• 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
Virtual
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.
Virtual
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.
Virtual
Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis
Virtual
Daniel Immerwahr (pronounced IM-mer-var) is an associate professor of history at Northwestern University, where he teaches global history and U.S. foreign relations. His first book, Thinking Small (Harvard 2015), a history of U.S. grassroots antipoverty strategies, won the Organization of American Historians' Merle Curti Award for best work of U.S. intellectual history. His second, How to Hide an Empire, a retelling of U.S. history with the overseas parts of the country included in the story, is a national bestseller. Part of the Boston Public Library’s mission is to support lifelong learning, education and civic engagement that is “Free to All” including programs that bring figures and experts of note into conversation and dialogue. Arc of History: Contested Perspectives is a mini-series informed by historical moments and movements, recent and long past. The series is presented virtually in conjunction with the Lowell Institute and is produced and archived by the WGBH Forum network. For more information, please visit https://forum-network.org/series/history-talks-boston-public-library/.
Boston Public Library - Rabb Lecture Hall
Ambassador Jorge Heine
Virtual
Genernal John R. Allen and Dr. Darrell M. West
Virtual
Ambassador (Ret.) Nicholas Burns, Robert Mauro, Alexandra Vacroux, and Andrew Gray
John F. Kennedy Library
Lucy Hornby, Yasheng Huang, and Anthony Saich
John F. Kennedy Library
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