign relations).
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=363
LOCATION: Jerusalem, Israel
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May 14th, 2008--
Jodi Enda is a Washington-based reporter with more than two decades of experience covering U.S. politics and government. She covered the White House, congress and presidential politics for Knight Ridder Newspapers, and was a national correspondent based in Washington for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=176
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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May 12th, 2008--
Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea, and North Korea.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=521
LOCATION: La Jolla, CA
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May 12th, 2008--
Lael Brainard is Vice President and Founding Director of the Brookings Global Economy and Development Program. As the US Sherpa to the G8, she helped shape the 2000 G8 Development Summit that for the first time included leaders of the poorest nations and laid the foundations for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=446
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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May 12th, 2008--
Debra DeShong Reed is a veteran communicator with experience in strategic planning and crisis communications. She has held high level communications positions in the private sector, on Capitol Hill, in state and national political campaigns, and in the media.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=454
LOCATION: Panama City, FL
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May 12th, 2008--
Lisa Danetz is an Attorney with Demos' partner organization National Voting Rights Institute (NVRI), working primarily in conjunction with the Democracy Program's NVRA Implementation Project.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=334
LOCATION: Boston, MA
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May 9th, 2008--
Phyllis Bennis is a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, and Director of its New Internationalism Program. She is also a Fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. Her areas are U.S. foreign policy, including U.S.- United Nations relations.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=368&qsn=United%20Nations
LOCATION: Washington DC
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May 9th, 2008--
Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning New York-based journalist and commentator and an international lecturer on Arab and Muslim issues. Ms Eltahawy was a news reporter in the middle east for many years, including in Cairo and Jerusalem as a correspondent for Reuters and she reported from the region for The Guardian and U.S. News and World Report.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=467
LOCATION: New York
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May 9th, 2008--
Arnie Arnesen is a radio and TV personality, a regular political analyst on Iowa public radio, a guest host on Air America, and host of NH's newest political show, Political Chowder which airs on commercial cable station/WZMY TV every Sunday morning at 11am (www.politicalchowder.com). Arnie previously hosted an award winning political show, Capital Ideas on WNDS TV. She is a regular analyst on New England Cable News and occasionally appears on TV Ontario. Her political knowledge was earned in the trenches. She began her political career in 1984 when she was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=527
LOCATION: Hopinkton, NH
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May 9th, 2008--
Marcela Donadio is the Southwest Sub-Area Energy Industry Leader and Americas Oil & Gas Sector Leader for Ernst & Young, a global professional services firm that provides auditing, accounting, tax, and transactions services for clients in 140 countries. Donadio has more than 31 years of domestic and international audit and accounting experience, serving all facets of the energy industry.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=594
LOCATION: Houston, TX
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May 7th, 2008--
Lisa Witter is a political strategist, blogger and co-author of The SheSpot: Why Women are the Secret to Changing the World and How to Reach Them. She is also COO of Fenton Communications, the country’s biggest public interest communications firm.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=220
LOCATION: New York
Margie Omero is President of Momentum Analysis, LLC, a Democratic public opinion research firm based in Washington, DC. Momentum Analysis provides quantitative and qualitative research for Democratic campaigns and progressive causes. Her clients have included the DNC, the DLCC, EMILY’s List, Gubernatorial races, Congressional campaigns, state parties, labor unions, and nonprofits around the country. Margie blogs about the intersections of gender and polling at Pollster.com
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=332
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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May 7th, 2008--
Cathy Skoula became Executive Director of ACF-USA on May 2, 2005, the first American-born officer appointed to the position. Most recently she was country director for ACF-France's program in Myanmar where she conducted an exploratory mission leading to the opening of a base in Wa-controlled areas of Shan State.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=295&qsn=Myanmar
LOCATION: New York
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May 7th, 2008--
Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker joined Pacific McGeorge School of Law as its eighth dean in 2002. Her fields of expertise include national security and terrorism, international relations, public policy and trade, technology development and transfer, commerce, and civil rights and liberties litigation. She has argued successfully twice before the Supreme Court of the United States.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=330
LOCATION: California
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May 7th, 2008--
A former deputy national security advisor to President Clinton on Middle Eastern affairs, Mara Rudman is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress as well as founder and senior partner at Quorum Strategies, LLC. She also has been a counselor, vice president, and general counsel to The Cohen Group on Middle Eastern affairs. She monitored the Palestinian elections in 2005.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=270
LOCATION: Washington DC
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May 5th, 2008--
Liz Ann Sonders is chair of the investment strategy council of Charles Schwab, one of the world’s largest brokerage firms. The investment strategy council defines broad asset allocation guidelines for the firm’s investor base. As chair, Sonders’ responsibilities range from market analysis and tactical asset allocation to economic strategy for individual, corporate and institutional investors.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=197
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA
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May 5th, 2008--
Kristin A. Goss is an assistant professor of public policy studies and political science at Duke University. Her research focuses on why people do (or don’t) participate in political life and how their participation or non-participation affects public policymaking. At Duke, she is working with Professor Joel Fleishman to expand our understanding of philanthropic foundations' impact on public policy.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=585&ste=NC
LOCATION: Durham
Celinda Lake is president of Lake, Snell, Perry, Mermin & Associates (LSPMA), one of the nation’s leading public opinion and political strategy firms. A leading Democratic Party strategist, Lake has served as a tactician and senior advisor to the national party committees, and dozens of Democratic incumbents and challengers at all levels of the electoral process. Lake oversaw focus group research for the Clinton/Gore campaign and served as a general consultant throughout the campaign. She is also credited with identifying key voter groups, including Reagan seniors, NASCAR dads, waitress moms, the marriage gap and generation D. She is also regarded as one of the nation's foremost experts on electing women candidates and on framing issues for women voters.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=183
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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May 5th, 2008--
Dr. Nora Bensahel is a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation, specializing in military strategy and doctrine. Her recent publications include "Mission Not Accomplished: What Went Wrong With Iraq Reconstruction," The Counterterror Coalitions, and The Future Security Environment in the Middle East.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=298
LOCATION: Washington, DC
Helena Cobban is a writer and internationally syndicated columnist on global affairs. She has contributed a regular column to The Christian Science Monitor since 1990: it covers a broad range of global issues including strategic affairs, human rights, peace-building, global governance, and international justice. She has maintained a weblog called "Just World News" since February 2003 at www.justwordnews.org. She is a Contributing Editor of Boston Review, where her recent articles have included lengthy essays, incorporating interviews along with analysis, on Lebanon's Hizbullah, on Hamas in Palestine, and on the July 2006 war between Israel and Hizbullah.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=385
LOCATION: Virginia
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May 5th, 2008--
Dechen Tsering is the Program Officer for Asia & Oceania at The Global Fund for Women, an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice. She is fluent in Tibetan, Hindi, Nepali, Newari and English.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=519
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA
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May 2nd, 2008--
Caty Clement, as Central Africa Program Director, steers Crisis Group's activities in the Great Lakes, overseeing research and managing staff members. Together with the Africa Program Director and the program's analysts, she guides the research, analysis, policy prescriptions and advocacy activities relating to the Central Africa region.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=409
LOCATION: Nairobi, Kenya
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May 2nd, 2008--
Dechen Tsering is the Program Officer for Asia & Oceania at The Global Fund for Women, an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice. Prior to joining the Global Fund, Dechen has worked for the Trace Foundation, which promotes the cultural continuity and sustainable development of Tibetan communities within China , and has a strong activist background. She is fluent in Tibetan, Hindi, Nepali, Newari and English.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=519
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA
Elizabeth Economy, is the director of Asia Studies and the C.V. Starr senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Economy is a noted expert on relations between China and the U.S., Chinese domestic and foreign policy and global environmental issues.
LOCATION: New York
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=175&qsn=China
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May 2nd, 2008--
As Director of the Economic Opportunity Program, Tamara Draut oversees Demos' research, policy and advocacy work on economic security issues. Tamara is author Strapped: Why America's 20 and 30 Somethings Can't Get Ahead, published by Doubleday in January 2006. Strapped offers a groundbreaking look at the new obstacle course facing young adults-the under 35 crowd-as they try to build careers, buy homes and start families.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=335.
LOCATION: New York, NY
Karen L. Murrell is a Senior Research Fellow in the Asset Building Program of the New America Foundation and the founder and president of Higher Heights Consulting and Training, a privately held firm located in Silver Spring, Maryland. In 2003, Murrell wrote “Increasing Access to Affordable and Appropriate credit.”
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=582.
LOCATION: Silver Spring, MD
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May 2nd, 2008--
Frances Moore Lappe, author and Co-Founder of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, Center for Living Democracy, wrote Diet for a Small Planet, which awakened a whole generation to the human-made causes of hunger and the significance of our everyday choices. She sits on the advisory council of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
LOCATION: New York
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=396
Christine Ahn is a policy analyst who writes and speaks frequently on human rights, poverty, hunger, trade, and globalization.. She is currently a Fellow with the Korea Policy Institute (www.kpolicy.org) and the Oakland Institute (www.oaklandinstitute.org). After obtaining her Masters in Public Policy from Georgetown University, she was awarded a Ford Foundation New Voices Fellowship with the Institute for Food and Development Policy.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=376&qsn=Food
LOCATION: California
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April 30th, 2008--
Laura R. Olson is professor of political science at Clemson University. Her research focuses on contemporary religion, civic engagement, and American politics, with special emphasis on the religious left and the political attitudes and behaviors of clergy. She is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of seven books, including Religious Interests in Community Conflict: Beyond the Culture Wars (Baylor University Press, 2007); Women with a Mission: Religion, Gender, and the Politics of Women Clergy (University of Alabama Press, 2005); Religion and Politics in America: Faith, Culture, and Strategic Choices (Westview Press, 2004); Christian Clergy in American Politics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001); and Filled with Spirit and Power: Protestant Clergy in Politics (State University of New York Press, 2000).
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=605&cat=10
LOCATION: Clemson, SC
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April 30th, 2008--
Liz Ann Sonders is chair of the investment strategy council of Charles Schwab, one of the world’s largest brokerage firms. The investment strategy council defines broad asset allocation guidelines for the firm’s investor base. As chair, Sonders’ responsibilities range from market analysis and tactical asset allocation to economic strategy for individual, corporate and institutional investors.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=197
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA
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April 30th, 2008--
Kimberly Marten is professor and chair of the Political Science Department at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is an expert on international security issues, including the use of U.S. and NATO military forces in peace enforcement and stability operations (such as those in the Balkans and Afghanistan), and Russian foreign policy. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=557
LOCATION: New York, NY
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April 30th, 2008--
Rachel Bronson is a nationally recognized expert on U.S. national security and foreign policy toward the Middle East, with an emphasis on political strategy in the Persian Gulf and Iraq. Dr. Bronson joined The Chicago Council on Global Affairs in January 2007 as Vice President, Programs and Studies. Prior to that, she served as Senior Fellow and Director, Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=223
LOCATION: Chicago, IL
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April 28th, 2008--
Liz Ann Sonders is chair of the investment strategy council of Charles Schwab, one of the world’s largest brokerage firms. The investment strategy council defines broad asset allocation guidelines for the firm’s investor base. As chair, Sonders’ responsibilities range from market analysis and tactical asset allocation to economic strategy for individual, corporate and institutional investors.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=197
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA
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April 28th, 2008--
Rachel Bronson is a nationally recognized expert on U.S. national security and foreign policy toward the Middle East, with an emphasis on political strategy in the Persian Gulf and Iraq. Dr. Bronson joined The Chicago Council on Global Affairs in January 2007 as Vice President, Programs and Studies. Prior to that, she served as Senior Fellow and Director, Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=223
LOCATION: Chicago, IL
Dr. Nora Bensahel is a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation, specializing in military strategy and doctrine. Her recent publications include "Mission Not Accomplished: What Went Wrong With Iraq Reconstruction," The Counterterror Coalitions, and The Future Security Environment in the Middle East.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=298
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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April 28th, 2008--
Michele Turk has worked as a freelance journalist and editor for fifteen years, primarily covering women’s health issues for consumer magazines and web sites. She published her first book, Blood, Sweat and Tears: An Oral History of the American Red Cross in 2006. The book tells the story of the modern-day Red Cross through the voices of twenty-nine current and former Red Cross paid staff and volunteers from all parts of the country.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=512
LOCATION: Greenwich, CT
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April 28th, 2008--
Frances Moore Lappe, author and Co-Founder of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, Center for Living Democracy, wrote Diet for a Small Planet, which awakened a whole generation to the human-made causes of hunger and the significance of our everyday choices. She sits on the advisory council of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
LOCATION: New York
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=396
Christine Ahn is a policy analyst who writes and speaks frequently on human rights, poverty, hunger, trade, and globalization.. She is currently a Fellow with the Korea Policy Institute (www.kpolicy.org) and the Oakland Institute (www.oaklandinstitute.org). After obtaining her Masters in Public Policy from Georgetown University, she was awarded a Ford Foundation New Voices Fellowship with the Institute for Food and Development Policy.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=376&qsn=Food
LOCATION: California
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April 25th, 2008--
Carah Ong joined the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation as a Policy Analyst in July 2006. Before joining the Center, she worked for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation as its Advocacy and Research Director from 1999-2006, including opening and serving as the Director of the Foundation’s Washington DC office from 2005-2006.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=403
LOCATION: Washington, DC
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April 25th, 2008--
Dechen Tsering is the Program Officer for Asia & Oceania at The Global Fund for Women, an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice. Prior to joining the Global Fund, Dechen has worked for the Trace Foundation, which promotes the cultural continuity and sustainable development of Tibetan communities within China , and has a strong activist background. She is fluent in Tibetan, Hindi, Nepali, Newari and English.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=519
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA
Elizabeth Economy, is the director of Asia Studies and the C.V. Starr senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Economy is a noted expert on relations between China and the U.S., Chinese domestic and foreign policy and global environmental issues.
LOCATION: New York
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=175&qsn=China
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April 25th, 2008--
Jane Swift, former Massachusetts Governor, is the founder of WNP Consulting, LLC, providing expert advice and guidance to early stage education companies. In 1990 she was elected to the Massachusetts Senate, becoming the youngest woman to serve in that body. In 1998, she was elected Lieutenant Governor and in 2001 she became Massachusetts’ first woman Governor. Swift currently serves on Senator McCain's campaign as his National Education Adviser.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=355
LOCATION: Boston, MA
Former Congresswoman Patricia Scott Schroeder is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Association of American Publishers. Mrs. Schroeder left Congress undefeated in 1996 after representing Colorado’s First Congressional District (Denver) in the United States House of Representatives for 24 years. For a brief period of time in 1986, she considered running for President but withdrew for lack of funds despite the fact that she ranked third in a Time magazine poll.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=312
LOCATION: New York, NY
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April 25th, 2008--
Caty Clement, as Central Africa Program Director, steers Crisis Group's activities in the Great Lakes, overseeing research and managing staff members. Together with the Africa Program Director and the program's analysts, she guides the research, analysis, policy prescriptions and advocacy activities relating to the Central Africa region.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=409
LOCATION: Nairobi, Kenya
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April 23rd, 2008--
Nichola D. Gutgold is associate professor of speech communication at Penn State University, Lehigh Valley Campus. Dr. Gutgold is author of paving the Way for Madam President (Lexington Press, 2006). The book chronicles the lives of Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Patricia Schroeder, Elizabeth Dole and Carol Moseley Braun. The book considers the prospects of a woman president and examines the bids of the five women who ran for president of the U.S. between the years 1964-2004.
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=479&ste=PA
LOCATION: Fogelsville, PA
Morra Aarons is the Political Director of BlogHer.com as well as an Independent Democratic Political Consultant and a blogger. Morra Aarons specializes in online political campaigns and blogging, and in particular, on mobilizing women online for political campaigns and activist projects. During the 2004 Presidential Election, Morra was the Director of Internet Marketing for the Democratic National Committee, where she oversaw online fundraising, online organizing and marketing. Previously, she worked in the same capacity at the Kerry-Edwards campaign
BIO: http://www.shesource.org/shesource/expert.php?source_id=617
LOCATION: Cambridge, MA
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April 23rd, 2008--
Nichole Argo is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at MIT. Long-interested in ethnic mobilization and violence, she previously lived and worked in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Rwanda. She holds a Masters Degree in International Policy Studies (Conflict and Security