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March 11, 2015
Experts on GOP Iran letter, expulsion of OK students, student loans, email ethics, children in war
This week we feature experts on the GOP's letter to Iran, Oklahoma students being expelled for racist chants, student loans, the ethics of Hillary Clinton's email decisions, and incidents of children being used as executioners by ISIS and Boko Haram.
Expert Spotlight
Marjorie Cohn
Professor Emerita
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
For interviews on GOP letter to Iran.
As the outcry against the 47 GOP senators who wrote a letter to Iran continues, we SPOTLIGHT Marjorie Cohn, J.D., professor of law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and a former president of the National Lawyers Guild. Her anthology, Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues was published in 2015. She is the author of Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law and co-author of Cameras in the Courtroom: Television and the Pursuit of Justice as well as Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent, and editor-contributor to The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse. Professor Cohn is the U.S. Representative to the Executive Committee of the American Association of Jurists, and Deputy Secretary General for External Communication of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. She is on the National Advisory Board of Veterans for Peace and the Advisory Board of ExposeFacts. She is a criminal defense attorney and publishes extensively in the academic and popular press about human rights and U.S. foreign policy.
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Dr. Christina M. Greer
Professor of Political Science
Fordham University – Lincoln Center
For interviews on OK students expelled for racist chants.
Dr. Christina Greer, professor of political science at Fordham University - Lincoln Center, is perfectly placed to discuss the expulsion of Oklahoma University students for racist chants. Her research and teaching focus on American politics, black ethnic politics, urban politics, quantitative methods, and public opinion. Dr. Greer is the author of Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford University Press). Her research interests include crime and public policy in urban centers. Media includes: MSNBC, New York Times, ABC Channel 7, NBC Nightly News, Fox 5 Good Day New York
Featured Expert
Janet L Holmgren
President Emerita
Patten University
For interviews on student loans.
To discuss President Obama's “Student Aid Bill of Rights” we FEATURE Janet L. Holmgren who has been on the frontlines of higher education for more than 35 years. President of Patten University (Oakland, CA) since 2012, Holmgren previously served as President and Susan Mills Professor of Mills College (Oakland, CA) from 1991 to 2011, and before that as Vice Provost of Princeton University, Senior Administrator at the University of Maryland, College Park, and full-time faculty member at the University of Maryland and the University of the District of Columbia. Holmgren has been deeply involved in national and local leadership through her volunteer work with numerous educational and nonprofit organizations, including the City of Oakland Education Cabinet, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Princeton University Board of Trustees, and the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities. Media includes: San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, Chronicle of Higher Education
Featured Expert
Beverly Kracher
Professor and the Robert B. Daugherty Endowed Chair in Business Ethics and Society/ CEO and Executive Director
Creighton University Heider College of Business/ Business Ethics Alliance
For interviews on ethics of Hillary Clinton's email decisions.
With Hillary Clinton's decision to use her personal email address whilst Secretary of State continues to be in the news, we FEATURE Dr. Beverly Kracher - one of the country’s leading experts on business ethics. Professor Kracher holds the Robert B. Daugherty Endowed Chair in Business Ethics and Society at Creighton University Heider College of Business. She is also the CEO and executive director of the Omaha Business Ethics Alliance where she delivers city-level ethics education to businesses and coaches some of America’s strongest and most successful leaders on how to develop ethical organizations. Media includes: CNBC.com, Omaha World Herald Midland Business Journal
Featured Expert
Anita Sharma
Consultant
Independent
For interviews on children used as executioners.
As terrorist groups ISIS and Boko Haram are increasingly using children to carry bombs and kill, we FEATURE Anita Sharma, the Senior Director of Millennium Development Goals Initiatives at the United Nations Foundation in New York. Her work currently focuses around the Every Women Every Child effort, which puts into action the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health. Her career has spanned a range of development, humanitarian response and conflict prevention positions in Washington, DC and around the world, including holding international posts in Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, and Kosovo. In the United States, she directed the Conflict Prevention Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and has also worked as the research director for the Role of American Military Power Project and the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. Media includes: BBC, CNN, Fox Business News, Voice of America.
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