Past Speakers

Kevin Macdonald

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Kevin Macdonald

Director, producer

Kevin Macdonald is a director and producer, known for Whitney (2018), The Last King of Scotland (2006), State of Play (2009) and Touching the Void (2003).

Kevin Macdonald's first feature, One Day In September, won an Oscar for Best Documentary in 2000. His awards include a BAFTA for Best British Film, the Evening Standard Award for Best British Film, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It is the highest grossing British documentary in U.K. box office history. Kevin's first feature-length drama, The Last King of Scotland, starring Forest Whitaker, premiered at Telluride and was released in the UK and the US in 2006. Other feature drama credits include State of Play, starring Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck, and The Eagle, adapted from Rosemary Sutcliffe's The Eagle of the Ninth and starring Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell. His most recent feature is Marley, the acclaimed documentary about Bob Marley's life and work was nominated for Best Documentary at the 2013 BAFTA’s as well as receiving a GRAMMY and a BIFA nomination. In 2013, his film How I Live Now starring Saoirse Ronan and Tom Holland was released. In 2018, he examined the life and career of singer Whitney Houston in his film Whitney.

The Common Good hosted Macdonald in 2011: New York Premiere of “Life in a Day”.

Twitter: @Kevinmfilms

Representative Shelley Berkley

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The honorable Shelley Berkley

Former Representative for Nevada’s First Congressional District

Congresswoman Shelley Berkley formerly represented Nevada’s First Congressional District from 1999 to 2012 as a Mem­ber of the U.S. House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives. A can­di­date for Sen­ate in 2012, she had a proven track record of help­ing the mid­dle class on issues that mat­ter the most: cre­at­ing jobs, keep­ing fam­i­lies from los­ing their homes, and increas­ing access to edu­ca­tion and health care.

After completing junior high and high school in Las Vegas, Congresswoman Berkley became the first member of her family to attend college when she enrolled as an undergraduate at the University of Nevada – Las Vegas (UNLV). Elected student body president her senior year, Congresswoman Berkley graduated with honors in 1972, earning a B.A. in Political Science. After earning her law degree in 1976 from the University of San Diego School of Law, Shelley returned to Las Vegas and began her professional career. She is a former member of the Nevada State Legislature and served as a Regent for the State’s University and Community College.

Representative Berkley attended a Meet & Greet at The Common Good on June 27th, 2011.

Twitter: @RepBerkley

Dr. Emily Landau

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Dr. Emily Landau

Israeli Expert

Dr. Emily Landau has published and lectured extensively on the Middle East. Some topics that she has covered include Arab perceptions of Israel’s qualitative edge, Israeli-Egyptian relations, and proliferation challenges in the post-Cold War world. Her current research focuses on regional dynamics and processes in the Middle East and developments in arms control thinking on nuclear proliferation, including implications of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

She is co-author of Israel’s Nuclear Image: Arab Perceptions of Israel’s Nuclear Posture, author of Egypt and Israel in ACRS: Bilateral Concerns in a Regional Arms Control Process, and co-editor of Building Regional Security in the Middle East: International, Regional and Domestic Influences. Her most recent book is Arms Control in the Middle East: Cooperative Security Dialogue and Regional Constraints.

Dr. Landau teaches arms control in the Security Studies program at Tel Aviv University and in the International School at the University of Haifa. She is a member of the Steering Committee of EuroMeSCo, the Euro-Mediterranean consortium of research institutes, and of the newly convened Expert Advisory Group for Euro-Mediterranean affairs.

Dr. Landau spoke at The Common Good on Middle East Regional Security, June 21st, 2011.

Twitter: @EmilyBLandau

Ken Burns

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Ken Burns

Filmmaker

Ken Burns has been making films for more than thirty years. Since the Academy Award-nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Burns has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made. A December 2002 poll conducted by Real Screen Magazine listed Ken Burn’s The Civil War as second only to Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North as the “most influential documentary of all time,” and named Ken Burns and Robert Flaherty as the “most influential documentary makers” of all time. Burns’ films have won twelve Emmy Awards and two Oscar nominations, and in September of 2008, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Burns was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award. He is one of the co-founders of Florentine Films.

Mr. Burns was hosted by The Common Good in June of 2011: A Conversation With Ken Burns.

Twitter: @KenBurns

Spike Jonze

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Spike Jonze

American filmmaker, photographer, actor

Spike Jonze is an American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor who started his feature film directing career with Being John Malkovich (1999) and Adaptation (2002), both written by Charlie Kaufman, and then started movies with screenplays of his own with Where the Wild Things Are (2009) and Her (2013).

Jonze is also known for his music video collaborations with Fatboy Slim, Weezer, Beastie Boys, and Björk. He was a co-creator and executive producer of MTV’s Jackass and is currently the creative director of Vice Media, Inc. Jonze is a partial owner of skateboard company Girl Skateboards with riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll. He co-founded Directors Label, with filmmakers Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry, and the Palm Pictures company.

Jonze has been nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Director for Being John Malkovich, and Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Song (“The Moon Song”) for Her. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the 2014 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Her.

Jonze was hosted by The Common Good in 2011: The Wall Street Journal: Fashionable Crowd for 'Style Wars'.

Catherine Keener

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Catherine Keener

American actress

Catherine Keener is an Academy Award and Oscar nominated actress for best supporting actress. Starring in Being John Malkovich, Capote, Into the Wild, and The 40 Year-Old Virgin. She received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress for Walking and Talking, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Where the Wild Things Are. Catherine also she was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Harper Lee in Capote.

She’s worked on studio films such as Captain Phillips, Out of Sight, and Bad Grandpa. But she found her place in independent cinema which is full of quirky little movies and felt extremely welcomed in that industry.

She discusses her hardships when it came to making a name for herself as she had to deal with backlash due to being a women. Being turned down from roles because “she wasn’t sexy enough.” Although she spoke out and persevered. She expresses her love for the #MeToo movement as it allows for women to speak out about unacceptable behavior and continues to support it.

Keener was hosted twice by The Common Good in 2011, at the event Style Wars and The American Spirit Awards 2011.

Twitter: @KeenerSavannah

Ross Bleckner

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Ross Bleckner

Artist

Ross Bleckner is an artist currently living and working in New York City. He received a Bachelor of Arts from New York University in 1971, a Master of Fine Arts from Cal Arts in 1973. 

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum held a major retrospective of his works in 1995, summarizing two decades of solo shows at internationally acclaimed exhibition venues such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Works by Bleckner are also held in esteemed public collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Not only has Bleckner had a profound impact on the shaping of the New York art world, his philanthropic efforts have enabled many community organizations to perform their vital work.  For ten years. Bleckner served as president of the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA), a non-profit community-based research and treatment education center.  More recently, he has been working with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Northern Uganda to help rehabilitate and raise money for ex-child soldiers. In May 2009, Bleckner was awarded the title of Goodwill Ambassador by the United Nations.

Mr. Bleckner was hosted by The Common Good in 2011: The Quest for "It": Desert Flower Premieres – Sunday, March 20, 2011.

Liya Kebede

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Liya Kebede

Model, maternal health advocate, clothing designer, actress

Born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Liya Kebede works as an international fashion model. She has appeared on the covers of Italian, Japanese, Korean & Spanish Vogue, Numero, V, French, Flair, i-D, South African Elle, Harper’s & Queen, Essence, and Time’s “Style & Design” issue. Kebede was also featured on the September 2004 cover of American Vogue, where she was named one of the leading faces of “the Return of the Super Model”. Kebede appeared for a second time on the May 2005 cover of American Vogue, with the heading “Cover model with a cause,” profiling her work with the World Health Organization as their Goodwill Ambassador for her tireless efforts in raising awareness for the difficulties that women and children face in the developing world.

In 2005, Kebede was appointed WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. She then founded the Liya Kebede Foundation, whose mission is to reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality in Ethiopia and around the world. In 2009, she worked with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of their Living Proof Project. Kebede served as a High-Level adviser for the Center for Global Development’s 2009 report “Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health.” Kebede writes for The Huffington Post about maternal and child health and has been featured in Vogue and on The Daily Beast. She is also part of the Champions for an HIV Free Generation, an organization of African leaders led by former Botswana President Festus Mogae.

The Common Good hosted Kebede in 2011 for a discussion about her role in the film Desert Flower.

Twitter: @liyakebede

Ruth Gruber †

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Ruth Gruber †

Journalist, photographer, humanitarian

Ruth Gruber became the youngest Ph.D. in the world before going on to become an international foreign correspondent and photojournalist at age 24. By 1936, Ruth was in the Soviet Union reporting for The New York Herald Tribune; by 1941, she was filing reports from Alaska for Harold L. Ickes, Roosevelt’s Secretary of the Interior, describing its suitability for homesteading soldiers. During World War II and its aftermath, she secretly escorted Holocaust refugees to America in 1944 and documented the attack on the refugee boat Exodus by the British in 1947.

Continuing her journalistic travel, she worked as a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, writing about each new wave of immigrants into Israel, including the Iraqis, Yemenites, Romanians, Russians and Ethiopians. She also wrote a popular column for Hadassah Magazine, called “Diary of an American Housewife.” Ruth Gruber has received many awards for her writing and humanitarian acts, including the Na’amat Golda Meir Human Rights Award and awards from the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance. She has written 18 books, and most recently was the subject of the documentary Ahead of Time.

She passed away at the age of 105 on November 17th, 2016.

The Common Good honored Ruth Gruber with the American Spirit Award for Citizen Activism at the The American Spirit Awards 2011.

Ann Curry

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Ann Curry

American television personality, news journalist, photojournalist

Ann Curry is an American television personality, news journalist, and photojournalist. In June 2012, she became the Today show’s anchor-at-large and NBC News’ national/international correspondent. She was previously co-host of Today from June 9, 2011 to June 28, 2012, and the program’s news anchor from March 1997 until becoming co-host. She was also the anchor of Dateline NBC from 2005 to 2011.

In 1990, Curry joined NBC News, first as the NBC News Chicago correspondent then as the anchor of NBC News at Sunrise from 1991 to 1996. Curry also served as a substitute news anchor for Matt Lauer from 1994 to 1997 at Today. From 1997 to 2011, she served as news anchor at Today. In May 2005, Curry was named co-anchor of Dateline NBC with Stone Phillips; she remained as the primary anchor when Phillips left in June 2007 until she replaced Meredith Vieira on Today in 2011. Curry replaced Meredith Vieira as co-host of Today on June 9, 2011.

On June 28, 2012, Curry announced that she was leaving the Today show. Her title has been changed to Today show anchor-at-large and NBC News national/international correspondent. Her responsibilities include leading a seven-person unit producing content for NBC Nightly News, Dateline NBC, Rock Center with Brian Williams and Today, with occasional anchor duties for Nightly News. In January 2018, Curry came back to television with a 6-part PBS series called “We’ll meet again”.

The Common Good hosted Curry in February of 2011: The American Spirit Awards 2011, Elle: How to Be Awesome at 100, and Manhattan Society: The Common Good's Tribute to Ruth Gruber.

Twitter: @AnnCurry

Catherine Crier

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Catherine Crier

Journalist, Texas State judge

Catherine Crier is an award winning journalist and the youngest Texas State Judge to ever be elected. She joined Court TV’s distinguished team of anchors in November 1999. Crier served as Executive Editor, Legal News Specials, in addition to hosting Catherine Crier Live.

Crier began her television career at CNN. She was co-anchor of both Inside Politics and The World Today. Additionally, she hosted Crier & Company. Crier has hosted episodes of Court TV’s signature primetime series The System and numerous other specials such as The Skakel Jury Speaks with Dominick Dunne and Catherine Crier, Osama bin Laden on Trial and Safe Passage: Voices from the Middle School. Prior to joining Court TV, Crier anchored The Crier Report for Fox News Channel. Crier joined FNC after spending three and a half years at ABC News, where she served as a correspondent and as a regular substitute anchor for Peter Jennings on ABC’s World News Tonight, as well as a substitute host for Ted Koppel’s Nightline. Crier was awarded a 1996 Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for her work on the segment The Predators, which examined nursing home abuses throughout the United States.

Prior to her accomplished career in television journalism, Crier presided over the 162nd District Court in Dallas County, TX, as a State District Judge. In 1984, she became the youngest elected state judge in Texas history. From 1982 to 1984, Crier was a civil litigation attorney in Dallas. From 1978 to 1981, she was an Assistant District Attorney and Felony Chief Prosecutor for the Dallas County District Attorney’s office.

Crier released her first book, The New York Times bestseller The Case Against Lawyers, in October, 2002. In this eye-opening and plain-spoken treatise on the law, Crier shares her outrage at the state of the justice system and calls on American citizens to demand reform. Her second book, A Deadly Game: The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson Investigation was released in March, 2005 and became a #1 New York Times bestseller. Catherine Crier is now a managing partner in Cajole Entertainment developing television, film and documentary projects.

The Common Good hosted Crier in November 2011: Catherine Crier on “Occupy Wall Street”, and she co-hosted The American Spirit Awards 2011.

Twitter: @CatherineCrier

Dan Abrams

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Dan Abrams

American web entrepreneur, television host

Dan Abrams is the Founder of the Abrams Media Network. He was the General Manager of MSNBC from 2006 to 2007, and during his tenure ratings grew by 62%, branding the network “The Place for Politics”. In the four years prior to his management appointment, Dan hosted The Abrams Report, a nightly legal affairs program, and later Verdict with Dan Abrams.

The Abrams Media Network has become one of the nation’s most successful and widely read digital media conglomerates. It includes: Mediaite.com, fashion and style site Styleite.com, Geekosystem.com and Sportsgrid.com. Dan is also the co-founder of Gossipcop.com, the first major website to police the gossip industry for inaccuracies in reporting.

He is the author of Man Down: Proof That Women Are Better Cops, Drivers, Gamblers, Spies, World Leaders, Hedge Fund Managers, and Just About Everything Else. His latest book, Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy, was released in May, 2019.

Abrams was hosted by The Common Good in 2010: Election Insurrection: The Mid-Term Elections 2010.

Twitter: @danabrams

Tim Hetherington ✝

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Tim Hetherington ✝

British photojournalist

Tim Hetherington, a photographer and filmmaker, was killed while covering the escalating violence in Misrata, Libya at age 40 on April 20th, 2011. At the time of his death, he was working along side three other photographers on the city’s front lines when they came under fire.

As a filmmaker, Hetherington worked as a cameraman, director, and producer. Hetherington was best known for the Oscar nominated 2010 Afghan war documentary, Restrepo, which he produced and co-directed with Sebastian Junger. He also served as producer/director on Channel 4’s Unreported World – Nigeria: Fire in the Delta (2006) and as a cameraman on The Devil Came on Horseback (2007), a documentary about the Sudanese militia attacks on Chad.

His photography career began at the Big Issue, the magazine sold by London’s homeless. From there he moved on to work as a freelance photographer for The Independent and, later on, for magazines like Vanity Fair. In 2007, he was awarded the World Press photo of the year for his portrait of an exhausted US soldier in Korengal. He was also a member of the UN panel of experts on Liberia and worked with the Milton Margai School for the Blind in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

The Common Good hosted Hetherington in 2010: Special Screening of Restrepo 2010.

Sebastian Junger

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Sebastian Junger

American journalist, author, filmmaker

Sebastian Junger is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated director, war journalist, and best-selling author. He has written several books, including The Perfect Storm, A Death in Belmont, and Fire. Junger is acclaimed for his coverage of major international news stories across the world, including in Sierra Leone and Liberia. He has contributed as an editor to Vanity Fair and ABC News, and has received many awards for his endeavors, including the National Magazine Award and the SAIS Novartis Prize for Journalism. His debut as an author proved to be successful, as The Perfect Storm remained on The New York Times best-seller list for more than three years, set sales records, and was picked up by Warner Bros. for a major motion picture.

From 2007 to 2008, Junger, alongside photojournalist Tim Hetherington, joined the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team in Korengal. The outcome of their reporting was twofold: the book War, released in May 2010, and Restrepo, a 96-minute documentary. After the death of friend and photographer Tim Hetherington, Junger directed the film Which Way is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington. Most recently, following the book and documentary Restrepo, he created Korengal, a film that highlights the experiences of soldiers.

Junger was hosted by The Common Good in 2010: Special Screening of Restrepo 2010.

Twitter: @sebastianjunger

Daniel Ellsberg

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Daniel Ellsberg

Author, “leaker” of the Pentagon Papers

Daniel Ellsberg worked on the top secret McNamara study of U.S. Decision-making in Vietnam, 1945-1968, which later came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. In 1969, he photocopied the 7,000 page study and gave it to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; in 1971 he gave it to The New York Times, The Washington Post and 17 other newspapers. His trial, on twelve felony counts posing a possible sentence of 115 years, was dismissed in 1973 on grounds of governmental misconduct against him, which led to the convictions of several White House aides and contributed to the impeachment proceedings against President Nixon.

Ellsberg is the author of three books: Papers on the War (1971), Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (2002), and Risk, Ambiguity and Decision (2001). In December 2006 he was awarded the 2006 Right Livelihood Award, known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” in Stockholm, Sweden, “…for putting peace and truth first, at considerable personal risk, and dedicating his life to inspiring others to follow his example.”

Since the end of the Vietnam War, Ellsberg has been a lecturer, writer and activist on the dangers of the nuclear era, wrongful U.S. interventions, and the urgent need for patriotic whistle-blowing. He is a Senior Fellow of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

Ellsberg spoke alongside Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith at a Screening and Discussion of 'The Most Dangerous Man in America' and the Panama Papers at The Common Good in 2010.

Twitter: @DanielEllsberg

Jim Miller

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Jim Miller

Executive Director for the Brave New Foundation

Jim Miller is the Executive Director for Brave New Foundation. He joined the company when the Foundation was initially formed by putting together the coalition of over 100 groups (including Amnesty International, MoveOn True Majority, and Voters For Peace) to push their unique system of distributuion and house screenings for Iraq For Sale. Since then Jim has strengthened their distribution coalition so that their short videos now get 1.5 million views per month. His film experience began over 20 years ago working on the film Bull Durham and includes being the Director of Development for The Shooting Gallery, an independent film company which produced ‘Sling Blade’ and ‘You Can Count on Me’, and Head of Acquisitions for Cinema Park Distribution.

Stuart Sundlun

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Stuart Sundlun

Managing Director of BMB Advisors

Stuart Sundlun is a Managing Director of BMB Advisors, a merchant banking group focusing on the Emerging Markets. In addition to private equity, BMB has created ShARE, which provides access for Islamic Sharia investors to leading alternative asset managers. Mr. Sundlun was one of the founders and serves as Board Member of The Dignity Fund which makes micro finance loans in developing countries. Active in business ventures in Russia since 1994, he currently serves on the board of South Oil. He was an unofficial advisor to his father, the Honorable Bruce Sundlun, during his five campaigns for Governor of Rhode Island.

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Charles "Joe" Hynes

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Charles "Joe” Hynes

American lawyer, politician

Charles Hynes is an American lawyer and politician.

In 1975, Governor Hugh Carey and Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz appointed Hynes as special state prosecutor for Nursing Homes, Health and Social Services, in response to a massive scandal in the state’s nursing home industry. Hynes’ office launched a comprehensive attack on Medicaid fraud, and his Medicaid Fraud Control Unit eventually became a national model, cited in a report of the House Select Committee on Aging as the best in the country. Hynes was appointed the 24th New York City Fire Commissioner by Mayor Edward I. Koch on November 5, 1980. He served as a Commissioner for the New York State Commission of Investigation between 1983 and 1985 by appointment of New York State Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink. In 1985, Governor Mario Cuomo appointed District Attorney Hynes Special State Prosecutor for the New York City Criminal Justice System. In October, 1990, Hynes initiated the Drug Treatment Alternative-to-Prison Program (DTAP) on the premise that drug-addicted defendants would return to society in a better position to resist drugs and crime after treatment than if they had spent a comparable time in prison at nearly twice the cost. Hynes is also credited with establishing one of the most comprehensive-and first-countywide programs designed specifically to address domestic abuse as a criminal issue. In 2005, he opened the first Family Justice Center in New York State, an all-in-one facility where domestic violence victims can meet with prosecutors, counselors, civil attorneys and clergy members, and get help changing their locks, finding new housing, handling custody issues and a wide range of related problems, all in their native languages.

The Common Good hosted Hynes in March of 2009: Meet & Greet: Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes.

Twitter: @HynesForDA

Arthur Eisenberg

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Arthur Eisenberg

Legal Director of the NYCLU

Arthur Eisenberg is the Legal Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, where he has worked for more than 35 years. During that time he has been involved in more than 20 cases that were presented to the United States Supreme Court. He has litigated extensively around issues of free speech and voting rights and has been increasingly involved in litigation concerning national security and civil liberties. Eisenberg is the co-author, with Burt Neuborne, of the Rights of Candidates and Voters and has published numerous law review articles. Eisenberg contributed an essay on issues of faith and conscience in the book Engaging Cultural Differences, and an essay on military tribunals for the book It’s a Free Country.

The Common Good hosted Mr. Eisenberg in March of 2009: Lunch and Discussion with: Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes.

Patricia Gatling

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Patricia Gatling

Commissioner and Chair of the New York City Commision on Human Rights

Patricia Gatling was the Commissioner and Chair of the New York City Commission on Human Rights until 2015. Gatling is now counsel at Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP.

As Commissioner, Gatling was in charge of enforcing the Human Rights Law and combating discrimination in New York City. She also worked as a senior trainer with John Jay College, teaching '“Human Dignity and the Law” in newly emerging democratic countries, such as Botswana and Thailand. Previously, Ms. Gatling served as First Assistant District Attorney at the Kings County District Attorney’s Office. She is an active participant in community outreach programs and a widely respected speaker.

For her unending public service, Ms. Gatling has received numerous awards throughout her career.

The Common Good hosted Gatling in 2009: Meet & Greet: Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes.