Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin
Actor, comedian
Alec Baldwin has appeared in numerous productions on stage, in films and on television. He has received a Tony nomination (A Streetcar Named Desire, 1992) an Oscar nomination (The Cooler, 2004) and has won three Emmy awards, three Golden Globes and seven consecutive Screen Actors Guild Awards as Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on NBC-TV’s 30 Rock. He has been a regular host and guest star on Saturday Night Live. (For his performance on SNL parodying Donald Trump, Baldwin received his third Emmy award in 2017). (1)
Baldwin attended The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards on May 21st, 2018, and presented the American Spirit Award for Citizen Activism in tribute to Robert F. Kennedy to Kerry Kennedy.
Twitter: @AlecBaldwin
(1) Material from Alec Baldwin’s website.
Charles Armstrong
Dr. Charles Armstrong
Professor, academic, historian
Charles Armstrong is The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences in the Department of History at Columbia University. He is the former Director of Columbia’s Center for Korean Research and former Acting Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. (1)
Professor Armstrong is the author, editor or co-editor of five books, including most recently Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950 – 1992 (Cornell University Press, 2013) and The Koreas (Routledge: second edition, 2014). (1)
Dr. Armstrong participated in The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards – May 21, 2018, speaking on foreign affairs and national security with his talk “New Day, New Deal for North Korea?”.
(1) Material from the SOAS University of London website.
Carolyn Maloney
The Honorable Carolyn Maloney
Congresswoman, politician
First elected to Congress in 1992, Carolyn B. Maloney is a recognized national leader with extensive accomplishments on financial services, national security, the economy, and women’s issues.
Rep. Maloney’s career has been a series of firsts. She is the first woman to represent New York’s 12th Congressional District; the first woman to represent New York City’s 7th Councilmanic district (where she was the first woman to give birth while in office); and was the first woman to Chair the Joint Economic Committee, a House and Senate panel that examines and addresses the nation’s most pressing economic issues. Only 18 women in history have chaired Congressional committees. Maloney is the author of Rumors of our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Why Women’s Lives Aren’t Getting any Easier and how we can Make Real Progress for Ourselves and Our Daughters, which has been used as a textbook in women’s studies courses.
Maloney is currently a senior member of both the House Financial Services Committee (where she serves as Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets) and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and the House Ranking House Member of the Joint Economic Committee. In the House Democratic Caucus, she has served as a Regional Whip and as Vice-Chair of the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.
The Common Good has hosted Rep. Maloney on a number of occasions, including on the 2008 Democratic National Convention Panel, at The American Spirit Awards 2011, on a panel for The American Museum of Women’s History, at The Common Good Forum 2017 and at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2018.
Twitter: @RepMaloney
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Ambassador Jan Kickert
Jan Kickert
U.N. Representative of Austria
Ambassador Jan Kickert is the Permanent Representative of Austria at the United Nations. Prior to his appointment, he served in a number of governmental positions including Director General for Political Affairs of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Kickert spoke at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2018.
Mike Espy
the honorable Mike Espy
Politician, former Secretary of Agriculture, former Congressman
Mike Espy was the Secretary of Agriculture under President Bill Clinton and served as a U.S. Representative of Mississippi. (1)
Espy began his political career working in several state government positions. He served as the first black Assistant Secretary of State, managing the Mississippi central legal services division from 1978 to 1980. For the next four years, Espy served as Assistant Secretary of State for the public lands division. From 1984 to 1985, Espy was Assistant State Attorney General for the consumer protection division. Espy also drew national attention within the Democratic Party when he served on the rules committee for the 1984 National Convention. He became a U.S. Representative in 1987 and was re–elected three times. After he won a fourth term in Congress, he was promoted to head the U.S. Department of Agriculture by President Clinton. (1)
Espy spoke at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards, May 21st, 2018, and gave a brief welcome alongside Patricia Duff and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney.
Twitter: @MikeEspyMS
(1) Material from the History, Art, & Archives website for the United States House of Representatives.
Kerry Kennedy
Kerry Kennedy
President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Kerry Kennedy is the president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. For more than thirty years, Ms. Kennedy has devoted herself to the pursuit of equal justice, the promotion and protection of basic rights, and the preservation of the rule of law. She has concentrated specifically on women’s rights, exposing injustices and educating audiences about women’s issues. She has worked in over 60 countries and led hundreds of human rights delegations.
She is the author of Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World, which features interviews with human rights activists including Marian Wright Edelman, the Dalai Lama, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ms. Kennedy is also the author of Being Catholic Now. She appears regularly on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and PBS as well as on networks in countries around the world, and her commentaries and articles have been published in The Boston Globe, The Chicago Sun-Times, L’Unita, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, Marie Claire, The New York Times, El Pais, and the Yale Journal of International Law, among others.
Ms. Kennedy was honored with the American Spirit Award for Citizen Activism, given by Alec Baldwin, at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2018.
Twitter: @kerrykennedyRFK
Bill Schneider
Bill Schneider
Political analyst
Bill Schneider, a leading US political analyst, is a professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He has been a visiting professor at UCLA, Brandeis University, and Boston College. He is the author of Standoff and coauthor, with Seymour Martin Lipset, of The Confidence Gap. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, Politico, Reuters, and National Journal. He was CNN’s senior political analyst from 1990 to 2009. (1)
Schneider attended The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards, May 21st, 2018, and spoke on “Political Landscape: Panel: Future of Elections, Campaigns, & Parties” with Susan Del Percio, John Della Volpe, and former Congressman David Jolly, moderated by John Harwood.
Twitter: @BillSchneiderDC
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(1) Material from Simon & Schuster’s author description.
Ret. Admiral James Winnefeld Jr.
James Winnefeld Jr.
Retired Admiral for the U.S. Military
For 37 years, Admiral James Winnefeld served in the U.S. Army, and was Vice Chairmen of the Joint Chief of Staff from 2011 to 2015.
In 2017, Admiral Winnefeld lost his 17-year-old to the opioid epidemic. Following his loss, he turned tragedy into action and founded the Stop the Addiction Fatality Epidemic (SAFE) Project. Winnefeld continues to dedicate his time to pursuing means of cutting short the growing national catastrophe of opioid addiction and overdose.
Admiral Winnefeld spoke at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2018.
David Hogg
David Hogg
Gun reform activist, Parkland shooting survivor
David Hogg is a survivor of the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. At only 19 years old, he is part of a new generation of student activists and leaders who are fighting for gun reform and an end to senseless gun violence. Hogg, with his peers, is turning tragedy into a growing movement, inspiring millions across the country. He is one of 20 founding members of Never Again MSD, an organization focused on raising awareness about events such as the Stoneman Douglas shooting, genocide, and other civil and human rights issues in order to prevent such atrocities from occurring in the future.
Hogg was awarded the The Changemaker Scholarship for Citizen Activism at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards – May 21, 2018 by Michael Bloomberg,
Twitter: @davidhogg111
Stephen Roach
Stephen S. Roach
Economist
Stephen Roach is a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and a Senior Lecturer at Yale’s School of Management. He was formerly Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm’s Chief Economist for the bulk of his 30-year career at Morgan Stanley, heading up a highly regarded team of economists around the world. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1982, Roach served on the research staff of the Federal Reserve Board and was also a research fellow at the Brookings Institution. Roach’s current teaching and research program focuses on the impacts of Asia on the broader global economy. (1)
Roach has long been one of Wall Street’s most influential economists. His work has appeared in academic journals, books, congressional testimony and has been disseminated widely in the domestic and international media. Roach’s opinions on the global economy have been known to shape the policy debate from Beijing to Washington. (1)
Stephen Roach participated in The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards on May 21st, 2018, giving a talk entitled “The Coming Economic Clash”.
Twitter: @SSRoachUSChina
(1) Material from the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs website.
John Harwood
John Harwood
American journalist
John Harwood is Chief Washington Correspondent for CNBC and a political writer for The New York Times. Harwood hosts the CNBC Digital original video series Speakeasy with John Harwood.
Harwood first joined The St. Petersburg Times, reporting on police, investigative projects, local government and politics. Later he became state capital correspondent in Tallahassee, Washington correspondent and political editor. While covering national politics, he also traveled extensively to South Africa, where he covered deepening unrest against the apartheid regime.
In 1989, Harwood was named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where he spent the 1989-90 academic year. In 1991, he joined The Wall Street Journal as White House correspondent, covering the administration of the George H. W. Bush. Later Harwood reported on Congress. In 1997, he became The Wall Street Journal’s Political Editor and chief political correspondent. While at The Wall Street Journal, Harwood wrote the newspaper’s political column, Washington Wire, and oversaw the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. In March 2006, he joined CNBC as Chief Washington Correspondent.
In addition to CNBC, Harwood offers political analysis on NBC Nightly News and PBS’ Washington Week in Review, among other television and radio programs. Harwood has covered each of the last eight presidential elections.
Harwood was hosted by The Common Good at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2018 and moderated the Midterm Elections Panel at The Common Good in 2014.
Twitter: @JohnJHarwood
Dambisa Moyo
Dr. Dambisa Moyo
Economist, author
Dr. Dambisa Moyo is a pre-eminent thinker, who influences key decision-makers in strategic investment and public policy. She is respected for her unique perspectives, her balance of contrarian thinking with measured judgment, and her ability to turn economic insight into investible ideas.
Dambisa is a Board member of Barclays Bank, Barrick Gold, and Chevron. She holds a PhD in Economics from Oxford, a Masters from Harvard, and is the author of three New York Times bestselling books: Winner Take All: China’s race for Resources and What it Means for the World, How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead, and Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa. Dambisa was named to the list of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World and has published in the Financial Times, WSJ, Barrons, and Harvard Business Review.
Moyo was hosted by The Common Good in 2012: Economist Dambisa Moyo on “Winner Take All: China’s Race for Resources and What It Means for the World”, and in 2018: Why Democracy is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth and How to Fix It: Dambisa Moyo.
Twitter: @dambisamoyo
Steve Coll
Steve Coll
Author, journalist
Steve Coll was appointed Dean of Columbia Journalism School in 2013 after serving as president of New America Foundation from 2007-2013. He joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2005 and continues to write for the publication covering topics such as intelligence, politics, national security, and the media. Coll, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, is the author of eight nonfiction books, a former reporter, foreign correspondent, and senior editor at the Washington Post (1985-2005).
Coll was hosted by The Common Good in 2018: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Steve Coll.
Twitter: @SteveCollNY
Robert Hormats
Robert Hormats
Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates
Robert D. ‘Bob’ Hormats was sworn in as Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs on September 23, 2009. Hormats was formerly Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs (International). He joined Goldman Sachs in 1982. He served as Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary, from 1977 to 1979, and Assistant Secretary of State, from 1981 to 1982, at the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs (now Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs).
He was Ambassador and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative from 1979 to 1981. He served as a senior staff member for International Economic Affairs on the United States National Security Council from 1969 to 1977, where he was senior economic adviser to Henry Kissinger, General Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski. He helped to manage the Nixon administration’s opening of diplomatic relations with China’s communist government. He was a recipient of the French Legion of Honor in 1982 and the Arthur S. Flemming Award in 1974.
Hormats has been a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and served on the Board of Visitors of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and the Dean’s Council of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Mr. Hormats was hosted by The Common Good in April of 2008: The State of the Economy and the Global Outlook, April 10, 2008.
Twitter: @BobHormats
Michael Morell
Michael Morell
Former Acting Director and Deputy Director of the C.I.A.
Michael Joseph Morell is the former Acting Director and Deputy Director of the C.I.A. He worked in the C.I.A. for 33 years. Morell has received multiple awards including the CIA’s highest ranking award, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal. He is also a Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, West Point’s Center on Combating Terrorism, and the Madison Policy Forum. Morell has served as a member of President Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology, and is currently Senior Counselor and the Global Chairman of the Geo-Political Risk Practice at Beacon Global Strategies LLC.
Morell was hosted by The Common Good alongside Jeh Johnson in a Special Discussion with Michael Morell - March 1, 2018.
Twitter: @MichaelJMorell
Alex Witt
Alex Witt
Television news journalist
Alex Witt hosts the MSNBC show Weekends with Alex Witt on Saturdays and Sundays. Since joining the network in 1999, Alex has hosted across both dayside and primetime platforms, as well as reported from the field during Presidential election seasons and overseas. Alex contributes to NBC Nightly News, the Making a Difference series and Today.
In the wake of the September 11th terror attacks on America, Witt broadcasted from the World Trade Center and has continued to follow the war on terrorism in the Middle East and the War in Iraq. Alex is passionate about the issues of equality for women, education and gun control, and she welcomes those discussions on her broadcasts.
Witt moderated the discussion between Sabine Krayenbühl, Zeva Oelbaum, and Mohamad Bazzi in Special Screening of “Letters from Baghdad” and Panel Discussion at The Common Good in 2018, and a Screening and Discussion on "Best of Enemies" with Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville, and Dick Cavett at The Common Good in 2015. She also introduced Patricia Duff at The American Spirit Awards 2015.
Twitter: @AlexWitt
Rob Riemen
Rob Riemen
Founder, President and CEO of the Nexus Institute and Author
Rob Riemen, a European public intellectual and cultural critic, is the founder, president and CEO of the Nexus Institute, a leading international center for philosophical debate and and intellectual discourse. The Nexus Institute was founded in 1994 by Riemen to stimulate intellectual debate in the European tradition of humanism. The Nexus Institute is widely acknowledged for the quality of its insight into contemporary issues and an approach that offers the appreciation of the humanistic culture and philosophy as a counterweight to the dominance of commercial values in today’s society. Riemen has lectured around the world and is also an international best-selling author with a number of critically acclaimed publications.
Riemen spoke at The Common Good in 2018: A Conversation with Rob Riemen, “To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism, and partnered with The Common Good in hosting a conversation on Art and Activism in Amsterdam with Ai Weiwei.
Dana Perino
Dana Perino
Political commentator
Former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino is anchor of The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino and a co-host of The Five on Fox News Channel. She also appears as part of the political and election coverage teams on the Fox News Channel, and has a weekly political podcast, I'll Tell You What with Chris Stirewalt. Prior to this, Dana served for seven years in the administration of President George W. Bush and became the first Republican woman to be named as the White House Press Secretary. Dana joined the Bush Administration following the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001 as a spokesperson at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Perino had her first experience in Washington working for Congressman Scott McInnis (R-CO). She later served as the press secretary for Congressman Dan Schaefer (R-CO). Dana also spent time working at a public relations firm in San Diego.
Her first book, And the Good News Is…, was published in 2015.
The Common Good hosted Dana Perino along with a panel of specialists in January of 2018: “Trump – Year One” Panel.
Twitter: @DanaPerino
Honorary Advisory Board Member: David Frum
David Frum is a writer for The Atlantic, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, and the author or co-author of now ten books. He has begun work on an eleventh, a history of the United States since the end of the Cold War.
Frum has been active in Republican politics since the first Reagan campaign of 1980. From 2001-2002, he served as a speechwriter and special assistant to President George W. Bush. He is credited with helping to create the phrase "axis of evil” in Bush's 2002 State of the Union address. In recent years, Frum has been one of many prominent Republicans to openly criticize Donald Trump as not representing Republican or foundational democracy values.
Frum’s first book, Dead Right, won praise from William F. Buckley as “the most refreshing intellectual experience in a generation” and from Frank Rich in the New York Times as “the smartest book written from the inside about the American conservative movement.” In National Review, John Podhoretz hailed Frum’s history of the 1970s, How We Got Here, as “an audacious act of revisionism, written in a voice and style so original it deserves to be called revolutionary.” Frum’s memoir of his service in the George W. Bush administration, The Right Man, was a New York Times bestseller, as was his 2018 book, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic. His more recent book, Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy looks at the causes of America’s national fragmentation and lays out a plan to restore democracy. Frum has also penned political novels. Arianna Huffington said of Frum’s 2012 novel, Patriots, “Frum is someone who fearlessly speaks his mind, regardless of where the chips may fall, so it’s no surprise he’s able to convey so much truth in his fiction
He is a frequent commentator on MSNBC, CNN, and BBC. From 2014 through 2017, Frum served as chairman of the board of trustees of the leading UK center-right think tank, Policy Exchange.
Frum is the son of prominent Canadian journalist Barabra Frum and of the Canadian businessman and philanthropist, Murray Frum. David Frum holds both BA and MA degrees in history from Yale and a law degree from Harvard, where he served as President of the Federalist Society. He and his wife Danielle Crittenden Frum live in Washington DC and Wellington, Ontario. Danielle is the author of four books and now hosts the popular Femsplainers podcast. They have three adult children.
The Common Good was proud to host Frum as a member in January of 2018 as a participant in our Town Hall at Hunter College, “Trump – Year One” Panel, alongside historian Douglas Brinkley, New York Times columnist Roger Cohen, former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, and political strategist Edward Rollins. Frum currently serves as a member of The Common Good Honorary Advisory Board,
Twitter: @DavidFrum
Selected Media:
China Is a Paper Dragon, Frum, The Atlantic, 2021
The Quiet End of Kazakhstan's Denuclearization Program, Frum, The Atlantic, 2021
America Must Become a Democracy, Frum, The Atlantic, 2021
David Frum Rethinks Conservatism The New York Times, 2020
The turning of David Frum: Why a neoconservative pundit has become a relentless Trump critic National Post, 2018
David Frum Fights the Right The Walrus, 2021
David Frum on The Phoniness of Tucker Carlson on The Bulwark Podcast, with Charlie Sykes, 2021
Roger Cohen
Roger Cohen
New York Times columnist
Roger Cohen joined The New York Times in 1990. He was a foreign correspondent for more than a decade before becoming acting foreign editor on Sept. 11, 2001, and foreign editor six months later.
Since 2004, he has written a column for The International New York Times, formerly known as The International Herald Tribune. In 2009 he was named a columnist of The New York Times.
Mr. Cohen has written Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo, an account of the wars of Yugoslavia’s destruction, and Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis’ Final Gamble. He has also co-written a biography of Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, In the Eye of the Storm. His family memoir, The Girl From Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family, was published in January 2015.
He spoke at The Common Good in January of 2018: “Trump – Year One” Panel and we are excited to have him back at our upcoming event: Athens Democracy Forum.
Twitter: @NYTimesCohen