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Lester
Brown
 Lester Brown is an environmental and economics analyst who devotes
his time to solving environmental issues around the world. He has written
over 50 books on global environmental issues such as Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing
to Save Civilization, and Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the
Earth. He has also authored several book series and e-series and has
published articles in numerous magazines and journals. He is affiliated
with over 35 different environmental organizations. In 1974, he founded
the World Watch Institute and, in 2001, the Earth Policy Institute.
Brown
earned a degree in Agricultural Science from Rutgers University in
1955. Following his graduation
he spent
six months in India, living
among the rural population and studying the food/population crisis.
He has a Masters Degree in Agricultural Economics from the University
of Maryland and in Public Administration from Harvard. He has served
as an advisor to the Secretary of Agriculture and was appointed Administrator
of the Department’s International Agricultural Development Service.
The
Washington Post has called Lester “one of the world’s
most influential thinkers.” The Telegraph of Calcutta refers
to him as “the guru of the environmental movement.” The
Library of Congress notes his writings to “have already strongly
affected thinking about problems of world population and resources.”
Brown
has received numerous awards, including: 23 honorary degrees, a MacArthur
Fellowship, the 1987
United Nations’ Environment
Prize, the 1989 World Wide Fund for Nature Gold Medal, and the 1994
Blue Planet Prize. Recently he was awarded the Presidential Medal of
Italy, the Borgstrom Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture
and Forestry, and appointed an honorary professor of the Chinese Academy
of Sciences.
Hillary Brown
 As
a former design director and Assistant Commissioner at New York
City's Department of Design and Construction, Hillary Brown
founded its Office of Sustainable Design. She was managing editor
of
the nationally and internationally recognized City of New York
High
Performance Building Guidelines, co-author of the U.S. Green
Building Council's State and Local Green Building Toolkit,
and author of
Implementing High Performance Buildings. Additionally, she
envisioned and has co-authored the just-released High Performance
Infrastructure:
Best Practices for the Public Right-Of-Way for New York City
and the Design Trust for Public Space.
Ben Cohen
 Co-Founder
Of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. Ben and Jerry have
been recognized for fostering their company’s commitment to social
responsibility by the Council on Economic Priorities, which awarded
them the Corporate Giving award in 1988 for donating 7.5 percent of
their pre tax profits to nonprofit organizations through the Ben & Jerry’s
Foundation, and by the U.S. Small Business Administration, which
named them U.S. Small Business Persons of the Year in 1988 in
a White House
ceremony hosted by President Reagan.
Ben Cohen is on the boards of various organizations, and is an active
founding member of Businesses for Social Responsibility, an organization
that works to promote socially responsible business practices.
Daniel
Ellsberg
 Daniel
Ellsberg graduated from Harvard in 1952 summa cum laude in Economics.
He spent a year studying at
King’s
College, Cambridge University, on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. He
was a Junior Fellow
in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University and earned his Ph.D.
in Economics in 1962.
Ellsberg served as a rifle platoon leader, operations officer, and
rifle company commander in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1954 to 1957.
He has also worked as a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation and
as a consultant for both the Defense Department and the White House.
In 1964 he joined the Defense Department as a Special Assistant to
the Assistant Secretary of Defense. Ellsberg also served two years
at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. He specialized in understanding problems
associated with the command and control of nuclear war plans, and crisis
decision-making.
In 1967 he worked on the top secret McNamara study of U.S. decision-making
in Vietnam, later know as the Pentagon Papers. In 1969 Ellsberg photocopied
the 7,000-page study and provided it to the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, New York Times, the Washington Post, and several other newspapers.
Twelve felony counts were filed against him. And he faced a possible
sentence of 115 years. However, in 1973, his trial was dismissed on
grounds of governmental misconduct against him, which eventually led
to the convictions of various White House aides. These events factored
significantly into the impeachment proceedings against and eventual
resignation of, President Nixon.
Following
the publication of his bestseller book, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam
and the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg
received
several non-fiction
book awards. In December of 2006 Ellsberg was awarded the Right Livelihood
Award or ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ in recognition “for
putting peace and truth first, at considerable personal risk, and dedicating
his life to a movement to free the world from the risk of nuclear war.”
Ellsberg now lives in Berkley, California, with his wife, Patricia
Marx Ellsberg. Ellsberg serves as a lecturer, writer and activist on
the dangers of the nuclear era, government wrongdoing, and the urgent
need for patriotic whistle-blowing.
Ross Gelbspan
 For
over thirty years, Ross Gelbspan worked as a reporter, writing
for the
Philadelphia Bulletin, the Washington Post, and the Boston
Globe. As a senior editor at the Boston Globe until his
retirement in 1992, he directed and edited a series of articles
on job
discrimination in Boston – this series won the
Pulitzer Prize in 1984. The issue of global
warming, however, dominates
his career,
and though now retired from daily journalism, Gelbspan
continues to have his considerable voice heard.
Ross
Gelbspan's books: Boiling Point:
How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists
Are Fueling the Climate
Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster; The
Heat Is on: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the
Prescription.
Susan
Joy Hassol
 As a climate change communicator, analyst, and author, Susan Joy Hassol
is known for her ability to communicate science for the layperson.
Her communication skills enable the general public and policy makers
to better understand complex environmental issues. She provides valuable
information on how to reduce negative impacts on the environment in
the areas of energy, recycling, and commonly used chemicals.
Hassol
earned a B.A. in Public Communications summa cum laude in 1981 from
Syracuse University’s Newhouse
School, and Maxwell School of Public Affairs and Citizenship. Since
then she has been involved
in environmental research and education, and works towards improving
the understanding of climate change science and solutions.
She
has authored several reports, including Impacts of a Warming Arctic,
a synthesis report of the Arctic Climate
Impact
Assessment. She spent
four years in the Arctic with over 300 scientists from around the globe.
In November of 2004, she testified about the impact of Arctic warming
before the U.S. Senate. In 2006 the Climate Institute honored her for
her “excellence in climate science communication.”
In 2006
Hassol wrote HBO’s global
warming documentary Too Hot Not To Handle. She has also authored
a synthesis
report of the U.S.
National Assessment in 2000, on the consequences of climate change
titled, Climate Change Impacts on the United States. In 2006, she co-authored
a chapter on Arctic climate impacts in the book, Avoiding Dangerous
Climate Change.
Along with many other projects, Hassol has appeared on national television
and several radio shows, to discuss climate change. She has addressed
many audiences, including the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation. She continues to work as an independent analyst
and climate science communicator, writing and speaking widely on climate
change issues.
Mark Hertsgaard
 Mark Hertsgaard is a San Francisco-based independent journalist
and author. He currently writes as the environment correspondent
for The Nation, and is the political correspondent for US satellite
broadcaster, LinkTV.
Mark
Hertsgaard's books include: The Eagle's
Shadow:
Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World; Earth
Odyssey: Around the world in search of our environmental
future; Nuclear,
Inc.: The Men and Money Behind Nuclear Energy; On
Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency.
Mimi
Kennedy
 Mimi Kennedy is both an actor and activist. She was born in Rochester,
New York, where she began her acting career at the age of twelve. She
has worked on various human rights, environmental, and labor issues,
and has studied nonviolent social action with the Reverend James Lawson.
Her work for peace and human rights has drawn her to many different
parts of the world.
Kennedy was a signatory to the 9/11 Truth Statement. Along with her
involvement in several progressive activist causes, Kennedy most notably
serves as National Chairperson of the Board for Progressive Democrats
of America, which promotes peace and justice. She was a charter member
of Artists United to Win Without War.
Kennedy
is widely known for her television role as Abbie O’Neil
(Dharma’s mom), on the hit series “Dharma and Greg.” She
has appeared widely on TV, in theatre, and in movies such as “Erin
Brockovich” and “Pump Up the Volume.” She has also
appeared on Bill Maher’s “Politically Incorrect.”
Kennedy and her husband, Lawrence Edwin Dilg, have two children.
Paul
Rogat Loeb
 Paul
Loeb has spent over thirty years researching and writing about citizen
responsibility and empowerment.
Born in
California, Loeb attended
Stanford University and New York’s New School for Social Research.
Loeb has written several widely praised books, including Nuclear Culture,
Hope in Hard Times, Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action
on the American Campus, Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in
a Cynical Time, and The Impossible Will Take a Little While. He has
written for a range of publications for large newspapers, magazines,
and scholarly journals.
Loeb’s
dedication and work with various colleges and universities around
the nation has helped to
inspire
the American Democracy project,
which currently involves over 200 campuses. His work and inspiration
are both deeply moving and motivating.
Loeb
has received various awards for his books, including the American
Book Association’s Nautilus Award for the best social change
book. He is said to “bring hope for a better world in a time
when we so urgently need it.” (Millard Fuller, founder, Habitat
for Humanity.)
Edward Mazria AIA
 Edward
Mazria is an internationally-recognized architect, author, educator
and visionary with a long and distinguished career. His award-winning
architecture and planning projects span over a thirty-five year
period and each employs a cutting-edge environmental approach to
design. He is the author of numerous published works, including
the 'bible' of solar design, The Passive Solar Energy Book, which
is currently in use worldwide.
Most recently, Mr. Mazria has reshaped
the national and international dialogue on climate change to incorporate
building design and the
'Building Sector'. He is the founder of Architecture 2030, an innovative
and flexible research organization focused on protecting our global
environment. He developed and issued the 2030 Challenge, a measured
and achievable strategy to dramatically reduce global GHG emissions
and fossil-fuel consumption by the year 2030. He speaks nationally
and internationally on the subject of architecture, design, energy
and climate change and has taught architecture at several universities
including the University of New Mexico, University of Oregon and
UCLA. His numerous awards include AIA Design Awards, AIA Design Innovation
Award, American Planning Association Award, Department of Energy
Awards, “Pioneer Award” from the American Solar Energy
Society, first recipient of the Equinox Award presented on the 50th
anniversary of construction of the world’s first commercial
solar building, and most recently a 2008 National Conservation Achievement
Award from the National Wildlife Federation. He is a fellow of the
Design Futures Council
Bill
McKibben
 Bill McKibben is an internationally renowned educator, environmentalist,
and author. His writings are often focused on global warming, alternative
energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering.
Following
graduation from college, McKibben joined The New Yorker magazine
as a staff writer. He has since published
many essays and
written many books, including: The End of Nature (1989), The Age of
Missing Information (1992), and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities
and the Durable Future (2007). McKibben is a frequent contributor to
various publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly,
Harper’s, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of
Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside Magazine. He is also a board
member of and contributor to Grist Magazine.
During
the summer of 2006, McKibben led one of the nation’s
largest demonstrations against global warming in American history.
In 2007 McKibben founded Step It Up, a program in which over 300 events
were held throughout the United States demanding Congress to enact
significant curbs on carbon emissions.
McKibben has received numerous awards, including Guggenheim and Lyndhurst
Fellowships and the Lannan Prize for nonfiction writing in 2000. He
currently lives in Ripton, Vermont with his wife Sue Halpern, also
a writer, along with their daughter. He is a scholar in residence at
Middlebury College and currently organizing the 350.org initiative.
Yoko
Ono
 Yoko
Ono attended the prestigious Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
Then began her lifelong work in the
arts, including
poetry and conceptual
pieces. She is now recognized as an uncompromising and influential
visionary artist. When once asked what kind of artist she was, Yoko
answered, “I deal with music of the mind.” She pushes the
boundaries of art, music, film, and theatre media.
Perhaps
one of the most epic and monumental points of Yoko’s
life was when she met John Lennon. The creative, artistic, and intellectual
passions shared between Yoko and John eventually led them to marry.
The two enjoyed expressing political voices through their art, and
the couple’s mantra was John Lennon’s famous “Give
Peace a Chance.” They staged a series of conceptual events to
promote world peace during the Vietnam Era.
Since
John’s death Yoko has remained active, releasing three
music albums, engaging in two concert tours, and composing two off-Broadway
musicals. She has also remained an avid activist for peace and human
rights. In 2002, Yoko inaugurated her own peace award by giving $50,000
prize money to artists living “in regions of conflict.” In
2004, she remade her song “Everyman…Everywoman…,” in
support of same-sex marriage. And in January of 2008, Yoko took out
a full-page advertisement in the New York Times that read “IMAGINE
PEACE.”
Winnie
Singh
 Winnie Singh is a committed social entrepreneur, mentor, trainer,
and educator with more than 15 years experience at national and grassroots
levels in public health, community mobilization, and advocacy. She
places a special focus in the areas of HIV/AIDS and gender equity.
Singh was born in India and graduated from Miranda House, Delhi University,
where she studied Psychology and Philosophy.
Her lifelong interest in humanitarian relief has been the driving
force for many new social programs in Northeast India. Singh is the
Executive Director of Maitri, an organization dedicated to helping
women and children dealing with HIV and AIDS. She also founded MASSES,
a recycling paper plant project in Shillong, India, where women infected
and affected with HIV and AIDS work alongside women from the community.
Singh also advocates passionately for women survivors of sexual violence
and for health education.
Singh
co-founded Global Walk, an educational travel organization dedicated
to fostering peace through cultural
exchange and understanding and ‘Aashirwad,’ an
organization committed to serving the needs of senior citizens. She
serves on several honorary and advisory committees, including The Institute
of Environmental Management and Social Development.
Singh is married to Lt. Gen. Bhopinder Singh, who works with Winnie
in making a significant positive difference in the lives of women and
children by providing them a healthy future.
Elie
Wiesel
 Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania. When Wiesel was just
fifteen, the Nazis deported his family to Auschwitz. His father, mother,
and younger sister all perished during the Holocaust. After the war,
Wiesel studied in Paris, where he became a journalist. He was later
persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps, which
he did so in his internationally acclaimed memoir, La Nuit or Night.
As a writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust
survivor, Wiesel authored over 40 books dealing with Judaism, the Holocaust,
and the moral responsibility of all people to fight hatred, racism,
and genocide.
In 1978,
President Jimmy Carter appointed Wiesel as Chair of the President’s
Commission on the Holocaust. In 1980 he became the Founding Chair of
the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He is also the Founding
President of the Paris-based Universal Academy of Cultures. He has
since received more than 100 honorary degrees from institutions of
higher learning.
Since 1976, Wiesel has been the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities
at Boston University, where he holds the title of University Professor.
He is a professor in the Department of Religion as well as the Department
of Philosophy. He has served as Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies
at the City University of New York, as well as the first Henry Luce
Visiting Scholar in Humanities and Social Thought at Yale University.
Wiesel has received numerous awards for his literature and human rights
activities, including The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S. Congressional
Gold Medal, the Medal of Liberty Award, and the rank of Grand-Croix
in the French Legion of Honor. Wiesel received the Nobel Prize for
Peace in 1986.
Wiesel and his wife Marion established the Elie Wiesel Foundation
for Humanity. They currently live in Connecticut.
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
 Sheila Watt-Cloutier has devoted her career to improving
the lives and livelihoods of Artic communities in the face of climate
change and other human development challenges.
For over 10 years now, Ms. Watt-Cloutier has been a political leader
representing indigenous communities in Canada, Alaska, Greenland
and Russia. From 1995 to 1998, she was the Corporate Secretary of
Makivik Corporation, the Canadian Inuit land-claim organization established
for Northern Quebec (Nunavik) under the 1975 James Bay and Northern
Quebec Agreement.
In 1995, she was elected President of Inuit Circumpolar Conference
(ICC) Canada, a position she was re-elected to in 1998. ICC represents
internationally the interests of Inuit in Russia, Alaska, Canada
and Greenland.
More recently, Ms. Watt-Cloutier has turned her attention to the
effects of climate change on the Inuit people. In December 2005,
she joined with 62 Inuit Hunters and Elders from communities across
Canada and Alaska to launch one of the world's first international
legal actions on climate change, contending that unchecked greenhouse
gas emissions from the United States violated Inuit cultural and
environmental rights.
Terry
Tempest Williams
 Terry
Tempest Williams, a naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom
of speech and environmental justice, is author of Refuge – An
Unnatural History of Family and Place, An Unspoken Hunger – Stories
from the Field, Desert Quartet, Leap, Red – Passion and Patience
in the Desert, The Open Space of Democracy, and, most recently,
Mosaic: Finding Beauty in a Broken World. Terry has served time
in jail for acts of civil disobedience, testified before Congress
on women’s health issues, and worked as “a barefoot
artist” in Rwanda. Terry served as the Annie Clark Tanner
Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah.
Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times,
Orion Magazine, and numerous anthologies worldwide. Terry has provided
a crucial and compelling voice for ecological consciousness and
compassionate social change.
Ross C "Rocky" Anderson
President of High Road for Human Rights Advocacy Project
President of High Road for Human Rights Education Project
 Ross
C. “Rocky” Anderson, founder of High
Road for Human Rights, served as Mayor of Salt Lake City from 2000-2008.
He was Host City Mayor during the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games.
Before serving as Mayor, he was listed in Best Lawyers in America,
served as Chair of the Utah State Bar Litigation Section, and was
Editor-in-Chief of Voir Dire legal journal. He served as President
of the boards of the Utah affiliate of the American Civil Liberties
Union, Citizens for Penal Reform, and Guadalupe Education Programs.
He was a board member of Planned Parenthood Association of Utah and
Common Cause of Utah. A vigorous human rights, government reform,
and environmental advocate, Rocky was named by the Human Rights Campaign
as one of the top ten straight advocates in the United States for
GLBT equality and received the Sierra Club Distinguished Service
Award, the EPA Climate Protection Award, the Respect the Earth Planet
Defender Award, the National Association of Hispanic Publications
Presidential Award, The Drug Policy Alliance Richard J. Dennis Drugpeace
Award, the Progressive Democrats of America Spine Award, the Air & Waste
Management Association Richard Beatty Mellon Stewardship Award, the
League of United Latin American Citizens Profile in Courage Award,
and the World Leadership Award for environmental programs. Rocky
was named by Business Week as one of the top twenty advocates in
the world on climate change and served on the Newsweek Global Environmental
Leadership Advisory Committee.
Vicky Newman,
Advocacy Project Board Chair
Vicky
Newman, who received her PhD from Texas A&M University, teaches at the
University of Utah in the Department of Communication and the Honors
College. She developed the “New Meanings of the American
West” program for the Honors College, which focuses on historical
and contemporary perspectives of immigration. Vicky also works
on environmental issues and the lives of animals.
Sally Kempton
Sally Kempton (Swami Durgananda) is a teacher of
meditation and spiritual philosophy, an author, and columnist for
Yoga Journal. A former journalist, she wrote on politics and culture
for Esquire, New York Magazine, Village Voice, and The New York Times.
Sally was an early and influential leader for the feminist movement
of the seventies. She spent twenty years as a monk in the Saraswati
Order, one of the four classical divisions of the vedic monastic
tradition, and has taught internationally since 1980. She is the
author of The Heart of Meditation and the founder of The Dharana
Institute.
Edward Maibach
 Edward
Maibach, Professor and Director of the Center for Climate Change
Communication at George Mason University, is a leading academic
in the field
of communication research. He is a public health advocate
and social change professional whose work over the past 25 years
has helped to define the fields of public health communication
and social marketing. Ed is the author of Designing Health Messages:
Approaches from Communication Theory and Public Health Practice.
Ed earned his PhD in communication research from Stanford University
in 1990. He has served as Worldwide Director of Social Marketing
for Porter Novelli, as an Associate Director of the National Cancer
Institute, and in various academic positions. Ed currently serves
as one of Al Gore’s “1,000 Voices” for The Climate
Project.
Karen Osborne
 Karen
Osborne retired from a career in health care administration in
1991. She has been involved with the Salvation Army Board and the
Salvation Army Gateway, a family shelter in San Francisco. Karen
was a founding Board member of Senior Action Network, a senior
advocacy organization. She also served on the founding Board of
Planning for Elders in the Central City, a multi-cultural organization
advocating for seniors in San Francisco. Karen was the first public
member of the Ethics Committee of the California State Bar and
founder of the San Francisco Long Term Care Committee, which developed
the plan for long term care in San Francisco County. She lives
in Carmel and San Francisco, California.
Jill Sheinberg
 Jill
Sheinberg has an AB from the University of Michigan, an MA in Sociology
from New School University, and a JD from Hofstra University School
of Law. She practiced employment law and represented not-for profit
organizations. In New York Jill taught legal research, writing,
and moot court at Hofstra University School of Law. She served
as a mediator at the Brooklyn Mediation Center and continued her
mediation practice when she moved to Utah in 1995. Jill has served
on many boards, including New York Civil Liberties Board, ACLU
of Utah Board, National ACLU Board, Planned Parenthood, Salt Lake
Acting Company, and Adopt-A-Native Elder. Jill headed the national
outreach campaign for Heart of the Sea. She was a community organizer
for Independent Television Service (ITVS) in Utah and has also
worked with Working Films doing outreach for films. Jill was an
organizer of Perry Street for Peace in New York City and later
became involved in Women Strike for Peace. She is a founding member,
past president, and current member of the board of HEAL Utah.
Victor Shapiro
 Victor
Shapiro has spent 29 years in the broadcast and cable television
industries. He is a writer and producer of award winning programming,
and creator of inter-net content. Vic is a past president of the
Utah Advertising Federation, a former member of the Board of Directors
for Utah Boys & Girls Clubs, and is a donor of creative services
to the Utah Heart Association.
Michael D. Zimmerman
 Michael
D. Zimmerman was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court from 1984
until 2000, serving as Chief Justice and chair of the Utah Judicial
Council from 1994 until 1998. Michael was Vice-Chair of the Utah
Judicial Council Task Force on Gender and Justice, and served as
Chair of the Utah Judicial Council Task Force on Racial and Ethnic
Fairness in the Judicial System. Michael is currently a partner
at Snell & Wilmer, where he engages in commercial litigation,
mediation and arbitration, and serves as Chair of the Board of
Trustees of the Utah Council on Conflict Resolution. Michael served
as a judicial clerk for Chief Justice of the United States Supreme
Court Warren E. Burger, then practiced law in Los Angeles and Salt
Lake City. He was an Associate Professor of Law at the University
of Utah College of Law, and served as Special Counsel to the Governor
of Utah. Michael received the Excellence in Ethics Award from Utah
Valley State College, the Distinguished Service Award from the
Utah State Bar, and was recognized as Utah State Bar Appellate
Judge of the Year.
Geralyn Dreyfous,
Education Project Board Chair
 Geralyn
Dreyfous has a wide background in the arts, long experience consulting
in the philanthropic sector, and is active on many boards and initiatives.
She founded the Philanthropic Initiative in Boston, which guides
families of wealth in strategic giving opportunities. In the film
arena, Geralyn taught Documentary and Narrative Writing with Dr.
Robert Coles at Harvard University and was a founder of the DoubleTake
Community Service Corporation, which publishes DoubleTake Magazine.
She also founded the DoubleTake Summer Institute, which brought
educators, activists and emerging storytellers together to explore
the connections between service, moral inquiry, and storytelling.
A filmmaker as well, Geralyn produced “The Day My God Died,” a
documentary on the trafficking of children for sex. She also produced
the 2004 Academy Award-winning documentary “Born Into Brothels” about
the children of Calcutta prostitutes. The documentary spawned the
Kids With Cameras Foundation to sell the photography of children
in brothels, enabling them to attend school and leave the brothels.
Deen Chatterjee
 Deen
Chatterjee teaches philosophy at the University of Utah and is
the Editor-in-Chief of the forthcoming multi-volume Encyclopedia
of Global Justice and the Series Editor of Studies in Global Justice.
His publications include, most recently, Democracy in a Global
World: Human Rights and Political Participation in the 21st Century
, The Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy, and
Ethics and Foreign Intervention. Currently he is completing two
books, one on the ethics of war and peace and the other on cosmopolitan
justice. He is a member of the American Philosophical Association's
Advisory Committee on Applied Ethics and has been a two-term member
of the Association's Committee on International Cooperation. Deen
has held visiting appointments at the University of Washington,
New School University, University of Colorado, University of Oregon,
and Harvard University. He has been a National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellow at the Institute on War and Morality at the United
States Naval Academy in Annapolis and has sailed around the world
for a semester as a visiting faculty on the "floating campus" of
the University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Shipboard Education.
Stephen J. Cohen
Stephen
Cohen is an expert in media and media relations, with
a broad background
in handling
high-profile cases
as a journalist and as a crisis manager. Steve has
operated as a senior news executive and was the news
director at
WCBS TV in New York and KCBS TV in Los Angeles. Later
he served as Vice President and General Manager of
WCAU TV
in Philadelphia. Steve was also the founding Executive
Producer of Court TV. While at Chris Craft television,
he redesigned the newscasts in Los Angeles, and created
a contemporary and investigative design that focused
on community issues. As a consultant, Steve developed
non-state
run media opportunities in China for investors, opened
new markets for film production in Beijing, and created
new network cable concepts for emerging interests.
He holds a B.S. Degree in Education, a Master’s
Degree in Modern History, and an M.A. Degree in Journalism.
Steve
is the recipient of numerous journalism awards, including
Emmys for excellence in television journalism.
Mary Dickson
 Mary
Dickson is the Director of Creative Services and host
of “Contact” at KUED-Channel 7 in Salt
Lake City. Under her direction, the public television station
has won a variety of local and national awards, including
Emmy and New York Film Festival Awards, as well as awards
from PBS and the Utah Broadcasters Association. She wrote
and co-produced the PBS documentary “No Safe Place:
Violence Against Women,” which won a Gold Award from
the Houston Film Festival and was nominated for an Emmy
Award. Uncovering the story of what happened to “downwinders” and
exposing the pattern of government deception surrounding
nuclear testing led Mary to write a book-length manuscript
that combined her own story with powerful documentation.
The manuscript led to her first full-length play, “Exposed,” which
played to sold-out houses and critical acclaim. The American
Theatre Critics Association nominated “Exposed” for
the Steinberg Award for the Best New Play Produced
Outside New York. The Deseret Morning News named it
Best Drama
of 2007. She has written newspaper, radio, and magazine
articles and essays on a broad range of subjects, some
of which have received awards from the Associated Press,
the Society of Professional Journalists, and the National
Broadcasters Association. Mary serves on boards of
organizations working on issues related to peace, justice
and the arts.
Diane Musho Hamilton
 Diane
Musho Hamilton is a professional mediator, group facilitator,
and teacher of conflict resolution. She was
the first Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute
Resolution for the Utah Judiciary from 1994-1999, where
she established the first mediation programs in the
state court system. She has extensive experience in
facilitating
multi-party meetings, including public policy discussions.
Diane received the Utah Council on Conflict Resolution
Peacekeeper Award in 2001 and the Peter W. Billings
Award from the Utah State Bar for Outstanding Work
in Dispute
Resolution in 2003. She co-founded the Utah Council
on Conflict Resolution, and serves on the Board of
Trustees
of Utah Dispute Resolution. Diane teaches mediation
at the University of Utah Law School and Communications
Institute.
She is the Director of Curriculum and a trainer for
Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute.
Robert Newman
 Robert
Newman is Dean of the College of Humanities, Associate
Vice President for
Interdisciplinary
Studies,
and Professor of English at the University of Utah.
He authored, co-authored or edited six books, including
Uncommon
Threads: Reading and Writing About Contemporary America;
Centuries Ends, Narrative Means; Joyce’s Ulysses:
The Larger Perspective; and Understanding Thomas Pynchon.
He has also published numerous articles on twentieth
and twenty-first century literature and culture. Robert
serves
as General Editor of the Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
series published by University of Virginia Press. He
is Executive Director of the Human Experience Coalition,
a
comprehensive web-based initiative currently focused
on human rights issues.
Richard
Sheinberg
 Richard Sheinberg holds a JD and LLM in International
Law from the New York University School of Law. He practiced
corporate and transactional law in New York for several
years then left the active practice of law to become a
senior executive officer in a worldwide cosmetics and toiletries
business. Richard moved to Park City, Utah where he has
been engaged as a principal in real estate development.
He is completing an innovative housing project that involves
the re-use and complete retrofit of a Veterans Administration
Hospital. Richard currently serves as the Board Chair and
President of the Summit Land Conservancy and as a member
of the Board of the Youth Winter Sports Alliance. Richard
served as the board Chair of the Kimball Art Center and
the Stratton Mountain School and as a board member of the
Sugar Bowl Foundation.
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