Gordon Chang

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Gordon Chang

American columnist, author

Gordon Chang has lived and worked in Shanghai and Hong Kong for almost two decades, and now writes primarily on China, Asia, and nuclear proliferation. He is the author of two Random House books, The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Commentary, and The Weekly Standard, among other publications. He blogs at World Affairs Journal. He has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg, CNBC, and PBS. He has also served two terms as a trustee of Cornell University.

Chang has spoken at many universities, including Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale, and at The Brookings Institution, The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, RAND, the American Enterprise Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, and others. He has given briefings at the National Intelligence Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the Pentagon. He has also spoken before industry and investor groups including Bloomberg, Sanford Bernstein, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia. Chang has appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

Gordon Chang spoke at The Common Good in 2018: "North Korea: Progress or Stalemate?" - September 24, 2018.

Twitter: @GordonGChang

Michael Hayden

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General Michael Hayden

National security analyst for CNN

General Michael Hayden is a retired four-star general who served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. Hayden is currently a principal at the Chertoff Group and a distinguished visiting professor at the George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government. (1)

In addition to leading CIA and NSA, General Hayden was the country’s first principal deputy director of national intelligence and the highest-ranking military intelligence officer in the country. Hayden also served as commander of the Air Intelligence Agency and Director of the Joint Command and Control Warfare Center and served in senior staff positions at the Pentagon, at U.S. European Command, at the National Security Council, and the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria. He was also the deputy chief of staff for the United Nations Command and U.S. Forces in South Korea. (1)

General Hayden was hosted by The Common Good in 2018 to discuss his book The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies.

Twitter: @GenMhayden

(1) Material from The Chertoff Group website.

Fareed Zakaria

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Fareed Zakaria

Thought leader and host of CNN’s Flagship International Affairs Program

Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN’s flagship international affairs program, Fareed Zakaria GPS, and columnist for the Washington Post, is one of the nation’s most influential thought leaders. He is widely heralded for his ability to pinpoint economic and political trends. Foreign Policy has named Zakaria one of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers,” and Esquire Magazine has called him “the most influential foreign policy adviser of his generation.”

The Common Good honored Zakaria at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2018.

Twitter: @FareedZakaria

Yascha Mounk

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Yascha Mounk

Political scientist, author, associate professor at Johns Hopkins University

Yascha Mounk is a political scientist known for his work on the rise of populism and the crisis of liberal democracy. His third and most recent book, The People vs Democracy: Why Our Freedom is In Danger and How to Save It, has been translated into 10 languages and recognized as a “Best Book of 2018” by the Financial Times and other publications. Mounk is a contributing editor at The Atlantic, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund, and host of The Good Fight podcast. He is also a frequent contributor to international newspapers and magazines including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Foreign Affairs. (1)

Yascha participated in The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards on May 21st, 2018, giving a talk entitled “The People vs. Democracy”.

Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk

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Honorary Advisory Board Member: Susan Del Percio

Susan Del Percio is a nationally recognized crisis communication expert and public affairs strategist. She is a political analyst for MSNBC, columnist for OZY media, and a consultant for the award-winning HBO show, The Newsroom. 

Del Percio has served as a media spokeswoman on many campaigns, both political and corporate. With nearly 30 years of experience in the political, government, nonprofit, and private sectors, she is a trusted advisor who helps leaders develop, execute, and win purposeful campaigns. Her unique insights on government procedure, regulatory environments and public policy are highly sought after, but her passion for problem solving sets her apart.

Appointed as a Special Advisor to Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2014, she initiated and implemented communication strategies, and advised and developed policy initiatives. Susan also served as Deputy Commissioner in the Giuliani Administration prior to founding her firm, Susan Del Percio Strategies, in 2001. Her client list includes private corporations, Fortune 50 executives, leading elected officials, political organizations and candidates, as well as non-profits.

Born and raised in Northeast politics, Del Percio received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Emerson College, where she has served as a distinguished lecturer.

Del Percio attended The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards on May 21st, 2018, and spoke on the panel “Political Landscape: Future of Elections, Campaigns, & Parties” alongside John Della Volpe, former Congressman David Jolly, and Bill Schneider, with moderator John Harwood. She returned to participate in the Post Vice Presidential Debate Panel on October 8, 2020 and was joined by nationally known strategists from both sides of the aisle: Tara Setmayer, Hilary Rosen, and Stan Greenberg to have an incredible conversation following the debate.

Del Percio with fellow NBC commentator, Democratic strategist Adrienne Elrod

Del Percio with fellow NBC commentator, Democratic strategist Adrienne Elrod

Del Percio currently serves as a member of The Common Good Honorary Advisory Board.

Twitter: @DelPercioS

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Joanna Coles

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Joanna Coles

Author, producer, editor

Joanna Coles is the Executive Producer of ABC Freeform’s The Bold Type. She is the Former Creative Advisor to CBS News, and Former Chief Content Officer of Hearst Magazines where she oversaw the editorial and brand development for 300 global magazines. She sits on the Board of Directors of Snap, Inc!, Density, Blue Mistrel (Frederic Fekkai’s holding company), and Women Entrepreneurs New York City, an initiative to expand female entrepreneurship, with a focus on underserved women and communities. (1)

The British-born editor moved to the U.S. in 1997 as the New York Bureau Chief for The Guardian, before becoming the New York columnist forThe Times of London. Coles joined Hearst in 2006 as editor-in-chief of Marie Claire, where she co-produced the Style Network’s unscripted show Running in Heels. She was named editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, the world’s largest women’s media brand, in 2012. She was the executive producer of the unscripted series So Cosmo on E! in 2017. (1)

Coles participated in The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards on May 21st, 2018, presenting the American Spirit Award for Though Leadership to Fareed Zakaria.

Twitter: @JoannaColes

(1) Material from the Women’s Global Leadership Summit website.

Ana Cabrera

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Ana Cabrera

Broadcast journalist, anchor

Ana Cabrera anchors the weekend primetime edition of CNN Newsroom based in New York. Throughout her tenure at CNN, Cabrera has extensively reported on everything from politics, to natural disasters, to mass shootings and more. Cabrera joined CNN as a correspondent in 2013, based in Denver. In 2019 Cabrera was awarded with the National Hispanic Media Coalition Impact Award. Previously she has served on the Board of Directors of Mi Casa Resource Center and on the board of the American Cancer Society. (1)

Cabrera participated at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards on May 21st, 2018, hosting the morning session.

Twitter: @AnaCabrera

(1) Material from the CNN website.

Michael Bloomberg

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Michael Bloomberg

American businessman, politician, author, philanthropist

Michael R. Bloomberg is the founder, Bloomberg LP, Bloomberg Philanthropies and 108th Mayor of New York City. He is a media mogul, urban visionary, extraordinary philanthropist, and three-time Mayor of New York. He has shaped our city and the world with many forward-thinking efforts from climate change and gun safety reform, expanded green space, and started a worldwide revolution in tobacco control. In late 2019, Michael Bloomberg announced his 2020 Democratic presidential bid.

Mayor Bloomberg presented David Hogg with the American Spirit Award for Citizen Activism at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards – May 21, 2018.

Twitter: @mikebloomberg

Antony Blinken

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Antony Blinken

Retired Deputy Secretary of State

Antony Blinken is a retired American government official who served as United States Deputy Secretary of State from 2015 to 2017 and Deputy National Security Advisor from 2013 to 2015 under President Barack Obama. He previously served as a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Democratic Staff Director of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (2002–2008), and a member of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition, active from November 2008 to January 2009, among other positions. From 2009 to 2013 Blinken served as Deputy Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to the Vice President. From 2002 to 2008 he served as the Democratic Staff Director for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From 2001 to 2002, Blinken was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. During the Clinton Administration, Blinken served in the State Department and in senior positions on the National Security Council Staff. On November 7, 2014, President Obama announced that he would nominate Blinken for the Deputy Secretary post, replacing the retiring William Joseph Burns. On December 16, 2014 Blinken was confirmed as Deputy Secretary of State by the Senate by a vote of 55 to 38. He is now a Global Affairs Analyst for CNN and a foreign policy adviser for Joe Biden.

For three decades, Antony Blinken has held senior foreign policy positions and worked closely with two presidents. With greater belligerence from North Korea and Russia, heightened rivalry with China, growing nuclear arsenals, and a rapidly changing Middle East, his expertise is relevant more than ever. Currently, he is the managing director of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. He is also the Herter/Nitze Distinguished Scholar at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and an Opinion writer for The New York Times.

Mr. Blinken was hosted by the Common Good in 2018: The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards – May 21, 2018.

Twitter: @ABlinken

Alec Baldwin

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Alec Baldwin

Actor, comedian

Alec Baldwin has appeared in numerous productions on stage, in films and on television. He has received a Tony nomination (A Streetcar Named Desire, 1992) an Oscar nomination (The Cooler, 2004) and has won three Emmy awards, three Golden Globes and seven consecutive Screen Actors Guild Awards as Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on NBC-TV’s 30 Rock. He has been a regular host and guest star on Saturday Night Live. (For his performance on SNL parodying Donald Trump, Baldwin received his third Emmy award in 2017). (1)

Baldwin attended The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards on May 21st, 2018, and presented the American Spirit Award for Citizen Activism in tribute to Robert F. Kennedy to Kerry Kennedy.

Twitter: @AlecBaldwin

(1) Material from Alec Baldwin’s website.

Charles Armstrong

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Dr. Charles Armstrong

Professor, academic, historian

Charles Armstrong is The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences in the Department of History at Columbia University. He is the former Director of Columbia’s Center for Korean Research and former Acting Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. (1)

Professor Armstrong is the author, editor or co-editor of five books, including most recently Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950 – 1992 (Cornell University Press, 2013) and The Koreas (Routledge: second edition, 2014). (1)

Dr. Armstrong participated in The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards – May 21, 2018, speaking on foreign affairs and national security with his talk “New Day, New Deal for North Korea?”.

(1) Material from the SOAS University of London website.

Carolyn Maloney

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The Honorable Carolyn Maloney

Congresswoman, politician

First elected to Congress in 1992, Carolyn B. Maloney is a recognized national leader with extensive accomplishments on financial services, national security, the economy, and women’s issues.

Rep. Maloney’s career has been a series of firsts. She is the first woman to represent New York’s 12th Congressional District; the first woman to represent New York City’s 7th Councilmanic district (where she was the first woman to give birth while in office); and was the first woman to Chair the Joint Economic Committee, a House and Senate panel that examines and addresses the nation’s most pressing economic issues. Only 18 women in history have chaired Congressional committees. Maloney is the author of Rumors of our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Why Women’s Lives Aren’t Getting any Easier and how we can Make Real Progress for Ourselves and Our Daughters, which has been used as a textbook in women’s studies courses.

Maloney is currently a senior member of both the House Financial Services Committee (where she serves as Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets) and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and the House Ranking House Member of the Joint Economic Committee. In the House Democratic Caucus, she has served as a Regional Whip and as Vice-Chair of the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.

The Common Good has hosted Rep. Maloney on a number of occasions, including on the 2008 Democratic National Convention Panel, at The American Spirit Awards 2011, on a panel for The American Museum of Women’s History, at The Common Good Forum 2017 and at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2018.

Twitter: @RepMaloney

Ambassador Jan Kickert

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Jan Kickert

U.N. Representative of Austria

Ambassador Jan Kickert is the Permanent Representative of Austria at the United Nations. Prior to his appointment, he served in a number of governmental positions including Director General for Political Affairs of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Kickert spoke at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2018.

Mike Espy

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the honorable Mike Espy

Politician, former Secretary of Agriculture, former Congressman

Mike Espy was the Secretary of Agriculture under President Bill Clinton and served as a U.S. Representative of Mississippi. (1)

Espy began his political career working in several state government positions. He served as the first black Assistant Secretary of State, managing the Mississippi central legal services division from 1978 to 1980. For the next four years, Espy served as Assistant Secretary of State for the public lands division. From 1984 to 1985, Espy was Assistant State Attorney General for the consumer protection division. Espy also drew national attention within the Democratic Party when he served on the rules committee for the 1984 National Convention. He became a U.S. Representative in 1987 and was re–elected three times. After he won a fourth term in Congress, he was promoted to head the U.S. Department of Agriculture by President Clinton. (1)

Espy spoke at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards, May 21st, 2018, and gave a brief welcome alongside Patricia Duff and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney.

Twitter: @MikeEspyMS

(1) Material from the History, Art, & Archives website for the United States House of Representatives.

Kerry Kennedy

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Kerry Kennedy

President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

Kerry Kennedy is the president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. For more than thirty years, Ms. Kennedy has devoted herself to the pursuit of equal justice, the promotion and protection of basic rights, and the preservation of the rule of law. She has concentrated specifically on women’s rights, exposing injustices and educating audiences about women’s issues. She has worked in over 60 countries and led hundreds of human rights delegations.

She is the author of Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World, which features interviews with human rights activists including Marian Wright Edelman, the Dalai Lama, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ms. Kennedy is also the author of Being Catholic Now. She appears regularly on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and PBS as well as on networks in countries around the world, and her commentaries and articles have been published in The Boston Globe, The Chicago Sun-Times, L’Unita, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, Marie Claire, The New York Times, El Pais, and the Yale Journal of International Law, among others. 

Ms. Kennedy was honored with the American Spirit Award for Citizen Activism, given by Alec Baldwin, at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2018.

Twitter: @kerrykennedyRFK

Bill Schneider

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Bill Schneider

Political analyst

Bill Schneider, a leading US political analyst, is a professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He has been a visiting professor at UCLA, Brandeis University, and Boston College. He is the author of Standoff and coauthor, with Seymour Martin Lipset, of The Confidence Gap. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, Politico, Reuters, and National Journal. He was CNN’s senior political analyst from 1990 to 2009. (1)

Schneider attended The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards, May 21st, 2018, and spoke on “Political Landscape: Panel: Future of Elections, Campaigns, & Parties” with Susan Del Percio, John Della Volpe, and former Congressman David Jolly, moderated by John Harwood.

Twitter: @BillSchneiderDC

Ret. Admiral James Winnefeld Jr.

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James Winnefeld Jr.

Retired Admiral for the U.S. Military

For 37 years, Admiral James Winnefeld served in the U.S. Army, and was Vice Chairmen of the Joint Chief of Staff from 2011 to 2015.

In 2017, Admiral Winnefeld lost his 17-year-old to the opioid epidemic. Following his loss, he turned tragedy into action and founded the Stop the Addiction Fatality Epidemic (SAFE) Project. Winnefeld continues to dedicate his time to pursuing means of cutting short the growing national catastrophe of opioid addiction and overdose.

Admiral Winnefeld spoke at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2018.

David Hogg

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David Hogg

Gun reform activist, Parkland shooting survivor

David Hogg is a survivor of the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. At only 19 years old, he is part of a new generation of student activists and leaders who are fighting for gun reform and an end to senseless gun violence. Hogg, with his peers, is turning tragedy into a growing movement, inspiring millions across the country. He is one of 20 founding members of Never Again MSD, an organization focused on raising awareness about events such as the Stoneman Douglas shooting, genocide, and other civil and human rights issues in order to prevent such atrocities from occurring in the future.

Hogg was awarded the The Changemaker Scholarship for Citizen Activism at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards – May 21, 2018 by Michael Bloomberg,

Twitter: @davidhogg111

Stephen Roach

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Stephen S. Roach

Economist

Stephen Roach is a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and a Senior Lecturer at Yale’s School of Management. He was formerly Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm’s Chief Economist for the bulk of his 30-year career at Morgan Stanley, heading up a highly regarded team of economists around the world. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1982, Roach served on the research staff of the Federal Reserve Board and was also a research fellow at the Brookings Institution. Roach’s current teaching and research program focuses on the impacts of Asia on the broader global economy. (1)

Roach has long been one of Wall Street’s most influential economists. His work has appeared in academic journals, books, congressional testimony and has been disseminated widely in the domestic and international media. Roach’s opinions on the global economy have been known to shape the policy debate from Beijing to Washington. (1)

Stephen Roach participated in The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards on May 21st, 2018, giving a talk entitled “The Coming Economic Clash”.

Twitter: @SSRoachUSChina

(1) Material from the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs website.

John Harwood

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John Harwood

American journalist

John Harwood is Chief Washington Correspondent for CNBC and a political writer for The New York Times. Harwood hosts the CNBC Digital original video series Speakeasy with John Harwood.

Harwood first joined The St. Petersburg Times, reporting on police, investigative projects, local government and politics. Later he became state capital correspondent in Tallahassee, Washington correspondent and political editor. While covering national politics, he also traveled extensively to South Africa, where he covered deepening unrest against the apartheid regime.

In 1989, Harwood was named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where he spent the 1989-90 academic year. In 1991, he joined The Wall Street Journal as White House correspondent, covering the administration of the George H. W. Bush. Later Harwood reported on Congress. In 1997, he became The Wall Street Journal’s Political Editor and chief political correspondent. While at The Wall Street Journal, Harwood wrote the newspaper’s political column, Washington Wire, and oversaw the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. In March 2006, he joined CNBC as Chief Washington Correspondent.

In addition to CNBC, Harwood offers political analysis on NBC Nightly News and PBS’ Washington Week in Review, among other television and radio programs. Harwood has covered each of the last eight presidential elections.

Harwood was hosted by The Common Good at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2018 and moderated the Midterm Elections Panel at The Common Good in 2014.

Twitter: @JohnJHarwood