PAST EVENTS
The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2017
The Common Good Forum assembled some of the brightest thinkers in the US for a dynamic overview of our rapidly changing landscape. We put the spotlight on public policy choices and exciting developments affecting us all – making the nation and the world safer, creating shared economic prosperity, and bolstering our democratic values.
The Common Good Forum assembled some of the brightest thinkers in the US for a dynamic overview of our rapidly changing landscape. We put the spotlight on public policy choices and exciting developments affecting us all – making the nation and the world safer, creating shared economic prosperity, and bolstering our democratic values.
WOMEN’S BREAKFAST
Felicia Taylor – Moderator
One Woman Posts – The World Responds
Presentation of American Spirit Award for Citizen Activism by Silda Wall Spitzer to Teresa Shook, who inspired the Women’s March
Remember the Women!
Building the Women’s History Museum
Special report from Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, and Congressional Commissioners Jane Abraham, Mary Boies & Emily Rafferty
Empowering Women – What’s Next?
Remarks by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand followed by Q&A
POLITICS AND PRESS
Press Under Fire – Panel
Steven Brill – Moderator – Journalist, Author, Founder, American Lawyer & CourtTV
Floyd Abrams, First Amendment expert
Elizabeth Spayd, Public Editor, New York Times
John Podhoretz, Editor, Commentary Magazine
Protests, Populism, & New Political Landscape – Panel
Ari Melber – Moderator – Chief Legal Correspondent, MSNBC
Shaunna Thomas, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, UltraViolet
David Burstein, CEO & Co-Founder of Run for America
Max Read, Senior Editor, New York Magazine
THE ECONOMY
New Era of Global Trade
Marc Busch, US Trade Expert; Int’l Business Diplomacy, Georgetown University; former advisor to Marco Rubio’s Presidential Campaign
Economic Investment Environment
Seth Masters, Chief Investment Officer, Bernstein Global Wealth Management
GLOBAL THREATS & OPPORTUNITIES
Jim Hoge – Moderator
China – N. Korea
Orville Schell – Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.- China Relations, Asia Society
France – Europe
Ambassador Jane Hartley – Former US Ambassador to France
Presentation of American Spirit Award for Distinguished Public Service
Senator John McCain – Senator for Arizona, Awardee
Chele Chiavacci Farley – Presentation of Award – Managing Director, Mistral Capital International
ECONOMY - THE BIG PICTURE
Growing the Economy and Jobs – Comments on the Trump Agenda
Omeed Malik – Moderator – Managing Director, Global Head of Capital Strategy, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Anthony Scaramucci – Founder, SkyBridge Capital, President Trump Transition Team
GLOBAL THREATS & OPPORTUNITIES
Introduction
Jonathan Tepperman – Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs Magazine
Homeland Security in the Trump Years
Secretary Jeh Johnson, former Secretary of Homeland Security
Presentation of American Spirit Award for Distinguished Public Service
Secretary John Kerry, former Secretary of State
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Special Screening of “Disturbing the Peace”
The Common Good and Felicia Taylor presented a private screening and dinner for the extraordinary documentary, “Disturbing the Peace.”The screening was followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Steve Apkon and Marcina Hale, and members of Combatants for Peace.
The Common Good and Felicia Taylor presented a private screening and dinner for the extraordinary documentary, Disturbing the Peace. The screening was followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Stephen Apkon and Marcina Hale, and members of Combatants for Peace.
Disturbing the Peace follows a group of former enemy combatants - Israeli soldiers from the most elite units, and Palestinian fighters, many of whom served years in prison - who have come together to challenge the status quo and say "enough". The film traces their transformational journeys from soldiers committed to armed battle to non-violent peace activists. It is a story of the human potential unleashed when we stop participating in a story that no longer serves us, and how the power of our convictions to take action can create new possibilities.
Stephen Apkon is a filmmaker and social entrepreneur. He is the Founder and former Executive Director of the Jacob Burns Film Center, a non-profit film and education center located in Pleasantville, NY. Opened in 2001, the JBFC has become one of the premier film institutions in the United States, with a Board of Directors that includes Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and Jonathan Demme among others. Disturbing the Peace is his directorial debut.
Marcina Hale is co-founder of Reconsider. With degrees in both Media and Psychotherapy, it is part of Marcina’s vision to utilize film as a catalyst to create experiences that evoke thought and conversations that both challenge and inspire a way of relating to live more dynamically. In her roles as master therapist and dynamic facilitator, she conducts workshops that challenge and inspire others to live their lives more consciously and to take responsibility for their own creations.
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The Common Good has been hosting events since 2006 that cover important issues of today, highlighting speakers who have worked to bolster our democracy and can provide great insight on the issues that matter.