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Cancer Immunotherapy: Hope or Hype?
Wed, Nov 16 from 9:30 - 11:30pm EST Business
Presented by the Colgate Professional Networks.
This discussion will cover the history, science, and promise of this new paradigm as well as issues of access, affordability, and ethics.
6:30 p.m. | Panel Discussion
8:00 p.m. | Networking Reception
This event is free to attend. In lieu of a registration fee, we ask that you consider a donation of $13 or more to support the Colgate Internship Fund.
Moderated by Geoff Holm | Associate Professor of Biology, Colgate University
Panelists:
David Beier ’70 | Managing Director, Bay City Capital
Wayne Feinstein ’74 | Senior VP, Capital Group Companies Private Client Services and Founder, Gastric Cancer Foundation
Gregg Fine ’94 | Senior Medical Director, Genentech
Terry Fry ’88 | Head, Hematologic Malignancies Section, NIH, National Cancer Institute
Carin Rollins ’94 | Founder/CEO, Hinge Bio
Giorgio Meletti
Laura Serafini
Luigi Zingales
Perché in Italia la crisi bancaria è esplosa nelle proporzioni che vediamo senza che i giornali e la politica se ne siano accorti? Le banche hanno tre modi di controllare l'informazione: l'investimento pubblicitario, il finanziamento e la proprietà delle società editoriali. I media hanno tre modi di assoggettarsi alle banche: si sottopongono al ricatto pubblicitario, si indebitano, si fanno direttamente comprare. Dove l'informazione funziona meglio l'economia va meglio. E in Italia la scomparsa delle notizie dai giornali accelera il declino dell'economia italiana.
Why did the banking crisis in Italy explode in such proportions without the media and the world of politics seeming to notice? Banks have three ways to control the flow of news: advertising investment, financing and ownership of media companies. The media have three ways to submit to the banks: via blackmail advertising, by getting into debt, or by running their affairs so badly they get bought directly. Where the media is on the ball, the economy tends to function better. And in Italy the disappearance of hard news from newspapers has accelerated the relative decline of the Italian economy.
video: media.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/banks-and-the...
Photo by Echo Xie.
Saturday June 23, 2012 12:30pm - 1:30pm @ Affinity Lab (920 U St Washington, DC 20001)
A panel about cross-platform, multi-media storytelling for non-profits. Panel members include a filmmaker-turned-app developer, a photographer-turned-web-designer and web-designer-turned-storyteller. They have all developed campaigns for nonprofits that are pushing the storytelling boundaries of the web.
After a short presentation on their campaigns and the salient points they've learned, speakers will open the floor for questions.
The Panelists
Patrick White, Creative Director, Arcade Sunshine Media - Filmmaker Patrick White founded Arcade Sunshine Media after producing documentaries for History. The company is a strange new hybrid designed for a bold future of digital storytelling. Part video production house, part publishing house, part app development firm, and part marketing firm – Arcade Sunshine is telling stories in ways never before possible. They are now producing a cross-platform, multi-media campaign designed to raise awareness of Haitian musicians. The campaign is a fascinating marriage of traditional storytelling (films, music, photography, writing) and emerging online outreach (social media, apps, video broadcasting tools, new music distribution).
Joshua Cogan, Founder, Joshua Cogan Photography - Joshua Cogan is a photographer and anthropologist whose skill in environmental portraiture has defined his career. Cogan’s combination of still photography and poetry created, Live Hope Love, a revelatory look at the silenced voices of HIV-positive Jamaicans enduring the stigmas of their society through the words of poet Kwame Dawes. Produced by the Pulitzer Center, it won an Emmy for New Approaches to Documentary Storytelling. Cogan's work has also appears regularly on or in the Travel Channel, Discovery, New Yorker, GQ, Men's Journal, Washington Post, and the New York Times.
Rajneesh Aggarwal, President, PROVOC - Raj has over twenty years of experience as a graphic artist and designer. He specializes in theme development, color, interface design, image composition, and computer illustration. He has overseen major technology, design, and print campaigns from the Save Darfur Coalition to Citibank, Rare Conservation to Verizon, and The Aspen Institute to George Washington University. He is known for developing and implementing marketing initiatives that combine traditional marketing tactics with grassroots outreach campaigns.
Learn more: benevolentmedia.org/festival
Banner from Human Rights 2011. Commission President Catherine Branson QC speaking in the background of the photo
Donata Columbro Marta Cosentino Yasir Khan Alessandra Morelli Marina Petrillo
Il fenomeno migratorio verso l'Europa è uno degli storytelling più gettonati dai media mainstream e da coloro che desiderano fornire narrazioni alternative e proporre nuovi formati. Ripensare a nuove strategie, anche tecnologiche, di racconto della migrazioni può avere una incidenza sociale? E, di più, può anche costringere alcuni media generalisti a forzare la loro visione del mondo partendo proprio da specifici esperimenti di storytelling dove la migrazione è protagonista?
Covering migration towards Europe offers a variety of possibilities for alternative narrations and new formats. Can re-thinking new strategies, even technological, for reporting migration also have a social impact? And can it force some mainstream media to change their vision of the world, starting from specific storytelling experiments where migrants are the main protagonists?
on demande video here: media.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/migrations
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MODERATOR: Jaime Suchlicki, Director, Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, and Emilio Bacardi Moreau Distinguished Professor at the University of Miami. He is also editor of “Cuban Affairs,” a quarterly electronic journal published by ICCAS, and the author of Cuba: from Columbus to Castro; Mexico: from Montezuma to the Rise of PAN; and Breve Historia de Cuba. Dr. Suchlicki is a highly regarded consultant to the public and private sector in the U.S.
PANEL: Alfredo Duran, is a lawyer practicing in Miami, Florida. Mr. Duran has a long standing record of participation in Democratic Party politics including chairmanship of the Florida Democratic Party, 1976-1980 and membership in various DNC party committees and commissions. He has also served as member of the Dade County School Board, chairman of the Community Relations Board, Member of the Board of Directors of Mercy Hospital Foundation, Inc., NAFTA and Beyond Commission and other civic and community organizations. He is a former member of the Bay of Pigs Invasion; a prisoner of war in Cuba for 18 months; former president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association and is presently Member of the Board of Directors of the Cuban Committee for Democracy (CCD) and Member of the Board of Directors of Center for International Policy.
Otto Reich, President of Otto Reich Associates, LLC, of Washington, DC, served as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, from 1986 to 1989. In the 1980’s, Reich received three appointments from President Ronald Reagan: As Special Advisor to the Secretary of State from 1983 to 1986, he directed the Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean, which received the Department’s Meritorious Honor Award. From 1981 to 1983, he was Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in charge of U.S. economic assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean. He was the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs from 2001 to 2002. He then became President Bush’s Special Envoy for Western Hemisphere Initiatives, reporting to Dr. Condoleezza Rice in the National Security Council. He left government service in June 2004.
Marianna Aprile
Marco Damilano
Sergio Rizzo
Alessandra Sardoni
Sofia Ventura
La Repubblica dei Brocchi: questa è l'immagine che restituisce la classe dirigente del nostro paese. “Il deperimento delle nostre élite è generale. Niente e nessuno si è salvato dal lento processo di decomposizione. Non la politica. Né le grandi burocrazie pubbliche. Ma neppure magistrati, manager pubblici e privati, professori. Non ha risparmiato il sindacato, la finanza, i professionisti di ogni ordine e grado. Né poteva risparmiare la stampa e l’informazione", scrive Sergio Rizzo.
La Repubblica dei Brocchi (The Republic of Morons) is the latest book by Sergio Rizzo. And the title refers to the image the Italian ruling class offers. Ethical codes, the same Article 54 of the Constitution – which establishes the requirement to fulfill public functions “with honour and dignity” – seem to be as good as scrap paper, when we are overwhelmed by a wave of news concerning cases of nepotism, favoritism, wastage, exhibitions of ignorance and little respect for institutions. The disconnection between the élite and the issues affecting a large part of the population. Especially when political parties frequently seem focused on factional infighting, interested only in maintaining their posts and privileges, without regard for the interests of the country at large.
video: media.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/situations-va...
Francesco Cancellato
Tonia Mastrobuoni
Birgit Schoenau
È il Paese modello che guardiamo con deferenza, ma anche il colpevole (o l'alibi?) di tutti i nostri guai più recenti, il primo della classe che in molti vorrebbero vedere nella polvere. Architrave di un’Europa ferita e divisa, la Germania andrà al voto tra agosto e settembre del 2017, e per la prima volta nella sua storia anche la prospettiva di una grande coalizione tra cristiano democratici e social democratici sembra a rischio. Ce la farà Angela Merkel a scongiurare che l'instabilità raggiunga anche il centro del continente? Ce la faranno i socialdemocratici ad arrestare la slavina di consenso che li ha colpiti dopo le riforme Hartz di Gerhard Schroeder? E che conseguenze potrebbe avere un affermazione oltre le aspettative di Alternative fur Deutschland per le sorti del continente?
Lintel of a wounded and divided Europe, Germany will vote in August and September of 2017, and for the first time in its history the prospect of a grand coalition between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats seems at risk. Will Angela Merkel be able to prevent instability also reaching the center of the continent? Can the Social Democrats stop the erosion of consensus that has affected them since the Hartz reforms of Gerhard Schroeder? And what consequences might a result beyond the expectations of Alternative fur Deutschland have for the future of the Old Continent?
Donata Columbro Marta Cosentino Yasir Khan Alessandra Morelli Marina Petrillo
Il fenomeno migratorio verso l'Europa è uno degli storytelling più gettonati dai media mainstream e da coloro che desiderano fornire narrazioni alternative e proporre nuovi formati. Ripensare a nuove strategie, anche tecnologiche, di racconto della migrazioni può avere una incidenza sociale? E, di più, può anche costringere alcuni media generalisti a forzare la loro visione del mondo partendo proprio da specifici esperimenti di storytelling dove la migrazione è protagonista?
Covering migration towards Europe offers a variety of possibilities for alternative narrations and new formats. Can re-thinking new strategies, even technological, for reporting migration also have a social impact? And can it force some mainstream media to change their vision of the world, starting from specific storytelling experiments where migrants are the main protagonists?
on demande video here: media.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/migrations
Cameron Barr
Julie Posetti
Marcel Rosenbach
Hannah Storm
Trovarsi in pericolo, la sicurezza della professione giornalistica in un mondo dove nelle redazioni e nelle zone di guerra si è sempre in prima linea. La sicurezza nel giornalismo non è più un problema che riguarda soltanto chi va a coprire l'informazione nelle zone di guerra. Al giorno d'oggi, indipendentemente da dove si lavora - online o offline -, i giornalisti devono considerare rischi fisici e psicologici. L'aumento delle minacce terroristiche interne ha colpito i mezzi di informazione in modi che non avremmo mai immaginato. Il rischio di trovarsi in prima linea si è trasferito dalle zone di conflitto nel cuore delle redazioni nazionali. Molestie online e aggressioni alla sicurezza digitale e alla privacy espongono i giornalisti e le loro fonti a grossi rischi, mentre i governi, considerati in precedenza oasi felici della libertà di stampa, si schierano contro i media mainstream, mettendo a repentaglio le fondamenta della sicurezza e dell'indipendenza del giornalismo.
In harm’s way – journalism safety in a world where newsrooms and war zones are both on the front lines.
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MODERATOR: Jaime Suchlicki, Director, Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, and Emilio Bacardi Moreau Distinguished Professor at the University of Miami. He is also editor of “Cuban Affairs,” a quarterly electronic journal published by ICCAS, and the author of Cuba: from Columbus to Castro; Mexico: from Montezuma to the Rise of PAN; and Breve Historia de Cuba. Dr. Suchlicki is a highly regarded consultant to the public and private sector in the U.S.
PANEL: Alfredo Duran, is a lawyer practicing in Miami, Florida. Mr. Duran has a long standing record of participation in Democratic Party politics including chairmanship of the Florida Democratic Party, 1976-1980 and membership in various DNC party committees and commissions. He has also served as member of the Dade County School Board, chairman of the Community Relations Board, Member of the Board of Directors of Mercy Hospital Foundation, Inc., NAFTA and Beyond Commission and other civic and community organizations. He is a former member of the Bay of Pigs Invasion; a prisoner of war in Cuba for 18 months; former president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association and is presently Member of the Board of Directors of the Cuban Committee for Democracy (CCD) and Member of the Board of Directors of Center for International Policy.
Otto Reich, President of Otto Reich Associates, LLC, of Washington, DC, served as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, from 1986 to 1989. In the 1980’s, Reich received three appointments from President Ronald Reagan: As Special Advisor to the Secretary of State from 1983 to 1986, he directed the Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean, which received the Department’s Meritorious Honor Award. From 1981 to 1983, he was Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in charge of U.S. economic assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean. He was the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs from 2001 to 2002. He then became President Bush’s Special Envoy for Western Hemisphere Initiatives, reporting to Dr. Condoleezza Rice in the National Security Council. He left government service in June 2004.
Giorgio Meletti
Laura Serafini
Luigi Zingales
Perché in Italia la crisi bancaria è esplosa nelle proporzioni che vediamo senza che i giornali e la politica se ne siano accorti? Le banche hanno tre modi di controllare l'informazione: l'investimento pubblicitario, il finanziamento e la proprietà delle società editoriali. I media hanno tre modi di assoggettarsi alle banche: si sottopongono al ricatto pubblicitario, si indebitano, si fanno direttamente comprare. Dove l'informazione funziona meglio l'economia va meglio. E in Italia la scomparsa delle notizie dai giornali accelera il declino dell'economia italiana.
Why did the banking crisis in Italy explode in such proportions without the media and the world of politics seeming to notice? Banks have three ways to control the flow of news: advertising investment, financing and ownership of media companies. The media have three ways to submit to the banks: via blackmail advertising, by getting into debt, or by running their affairs so badly they get bought directly. Where the media is on the ball, the economy tends to function better. And in Italy the disappearance of hard news from newspapers has accelerated the relative decline of the Italian economy.
video: media.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/banks-and-the...
Featuring:
Tina Exarhos, Former CMO of MTV
Fran Hauser, Former President, Time Inc, Digital and Venture Capitalist
Susan Lyne, President, BBG Ventures
Tiffany Pham, Founder and CEO, Mogul
Shenan Reed, President, MEC Digital
Johanna Zeilstra, Entrepreneur and Founder, womensdebate.org
Moderated by:
Suzanna Keith, MBA 1992, Disruption & Digital Media Executive
Le Città di Asterix: uno story telling giornalistico su Facebook
Sabato 16 aprile 2011
Centro Servizi Alessi
Donata Columbro Marta Cosentino Yasir Khan Alessandra Morelli Marina Petrillo
Il fenomeno migratorio verso l'Europa è uno degli storytelling più gettonati dai media mainstream e da coloro che desiderano fornire narrazioni alternative e proporre nuovi formati. Ripensare a nuove strategie, anche tecnologiche, di racconto della migrazioni può avere una incidenza sociale? E, di più, può anche costringere alcuni media generalisti a forzare la loro visione del mondo partendo proprio da specifici esperimenti di storytelling dove la migrazione è protagonista?
Covering migration towards Europe offers a variety of possibilities for alternative narrations and new formats. Can re-thinking new strategies, even technological, for reporting migration also have a social impact? And can it force some mainstream media to change their vision of the world, starting from specific storytelling experiments where migrants are the main protagonists?
on demande video here: media.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/migrations
Giulio Albanese
Riccardo Iacona
Cristina Nadotti
Tommy Simmons
Il richiamo alla chiusura dei confini, all’isolamento, al “tornatene a casa tua”, al nazionalismo, confligge con quella globalità ed interdipendenza che i “grandi della terra” si sono dati con i nuovi obiettivi globali, in vista del 2030. Non più Nord e Sud, non più povero e ricco, ma tutto è in stretto collegamento. Questo il cardine dei nuovi obiettivi di sviluppo. La salute del mondo, quindi, non può non passare per uno dei malati più drammatici del pianeta, il continente africano. Ricco di risorse, ma depredato e con alcuni degli indici di salute più drammatici della Terra. Amref cura dal 1957 la salute delle aree più remote dell’Africa, consapevole che curare l’Africa sia prendersi cura del mondo. Riccardo Iacona, nelle sue inchieste su Presadiretta (RAI 3) ha di frequente “connesso” il nostro mondo a quello africano, costruendo ogni volta una narrazione che evidenzia quel filo rosso che li lega. Insieme ad Amref PresaDiretta ha raccontato: “la salute come strada per costruire la pace in un Sud Sudan martoriato da divisioni etniche e conseguenze della guerra civile” (2013); scandagliato il dibattito intorno ai vaccini, che ha scaturito numerosi scontri in Italia, ma che in un Paese come l’Uganda, come dimostrato con l’aiuto di Amref - sono essenziali (2016). Fino al racconto delle conseguenze del terrorismo al confine tra Kenya e Somalia, a seguito della strage di Garissa, compiuta per mano del gruppo somalo al shabab. Tale tema è stato sviluppato dal fondatore di Amref Italia, Tommy Simmons, in collaborazione con il regista Angelo Loy. Perché ci dovrebbe interessare l’Africa e la sua salute? In che modo il giornalismo può avvicinare temi che sembrano apparentemente lontani? A queste ed altre domande - grazie alla collaborazione della giornalista Cristina Nadotti - si cercherà di rispondere. Grazie anche a Padre Giulio Albanese uno dei massimi esperti delle tematiche legate all’Africa, missionario comboniano e direttore di Popoli e Missione. Saluto iniziale della presidente onoraria di Amref Ilaria Borletti Buitoni. Organizzato e sponsorizzato da Amref Italia.
The call for the closure of borders, for isolation, for others to “go back home,” for nationalism runs sharply counter to the sense of globalism and interdependence that the “great leaders of the world” have decided with new global goals, for 2030. No more North and South, no longer poor and rich, everything is in a close connection. This is the cornerstone of the new development goals.
video: media.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/take-care-of-...
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MODERATOR: Jaime Suchlicki, Director, Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, and Emilio Bacardi Moreau Distinguished Professor at the University of Miami. He is also editor of “Cuban Affairs,” a quarterly electronic journal published by ICCAS, and the author of Cuba: from Columbus to Castro; Mexico: from Montezuma to the Rise of PAN; and Breve Historia de Cuba. Dr. Suchlicki is a highly regarded consultant to the public and private sector in the U.S.
PANEL: Alfredo Duran, is a lawyer practicing in Miami, Florida. Mr. Duran has a long standing record of participation in Democratic Party politics including chairmanship of the Florida Democratic Party, 1976-1980 and membership in various DNC party committees and commissions. He has also served as member of the Dade County School Board, chairman of the Community Relations Board, Member of the Board of Directors of Mercy Hospital Foundation, Inc., NAFTA and Beyond Commission and other civic and community organizations. He is a former member of the Bay of Pigs Invasion; a prisoner of war in Cuba for 18 months; former president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association and is presently Member of the Board of Directors of the Cuban Committee for Democracy (CCD) and Member of the Board of Directors of Center for International Policy.
Otto Reich, President of Otto Reich Associates, LLC, of Washington, DC, served as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, from 1986 to 1989. In the 1980’s, Reich received three appointments from President Ronald Reagan: As Special Advisor to the Secretary of State from 1983 to 1986, he directed the Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean, which received the Department’s Meritorious Honor Award. From 1981 to 1983, he was Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in charge of U.S. economic assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean. He was the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs from 2001 to 2002. He then became President Bush’s Special Envoy for Western Hemisphere Initiatives, reporting to Dr. Condoleezza Rice in the National Security Council. He left government service in June 2004.
Marianna Aprile
Marco Damilano
Sergio Rizzo
Alessandra Sardoni
Sofia Ventura
La Repubblica dei Brocchi: questa è l'immagine che restituisce la classe dirigente del nostro paese. “Il deperimento delle nostre élite è generale. Niente e nessuno si è salvato dal lento processo di decomposizione. Non la politica. Né le grandi burocrazie pubbliche. Ma neppure magistrati, manager pubblici e privati, professori. Non ha risparmiato il sindacato, la finanza, i professionisti di ogni ordine e grado. Né poteva risparmiare la stampa e l’informazione", scrive Sergio Rizzo.
La Repubblica dei Brocchi (The Republic of Morons) is the latest book by Sergio Rizzo. And the title refers to the image the Italian ruling class offers. Ethical codes, the same Article 54 of the Constitution – which establishes the requirement to fulfill public functions “with honour and dignity” – seem to be as good as scrap paper, when we are overwhelmed by a wave of news concerning cases of nepotism, favoritism, wastage, exhibitions of ignorance and little respect for institutions. The disconnection between the élite and the issues affecting a large part of the population. Especially when political parties frequently seem focused on factional infighting, interested only in maintaining their posts and privileges, without regard for the interests of the country at large.
video: media.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/situations-va...
Marianna Aprile
Marco Damilano
Sergio Rizzo
Alessandra Sardoni
Sofia Ventura
La Repubblica dei Brocchi: questa è l'immagine che restituisce la classe dirigente del nostro paese. “Il deperimento delle nostre élite è generale. Niente e nessuno si è salvato dal lento processo di decomposizione. Non la politica. Né le grandi burocrazie pubbliche. Ma neppure magistrati, manager pubblici e privati, professori. Non ha risparmiato il sindacato, la finanza, i professionisti di ogni ordine e grado. Né poteva risparmiare la stampa e l’informazione", scrive Sergio Rizzo.
La Repubblica dei Brocchi (The Republic of Morons) is the latest book by Sergio Rizzo. And the title refers to the image the Italian ruling class offers. Ethical codes, the same Article 54 of the Constitution – which establishes the requirement to fulfill public functions “with honour and dignity” – seem to be as good as scrap paper, when we are overwhelmed by a wave of news concerning cases of nepotism, favoritism, wastage, exhibitions of ignorance and little respect for institutions. The disconnection between the élite and the issues affecting a large part of the population. Especially when political parties frequently seem focused on factional infighting, interested only in maintaining their posts and privileges, without regard for the interests of the country at large.
video: media.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/situations-va...
Giorgio Meletti
Laura Serafini
Luigi Zingales
Perché in Italia la crisi bancaria è esplosa nelle proporzioni che vediamo senza che i giornali e la politica se ne siano accorti? Le banche hanno tre modi di controllare l'informazione: l'investimento pubblicitario, il finanziamento e la proprietà delle società editoriali. I media hanno tre modi di assoggettarsi alle banche: si sottopongono al ricatto pubblicitario, si indebitano, si fanno direttamente comprare. Dove l'informazione funziona meglio l'economia va meglio. E in Italia la scomparsa delle notizie dai giornali accelera il declino dell'economia italiana.
Why did the banking crisis in Italy explode in such proportions without the media and the world of politics seeming to notice? Banks have three ways to control the flow of news: advertising investment, financing and ownership of media companies. The media have three ways to submit to the banks: via blackmail advertising, by getting into debt, or by running their affairs so badly they get bought directly. Where the media is on the ball, the economy tends to function better. And in Italy the disappearance of hard news from newspapers has accelerated the relative decline of the Italian economy.
video: media.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/banks-and-the...
A meetup on Open Source for the Technology community across government was hosted in London by the Government Digital Service on 26 September 2017.
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MODERATOR: Jaime Suchlicki, Director, Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, and Emilio Bacardi Moreau Distinguished Professor at the University of Miami. He is also editor of “Cuban Affairs,” a quarterly electronic journal published by ICCAS, and the author of Cuba: from Columbus to Castro; Mexico: from Montezuma to the Rise of PAN; and Breve Historia de Cuba. Dr. Suchlicki is a highly regarded consultant to the public and private sector in the U.S.
PANEL: Alfredo Duran, is a lawyer practicing in Miami, Florida. Mr. Duran has a long standing record of participation in Democratic Party politics including chairmanship of the Florida Democratic Party, 1976-1980 and membership in various DNC party committees and commissions. He has also served as member of the Dade County School Board, chairman of the Community Relations Board, Member of the Board of Directors of Mercy Hospital Foundation, Inc., NAFTA and Beyond Commission and other civic and community organizations. He is a former member of the Bay of Pigs Invasion; a prisoner of war in Cuba for 18 months; former president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association and is presently Member of the Board of Directors of the Cuban Committee for Democracy (CCD) and Member of the Board of Directors of Center for International Policy.
Otto Reich, President of Otto Reich Associates, LLC, of Washington, DC, served as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, from 1986 to 1989. In the 1980’s, Reich received three appointments from President Ronald Reagan: As Special Advisor to the Secretary of State from 1983 to 1986, he directed the Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean, which received the Department’s Meritorious Honor Award. From 1981 to 1983, he was Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in charge of U.S. economic assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean. He was the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs from 2001 to 2002. He then became President Bush’s Special Envoy for Western Hemisphere Initiatives, reporting to Dr. Condoleezza Rice in the National Security Council. He left government service in June 2004.