Senior Lecturer: Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Founder and Board President: Health Equity Initiative; Editor-in-Chief: Journal of Communication in Healthcare: Strategies, Media, and Engagement in Global Health; Author: Health Communication: From Theory to Practice

We FEATURE Renata Schiavo, health and international communication, public health, and global health specialist to discuss the growing public health crisis caused by the Ebola virus. Founding President of Health Equity Initiative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building community, capacity, and strategic communication resources for health equity, Dr. Schiavo is also the Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Communication in Healthcare: Strategies, Media, and Engagement in Global Health, a Senior Lecturer at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Sociomedical Sciences. Media includes: The Signal, Folha de Sao Paulo, Journal of Communication in Healthcare

Executive Director

FEATURING co-founder and national policy director of LAANE - Madeline Janis - to discuss good wage job growth. LAANE is an influential leader in the effort to build a new economy based on good jobs, thriving communities and a healthy environment. LAANE has helped lift tens of thousands of working people out of poverty and has won major health and environmental victories for communities throughout Los Angeles County. Ms. Janis led the campaign to pass L.A.’s living wage ordinance, which has since become a national model. She serves on the boards of directors of Good Jobs First, the Partnership for Working Families, Brave New Foundation and the Phoenix Fund for Workers and People for the American Way, and is Senior Fellow at the UCLA School of Public Affairs.

Board Member, Atlantic Council

As the death toll in Ukraine passes 2,000 with no ceasefire in sight, we FEATURE security and policy expert Sally Painter. Ms. Painter has worked throughout Central Europe, including successfully representing many of these countries on their NATO and EU bids, as well as an historic Visa Equity Coalition of seven countries which allows their citizens to enter the US visa-free. Ms. Painter has managed many large-scale public-private projects, including as senior advisor on the global NATO Summits and remains a member of the Board of the US Committee on NATO. For the last 15 years, Ms. Painter has worked with opposition leaders to promote democracy and transparency in: Albania, Argentina, Azerbaijan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kazakhstan, Romania, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Venezuela. Media includes: Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Fox News, Huffington Post, Financial Times, Politico

Host

With hundreds of Yazidi women abducted and men killed by Islamic militants, we FEATURE Zainab Salbi, an Iraqi-American humanitarian, entrepreneur, author, and a media commentator that has dedicated herself to women's rights and freedom. At the age of 23, Salbi founded Women for Women International, a grassroots humanitarian and development organization dedicated to serving women survivors of wars rebuild their lives. Under her leadership as the organization’s CEO (1993-2011), the organization grew from helping 30 women upon its inception to more than 380,000 women in 8 conflict areas leading to a distribution of more than 100 million dollars in aid and loans. Media includes: Financial Times, The Huffington Post, Good Housekeeping, The Guardian, NYT, Marie Claire, CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera