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March 18, 2014
Experts on ACA Sign-ups, GM Recall, Crimea Annexation, Internet Oversight, and The Shriver Report
This week’s experts were chosen to discuss Affordable Care Act sign-ups reaching 5 million, the continued recall at GM, Putin beginning the annexation of Crimea, the U.S. government giving up oversight of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), and a spotlight on The Shriver Report for Women’s History Month.
Expert Spotlight
Edda Collins Coleman
Co-Founder
The All In Together Campaign
For interviews on healthcare, affordable care act sign-ups.
With Affordable Care Act sign-ups reaching 5 million people and just two weeks left to go in open enrollment, we SPOTLIGHT healthcare and government outreach expert Edda Collins Coleman. Collins Coleman is an expert on health care, children’s health care, and technology advocacy best practices. Collins Coleman worked for America’s Health Insurance Plans and the American Academy of Pediatrics, as well as provided counsel for several tech firms where she managed grassroots organizing and lobbying, focusing on the Children’s Health Insurance Plans (CHIP), Medicaid, childhood obesity, Health IT, health reform, biometrics, cybersecurity and pay-for-performance.
Areas of Expertise:
Activism and advocacy, Environment, Health, Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Philanthropy, Politics, Science and Technology, Women, Women and Politics, Youth
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Featured Expert
Joan Claybrook
President Emerita
Public Citizen
For interviews on GM recall.
As GM announces the recall of 1.5 million more vehicles, we FEATURE Joan Claybrook, President Emeritus of Public Citizen. Claybrook currently works on issues including product liability, auto and highway safety, and trade and regulatory policies. Prior to becoming president of Public Citizen in 1982, Claybrook was an administrator at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation from 1977 to 1981.
Featured Expert
Michèle Flournoy
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
WestExec Advisors
For interviews on Russia, Ukraine, Crimea.
Despite new US and European sanctions, Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that Russia will annex the Ukrainian region of Crimea. To discuss the ongoing situation, we FEATURE Michele Flournoy, Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. She was the principal adviser to the Secretary of Defense in the formulation of national security and defense policy, oversight of military plans and operations, and in National Security Council deliberations. Previously, she oversaw three policy offices in the Office of the Secretary of Defense: Strategy; Requirements, Plans, and Counterproliferation; and Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasian Affairs.
Featured Expert
Christina Gagnier
Partner, Internet, Intellectual Property and Technology
Gagnier Margossian LLP
For interviews on Internet oversight, ICANN.
With the Commerce Department planning to cede control over ICANN, the body that manages Internet names and addresses as well as additional technical functions, we FEATURE Christina Gagnier, attorney and leader of the Intellectual Property, Internet & Technology practice at Gagnier Margossian LLP. Christina blogs in the Technology section of The Huffington Post, serves as the host for TechWire on the California Channel, is a columnist on legal ethics on the web and Internet law topics for California Lawyer and has been a contributor to Above the Law and CBS News’ What’s Trending.
Featured Expert
Avis A. Jones-DeWeever, Ph.D.
President & CEO
Incite Unlimited
For interviews on The Shriver Report, economic justice.
In response to the The Shriver Report documentary airing on HBO, we FEATURE Focus Point host Avis A. Jones-DeWeever, who will be moderating a discussion on the report, A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink, this week. Dr. Jones-DeWeever has served as the Executive Director of the National Council of Negro Women and previously held positions at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Institute for Women's Policy Research. A Washington insider, Dr. Jones-DeWeever has been featured on CNN, C-SPAN, PBS, BET, TV-ONE, CBC, Al Jazeera America, the Washington Post, the National Journal, the Grio, the Huffington Post, and Clutch Magazine.
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