EVENTS
FEATURED PRESENTERS
2008 FEATURED SPEAKERS, PANELS & WORKSHOPS
Speakers
Amy
Curtis-McIntyre, Senior Vice President, Brand
Communication, Global Hyatt Corporation
Mitch Kapor, Chair, Open Source
Applications Foundation
Gene Nichol, Professor of Law, UNC Chapel Hill
Workshops & Panels
Organizing without
Organizations
Jerome Armstrong, Founding
Principal, Webstrong Group
Garrett Graff, Editor
at Large, Washingtonian Magazine
Jon Wheeler,
Managing Director, DemocracyInAction
The Constitution in
the 21st Century: Race and Equality
Anurima Bhargava, Director,
Education Practice, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund
Emily Chatterjee,
National Program Law Fellow, American Constitution Society
Kristen Clarke, Co-Director,
Political Participation Group, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund
Transformative Ideas:
Next Great Idea
Kenneth Baer,
Co-Founder and Co-Editor, Democracy
Journal
Jason Bordoff,
Policy Director, The Hamilton
Project
Transforming
Elections: Peer Leaders and Institutions in 2008
Ryan Friedrichs, Executive
Director, Michigan
Voice
Justin Levitt, Counsel, Brennan Center
for Justice at NYU
Transformative
Education: A Conversation with Kaya Henderson
Robin Chait,
Senior Education Analyst, Center for American Progress
Kaya Henderson, Deputy Chancellor,
District of Columbia Public
Schools
The Economy,
Government, and Markets
Jason Bordoff,
Policy Director, The Hamilton
Project
David Stoopler,
Legislative Assistant for Banking and Housing, Office of Senator Charles E. Schumer
Leveraging Emerging
Trends in New Media
Ben Clark, Account
Supervisor, Fleishman-Hillard
Relationship Building
David Burd,
Associate, Arnold and Porter, LLP
How Social Networks are Reshaping Electoral Participation: I Vote
You Vote
Aaron Chatterji, Professor of Management, Fuqua School of Business,
Duke University
Liz Heller, CEO, Buzztone
Chris Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer, Facebook
Barrett Reiff, Vice President, The GROOP
How Technology is Reshaping Democratic Institutions: Open Source
Government
Garrett Graff, Author, The
First Campaign: Globalization, The Web & the Race for the White House
Mitch Kapor, Chair, Open Source Applications Foundation
David Weekly, CEO, Founder and Chairman, PBwiki
Leadership through Enterprise:
Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship
Jose Caballer, Founder and CEO, The GROOP
Blake Mycoskie, Founder, Tom's Shoes
Darnell Strom, Millennium Network Director, Clinton Foundation
Judith Zarin, Board Member, ADI
2007 FEATURED SPEAKERS, WORKSHOPS & PANELS
Speakers
Araceli Ruano, Chief
Executive Officer, ALAS Foundation
Blake Mykoskie, Founder,
TOM's Shoes
David Wilhelm, Founder &
President, Woodland Venture Management
Gene Nichol, President, College of William & Mary
Melissa Fitzgerald,
Actor & Co-Founder, Voices in Harmony
Wendy Carrillo, Host, Power
106 "Knowledge is Power"
William Jefferson Clinton,
42nd President,
United States
Workshops & Panels
Launching and Incubating Ideas
Erica Payne, Founder,
Tesseract
Joey Cheek, Founder,
Where Will We Be?
Jon Schnur, Co-Founder
and CEO, New Leaders, New Schools
Judith Zarin, Former
Producer, ADI Board Member
Justin Krebs, Co-Founder
and Executive Director, Living Liberally
Khalid Reede Jones,
Co-founder and General Counsel, Thrasher Funds
Taz Tagore, Founder,
Reciprocity Foundation
Collaborations & Partnerships
Anil Soni, Executive
Vice President, Clinton
Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative
Declan Kelly, President
& CEO, Financial Dynamics
Michael Madnick,
Senior Vice President, UN Foundation
Priya Berry, Director of Strategy & Business Development, Virgin Unite
Scott Shalett, Principal, Dewey Square Group
Mobilizing Support
Jamal Simmons, President,
New Future Communications
Jed Alpert, Co-Founder
and CEO, Mobile Commons
Joe Eyer, Principal, Dewey Square
Group
Peter Colavito, Political
Director, Local 32BJ, SEIU
Emerging Trends in New Media
Charles Forman, Founder,
iminlikewithyou
Dina Kaplan, COO, Blip.tv
Geronimo Rodriguez,
VP, Diversity & Community Outreach, Seton Family of Hospitals
Michael Bassik, Vice
President/Interactive Marketing, MSHC Partners, Inc.
Peter Greenberger,
Manager, Campaign Team, Google
New & Emerging Media
Angela Sun, Host &
Producer, Current TV
Barrett Reiff, Vice
President of Client Services, THE GROOP
Evan Schumacher,
CEO, Going.com
Roy Sekoff, Founding
Editor, The Huffington Post
Relationship Building: Networking & Finding Allies
Sandra Gonzales-Castro,
International Representative, Service Employees International Union
Empowering Change through Film
Adrian Sexton, Executive
Vice President, Digital, Participant Productions
John Prendergast,
Author, Not on Our Watch: The Mission
to End Genocide in Darfur & Beyond
Melissa Fitzgerald, Actor
& Co-Founder, Voices in Harmony
Ted Braun, Writer &
Director, Darfur Now
Voter Engagement
Jonah H. Goldman, Campaign Director, National Campaign for Fair Elections
Justin Levitt, Counsel, Brennan Center
for Justice at NYU
School of Law
Timothy Killikelly,
Professor of Political Science, City College of San Francisco - Founder &
Coordinator of Mobilizing Democracy
Making Change Your Career
Benjamin Goldhirsh,
Founder & CEO, GOOD
Isabelle Rodriguez,
Executive Director, Boys & Girls Club, North Lake Tahoe - Deputy Assistant
to the President of the United States, the White House '92-95.
Kevin Iwashina, President, The General Media Company
Stephanie S. Streett,
Executive Director, William J. Clinton Foundation
Empower Change in Your Community
Ernesto Rocha, California Dream Act Advocate & Student, UCLA
Gautam Dutta, Deputy
Director, Political Reform Program at the New America Foundation
Jesús Malverde, Socially
Conscious Hip-Hop Artist, Malverde
Wendy Carrillo, Host,
"Knowledge is Power," Power 106 & "Movin' Minds," Movin' 92.3
Transforming Education through
Ecology, Economy & Equity
D'Artagnan Scorza, University of California Regent, UCLA
Michael Cox, Co-Chair, California
Student Sustainability Coalition (CSSC)
Entrepreneurial Leadership
Jonathan Greenblatt, Founder, Ethos Water
Liz Heller, Founder &
CEO, Buzztone, Inc.
Nancy Marmolejo, Founder, Comadre Coaching and Viva Visability
Rafi Musher, Founder & CEO
Stax Inc. - Initiator of New York's Hybrid Tax
