Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Erica Grieder, southwest correspondent, The Economist; Eric Helland, Robert J. Lowe Professor of Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, forthcoming The Impact of Liability on the Physician Labor Market and The Optimal Jury Size when Jury Deliberation Follows a Random Walk (2008); Chuck Devore '85, Visiting Senior Scholar for Fiscal Policy, Texas Public Policy Foundation; "As Texas Goes…How California Lost Its Edge"
 

David Rodin, moral philosopher,  co-director of the Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict,  Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford; senior fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs; author, War and Self-Defense (2005) and co-author, The Ethics Of War: Shared Problems In Different Traditions (2006); "After Just War Theory"
 

Allison Melangton, CEO and president, 2012 Super Bowl Host Committee; "Super Bowl XLVI: Financial Success and Community Building"
 

Cindy Shea, trumpet, founding director; Gina Duran, trumpet; Ariana Mejia, flute, vocals; Sandie Castaneda, congas, percussion; Daniela Gutierrez, guitarron; Wendy Alarcon, vihuela;  Melinda Salcido, guitar, vocals; Karina Zurita, guitar, vocals; Angel Garcia, violin, vocals; Cathy Baeza, violin; Diana Benitez, violin; Stephanie Martinez, violin, vocals; Valerie Carlos, guitar, vocals; Ruby Torres, violin; "Mariachi Divas: A Musical Celebration in Honor of Cesar Chavez"
 

Carl Schramm, CEO and president, Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation (2002-2011); co-author, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism (2007), and author, The Entrepreneurial Imperative (2006); "The Entrepreneurial Imperative" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Soraya Salti,  2012 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership co-recipient; executive director, INJAZ Al-Arab and senior vice president, Middle East/North Africa for Junior Achievement Worldwide; Gene Falk,  co-founder and CEO, mothers2mothers, 2012 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership co-recipient; Robin Smalley, International director, mothers2mothers, 2012 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership co-recipient; Divya Vishwanath '11,  alumni moderator; Nicholas Egger-Bovet '12, student moderator; "Transforming the World Through Leadership and Social Innovation" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Sheldon Pollock, William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Columbia University; author, Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500–1800 (2011) and The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India (2009); “Does the Past have a Future? On the Fate of Classical Cultures”
 

Elliott Abrams, Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy (2005-2009); Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; co-author, Democracy: How Direct? Views from the Founding Era and the Polling Era (2002) and The Influence of Faith (2001); “Arab Spring and Arab Winter: The Fate of Democracy in the Middle East”
 

Ian Frazier, staff writer, The New Yorker; author, Travels in Siberia (2010) and On the Rez (2000); "An Evening with the Author"
 

Gigi Birchfield '82 P'12, attorney,  managing partner, and co-Global Practice Leader; Major, Lindsey & Major LLC, Los Angeles ; John Doyle P'11 P'13, California Superior Court Judge, Los Angeles County; Carolyn Kuhl P'11, California Superior Court Judge, Los Angeles County; Margaret Nagle P'10 P'12,  Federal Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California; Suzanne Segal '82, Chief Magistrate Judge, Unites States District Court for the Central District of California  (moderator); "A Career in Law: Can You Achieve Work/Life Satisfaction?" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Esra'a Al Shafei, founder of MideastYouth.com, CrowdVoice.org, and mideastunes.com; "Creating New Visions of the Middle East" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Michael Bordo, professor of economics, director, Center for Monetary and Financial History, Rutgers University; co-author, Credibility and the International Monetary Regime: A Historical Perspective (2012) and Theories of International Trade (2006); "Whither the Euro: Some Reflections from the History of Fiscal and Monetary Unions"  (12:00 p.m.)
 

Charles Bernstein, poet, theorist, literary scholar, Donald T. Regan Chair, professor of English, University of Pennsylvania; author, Attack of the Difficult Poems  (2011) and All the Whiskey in Heaven (2010); “The Politics of Poetic Form”
 

Dan Savage, creator of the "It Gets Better" project and "Savage Love" column, author, It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living (2011) and Skipping Towards Gomorrah (2003); "It Gets Better"
 

Fran Lebowitz,  journalist, social commentator, and author,  forthcoming Exterior Signs of Wealth and The Fran Lebowitz Reader (1994); Eric Puchner, assistant professor of literature, CMC; author, Model Home: A Novel (2010) and Music through the Floor (2005);  "A Conversation with Fran Lebowitz"