Secretary Julián Castro

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Secretary Julián Castro

Former Mayor of San Antonio and former Secretary for Housing and Urban Development

Julián Castro was the youngest member of President Obama’s cabinet, serving as Secretary for Housing and Urban Development.

Upon his graduation from Harvard law school, Castro ran for a seat on the San Antonio City Council and won, making history as the youngest councilman in the city’s history. He served for several years and then ran for the mayoral seat, which he lost. He ran again for the mayoral seat in 2009 and won, becoming the fifth Hispanic mayor in San Antonio’s history. Under his leadership, the city established Café College, a one-stop center offering high-quality guidance on college admissions, financial aid and standardized test preparation to any student in the San Antonio area. Since opening in 2010, Café College has served more than 25,000 area students.

In March 2010, Castro joined Twitter and Google executives in being named to the World Economic Forum’s list of Young Global Leaders. Soon after, Time magazine placed him on its “40 Under 40” list of rising stars in American politics.

Castro served as the Secretary for Housing and Urban Development from 2014 to 2017.

Castro announced that he was running for president of the United States on January 12, 2019. He said he achieved universal preschool in San Antonio during his time as mayor and would do the same nationally. Castro has also promoted Medicare for All and housing affordability.

Prior to serving in the Obama administration, Castro was the mayor of San Antonio for five years. He also served on the San Antonio City Council, representing District 7.

Twitter: @JulianCastro

Senator Alan Simpson

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the honorable Alan Simpson

American politician

Alan Simpson served as a Senator from Wyoming from 1979 to 1997. He was an opponent of government regulation, as well as an outspoken advocate for access to abortion, gay and lesbian rights, and equality for all persons regardless of race, color, creed, gender, or sexual orientation. He was Republican whip from 1985 to 1995 and chairman of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee from 1981 to 1987 and from 1995 to 1997. During his tenure, Simpson also chaired the Immigration and Refugee Subcommittee of Judiciary, the Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee, the Social Security Subcommittee and the Committee on Aging.

After his retirement from politics, Simpson taught at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, serving two years as Director of the Institute of Politics. In 2000, he returned to Wyoming to practice law with his two sons, William and Colin. Alan Simpson occasionally teaches at the University of Wyoming, and serves as co-chair of Americans for Campaign Reform.

Simpson was hosted by The Common Good in 2012: Senator Alan Simpson “The Fiscal Cliff: Go Big or Go Home” – December 3, 2012.

Neil Barofsky

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Neil Barofsky

Senior Fellow at New York University School of Law

Neil Barofsky is currently a senior fellow at New York University School of Law. From December 2008 until March 2011, he served as the special inspector general in charge of oversight of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Before that he was a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York for more than eight years. During this time he headed the Mortgage Fraud Group and prosecuted some of the most significant cases in the United States, including the conviction of the former CEO and president of Refco. He also led the investigation that resulted in the indictment of the top fifty leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC) on narcotics charges, a case described by then-U.S. attorney general as the largest narcotics indictment filed in U.S. history.

Barofsky was hosted by The Common Good in 2011: Former TARP Special Inspector Neil Barofsky, “Another Crisis is Coming” – November 28, 2011, and in 2012: Neil Barofsky on the “Broken Promises” of the Bank Bailouts – November 28, 2012.

Twitter: @neilbarofsky

Steve Hildebrand

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Steve Hildebrand

Democratic political strategist

Steve Hildebrand is a Democratic political strategist, and was the deputy national campaign director of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. In 2005, Hildebrand joined with Paul Tewes to form Hildebrand Tewes Consulting, a campaign consulting firm with offices in Washington, D.C., and Sioux Falls. In 2004, he was the campaign manager for U.S. Senator Tom Daschle’s (D-SD) losing re-election effort against U.S. Representative John Thune (R-SD). He was also campaign manager in U.S. Senator Tim Johnson’s (D-SD) winning re-election campaign in 2002 and Al Gore’s 2000 Iowa Caucus victory. He has served as Executive Director of the South Dakota and Minnesota Democratic Parties and Political Director of Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. He returned to his private consulting firm following Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election.

The Common Good hosted Hildebrand in 2010: Election Insurrection: The Mid-Term Elections 2010.

Twitter: @cooper834

Grover Norquist

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Grover Norquist

Political activist

Grover Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a taxpayer advocacy group he founded in 1985 at President Reagan’s request.

A native of Massachusetts, Grover Norquist has been one of most effective issues management strategists in Washington for three decades. Norquist is famous for saying he wanted to make government “small enough to drown in a bathtub.” Norquist chairs the Washington, D.C.-based “Wednesday Meeting,” a weekly gathering of more than 150 elected officials, political activists, and movement leaders. 

The Common Good hosted Norquist on October 25th, 2012, for a Power Lunch.

Twitter: @GroverNorquist

Colin Kahl

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dr. Colin Kahl

American political adviser, former White House staff member

Colin Kahl was the Deputy Assistant to President Obama and National Security Advisor to Vice President Biden.  

In addition to teaching at Georgetown, Dr. Kahl served as Senior Fellow and Director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. From 2009-2011, Dr. Kahl served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East. In that position, he was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service in June 2011. Dr. Kahl served at the Pentagon from 2005-2006, where he was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs fellow in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Stability Operations. Dr. Kahl is the author of a number of reports and publications on far-ranging issues in the Middle East. 

The Common Good hosted Dr. Kahl in 2012: Col. Jack Jacobs & Colin Kahl, Middle East Hot Topics.

Twitter: @ColinKahl

Colonel Jack Jacobs

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Colonel Jack Jacobs

Ret. Colonel in the U.S. Army

Jack Howard Jacobs is a retired colonel in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions during the Vietnam War. He currently serves as a military analyst for MSNBC and NBC News, and previously worked as an investment manager.

Jack Jacobs fought in Vietnam where he was promoted to captain and awarded the Medal of Honor. In addition to the Medal of Honor, Jacobs received two Silver Stars, three Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts. Jacobs was a faculty member at the United States Military Academy in West Point, teaching international relations and comparative politics for three years, and at the National War College in Washington, D.C. He retired from the Army in 1987 as a colonel, and began a career in investment banking. Jacobs maintains involvement in several military-related organizations. He is vice chairman of the Medal of Honor Foundation, a member of the board of trustees for the National World War II Museum, and holds the McDermott Chair of Politics at the U.S. Military Academy.

In October 2008, the Penguin Group published Jacobs’ memoir, If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice In America’s Time of Need, coauthored with New York Times best-selling author, Douglas Century. In May 2012, Thomas Dunne Books published Basic: Surviving Boot Camp and Basic Training, co-written with David Fisher.

Jacobs was hosted by The Common Good alongside Colin Kahl in 2012: Col. Jack Jacobs & Colin Kahl, Middle East Hot Topics.

Twitter: @ColJackJacobs

Jodi Kantor

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Jodi Kantor

Journalist, The New York Times correspondent

Jodi Kantor is a prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times and a best-selling author. (1)

Ms. Kantor specializes in long-form, deeply reported stories. Before she and Megan Twohey broke the story of Harvey Weinstein’s decades of alleged abuse towards women, Ms. Kantor’s investigations into conditions at Starbucks and Amazon prompted national debates and policy changes at both companies. Along with colleagues who exposed harassment across industries, they were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, journalism's highest honor. Before becoming a reporter, Ms. Kantor was the New York editor of Slate magazine and The Times’s Arts & Leisure editor. (1)

Kantor was hosted by The Common Good in 2012 to discuss her book The Obamas: Jodi Kantor on her new book “The Obamas”.

Twitter: @jodikantor

(1) Material from the She Said (the book) website.

Susan Blumenthal

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Dr.Susan Blumenthal

American physician, global health expert, psychiatrist, public health advocate

Rear Admiral Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A. served as U.S. Assistant Surgeon General and Senior Global Health Advisor in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Dr. Blumenthal has been involved in the national public health response to terrorism, emergency preparedness, biotechnology issues, and emerging disease threats including pandemic flu and AIDS. She was a pioneer in applying information technology to improve health and was among the first in the government to use the Internet for health education.

Dr. Blumenthal currently serves as the Director of the Health and Medicine Program at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC), where she co-chairs the Center’s Commission on Future Directions in Health Care. She also directs its health diplomacy programs including a Palestinian/Israeli Health Initiative supported by USAID that has convened experts, developed recommendations for cooperative programs and used information technology to help foster information exchange. Additionally, Dr. Blumenthal serves as Senior Policy and Medical Advisor to amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, and is Chair of the Global Health Program at the Meridian International Center. Dr. Blumenthal is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown and Tufts School of Medicine.

Dr. Blumenthal was recently decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal of the U.S. Public Health Service, its highest honor, “for distinguished and pioneering leadership, groundbreaking contributions and dedicated public service that has improved the health of women, our Nation, and the world.”

Dr. Blumenthal has also been involved in the national public health response to terrorism, emergency pandemic preparedness, biotechnology issues, and emerging disease threats including AIDS and COVID-19. She is currently a Senior Fellow in Health Policy at New America where she is focused on a broad range of issues including the COVID-19 pandemic, applying technology to advance public health, health reform implementation, food insecurity, women’s health, and global health. Additionally, Dr. Blumenthal serves as Senior Policy and Medical Advisor to amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research and is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts and Georgetown Schools of Medicine.

Dr. Blumenthal was hosted by The Common Good in 2012: Aftermath: Supreme Court & Health Care with Carl Bernstein, Jeffrey Toobin & Susan Blumenthal – July 19, 2012.

Dr. Blumenthal returned to moderated the event COVID-19: Then, Now and What’s To Come with Dr. Daniel R. Lucey from Georgetown University and a leading scholar in infectious diseases, and former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden as we learn about the origins, the spread and what the future will be like as a result of Covid-19.

Leslie Gelb

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Leslie Gelb

Author, former correspondent for The New York Times

Leslie Gelb is a former correspondent for The New York Times and is currently President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is author of the 2009 book, Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Policy.

Gelb was diplomatic correspondent at The New York Times from 1973 to 1977. He served as an Assistant Secretary of State in the Carter Administration from 1977 to 1979, winning the Distinguished Honor Award, the highest award of the US State Department. He returned to the Times in 1981; from then until 1993, he was in turn its national security correspondent, deputy editorial page editor, editor of the Op-Ed Page, and columnist. This period included his leading role on the Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1986 for a six-part comprehensive series on the “Star Wars” Strategic Defense Initiative.

He serves as the chairman of the advisory board for the progressive foreign policy think tank, National Security Network, on the board of directors of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, member of the board of directors of the Truman Project, board of directors of the the Center for the National Interest and the advisory board of United Against Nuclear Iran.

Jack Abramoff

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Jack Abramoff

American lobbyist, businessman, movie producer, writer

Abramoff started his political career at Brandeis University as head of the College Republicans. After becoming national chairman of that group, Abramoff was soon named head of President Ronald Reagan’s grassroots lobbying organization on Capitol Hill. He held that position while attending Georgetown Law Center at night, and obtained his JD in 1986. After a detour into motion picture production, Abramoff returned to the nation’s capital to build one of the most successful lobbying practices in history. He spent a lengthy term in federal prison on corruption charges.

His downfall caused Abramoff to reassess his past, and his book Capitol Punishment is designed to alert our nation about what goes on behind the guarded doors of power in Washington, DC. Since his release from prison, Abramoff has appeared on hundreds of television and radio networks and programs, including CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, “60 Minutes” and “The Colbert Report”.

Mr. Abramoff was hosted by The Common Good for a discussion about his book “Capitol Punishment,” which talks about reforming lobbying practices in U.S. national politics, in 2012: Jack Abramoff on Lobby Reform – June 20, 2012.

Twitter: @jackabramoff

Todd Gitlin

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Todd Gitlin

Author, political activist

Todd Gitlin is an author and political activist. His latest book is Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street, published in April 2012. Gitlin’s two previous books are The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election (with Liel Leibovitz) and Undying. He has written 12 books, chiefly on media and contemporary America. He has also published a book of poetry, Busy Being Born, and his book Sacrifice won the Harold U. Ribalow Prize for novels on Jewish themes.

He contributes to many newspapers and magazines, lectures frequently in the United States and abroad, is a member of the editorial board of Dissent.

Gitlin spoke at The Common Good on June 20th, 2012, alongside Jesse LaGreca: The Power of Protest: Todd Gitlin & Jesse LaGreca.

Twitter: @toddgitlin

Senator Tim Kaine

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Senator Tim Kaine

American lawyer, politician

Tim Kaine has served people throughout his adult life as a missionary, fair housing attorney, teacher and elected official. He is the current junior Senator from Virginia.

Tim entered political life in 1994, running for the Richmond City Council. He served until 2001 as a Councilman and Mayor. Richmond saw an economic renaissance that led to increasing population, a bond rating upgrade and recognition by Forbes Magazine as one of America’s ten best cities for doing business. In 2001, Tim was elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. He worked to reform Virginia’s budget and improve Virginia’s education system. In 2005, Tim was elected Virginia’s 70th Governor. Virginia was honored as the Best Managed State in America (Governing Magazine), the Best State for Business (Forbes.com—four years in a row) and the Best State to Raise a Child (Education Week). Virginia maintained its Triple A bond rating for fiscal management—an honor shared by only 7 states—and had one of the nation’s lowest unemployment rates and highest median incomes.

Tim was the Chairman of the Southern Governor’s Association in 2008-09 and served as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 through 2011. He has received numerous awards and honorary degrees from organizations such as the Richmond Bar Association, Virginia Military Institute, the National Fair Housing Alliance, the Virginia Holocaust Museum and the Virginia Council of Churches.

In 2016, Senator Kaine ran for Vice President on the democratic ticket with Hilary Clinton unsuccessfully.

Senator Kaine was hosted by The Common Good in 2012: Governor Tim Kaine on the Election Cycle.

Twitter: @timkaine

Thomas Mann

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Thomas Mann

Political scientist

Thomas E. Mann is a political scientist, author, and pundit who works at the Brookings Institution. He primarily studies and speaks on elections in the United States, especially campaign finance reform.

He first went to Washington D.C. in 1969, where he worked as a Congressional Fellow in the offices of Senator Philip A. Hart and Representative James G. O’Hara. Mann is a member of the Advisory Board of the Future of American Democracy Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, “dedicated to research and education aimed at renewing and sustaining the historic vision of American democracy”.

Mann was hosted alongside Norman Ornstein by The Common Good in 2012 to discuss their book It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism.

Norman Ornstein

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dr. Norman Ornstein

Political scientist, author

Norman Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies politics, elections, and the US Congress. He is a co-host of AEI’s Election Watch series, a contributing editor and columnist for the National Journal and The Atlantic, a BBC News election analyst, and the chairman of the Campaign Legal Center.

Dr. Ornstein previously served as co-director of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project and senior counselor to the Continuity of Government Commission. A longtime observer and analyst of American politics and the US Congress, he has been involved in political reform for decades, particularly campaign finance reform and the reform of Senate committees. He has also played a part in creating the Congressional Office of Compliance and the House Office of Congressional Ethics.

His many interviews have been aired on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, CBS, CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, NPR, and PBS NewsHour, among others. His articles and opinion pieces have been published widely, including in Politico, The New York Times, NY Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Dr. Ornstein’s books include the bestsellers One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported, with E. J. Dionne and Thomas E. Mann (St. Martin’s Press, 2017); and It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism; The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track, with Thomas Mann (Oxford University Press, 2006); and The Permanent Campaign and Its Future (AEI Press, 2000).

The Common Good hosted him and co-author Thomas Mann to discuss their book It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism on May 24th, 2012.

Twitter: @NormOrnstein

Governor Christine Todd Whitman

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Governor Christine Todd Whitman

American politician

Former Governor Christine Todd Whitman serves as co-chair of the Republican Leadership Council (RLC), which she founded with Senator John Danforth. The RLC’s mission is to support fiscally conservative, socially tolerant candidates and to reclaim the word Republican.  The RLC was created in March of 2007 by joining forces with Governor Whitman’s political action committee, It’s My Party Too. She is the author of a New York Times best seller by the same name, which was published in January of 2005 and released in paperback in March 2006.

Governor Whitman served in the cabinet of President George W. Bush as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from January of 2001 until June of 2003. She was the 50th Governor of the State of New Jersey, serving as its first woman governor from 1994 until 2001.

Governor Whitman is on the Steering Committee of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey; the Board of Trustees of the Eisenhower Fellowships; the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations; the Governing Board of the Park City Center for Public Policy; and is a member of the Board of the New America Foundation. She was also the Co-Chair for the Council on Foreign Relations’ Task Force, More Than Humanitarianism: A Strategic U.S. Approach Toward Africa as well as the Aspen Health Stewardship Project, which was released in February of 2008. She co-chairs Clean and Safe Energy (CASE) with Dr. Patrick Moore.

The Common Good hosted Governor Whitman in 2012: Governor Christine Todd Whitman.

Twitter: @GovCTW

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem

American feminist, journalist, and social political activist

Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist. She travels in this and other countries as an organizer and lecturer and is a frequent media spokeswoman on issues of equality. She is particularly interested in the shared origins of sex and race caste systems, gender roles and child abuse as roots of violence, non-violent conflict resolution, the cultures of indigenous peoples, and organizing across boundaries for peace and justice.

In 1972, she co-founded Ms. magazine, and remained one of its editors for fifteen years. She continues to serve as a consulting editor for Ms., and was instrumental in the magazine’s move to join and be published by the Feminist Majority Foundation. In 1968, she had helped to found New York magazine, where she was a political columnist and wrote feature articles. As a freelance writer, she was published in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and women’s magazines as well as for publications in other countries. She has produced a documentary on child abuse for HBO, a feature film about the death penalty for Lifetime, and been the subject of profiles on Lifetime and Showtime.

Ms. Steinem helped to found the Women’s Action Alliance, a pioneering national information center that specialized in nonsexist, multiracial children’s education, and the National Women’s Political Caucus, a group that continues to work to advance the numbers of pro-equality women in elected and appointed office at a national and state level. She also co-founded the Women’s Media Center in 2004. She was president and co-founder of Voters for Choice, a pro-choice political action committee for twVFC for the 2004 elections. She was also co-founder and serves on the board of Choice USA, a national organization that supports young pro-choice leadership and works to preserve comprehensive sex education in schools. She was the founding president of the Ms. Foundation for Women, a national multi-racial, multi-issue fund that supports grassroots projects to empower women and girls, and also a founder of its Take Our Daughters to Work Day, a first national day devoted to girls that has now become an institution here and in other countries. She was a member of the Beyond Racism Initiative, a three-year effort on the part of activists and experts from South Africa, Brazil and the United States to compare the racial patterns of those three countries and to learn cross-nationally. Now, she is working with the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College on a project to document the grassroots origins of the U.S. women’s movement.

Twitter: @gloriasteinem

Gayle King

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Gayle King

American television journalist and personality

Gayle King is the co-host of CBS This Morning and Editor-at-Large of the award-winning O, the Oprah Magazine. Since joining CBS News in 2011, King has conducted revealing and news-making interviews with world leaders, political figures, and celebrities for the broadcast, including Michelle Obama, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Jack and Suzy Welch, Taylor Swift and Cicely Tyson.

King previously hosted The Gayle King Show, a live, weekday television interview program on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.

King has received numerous awards for her extensive work as a journalist. In addition to three Emmy’s, she was honored in 2008 with the American Women in Radio & Television Gracie Award for Outstanding Radio Talk Show and in 2010 with both the Individual Achievement Award for Host-Entertainment/Information and the New York Women in Communications’ Matrix Award recipient. She was awarded an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award as part of CBS News’ division-wide coverage of the Newtown tragedy.

The Common Good hosted King in March of 2012: Gloria Steinem with Special Guest Gayle King.

Twitter: @GayleKing

Rachel Roy

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Rachel Roy

Fashion designer, activist

Rachel Roy is the founder and creative director of her eponymous brand and a tireless activist. She founded Kindness Is Always Fashionable, an entrepreneurial philanthropic platform to help women artisans around the world create sustainable income for their families and communities. In 2018 Rachel was named a UN Women Champion for Innovation, and works for the UN advocating gender equality and focusing attention on these and related issues. She is a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. She is an advisor to World of Children, a national non-profit organization that serves underprivileged children.

Rachel has been recognized by the Accessories Council with an ACE AWARD for best brand launch as well as Mattel’s 10 Women to Watch. Rachel has also been recognized for her innovative brand and film work by AdWeek Media and the LaJolla Fashion Film Festival. She has been a contributing columnist to Huffington Post and InStyle magazine. Rachel’s work has been featured on CNN, The Today Show, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and numerous other publications. In 2015, Rachel wrote Design Your Life.

The Common Good hosted Roy in 2011: Summer Cocktail Party with Manhattan Magazine and at The American Spirit Awards 2011, and in 2012: Gloria Steinem with Special Guest Gayle King.

Twitter: @Rachel_Roy

Maria Cuomo Cole

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Maria Cuomo Cole

Filmmaker and Director of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

Maria Cuomo Cole has produced and directed films and public service announcements to raise awareness for social issues including homelessness, domestic violence, at-risk youth, and gun violence. She has captured numerous intimate first person stories of hardship and perseverance on film, video, and in print, which have been broadcast and published in a variety of media. Current film projects include documentaries on female veterans and reflections by prominent Americans on their personal mentors. Cuomo Cole has served as a Director of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Million Mom March since 2005, participating in the strategic leadership of the organization.

Since 1992 she has led the nonprofit agency, HELP USA as Executive Chairman. Under her leadership, the organization has expanded nationally to become one of the largest providers of homes, jobs and services for the homeless in the United States. Additionally, Cuomo Cole produced the documentary Newtown.

Ms. Cuomo Cole is an appointee of the New York State Advisory Committee on the Welfare of Children and Families and the Mayor’s Task Force to Combat Domestic Violence of New York City. She serves as a director of The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and HELP PSI. This year she was honored with the American Red Cross Humanitarian Award and the Newark Now Award.

The Common Good hosted Ms. Cuomo Cole in May of 2011: Manhattan Society: The Common Good Hosts Screening for “Living for 32” and she spoke at The Common Good Forum & The American Spirit Awards 2014.

Twitter: @MariaCuomoCole