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December 19, 2016
Experts on the Electoral College, Aleppo, China & Trump, Polar Bears, and NC Bathroom Bill Repeal
This week WMC SheSource features experts on the Electoral College voting for the next president, the evacuations from eastern Aleppo, Donald Trump's tweets about China, polar bears in Alaska, and North Carolina repealing the "bathroom bill".
Expert Spotlight
Atima Omara
President & Chief Strategist
Omara Strategy Group
For interviews on the Electoral College.
In light of the Electoral College voting for the next president, we SPOTLIGHT Atima Omara. Atima is an award winning leader in politics and the progressive movement. With over a decade of experience working in politics and progressive non-profits engaging youth, women, and people of color in the political process and related progressive causes, Atima writes and speaks about national politics, candidates, and policy and culture issues. An experienced political strategist, Atima is President Emeritus of the Young Democrats of America, Democratic National Commitee (DNC) member from Virginia, and Chair of the Planned Parenthood Metro Washington Action Fund Board of Directors. Her multi-faceted political experience includes campaign management, field organizing, fundraising, and paid communications for coordinated campaigns and independent expenditures. Media includes: Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, PBS, Fox News DC, BBC (FOX 5), ABC News DC (ABC 7), NPR, Sirius XM, Washington Post.
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Featured Expert
Anna Therese Day
Independent Journalist & Social Media Researcher
For interviews on Aleppo.
With at least 47 orphans included in the evacuations from east Aleppo, we FEATURE Anna Therese Day, who is in Beirut. Anna is an independent journalist and social media researcher, specializing in global civil society organizing, new media activism, and Middle East politics. She has reported on the ground from Bahrain, Egypt, Israel & the Palestinian Territories, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mexico, Syria, Turkey, and the United States. In 2011, Ms. Day was also selected for a high-profile debate with Dr. Condoleezza Rice about American foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa. Media includes: The BBC, Al Jazeera, The Huffington Post Streaming Network, WGN Chicago: Politics Tonight, PolicyMic.
Featured Expert
Ann Lee
For interviews on China & Trump.
Donald Trump's tweets about China have caused tension with the Chinese media. To discuss the relationship between the U.S. and China, we FEATURE Ann Lee. Ann is an internationally recognized leading authority on China’s economic relations and an adjunct professor of economics and finance at New York University. She is also a former visiting professor at Peking University where she taught macroeconomics and financial derivatives. She consults with policymakers from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the U.S. about U.S.-China relations, international finance and trade, and China’s political economy. Media includes: Huffington Post, CNBC, CBS, Business Week, Newsweek, Institutional Investor, Doubledown Media.
Featured Expert
Dana R. Fisher
Director of the Center for Environment, Community, & Equity and Professor in the School of International Service
American University
For interviews on polar bears.
With more polar sightings in Alaska pointing to the rapid melting of sea ice, we FEATURE Dana R. Fisher. Dana is a Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Program for Society and the Environment at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on understanding the relationship between environmentalism and democracy—most recently focusing on environmental stewardship and American climate politics. This research employs a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods. Her current research employs data collected from environmental activists, stewardship organizations, volunteer stewards, students in the DC school system, as well as political elites involved in climate policy-making in the United States and internationally. Media includes: Today Show, USA Today, NY Times, Chicago Tribune, various NPR shows.
Featured Expert
Rea Carey
Former Executive Director
National LGBTQ Task Force
For interviews on NC bathroom bill.
Today North Carolina repealed a bathroom bill that would've required transgender people to use bathrooms corresponding with their birth certificate, we FEATURE Rea Carey, executive director of the National LGBTQ Task Force, who is one of the most prominent leaders in the U.S. LGBTQ rights movement. Some of the Task Force’s successes during Carey’s tenure include being a key player in the passage of the LGBT-inclusive federal hate crimes prevention law; the defeat of multiple anti-LGBT ballot measures across the country; the creation and implementation of the New Beginning Initiative coalition, which secures federal administrative policy changes to improve the lives of LGBTQ people and their families; and the release of the largest-ever study on transgender discrimination in the U.S. Media includes: USA Today, New York Times, MSNBC, LA Times, NPR, Huffington Post.
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