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October 24, 2016
Experts on Calais, Roger Duterte, Aleppo, the 2016 Election, and the AT&T-Time Warner Deal
This week WMC SheSource features experts on the clearing out of "The Jungle" migrant camp in Calais, France; the comments made by Philippines President Roger Duterte; airstrikes resuming in Aleppo, Syria after the end of the ceasefire; the remaining weeks of the 2016 Presidential election; and AT&T buying Time Warner in an $85 billion deal.
Expert Spotlight
Margie McHugh
Director, National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy
Migration Policy Institute
For interviews on "The Jungle" migrant camp in Calais.
To discuss the implications of the clearing out of "The Jungle", a migrant camp in Calais, France that held more than 6,000 refugees, we SPOTLIGHT Margie McHugh. Margie is the Director of the National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy at the Migration Policy Institute. The Center provides in-depth research, policy analysis, technical assistance, training, leadership development, and information resource services on a broad range of immigrant integration issues. Prior to joining MPI, Ms. McHugh served for 15 years as the executive director of The New York Immigration Coalition, an umbrella organization for over 150 groups in New York that uses research, policy development, and community mobilization efforts to achieve landmark integration policy and program initiatives. Media includes: Associated Press, Washington Post, Voice of America, New York Daily News, New York Sun.
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Featured Expert
Jeanne Bourgault
President and CEO
Internews
For interviews on Rodrigo Duterte's comments.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte recently made comments that hint at the dissolution of a Philippines-U.S. relationship in favor of China. To discuss what this would mean for the region, we FEATURE Jeanne Bourgault. Jeanne Bourgault is President and CEO of Internews, an international non-profit organization dedicated to empowering local media worldwide. Bourgault is an expert on the role of information and media in developing, conflict and post-conflict, and fragile countries. Bourgault has consulted on international program design and evaluation for the Open Society Institute, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Research Triangle Institute, and the United Nations Centre for Human Rights, among others. Media includes: Wired, Guardian, Internews.
Featured Expert
Rama Jarmakani
Journalist, Delegate
Syrian Women’s Forum for Peace
For interviews on Aleppo.
With the end of the ceasefire opening Aleppo to more airstrikes, we FEATURE Rama Jarmakani. Rama is a journalist and a member of the Syrian Women’s Forum for Peace. She is also a member of the political movement Building the Syrian State. She is the creator of the "Bikaffy/ Enough" campaign, a group of Syrian “normal people and activists” who want to say "enough" for war in Syria. She is a member of the peace movement which is working to unify Syrian efforts to create a lobby to pressure the parties to the conflict in Syria in order to enter negotiations and stop the violence. Media includes: CNN, BBC, New Yorker, Huffington Post.
Featured Expert
Aimee Allison
President of Democracy in Color
Founder of She the People
For interviews on 2016 Presidential Election.
With the 2016 Presidential election coming towards and end, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have been rallying to win the swing states and we FEATURE Aimee Allison. Aimee is Senior Vice President of PowerPAC+, an organization dedicated to electing social justice champions by engaging multiracial voters. She is Co-Director of the Democracy in Color campaign. A political and communications strategist, she was a director at the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women and led several sessions at the United Nations Commission on the status of women NGO conference. Aimee was an on-camera host for LinkTV, Comcast Newsmakers on CNN Headline News and host of the KPFA morning show. She has appeared as a political commentator on various media outlets including PBS, CBS, and Fox. Media includes: KPFA, Independent, Peace Work Magazine, Alternet, Catholic Peace Fellowship.
Featured Expert
Dina Dublon
Director
PepsiCo, Microsoft, Accenture
For interviews on AT&T-Time Warner deal.
AT&T have agreed to buy Time Warner in an $85 billion deal that may have a great effect on media and how we consume it. To further discuss what this move would mean, we FEATURE Dina Dublon. Dina is a director of Accenture, Microsoft, and PepsiCo. Ms. Dublon was, until the end of 2004, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for JPMorgan Chase. She joined the company as a trainee on the trading floor in 1981 and over her career there was integral to the negotiation and integration of the mergers of Chemical Bank with Manufacturers Hanover, Chase, JPMorgan, and Bank One.
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