By Urja Mittal and Sarem Gizaw Benjamin Jealous is the current President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He is the youngest person to have led the 104-year-old organization. Earlier in his career, Jealous worked as a journalist for a Mississippi newspaper and served extensively in the non-profit sector. As [...]
By Urja Mittal & Anthony Cruz Joe Trippi is a Democratic campaign consultant who has worked on the presidential campaigns of Edward M. Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, Richard Gephardt, Howard Dean, and John Edwards. He has also done campaign consulting for state and Congressional campaigns, including for Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, and for politicians in foreign countries, such [...]
By: Samuel Ruddy John Bul Dau is one of the Lost Boys of the Sudan and the founder of non-profit organizations that benefit those who are displaced by the conflict in Sudan. Born into a tribe in the southern region of the war-torn Sudan in 1974, Dau had to flee attacks on his village at the age of 8 and [...]
By: Etan Raskas Tamera Luzzatto is the managing director of Government Relations at The Pew Charitable Trusts. She ensures that Pew’s wide range of nonpartisan policy work at the state, federal, and international levels is effectively and accurately communicated to policymakers. Ms. Luzzatto served as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s chief of staff in the U.S. Senate from 2001 [...]
Michael Castle served as the Governor of Delaware from 1985 to 1992 and the U.S. Representative for Delaware’s at-large Congressional district from 1993 to 2011. Your campaign website mentions that you have helped make several improvements in education policy including the areas of early childhood education and school food nutrition. Do you plan to continue working towards education reform? If [...]
Jane Harman is a former Democratic Representative from California. She currently serves as the director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Why did you decided to give up your position in Congress to head the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars? JH: It was a challenge I could not refuse. I was honored to serve in Congress for [...]
Ron Haskins is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he is the Co-Director of the Center on Children and Families, and Budgeting for National Priorities. He was a longtime welfare policy advisor to Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee, and he played a pivotal role in drafting the 1996 Welfare Reform law. After his service in [...]
By: Alexander Kern and Urja Mittal Arianna Huffington is president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group. Born in Greece, she left at age 16 to attend Girton College, Cambridge. She rose to fame as a champion of conservative causes during the 90’s but has since become more liberal. She and several co-founders started The Huffington Post in 2005, [...]
Christopher Lu is President Obama’s Cabinet Secretary, co-chair of the Executive Office of the President, and co-chair of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. He previously served as executive director of the Obama-Biden Transition Project; a legislative director and chief of staff to then-Senator Obama; and deputy chief counsel to the Democrats on the House Oversight [...]
Interview by John Cheo and Michael Soyfer Brooke Gladstone managing editor and co-host of NPR’s and WNYC’s On the Media, has a long history with public radio. After working in print media, she joined NPR in 1987 as senior editor of Weekend Edition with Scott Simon and became senior editor of All Things Considered in 1989. In 1991, she spent a year at Stanford University as [...]
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