Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

David Orr is counselor to the president at Oberlin College and the Stephen Minter Fellow at the Cleveland Foundation. Active in environmental, greening and sustainability movements, Mr. Orr is the author of seven books and co-editor of three others including Ecological Literacy (1992), Earth in Mind (1994/2004) and Hope is an Imperative: The Essential David Orr (Island Press, 2010). "Hot Careers in a Warming World" (12:00 p.m. program)

Michael Barone, senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, longtime contributor to Fox News, and resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, frequently comments and writes about immigration and the structures of American electoral politics. He is the author of Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Competition for the Nation's Future (2004) and The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again (2001). "American Politics 2015: Looking Forward"

Paul Lim associate professor at Vanderbilt University is an award-winning historian of reformation and post-reformation Europe. His latest book, Mystery Unveiled: The Crisis of the Trinity in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2012), won the 2013 Roland H. Bainton Prize for history/theology. He is currently writing about the transformation of global evangelical attitudes and efforts to eradicate human trafficking and structural poverty "Global Evangelicalism and Human Trafficking: Tyranny of the Urgent"

Richard Sander is an economist and law professor at UCLA’s School of Law. A scholar on race and higher education, his 2004 Stanford Law Review article examining law school affirmative action calls into question the benefits of affirmative action for minority law students and is one of the most widely read law review articles written. "Affirmative Action and the Dilemmas of Race in 2015"

Stephen Cambone is the founder of Adirondack Advisors, LLC, which provides strategic advice to companies. He has had a distinguished career in both the private and public sectors including in the Bush Administration he served as the second ranking Department of Defense policy official and as the first Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. Cambone’s presentation will examine China’s ambitions in the world as expressed by its leaders, explore the domestic and foreign circumstances that may affect the realization of those ambitions, and anticipate a range of possible outcomes. "Anticipating History: How Well Can China Control Its Destiny?"

Jaime Ayala P'16, founder and CEO of Hybrid Social Solutions and Chairman of Stiftung Solarenergie – Solar Energy Foundation (Philippines), was awarded the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur and Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 (Philippines). His social businesses and philanthropic initiatives include providing off-grid villages with sustainable access to solar energy. "Scaling Social Business to Save the World" (12:00 p.m. program)

Paul Henderson, legal analyst, commentator, and former prosecutor, now serves as deputy chief of staff & public safety director for the city of San Francisco. As CMC's 2015 Martin Luther King commemorative speaker, Henderson will address race and justice in America and discuss recent events and legal decisions that have attracted national notoriety and caused significant national social unrest. "A Legal Perspective on Race, Civil Rights, and Social Justice"

William Kristol, founder and editor of The Weekly Standard, contributor to ABC News, author, and chief of staff to former U.S. Vice President Qualye, is widely recognized as one of the nation's most insightful political analysts. Chair of CMC's Salvatori Center advisory board, Kristol will offer his reflections on the current domestic political scene and prospects. "The Current Political Scene in the United States" (12:00 p.m. program)

Yaki Lopez, Consul for Political Affairs, Consulate General of Israel, Los Angeles; "Israel's Foreign Policy Challenges" (12:00 p.m.)

Nancy Aossey, president and CEO, International Medical Corps, Los Angeles: a global first responder that delivers emergency relief and training programs on the frontlines of war, natural disaster and disease; "On the Frontlines of Ebola, War and Disaster: 30 Years as a First Responder"

Ashley Merryman, co-author, Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing (2014) and NutureShock: New Thinking about Children (2011); "Finding Your Inner Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing"

Geoffrey Megargee, senior applied research scholar, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; author, War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941 (2007) and Barbarossa 1941: Hitler's War of Annihilation (2008); "Cataloging A World Behind Wire: The USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos"(12:00 p.m.)

Philipp Kaiser, visiting professor, CMC; senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) (2007-2011); co-author, Manfred Pernice: Haldensleben, Bibette Headland, Hotel Hangelar (2014) and Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 (2012); "Holes with History: Sculpture in the Late 1960s"

William Deresiewicz, essayist and book critic; author, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life (2014) and A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter (2011); "Leader-sheep and Elite Education"

Edward Watts, professor of history, U.C. San Diego; author, forthcoming The Final Pagan Generation (2015) and co-editor, Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity (2012); "A Job-Friendly Education and the Humanities: The Late Antique Side of the Story"