CEO

After the Supreme Court ruling that gun ownership rights can be taken away from domestic abusers, we FEATURE Lisalyn R. Jacobs. Lisalyn R. Jacobs is the CEO of Just Solutions: Bringing in justice to counteract injustice, and the former V.P. of Government Relations for Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense & Education Fund). She has also fought for and secured needed protections for poor women and survivors of violence in a number of key federal laws including two reauthorizations of the Violence Against Women Act (2005 and 2013), the 2006 reauthorization of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, and the 2009 amendments to the Stimulus law. She has worked closely with the Obama Administration on a variety of matters, including policing reform, sexual and domestic violence, campus sexual assault, the school to prison pipeline, and the impact of criminal justice reform on women. Media includes: New York Times, NPR, MSNBC, CNN, Huffington Post.

Global Economy Project Director

The results for the UK EU referendum are in and talk about Brexit's effect on the world's economy continues. To discuss, we FEATURE Sarah Anderson. Sarah is the Director of the Global Economy Program at the Institute for Policy Studies, a multi-issue research and education center founded in Washington, DC, in 1963. She is a co-author of the books Field Guide to the Global Economy (New Press, 2005) and Alternatives to Economic Globalization (Berrett-Koehler, 2004) as well as dozens of studies and articles on the impact of trade and investment liberalization on communities, workers, the poor, and the environment. Anderson sits on the steering committees of the Alliance for Responsible Trade and the Center on Corporate Policy. In 1999-2000, she served on the staff of the International Financial Institutions Advisory Commission, a body appointed by the U.S. Congress to develop recommendations for World Bank and IMF reform. Media includes: The New York Times, Lehrer NewsHour, CNN, NPR, Associated Press.

Climate Scientist

With floods devastating the West Virginia area, we FEATURE Dr. Jessica Blunden. Dr. Blunden is a climate scientist with ERT Inc, working in the Center for Weather and Climate at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, North Carolina. She holds Masters and Doctorate degrees in Atmospheric Science from North Carolina State University and has co-authored more than a dozen peer reviewed publications. Jessica serves as a lead editor for the State of the Climate report, an annual peer reviewed report published by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that examines climate and climate change across the globe and has served as the lead scientific consultant for the Statement on the Status of the Global Climate in 2013 report published by the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization. Media includes: CBS National Radio, Associated Press, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post.

Foreign Affairs Columnist, Editorial Board Member

After six years of conflict, Turkey and Israel have agreed to resume full diplomatic ties. To discuss, we FEATURE Trudy Rubin. Trudy is the foreign affairs columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer and travels abroad frequently to South Asia and the Middle East. Her "Worldview" column appears twice weekly in the Inquirer and runs regularly in many other U.S. newspapers. She has special expertise on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian issue, international terrorism, and U.S. foreign policy. She visited Afghanistan and Pakistan twice in 2009; between 2003 and 2008 she made ten trips to Iraq and two to Iran and also wrote from Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, China and South Korea. Extensive media experience.