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October 19, 2015
Experts on Benghazi, refugee crisis, Israel, Reach Higher Initiative, and #PurpleThursday
This week we feature experts on the Benghazi hearings, the new struggles facing refugees, increasing violence in Israel, Michelle Obama's Reach Higher Initiative, and #PurpleThursday
Expert Spotlight
Susan Estrich
Professor of Law and Political Science
University of Southern California, Gould School of Law
For interviews on Benghazi hearings.
As Secretary Clinton prepares to give evidence to the Benghazi committee, we SPOTLIGHT Susan Estrich. Professor Estrich's scholarly interests are in law and politics, criminal law, and gender discrimination. At USC Law, she teaches Criminal Law, Gender Discrimination, and Election Law. She has clerked for the late Honorable J. Skelly Wright, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; and The Honorable John Paul Stevens, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. She was also special assistant to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and staff counsel and special assistant to the chief counsel for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Media includes: Fox News, KABC Radio, Creators Syndicate, USA Today, Los Angeles Times
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Featured Expert
Patricia T. Morris, Ph.D.
Director, Gender and Inclusive Development
EnCompass LLC
For interviews on refugee crisis.
To discuss the escalating crisis faced by refugees in Europe, we FEATURE Patricia T. Morris, an internationally known leader in women’s empowerment and development, and a gender-mainstreaming expert with a career spanning more than 20 years. Her work has taken her to Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. She joined Women Thrive Worldwide as President in January 2015. Dr. Morris previously managed a global portfolio of social and economic development projects at Development and Training Services, with a view to promoting equality, accountability, and sustainability. She also served as Executive Director of Peace X Peace, a global network of peacebuilders in 120 countries. Media includes: HuffPost Live, NPR, Christian Science Monitor, Essence Magazine, Pacifica Radio, and Voice of America
Featured Expert
Nichole Argo
Founder and Director of Research
TogetherUp Institute
For interviews on violence in Israel.
With violence amongst Palestinians and Israelis mounting, we FEATURE Nichole Argo, a social psychologist at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously, she spent years in Israel, the Palestinian Territories, and Europe, as a research consultant and journalist, interviewing would-be suicide bombers and their communities. She returned to study terrorism and insurgency at MIT (M.S. in Political Science), and then completed a doctorate in motivations for intergroup aggression and self-sacrifice amidst conflict (Ph.D.in Social Psychology at The New School).
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Oleta Garrett Fitzgerald
Southern Regional Director
Children’s Defense Fund
For interviews on Reach Higher Initiative.
To discuss Michelle Obama's new initiative we FEATURE Oleta Garrett Fitzgerald, director of the Children's Defense Fund's Southern Regional Office (CDF-SRO), and Regional Administrator for the Southern Rural Black Women's Initiative for Economic & Social Justice (SRBWI). SRBWI operates in 77 counties across the Black Belts of Alabama, Southwest Georgia and Delta Mississippi. CDF-SRO also serves as the lead for the W.K. Kellogg funded Supporting Partnerships to Assure Ready Kids (SPARK) Initiative. In 1970 she was employed by the Atlanta-based Southeastern Public Education Program of the American Friends Service Committee. In this position she participated in the Children's Defense Fund's Children Out of School in America, a national study of exclusion of children from public elementary and secondary schools; and monitored Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Media includes: All local and regional broadcast media networks; local, state, regional and national print media
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Senior Director of Litigation for Education & Workplace Justice
National Women’s Law Center
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