Contemporary Issues Dialogues 2010
CWC Club House, Wednesdays at 3:30 PM

WEEK 2

Cheryl Dorsey – An accomplished social entrepreneur with expertise in health care, labor issues and public policy, Cheryl Dorsey was named president of Echoing Green in May 2002. She is the first Echoing Green Fellow to lead this global nonprofit, which has awarded more than $28 million in start-up capital to over 450 social entrepreneurs worldwide since 1987. Dorsey received her education at Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges where she earned a degree in history and science in 1985. In 1992, while training to be a pediatrician at Harvard Medical School, she received an Echoing Green Fellowship. With it, she launched the Family Van, a community-based mobile health unit that provides basic health care and outreach services to at-risk residents of inner-city Boston neighborhoods.

WEEK 3

Hussain Haggani – Currently Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani has a wide range of experience as a journalist, diplomat, and adviser to three Pakistani prime ministers, including the late Benazir Bhutto.

WEEK 4

Geoffrey Kemp - Director of regional strategic programs for The Nixon Center.

WEEK 5

Steven Sasson - Digital photography pioneer Steve Sasson is a retired Eastman Kodak Company engineer and winner of multiple honors from consumer electronics groups and photographic societies.

WEEK 6

Jonathan Schnur - CEO and co-founder: New Leaders for New Schools.

WEEK 7

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers - President of the Foundation for Landscape Studies, a not-for-profit organization that aims to “foster an active understanding of the importance of place in human life.”

WEEK 8

Thomas Peterson - Founder of the Center for Climate Strategies, a non-partisan, non-profit organization that helps governments and their stakeholders tackle climate change issues by fostering consensus-based actions through collaboration and advanced technical assistance.

WEEK 9

Theodore Olson - One of the nation's premier appellate and Supreme Court advocates. Olson served as solicitor general under President George W. Bush, from 2001 to 2004.