Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Len Apcar '75, economics editor, The New York Times; Ken Greenberg '75, founder and president, Edge Communications, Inc; Michael Wilner '11, Washington bureau chief, The Jerusalem Post; David Doss '75, senior vice president for news programming, Al Jazeera America; Nicholas Owchar, Jr. '90, director of development communication and content production, CMC; former deputy book editor, Los Angeles Times; Audrey Bilger, associate professor of literature, director, Center for Public Writing and Discourse, CMC; editorial board member, Pickering, Chatto's Gender and Genre series, Burney Journal; co-editor, Here Come the Brides! Reflections on Lesbian Love and Marriage (2012) and co-author of An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (2003); Jeffrey Klein '75 P'08 P'11 P'14; non-executive chairman of the board, 1105 Media, Inc., moderator; "The Future of Journalism and the News Media. Is There One?"

David Misch, comedian, playwright, screenwriter; author, Funny: The Book- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Comedy (2012); "Comedy and Morality"

Susan Wood, associate professor of health policy; executive director, Jacobs Institute of Women's Health, George Washington University; "Women's Health, Health Reform, and the Coverage of Contraception"

Tony Quinn, political consultant; Bob Stern, president, Center for Governmental Studies; Ken Miller,associate professor of government; associate director, Edessa Rose Institute of State and Local Government; co-director, Dreier Roundtable , CMC; author, Direct Democracy and the Courts (2009) and co-editor, The New Political Geography of California (2008), moderator; "California's Choices: 2014 Ballot Initiatives"

Afaa Michael Weaver, 2014 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner; Alumnae Professor of English, director, Zora Neale Hurston Literary Center, Simmons College; author, The Government of Nature (2013) and The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985-2005 (2007); "An Evening with Afaa Michael Weaver"

Jennifer Mattson, journalist, GlobalPost Breaking News; TheAtlantic.com; USA TODAY; The Boston Globe; The Women's Review of Books; and CNN.com; "The Craft of Writing" (12:30 p.m. Parents Dining Room)

Ramona Vosburg, Catholic historian and theologian; Patrick Conroy '72, chaplain, United States House of Representatives; Gary Gilbert, associate professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; author, forthcoming Contested Empires: Roman Propaganda and the Writing of Luke-Acts and editor, The Papers of the Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology (1996); Matthew Tenney '01; Joe Fenton, Catholic chaplain, the Claremont Colleges; moderator; "Pope Francis: Can He Save the Catholic Church?"

Stephen Bullock '88, Governor, Montana; "From CMC to the Governor's Mansion" (12:00 p.m.)

Anne Shen Smith, chairman and CEO, Southern California Gas Company (2012-2014); "The Future of Leadership" (12:00 p.m.)

David Sandalow P'15, Inaugural Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs; United States Under Secretary of Energy (Acting) (2009-2013); author, Freedom from Oil: How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction(2008) and editor, Plug-In Electric Vehicles: What Role for Washington? (2009); "Can the U.S. and China Work Together to Fight Global Warming?"

Robert Schenkkan, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright; author, All the Way: A Play (2012) and The Dream Thief: A Play in Two Acts (1999); "The Great Society: Writing the 1960's in Drama" (12:00 p.m.)

Zachary Courser '99, visiting assistant professor of government; research director, author, "Losing Faith in Elites: The Roots of Protest in the Occupy and the Tea Party Movements" (2012) and "Protest Without a Party: The Tea Party as a Conservative Social Movement" (2012), Dreier Roundtable, moderator; Tyler Finn '17; Chris Gaarder '15; Brad Richardson'15; Claire Goodrich '15; "Dreier Roundtable- Midterm Crossfire: Election Night Panel Discussion"

Dan Nabel, visiting assistant clinical professor of law and interim director, Intellectual Property & Technology Law Clinic, USC Gould School of Law; "Laws of Creativity: An Overview of How Intellectual Property Laws Shape Creativity and Innovation in Our Society" (12:00 p.m.)

Stephen Walt, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; author, Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy (2005) and co-author, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (2007); "Follies and Fiascoes: Why Does U.S. Foreign Policy Keep Failing?"

David Dreier '75, Distinguished Fellow, Brookings Institution; U.S. House of Representatives (R), (CA - 35th, 33rd, 28th, 26th district) (1981-2013); Chairman of the House Rules Committee (1999-2007, 2011-2013); William Antholis, Managing Director, governance studies program, Brookings Institution, moderator; Mike Murphy, political consultant; partner, Revolution Agency; Peter Skerry, professor of political science, Boston College; Nonresident Fellow, governance studies program, Brookings Institution; author, Counting the Census? Race, Group Identity, and the Evasion of Politics (2000) and Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority (1993); Jacob Goldstein, correspondent, NPR, Planet Money podcast host; "Dreier Roundtable: Immigration for the 21st Century" (12:00 p.m.)