Dr. Victor Cha is Senior Vice President and the inaugural holder of the Korea Chair at Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He is professor of government and holds the D.S. Song-KF Chair in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University. He left the White House in 2007 after serving since 2004 as Director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council (NSC). Dr. Cha was also the deputy head of delegation for the United States at the Six-Party Talks in Beijing and received two outstanding service commendations during his tenure at the NSC. Dr. Cha received his Ph.D. in political science at Columbia University in 1994, his Master’s in international affairs from Columbia in 1988, an M.A. with honors in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University (Hertford College), and an A.B. in economics from Columbia in 1979.
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Panelists: Monica Cannon-Grant, the CEO and founder of Violence In Boston Inc., a nonprofit working to improve the quality of life and life outcomes of individuals from disenfranchised communities by reducing the prevalence of violence and the impact of associated trauma. Kai Grant, the founder of Black Market along with her husband Christopher, creating Nubian Square’s first flexible cultural event spaces with a signature artisan marketplace. She now manages Black Market’s programming, which focuses on reigniting Roxbury’s creative economy. Moderator: Malia Lazu, founder of the Lazu Group, is an award winning, tenured strategist in diversity & inclusion who sparked deep economic development and investment in urban entrepreneurship. She sits on the boards of Revolutionary Spaces.
Old South Meeting House
Eddie Bautista is an accomplished leader who, over decades, has made a major impact on climate and environmental justice policy and activism. Bautista has a B.A. from New York University, an M.S. in City and Regional Planning from Pratt Institute and was a Revson Fellow at Columbia University. For more information on the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, visit www.nyc-eja.org. Dilshanie Perera is the Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow in Climate and Inequality at The Climate Museum, and can be found at www.dilshanieperera.com. For more information on public programs at The Climate Museum, please sign up for their newsletter here.
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Dr. Lina Benabdallah
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• Bonnie Perkins, Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement Engineer, Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems • Miriam Lansky, Continuous Improvement Manager, Olympus Corp. • Sarah Donovan, CEO and President, I. G. Marston Co., Inc. • Mariana McCormick, Vice President, Business Development, MassDevelopment Moderator: Cristina Gutierrez, Communications Officer, Women in Manufacturing (WIM) Massachusetts’ Chapter and, PTC University Technical Instructor
Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
Payton Knopf of USIP Dr. Karen Young of AEI Ambassador Robert Loftis as moderator
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Ambassador Harry K. Thomas Jr. is a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and a Senior Strategic Engagement Leader at Special Operations Command. He served as ambassador to Zimbabwe (2016-2018), the Philippines (2010-2013) and Bangladesh (2003-2005). He retired in March 2018 with the rank of Career Minister after more than three decades in the Foreign Service. Ambassador Thomas also served as Executive Secretary and Special Assistant to Secretary Rice, Director General of the Foreign Service, Director for South Asia at the National Security Council and Director of the Operations Center.
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Lisa Haugaard, the co-director of the Latin America Working Group, has spearheaded advocacy on human rights and peace issues in Latin America for two decades. She directs advocacy on Colombia, Central America, development and military aid and policy and coordinates coalition campaigns with U.S. and Latin American partners. Lisa has testified multiple times before the U.S. Congress and produced reports on human rights topics. She has participated in international human rights verification missions in Colombia, Mexico and Central America, including on human rights defenders, migrant rights, extrajudicial executions, peace accord implementation, and electoral observation.
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Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis
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