Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Liesl Schillinger, literary critic; author, Wordbirds: An Irreverent Lexicon for the 21st Century (2013) and translator, Every Day, Every Hour: A Novel (2012); "Living Lexicon: Language for a New Millennium, In Print, Online, and In-Between"

Deborah Freund, president, Claremont Graduate University; moderator; Jane Aronson, founder and CEO, Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Rick Brush, founder and CEO, Collective Health; Richi Manchanda, founder and president, HealthBegins; author, The Upstream Doctors: Medical Innovators Track Sickness to Its Source (2013); "Innovations in Health- Advancing New Models" (9:00 a.m.)

Susan Davis, president and CEO, BRAC, USA; founding board member, Grameen Foundation; co-author, Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know (2010); "The Global Imperative- Developing Leaders as Social Innovators" (9:15 a.m.)

Michael Cohen, director, California Department of Finance; "California's Budget and Choices for the Future" (12:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room)

John Roth, Edward J. Sexton professor emeritus of philosophy and religious studies; founding director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights (2003-2006) (now the Center for Human Rights Leadership), CMC; author, forthcoming The Failure(s) of Ethics: Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities and Losing Trust in the World: Holocaust Scholars Encounter Torture; "The Failure(s) of Ethics: Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities"

Daniel Medwed, professor of law, Northeastern University School of Law; founding member, Board of Directors, Innocence Network; author, Prosecution Complex: America's Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent (2012); "Human Rights in the Age of Innocence"

Douglas Day Stewart '62, screen writer and director, An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Blue Lagoon (1980), The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976), The Scarlet Letter (1995); "SURVIVING CLAREMONT: The Arduous Road to Screenwriting Stardom and True Love"

T.V. Paul, James McGill Professor of International Relations, McGill University; author, The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons (2009) and forthcoming "The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World" (2014)

Patrick Michaels, director, Center for the Study of Science, Cato Institute; senior research fellow for Research and Economic Development, George Mason University; author, Climate Coup: Global Warming's Invasion of Our Government and Our Lives (2011); "Why is Climate Change Always 'Worse Than We Thought'?"

Ron Nichols, general manager, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (2011-2014); "Balancing Environmental Sustainability, Costs and Politics – Water and Power for Los Angeles" (12:00 p.m.)

Steven Falk P'14, artist; city manager, Lafayette, CA; "What Makes Great Art Great?"

Kathleen DeBoer, executive director, American Volleyball Coaches Association; author, Gender and Competition: How Men and Women Approach Work and Play Differently (2004); "Gender, Competition, and Leadership: America's Unusual Experiment" (12:00 p.m.)

Paul Woodruff, classicist; Darrell K. Royal Professor in Ethics and American Society, University of Texas, Austin; author, The Ajax Dilemma: Justice, Fairness, and Rewards (2011) and The Necessity of Theater: The Art of Watching and Being Watched (2008); "Tragic Ethics"

Rebecca Jo Plant, associate professor of history, U.C. San Diego; author, Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in America (2010) and co-editor, Materialism Reconsidered: Motherhood, Welfare, and Social Policies in the Twentieth Century (2012); "Selflessness versus Self-Realization: Motherhood Debates in the Twentieth Century" (12:00 p.m.)

Roman Fukshansky, clarinet; Jonah Kim, cello; Christine Payne, piano; Moni Simeonov, violin; "Ensemble San Francisco: Tzigane by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Quatour pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) by Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)"