Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Daniel Scroop is a historian of the United States based at the University of Glasgow in Scotland where he is Director of Research for the School of Humanities and a member of the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies. He writes on the New Deal, American liberalism, and the shifting ideological contours of U.S. history, and is author of Mr Democrat: Jim Farley, the New Deal, and the Making of Modern American Politics, the first book-length study of Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign manager. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a winner of the Constance Rourke Prize of the American Studies Association, and a recipient of the Walter Hines Page Fellowship at the National Humanities Center. 

Scroop completed his undergraduate and postgraduate level studies at the University of Oxford, where her earned his B.A. in 1995 and his D.Phil in 2001. 

During spring 2026, he is a Fulbright Scholar at Emory and Henry University in south-west Virginia, where he is teaching and writing on the place of history in American public life since 1776.

Don Romesburg ’93 is the author of Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School (Rutgers UP, 2025) and editor of the Routledge History of Queer America (2018). As the lead scholar working with advocates to pass the FAIR Education Act, he helped usher LGBTQ content into California's 2016 K-12 History-Social Science Framework and subsequent textbooks. He now trains educators on implementation. For these efforts, he is the namesake of the LGBTQ+ History Association’s Don Romesburg Prize for K-12 Curriculum. Romesburg is also a co-founder of the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco and Managing Editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 

Romesburg earned a Ph.D. in U.S. History with an interdisciplinary emphasis on Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in history from University of Colorado, Boulder, and a history BA from Claremont McKenna College. 

He now serves as Dean of Social Sciences and Fine Arts at Clark College in Vancouver, WA.

Steve Grove '00 is CEO and publisher of the Minnesota Star Tribune. Previously, he was Minnesota’s commissioner of employment and economic development. Before moving back to his home state, Grove built a career in Silicon Valley as an executive at Google and YouTube, most recently as the founding director of the Google News Lab and previously as YouTube’s first head of news and politics.

A graduate of Claremont McKenna College with a Master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School, Grove has written for several national publications and has served as an advisor to the White House and State Department on counter-terrorism strategy. Steve and his wife Mary are the cofounders of Silicon North Stars, a nonprofit that helps underserved youth find career pathways in technology. They are the proud parents of eight-year-old twins, a yellow lab, and two farm cats.

Diane Wagner ‘87 is the executive producer of The Migrant Child Farmworkers – Now High-Profile Professionals^©. After a successful career in market research consulting for Fortune 500 clients, Wagner is now an independent storyteller who is passionate about telling stories that inspire audiences, especially children, to elevate their self-image, better recognize their potential, and gain access to more educational opportunities.

Wagner studied Economics at Claremont McKenna College and subsequently earned her MBA from U.C. Irvine.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Diane Wagner who will be joined by producer Jesse Gift and several individuals featured in the film (Tony Cárdenas, Enrique Diaz, Lisa Ramirez and Dr. Ramon Resa). Brandon Guzmán (a former undocumented migrant child farmworker and featured presenter Xolo Maridueña's manager) may also attend.

This program is co-sponsored by the President’s Office and Open Academy.

SPECIAL SCHEDULE: Film will be screened during dinner starting at 6:20 pm and will be followed by comments from Diane Wagner and audience Q & A.