Joanna Coles
Joanna Coles
Author, producer, editor
Joanna Coles is the Executive Producer of ABC Freeform’s The Bold Type. She is the Former Creative Advisor to CBS News, and Former Chief Content Officer of Hearst Magazines where she oversaw the editorial and brand development for 300 global magazines. She sits on the Board of Directors of Snap, Inc!, Density, Blue Mistrel (Frederic Fekkai’s holding company), and Women Entrepreneurs New York City, an initiative to expand female entrepreneurship, with a focus on underserved women and communities. (1)
The British-born editor moved to the U.S. in 1997 as the New York Bureau Chief for The Guardian, before becoming the New York columnist forThe Times of London. Coles joined Hearst in 2006 as editor-in-chief of Marie Claire, where she co-produced the Style Network’s unscripted show Running in Heels. She was named editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, the world’s largest women’s media brand, in 2012. She was the executive producer of the unscripted series So Cosmo on E! in 2017. (1)
Coles participated in The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards on May 21st, 2018, presenting the American Spirit Award for Though Leadership to Fareed Zakaria.
Twitter: @JoannaColes
(1) Material from the Women’s Global Leadership Summit website.
Ana Cabrera
Ana Cabrera
Broadcast journalist, anchor
Ana Cabrera anchors the weekend primetime edition of CNN Newsroom based in New York. Throughout her tenure at CNN, Cabrera has extensively reported on everything from politics, to natural disasters, to mass shootings and more. Cabrera joined CNN as a correspondent in 2013, based in Denver. In 2019 Cabrera was awarded with the National Hispanic Media Coalition Impact Award. Previously she has served on the Board of Directors of Mi Casa Resource Center and on the board of the American Cancer Society. (1)
Cabrera participated at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards on May 21st, 2018, hosting the morning session.
Twitter: @AnaCabrera
(1) Material from the CNN website.
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
American businessman, politician, author, philanthropist
Michael R. Bloomberg is the founder, Bloomberg LP, Bloomberg Philanthropies and 108th Mayor of New York City. He is a media mogul, urban visionary, extraordinary philanthropist, and three-time Mayor of New York. He has shaped our city and the world with many forward-thinking efforts from climate change and gun safety reform, expanded green space, and started a worldwide revolution in tobacco control. In late 2019, Michael Bloomberg announced his 2020 Democratic presidential bid.
Mayor Bloomberg presented David Hogg with the American Spirit Award for Citizen Activism at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards – May 21, 2018.
Twitter: @mikebloomberg
Read more:
Brittany De Lea, ‘Michael Bloomberg lists philanthropic priorities, slams Trump, Congress’, Fox Business, 13 June 2019
Michael Bloomberg, ‘Our Next Moonshot: Saving Earth’s Climate’, Bloomberg, 7 June 2019
Lisa Friedman, ‘Michael Bloomberg Promises $500 Million to Help End Coal’, New York Times, 6 June 2019
Antony Blinken
Antony Blinken
Retired Deputy Secretary of State
Antony Blinken is a retired American government official who served as United States Deputy Secretary of State from 2015 to 2017 and Deputy National Security Advisor from 2013 to 2015 under President Barack Obama. He previously served as a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Democratic Staff Director of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (2002–2008), and a member of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition, active from November 2008 to January 2009, among other positions. From 2009 to 2013 Blinken served as Deputy Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to the Vice President. From 2002 to 2008 he served as the Democratic Staff Director for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From 2001 to 2002, Blinken was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. During the Clinton Administration, Blinken served in the State Department and in senior positions on the National Security Council Staff. On November 7, 2014, President Obama announced that he would nominate Blinken for the Deputy Secretary post, replacing the retiring William Joseph Burns. On December 16, 2014 Blinken was confirmed as Deputy Secretary of State by the Senate by a vote of 55 to 38. He is now a Global Affairs Analyst for CNN and a foreign policy adviser for Joe Biden.
For three decades, Antony Blinken has held senior foreign policy positions and worked closely with two presidents. With greater belligerence from North Korea and Russia, heightened rivalry with China, growing nuclear arsenals, and a rapidly changing Middle East, his expertise is relevant more than ever. Currently, he is the managing director of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. He is also the Herter/Nitze Distinguished Scholar at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and an Opinion writer for The New York Times.
Mr. Blinken was hosted by the Common Good in 2018: The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards – May 21, 2018.
Twitter: @ABlinken
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