Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Mike Madrid has been a nationally recognized political consultant and authoritative voice on Latino voters for three decades. As a pioneer in Latino communications and outreach strategies for state, local, and national political campaigns, Madrid is one of the few consultants who has successfully worked for major campaigns on both sides of the aisle.

In 2020, Madrid co-founded the Lincoln Project, a Republican anti-Trump organization. He served as an adjunct lecturer on Race, Class, and Partisanship at the University of Southern California in Spring 2021. In 2023, he was awarded the Capitol Award by UnidosUS for a lifetime of service dedicated to the Latino community. Currently, Madrid is a Senior Fellow at UC Irvine's School of Social Ecology.

His book, The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy, was published in 2024.

Ryan Ogliore '00 is an associate professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics from Claremont McKenna College and received his Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology. His graduate research was in cosmic ray astrophysics and he currently uses various micro-analytical techniques to study extraterrestrial samples from all over the Solar System. He has worked on several past, current, and future NASA missions in planetary science, heliophysics, and astrophysics. He is a member of the Planetary Science Advisory Committee that advises NASA on its scope, priorities, and implementation of its planetary science programs.

Helena Bottemiller Evich '09 is the founder and editor-in-chief of Food Fix, a publication about food policy in Washington and beyond. She previously led food and agriculture coverage at POLITICO for nearly a decade, winning numerous awards, including two James Beard Awards and a George Polk Award, one of the most prestigious honors in journalism. Her 2022 investigation on the FDA's dysfunctional food program and groundbreaking reporting on the infant formula crisis helped fuel one of the biggest reorganizations in FDA’s history.

Before launching POLITICO’s food coverage, Helena was a Washington correspondent for Food Safety News, covering deadly outbreaks and the run-up to Congress passing the biggest update to food safety law in nearly a century.

Evich is a sought-after speaker and commentator on food issues, appearing on CNN, PBS, CBS, BBC and NPR, among others. Her work is widely cited in the media and has also been published in the Columbia Journalism Review and on NBC News.

Ms. Evich’s talk is part of the Roberts Environmental Center’s Sustainable Food Initiative 2024-2025.

Jonathan Gienapp is Associate Professor of History and Associate Professor of Law at Stanford University.  He specializes in the constitutional, political, legal, and intellectual history of the early United States. His primary focus to date has been the origins and development of the U.S. Constitution, in particular the ways in which Founding-era Americans understood and debated constitutionalism across the nation's early decades. His historical interests intersect with modern legal debates over constitutional interpretation and theory, especially those centered on the theory of constitutional originalism.

His first book, The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era, rethinks the conventional story of American constitutional creation by exploring how and why founding-era Americans’ understanding of their Constitution transformed in the earliest years of the document’s existence. His second book, Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique, presents a comprehensive historical critique of originalism. It argues that recovering Founding-era constitutionalism on its own terms fundamentally challenges originalists' unspoken assumptions about the U.S. Constitution and its original meaning. Gienapp has lectured widely on the U.S. Constitution and the American Founding era. 

Professor Gienapp's lecture is part of the 2024-2025 Lofgren Program on American Constitutionalism at CMC's Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World. His lecture is also supported by the Jack Miller Center.

As a first-generation, non-traditional, and justice-impacted student of color from a low socioeconomic upbringing, Ruben Piñuelas uses his academic success as advocacy to reframe how institutions view and treat individuals with similar backgrounds. A widely requested speaker, Piñuelas has given talks at law schools, universities, and conferences, sharing his lived experiences with the criminal justice system's most complex failures in hopes that it can shed light on solutions that are even harder to identify. He plans to continue advocating for change in the legal system and the courtroom as a trial attorney, a civil rights litigator, and one day sitting on the bench as a judge.

Piñuelas currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Michigan Law Review and was named as an SEO Law Fellow & Catalyst Scholar, California ChangeLawyers Next Gen 1L Scholar, JD Advising Scholar, UCLA Law Fellow, White & Case SEO Mentee, and Legal Education Access Pipeline (LEAP) Fellow. He is an Executive Board Member of the National Justice Impact Bar Association and a member of Exonerated Nation and the National Organization of Exonerees. Piñuelas regularly works with Loyola Law School’s Project for the Innocent, the Michigan Innocence Clinic, and other Innocence Project organizations across the country. He is a recipient of the Anjan Choudhury Memorial Scholarship and numerous other generous scholarships that have fully funded his legal education.

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Dean Logan is the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk for Los Angeles County, California -- the nation’s largest, most diverse local election jurisdiction serving more than 5.7 million registered voters. In addition to election administration, his office records real property documents; maintains vital records; performs civil marriage ceremonies; and processes business filings.

He holds degrees in Organizational Leadership from Azusa Pacific University and a Master of Public Administration from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington.

Mr. Logan is currently President of the County Recorders Association of California, past-President of the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials and serves on the Board of Directors for the National Election Center. Additionally, he is Vice President for the United States on the Board for the American Conference of Subnational Electoral Organizations for Electoral Transparency (CAOESTE).

Mr. Logan sits on Advisory Boards for the Electoral Psychology Observatory at the London School of Economics, the MIT Election Data and Science Lab, Auburn University’s Graduate Certificate in Election Administration, University of California Riverside’s Design Thinking Executive Program, and the California State University, Northridge Master of Public Administration Program where he teaches courses on Organizational Leadership, Public Sector Management, Intergovernmental Relations, and Strategic Management.

Mr. Logan's Athenaeum presentation is co-sponsored by the Kravis Lab for Civic Leadership.