Global Pathfinder Summit | 100 emerging leaders from around the globe

Doug Smith

Managing Partner, Stornoway Advisors

Doug Smith has spent 20+ years applying technology solutions to the needs of the NGO, academic, and business sectors. He currently consults with social impact businesses and helps them to leverage human-centered technology, public policy, and tech-enabled agriculture to solve some of their biggest challenges. Doug previously worked in information management in Europe, was Senior Web Strategist for Odyssey Networks, and as Executive of the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution was the driving force building a technology infrastructure at Montpelier, resulting in a Richmond Cannonball Award. Doug and his family will begin a year-long global sojourn starting this fall to explore global citizenship and entrepreneurship.

Tanja Porčnik

Senior Fellow, The Fraser Institute

Tanja Porčnik is a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute specializing in economic and human freedom studies. She is also an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and president of the Visio Institute. Porčnik is a co-author of The Human Freedom Index. She was formerly a senior fellow of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, a Government Teaching Fellow of the American Institute on Political and Economic Systems in Prague, Czech Republic (a joint program of the Georgetown University and The Fund for American Studies), and a Research Associate & Manager of
External Relations of the Cato Institute. Her articles on human rights, law, international relations, and economic policy appear regularly in printed media, and she is a frequent commentator on television and
radio. Porčnik is currently working on her Ph.D. dissertation in American Studies. She obtained her master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Ljubljana and her bachelor’s degree in Applied Economics from the University of Maribor.

Amb. Derek Mitchell

President, The National Democratic Institute (NDI); Former U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar

Derek Mitchell served as U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar (Burma) from 2012 to 2016. Prior to that, he was a principal deputy assistant secretary of defense, and from 2001 to 2009, a senior fellow for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies(CSIS). From 1997 to 2001, Mitchell was special assistant for Asian and Pacific Affairs in the office of the Secretary of Defense. He began his service in Washington from 1986 to 1988 as a foreign policy assistant in the office of Senator Edward Kennedy.

Amb. Stephen Mull

Vice Provost for Global Affairs, The University of Virginia

Stephen D. Mull is Vice Provost for Global Affairs at the University of Virginia. In this role he is the primary lead on global relations at the University, responsible for developing a strategic vision, designing outreach, and overseeing international activities. Steve will oversee institutional development of global partnerships and develop a wide array of services, programs, experiences, and strategic partnerships that promote global imagination within the university community. Mull has served in a broad range of U.S. national security positions, most recently as Acting Under Secretary for Political Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, working as the day-to-day manager of overall regional and bilateral policy issues, and overseeing the bureaus for Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Eurasia, the Near East, South and Central Asia, the Western Hemisphere, and International Organizations. Ambassador Mull joined the Foreign Service in March 1982, and holds the personal rank of Career Ambassador, the highest rank in the U.S. Foreign Service. He is a 1980 graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

Gaye Wilson

Shannon Senior Historian at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

Gaye Wilson is the Shannon Senior Historian at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, a part of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Her essays and articles on Thomas Jefferson have been published in book-length compilations and journals. Gaye’s current work focuses on the public image created by the political Jefferson and what it tells us about this controversial early American leader. She has a MFA degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in early American history from the University of Edinburgh.

Catherine Constantinides

Climate Activist and Human Rights Defender; Co-Founder, Generation Earth

Catherine Constantinides established her first business, SA Fusion, a social enterprise, when she was 16. She was involved in the introduction of the Miss Earth concept to South Africa and was crowned the first Miss Earth South Africa in 2003. She currently serves as director of Miss Earth South Africa. Catherine is the co-founder of Generation Earth, a youth-led environmental organization. During 2013 Catherine was the youngest of a group of 20 emerging Africans named as an Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellow. Catherine has written for the Huffington Post on climate change politics and the situation in the Western Sahara. She is an outspoken critic of the actions of the Moroccan government in the Western Sahara, describing the territory as the “last remaining colony in Africa”. She has spoken of the Western Sahara as an “African state in exile, a cause and people forgotten”. In May 2016, Constantinides was chosen as one of the Mandela Washington Fellows as part of the Young African Leaders Initiative; an initiative of the United States Department of State.

Liam O’Doherty

Director, Digital Youth Engagement Programs, TakingITGlobal

Liam O’Doherty As Director of Digital Youth Engagement Programmes with TakingITGlobal, Liam O’Doherty designs and implements initiatives to inspire, inform and involve young people in making a difference in their communities. With a background in sustainable development, communications theory and theatrical improvisation, he has extensive experience advancing youth rights, gender equality, inclusive design and climate change initiatives through a range of contexts, from grassroots mobilizations to international policy processes. In 2015 he was recognized as a 30 Under 30 Sustainability Leader by Corporate Knights and as a United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Intercultural Fellow. His current projects include initiatives to support the deaf community through digital education platforms, a global mobilization to explore the intersections of decolonization and climate change and an education program to support remote Indigenous communities (among many others). Outside of work, Liam enjoys swimming, gardening, making music, riding bicycles and drinking copious volumes of tea.

Samson Itodo

Executive Director, YIAGA Africa

Samson Itodo heads of one Nigeria’s foremost youth think tanks on democratic governance and citizens participation, the Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth & Advancement (YIAGA). YIAGA is a youth non-profit promoting democratic governance and youth participation in Africa through research, capacity development and policy advocacy. He was the pioneer National Coordinator of the Youth Alliance on Constitution & Electoral Reform (YACORE), the first Youth coalition on constitution and electoral reform in Nigeria. Itodo started as a student union activist at the University of Jos where he held several leadership positions. He was chairman Student Representative Council (SRC) at the Nigerian Law School, Abuja. A lawyer by profession, Itodo has in the last ten years worked on widening civic space for youth in Nigeria and Africa at large.

Nicol Perez

Civic Education Partnerships Manager, Facebook

Nicol Perez is the 5th and former United States Youth Observer to the United Nations. Perez has extensive experience working on youth issues at the local, regional and international level having previously worked in various international organizations as well as starting her own initiatives. In her term as Youth Observer, Perez focused on the global refugee crisis, youth unemployment, and the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. In 2017, Perez founded Girlzftw, a mentorship program that pairs women under 30 with high school and college girls that need the support and encouragement of another girl to achieve their goals. Perez currently resides in San Francisco, California, where she is a Product Marketing Manager on Civic Engagement at Facebook.

Kathy Spangler

Executive Director, 2019 Commemoration

Kathy Spangler is Executive Director of Virginia’s 2019 Commemoration. The 2019 Commemoration marks the 400th anniversary of four landmark events in 1619, which set Virginia and America on a course towards the ideals of Democracy, Diversity and Opportunity. As the Executive Director, Ms. Spangler serves as principal liaison to the 2019 Commemoration Steering Committee. She is a nationally recognized leader with more than 35 years of experience in public and non-profit management. Ms. Spangler most recently served as vice president of Save the Children from 2010-2015 in Washington, D.C. During her time at Save the Children, Ms. Spangler led the organization’s U.S. Programs, including Head Start. She served in several executive roles from 2007 to 2010 at America’s Promise Alliance, where she oversaw the 100 Best Communities for Young People national recognition program. Additionally, Ms. Spangler served four years as the founding director of the National Partnerships, capping her 20-year tenure, from 1987-2007, at the National Recreation and Park Association. She worked as a recreation supervisor and coordinator in New Hampshire from 1979 to 1987. Ms. Spangler earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine and achieved the Certified Association Executive credential. She has received numerous awards, including an honorary doctoral degree in 2003 from the University of Maine.

Johari Harris

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Youth-Nex, The Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia

Johari Harris is a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Youth-Nex at the Curry School of Education. Before entering graduate school, she taught in different schools domestically and abroad. The experiences showed her how impactful issues of culture and identity have on the education and positive youth development. She examines how social identities, specifically race and gender, along with cultural values systems, like Afro-centric values, influence African American adolescents social-emotional competencies. Her research is grounded in intersectionality, developmental psychology, and social psychology theories. She has developed and implemented culturally responsive curriculums focused on fostering healthy relationships interpersonal relationships among African American middle school students. Additionally, she has conducted qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method studies with African American and South African middle school and high school students. Her sequential, explanatory mixed method dissertation used an intersectional lens to examine if and how African American males’ race, gender, and cultural orientations influenced their pro-social behaviors. Ultimately, she believes the best way to support African American adolescents’ positive youth development is through a strength-based multi-leveled approach which builds off their cultural backgrounds while keeping their voices at the forefront of the conversation.

Jon Paul Potts

SVP, Strategy Director, Jack Morton Worldwide

Jon Paul Potts is a Communications, Strategy and Media professional with 25 years of experience across industries and strategic offerings. As Director of Jack Morton’s New York Strategy Practice, he lead a team of expert creatives and consultants who drive business results for clients every day. He’s a global practice leader in Employee Engagement, and Higher Education, specializing in business development, brand planning, vision workshop facilitation, message development, leadership communications, experience design, public speaking and writing. Jon Paul also serves on the Jack Morton Global Strategy Council, helping to establish best practices, establish the agency POV on key issues and client challenges, mentor up-and-coming strategists, and share learnings and great work across the network.

Catherine Bradshaw

Professor, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, The Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia

Catherine Bradshaw, Ph.D., M.Ed. is a Professor and the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. Prior to her current appointment at U.Va., she was an Associate Professor and the Associate Chair of the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she maintains an adjunct faculty position. She holds a doctorate in developmental psychology from Cornell University and a master’s of education in counseling and guidance from the University of Georgia.

Nancy Deutsch

Professor, The Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia

Nancy L. Deutsch is Professor at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and Director of Youth-Nex: the UVA Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. Her research focuses on out-of-school settings for adolescents and the role of youth-adult relationships in positive youth development. She is the author of numerous peer-review manuscripts and book chapters as well as two books, Pride in the Projects: Teens building identities in urban contexts (NYU Press, 2008) and the co-authored Youth Organizations and Positive Youth Development: Case Studies of Success and Failure (Cambridge University Press, 2011), winner of a SRCD Social Policy Book award. She is the Editor of the Journal of Adolescent Research and sits on the editorial board for Qualitative Psychology. She engages in a variety of activities to help translate research to practice, including current membership on the National Mentoring Resource Center’s research advisory board. Her work has been funded by the William T. Grant Foundation, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Department of Education. She received her BA in English from Vassar College and her PhD in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University.

Kristina Weaver

Associate Director, Institute for Environmental Negotiation

Kristina Weaver, PhD is a cultural geographer and experienced facilitator who is passionate about assisting diverse stakeholders in collaborating for equitable outcomes. As Associate Director of the Institute for Engagement & Negotiation at the University of Virginia, Kristina is currently working on projects around local food systems, environmental justice, and community-based planning for sustainable economic development.

Michael Foreman

Special Projects Manager, Institute for Environmental Negotiation

Mike’s focus has been on collaborative leadership and team-based performance planning his entire career. After 30 years of state service, Mike retired from the Commonwealth of Virginia in December 2016 where he was the Director of the Office of Environmental Education at the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation. Prior to his state career, Mike held positions in academia and business. He has been a trained facilitator since 1990 and has led and served on many collaborative efforts such as the Chesapeake Bay Program, US Forest Service Forest Legacy Program and Virginia Nonpoint Source Advisory Council, Virginia United Land Trusts, and Farmland Preservation Task Force. He has also led many NGO and state strategic planning and conservation policy efforts. Mike has been teaching the leadership portion with the Virginia Natural Resources Leadership Institute since 2001 and is a graduate of the Covey Leadership course.

Selena Cozart

Community Facilitator, Institute for Environmental Negotiation

Selena Cozart, PhD has twenty years of facilitation and program evaluation experience with a primary emphasis on diversity, inclusion, and community capacity development. She also brings a rich background in Education, ranging from secondary through graduate school, which includes teaching, student academic advising and mentoring, and higher education administration.

Josephine Kibe

Operations Officer, The Gateway Academy

Josephine Kibe is responsible for the market development of the Gateway Academy and for reaching out to financial service providers, content/training providers who will be using the online learning platform. Previously, Josephine was an educator with Strathmore Business School in Nairobi and also worked in the Kenyan banking industry. Josephine has a PhD in Economics from Fordham University and an undergraduate degree from Kenyatta University in Nairobi. Josephine’s interest is also on youth and financial inclusion and is working on topics related to access of appropriate financial services and financial education for the youth.

Aaron Azelton

Director of Citizen Participation, Inclusion, and Security Programs, The National Democratic Institute (NDI)

Aaron Azelton serves as the National Democratic Institute’s director of citizen participation, inclusion and security programs. He is a civic engagement specialist who has helped to manage, design and implement inclusive political participation programs at NDI since 1992. In his current position, Mr. Azelton supports NDI initiatives by providing guidance on all aspects of community organizing, advocacy, government monitoring and nonprofit organizational development. He also guides the Institute’s work to increase the political inclusion of marginalized communities and efforts to promote the peaceful resolution of conflict and citizen security. He frequently serves as a facilitator for civil society programs throughout the world. In this capacity, he has helped local organizations develop strategic outlooks, plan political actions, structure partnerships, and carry out internal reforms in more than 30 countries.

Margot Rogers

Vice Chairman and Senior Advisor, The Parthenon Group

Margot Rogers joined The Parthenon Group in 2011 as a Vice Chairman and Senior Advisor to the firm’s Education Practice, where she brings more than 20 years of experience working on issues of education policy and practice in the public education sector. Prior to joining Parthenon, Margot served as Chief of Staff to the U.S. Department of Education Secretary, Arne Duncan. From 2004 to 2009, Margot served in multiple roles at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, including Deputy Director of Education and the Special Assistant to the Director of Education, where she managed the development of the foundation’s College-Ready education strategy and staff realignment, and also served on the education division’s investment committee and strategic leadership team. She has served on numerous education-related boards and advisory commissions, is currently on the Board of Directors for The Joyce Foundation, and is a member of the Review Boards for the Broad Prize for Urban Education and the Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools. Margot holds a B.A. from Emory University, where she was a Truman Scholar, and a J.D. and an M.A. from the University of Virginia. She is a member of the bar in Washington, D.C.

Jeanine Braithwaite

Professor of Public Policy, Faculty, Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, The University of Virginia

Jeanine Braithwaite is Professor of Public Policy, General Faculty, at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Prior to joining the Batten School in 2009, she was a Senior Economist at the World Bank, most recently in the Social Protection Group, Human Development Network. Preceding her World Bank service, she worked at the International Monetary Fund and the US Census Bureau, on technical assistance to the newly independent countries of the former Soviet Union (IMF) and to the USSR (Census Bureau). At the World Bank, Braithwaite worked on social protection policy and poverty analysis. She specializes in the study of medium-income Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland), Turkey, and the former Soviet Union countries, and has provided policy advice to governments while on negotiating missions and staff visits. She has written many World Bank reports, including poverty assessments for Turkey, Russia, Armenia, Moldova, Hungary, and Ukraine, as well as social protection and labor reviews for Botswana, Kosovo, and Swaziland. In addition, she has operational experience in Cambodia, Colombia, Nicaragua, Mexico, Jamaica, Jordan, Georgia, Mauritius, Kosovo, Bosnia, Romania and Turkmenistan.

Deborah Lawrence

Professor of Environmental Sciences, The University of Virginia

Deborah Lawrence, Ph.D., is a Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on the links between tropical deforestation and climate change. She has spent the past twenty-five years doing field-based research in Indonesia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Cameroon. Most recently, she has been using global climate models to explore the cumulative effect of tropical land use decisions, exploring the climate impact of land allocation among food crops, biofuels and forests across the globe. Professor Lawrence and her students conduct interdisciplinary research with partners in hydrology, atmospheric science, economics, anthropology, ethics, engineering, and law to understand the drivers and consequences of land use change. This work has gained her a Sustainability Science Award from the Ecological Society of America, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Jefferson Science Fellowship from the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fulbright Scholarship.

Jessica Posner

COO and Co-Founder, Shining Hope for Communities

Jessica Posner is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder of Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO), an innovative non-profit that combats extreme poverty and gender inequality. This year SHOFCO will serve over 76,000 beneficiaries and is spreading across Kenya’s urban slums with a model that links free schools for girls to holistic community services for all, making the school a portal for large-scale social change. Jessica is a nationally recognized social entrepreneur and activist.

Brian Balogh

Host, Backstory; Professor of History, The University of Virginia

Brian Balogh is host of Backstory. Brian is a Professor of History at the University of Virginia, Dorothy Compton Professor at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. He is the author of “The Associational State: American Governance in the Twentieth Century,” “Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power, 1945–1975,” and “A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America.” Brian is currently at work on “In the Nation’s Backyard: How History Preserved Rural Life in Green Springs, 1970 to the Present.” He is the recipient of the American Historical Association’s 2015 Nancy Lyman Roelker Award honoring those “who taught, guided, and inspired their students in a way that changed their lives.”

Cortney McEniry

Artistic Director & Program Manager, UVA Acts

Cortney McEniry is the Artistic Director & Program Manager of UVA Acts, an educational theatre program promoting equitable, vibrant spaces for working and learning at the University of Virginia. As a community-based artist, Cortney has collaborated with community members as artists in a variety of contexts, including adults gaining literacy, young people in detention facilities, educators in public schools, families experiencing housing insecurity, and community advocates who were formerly incarcerated. She worked for three years with peer educators in the Voices Against Violence Theatre for Dialogue program, a nationally-recognized sexual violence prevention program at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining the UVA community in 2018, Cortney was the Director of Community Engagement at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, where she produced the first national conference for community engagement practitioners in American regional theaters. She is currently developing Ladylike, and intimate storytelling performance examining the inheritance of white femininity in the South. Cortney received her B.A. from Furman University and her M.F.A. in Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities from UT Austin. As an instructor, she has taught and learned from from emerging community-based artists in courses at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and UT Austin. Cortney received her B.A. from Furman University and her M.F.A. in Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities from UT Austin.

Lauren Gilbert

Artistic Director & Program Manager, UVA Acts

Lauren Gilbert has primary responsibility for overseeing all five Sorensen Institute programs, including curriculum development, recruitment execution, analysis and evaluation. Lauren is an alumna of Sorensen’s College Leaders Program and a former Sorensen Youth Program Manager. She held the position of Director of Youth Programs and Recruitment Coordinator prior to her acceptance of the position of Director of Programs in January 2015. Lauren was named Associate Director of Sorensen in July 2017, and is currently pursuing her Masters in Public Administration through Virginia Tech’s Center for Public Administration and Policy.

Kristina Johnson

13th Chancellor, The State University of New York

Kristina Johnson joined The State University of New York as its 13th Chancellor in September 2017. Immediately prior to joining SUNY, Dr. Johnson was co-founder and CEO of Cube Hydro Partners, LLC, a clean-energy infrastructure company focused on building and operating hydropower plants in North America. Prior to Cube Hydro, Dr. Johnson served as Under Secretary of Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. Dr. Johnson received her B.S. with distinction, M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. After a NATO post-doctoral fellowship at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, she joined the University of Colorado-Boulder’s faculty in 1985 as an Assistant Professor and, later, Full Professor. In 1987, Dr. Johnson co-founded the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Research Center (NSF/ERC) for Optoelectronics Computing Systems Center at the University of Colorado and Colorado State University, and went on to serve as its director from 1994 to 1998. She serves on the boards of directors of Cisco Systems, Inc. and AES Corporation. Dr. Johnson is married to Ms. Veronica Meinhard, the senior executive director of principal gifts and senior associate athletic director at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP).

Ravi Respeto

President and CEO, United Way – Thomas Jefferson Area

Ravi Respeto is currently the President and CEO for United Way – Thomas Jefferson Area. She joined UWTJA in July of 2018 and brings over 12 years of experience in nonprofits and a long history of working on behalf of her community and its families around education, health, and environmental sustainability. Since taking the reins at UWTJA last summer, Ravi has focused on reorganizing the governance of the organization to encompass focused efforts on diversity, term structure, and a rebalancing of fiduciary responsibilities for the 50 member Board. She has built out the infrastructure for a private philanthropy program, initiating a public awareness campaign and starting work on a collective impact model for strategic community grantmaking around systems-level change. Before joining UWTJA, Ravi was the Director of Development and Marketing with AHIP-Home Repair nonprofit. During her tenure, she grew their fundraising program from $50,000 to a $1.1 million per year revenue stream. In June of 2015, she joined the Piedmont Family YMCA as the Development and Marketing consultant to complete a $19 million Capital Campaign to build a 77,000 square foot facility in McIntire Park. Ravi’s career in nonprofit leadership started as the Campaign Manager for the Charlottesville Waldorf School with a $3 million campaign to build an environmentally sustainable school. Ravi has consistently been very engaged in her community and has demonstrated strong leadership through service and board membership. Ravi holds a degree in Communications with a focus on Public Relations as a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society from George Mason University.

Caroline Emerson

Vice President for Community Engagement, United Way – Thomas Jefferson Area

Caroline Emerson is Vice President for Community Engagement at the United Way – Thomas Jefferson Area in Charlottesville, where she just celebrated her 25th anniversary. At the United Way, Caroline develops and implements philanthropy and marketing strategies; recruits, trains, and supervises volunteers; coordinates special events, develops funding requests; and serves as a community representative of the organization. A native of Jackson, Tennessee, Caroline Emerson graduated with honors from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee with a B.A. in Philosophy. After a brief stint in the talent management industry, Caroline found a home in the nonprofit sector. She worked for five years at Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts, interacting with artists from around the world, including “Lion King” creator Julie Taymor and, more famously, Elmo. At the Center, Caroline spent two years as Public Relations Director and two as Development Director. In her spare time, Caroline enjoys cooking, gardening, travel, and trying new restaurants.

Nancy Hopkins

Director of Programs, The Presidential Precinct

Nancy Hopkins is Director of Programs at the Presidential Precinct. Nancy develops, implements, and evaluates programs that bring emerging leaders together to engage in dialogue, exchange ideas, collaborate, and access professional development opportunities that help them address critical problems in their communities and countries. Nancy has over two decades of experience in international development and the nonprofit sector. Prior to joining the Precinct, she ran her own Charlottesville-based consulting practice, providing program development, evaluation, fundraising, and research services to several leading international nonprofit organizations. In this capacity she completed short-term assignments in Timor-Leste, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and South Korea. Before moving to Charlottesville, Nancy worked for The Asia Foundation as Director of Program Planning and Assessment in the Foundation’s San Francisco headquarters. For five years she served as Deputy Representative and then Representative in the Foundation’s Cambodia office in Phnom Penh, where she managed a staff of 40 and directed a program focused on promoting good governance, human rights and rule of law, women’s empowerment, and economic reform. Nancy holds a Master in Public Policy degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Frank Dukes

Mediator & Facilitator, The University of Virginia

Frank Dukes, PhD brings a strong understanding of civic engagement to his work as an experienced mediator, facilitator and trainer. He has worked with numerous communities on a wide range of issues including water supply, school districting, facility siting, and management of park land. He is currently working on issues of environment and development in Virginia’s coalfields and the Chesapeake Bay watershed. He teaches collaborative planning and other topics at UVA, and co-founded and serves as faculty for the Virginia Natural Resources Leadership Institute.

P.M. Ralph Gonsalves

4th Prime Minister, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Ralph Gonsalves is a Vincentian politician. He currently serves as the 4th Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and leader of the Unity Labour Party (ULP). Gonsalves is the longest continuously serving head of government since St. Vincent and the Grenadines became independent in 1979. He became Prime Minister after his party won a majority government in the 2001 general election. He was the first Prime Minister from the newly constructed ULP, following a merger of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Labour Party and the Movement for National Unity. Gonsalves has been Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of North Central Windward since 1994.

John Bridgeland

Founder & CEO, Civic Enterprises; Vice Chairman, Malaria No More

John Bridgeland is Founder & CEO of Civic; Vice Chairman of Malaria No More, a non-profit working to end malaria deaths in Africa; Vice Chairman of the Service Year Alliance to make a year of national service a common expectation and opportunity for all 18-28 year olds; Co-Convener of Grad Nation to reach a 90 percent high school graduation rate by 2020; Co-Founder of the Aspen High Seas Initiative to protect 30 percent of the ocean as marine reserves by 2030, and Executive Producer of the 2017 National Geographic film, Sea of Hope. Bridgeland serves on the National Commission for Social, Emotional and Academic Development and co-chairs the Policy Subcommittee. Previously, Bridgeland was appointed by President Obama to serve on the White House Council for Community Solutions, and by President George W. Bush to serve as Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, Assistant to the President of the United States, and first Director of the USA Freedom Corps. Bridgeland is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Virginia School of Law. He practiced law in the New York and Pairs, France offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell, won the 2015 Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and has given the commencement address at half a dozen colleges, where he has received honorary degrees. He lives in McLean, Virginia with his wife and three children.

Liziane Silva

Founding Partner and Former CEO, Ink

Liziane Silva is Founding Partner and Former CEO of Ink, a social business that offers project management services to NGOs. Ink’s influence has made projects have higher impact and achieve unprecedented growth, having results accelerate up to 3000%. In 2015 Liziane was recognized by APMG and PM4NGOs as globally distinguished in promoting the professionalization of project management in the international development and humanitarian sectors. She has been passionate about social entrepreneurship since 2004, when she first heard the term and found in it a way to connect her ambition and leadership with her will to promote equality and sustainable development. She is a member of the Global Shapers Community, fellow of the Global Good Fund, YLAI – Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative, Presidential Precinct, Goldman Sach’s 10,000 Women, Vital Voices Growth and Lemann Foundation. Graduated in Economics, Certified in the Innovation Master Series program at Stanford University and in Social Program Evaluation by MIT Poverty Action Lab and PUC Rio, Liziane is currently living in Los Angeles and pursuing a Masters of Science in Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California.

Brennan Gould

President & CEO, The Charlottesville Area Community Foundation

In June 2018, Brennan Gould became the fourth president and chief executive officer of the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation – a grant maker whose mission it is to drive positive, sustainable change in Charlottesville and its surrounding communities. As president, her primary responsibility is to oversee all aspects of the Foundation’s strategy, vision and operations. Prior to becoming president, Brennan served as director of the Foundation’s grant-funded programs. As director, she administered social impact investments in the areas of rural food insecurity, maternal and infant health disparities, education, community redevelopment, and greenway trail networks. Brennan gained national recognition for her work to create the Foundation’s Heal Charlottesville Fund. A native of Iowa, Brennan holds a degree in philosophy from the University of Iowa and is a distinguished Ron Brown Scholar, Davidson Fellow Laureate and graduate of the Council on Foundations Career Pathways Program. She was also named the 2018 recipient of the Robert Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking by the Council on Foundations. Brennan and her husband, Andre, a financial planner and entrepreneur, live in Charlottesville with their two young daughters.

Kat Imhoff

President & CEO, The Montpelier Foundation

Kat Imhoff, President and CEO of The Montpelier Foundation, is among the first generation of women to oversee all aspects of a national historic site. Under her leadership, Montpelier has become a leader in the research of slavery in the Early Republic and garnered the attention of patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein, whose $10 million gift in 2014 jumpstarted efforts to reconstruct the landscape of slavery at Montpelier and fully furnish James Madison’s historic home. Prior to joining Montpelier in January 2013, Kat enjoyed a five-year tenure as State Director for The Nature Conservancy in Montana, where she led a successful $90 million effort to conserve an ecologically intact unit of 310,000 acres of land in the Northern Rockies that serves as an environmentally-protected migratory corridor extending from Wyoming across Montana to Canada.

Derrick Alridge

Professor of Education, The University of Virginia; Faculty, Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies

Derrick Alridge is Professor of Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies. An educational and intellectual historian, Alridge’s work examines American education with foci in African American education and the civil rights movement. He is the author of The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History (2008) and co-editor, with James B. Stewart and V.P. Franklin, of Message in the Music: Hip-Hop, History, and Pedagogy (2011). Alridge is currently writing The Hip-Hop Mind: Ideas, History, and Social Consciousness (University of Wisconsin Press) and is co-editor, with Neil Bynum and James B. Stewart, of The Black Intellectual Tradition in the United States in the Twentieth Century (forthcoming, University of Illinois Press). Alridge is the founder, director, and Principal Investigator of Teachers in the Movement, an oral history project, founding director of the Center for Race and Public Education in the South, and Principal Investigator of the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site – Ethnographic Resource Study with the National Park Service. Professor Alridge currently serves as President of the History of Education Society, USA.

Christian Cotz

Director, Education and Visitor Engagment, The Montpelier Foundation

Christian Cotz is Director of Education and Visitor Engagement at The Montpelier Foundation. Christian’s team is the public face of the Montpelier experience. His career at Montpelier began in 2000 running student programs and developing experiential learning opportunities including the Gilmore Cabin, a Reconstruction era freedman’s farm. For the last 18 years, Christian has insisted on and persisted in making Montpelier’s story more inclusive and he has been at the forefront of Montpelier’s efforts to build and maintain relationships with families descended from Montpelier’s enslaved community. Most recently he was the project director for The Mere Distinction of Colour exhibition, which uses descendant voices to convey the stories of their ancestors, and which connects the dots between 1787 and today to shine a light on the legacy of slavery that still exists in our 21st century society.

Denise Stewart

Lecturer, University of Virginia Department of Drama

Denise Stewart is a Lecturer in the UVA Department of Drama. Denise has been coaching organizations, adults and teens on public speaking skills as well as developing ritual and discipline for health, creativity and productivity for many years. A past speaker for Charlottesville Tedx and a current Tedx speaker coach, her corporate clients and events have included Crutchfield Corp., MicroAire Surgical, Martha Jefferson Hospital, Kluge Children’s Rehabilitation Center, CFA Institute, Martin Horn, Inc., Real Estate III, the UVA Women in Leadership and Philanthropy Conference, the Women’s 4-miler Training Program, Blogville, CASA State Conference, NRV Cares Annual Conference, and the Jefferson-Madison Regional Libraries. Denise is also playwright and actor. She’s toured her one-woman show, Dirty Barbie and other Girlhood Tales, at Assembly Hall at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, the 59E59 East to Edinburgh Festival in New York City as well as The Corner Store in Washington, DC, the Diana Wortham Theatre in Asheville, NC, among other venues. She has a BA in Theatre from Catawba College, and an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Virginia where she is currently a lecturer in the Department of Drama teaching courses in acting, improv, and public speaking.

Larry Terry

Executive Director, The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service

Larry Terry is Executive Director of Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. Prior to joining UVa, Terry was the Director of the Urban SERCH Institute at the University of North Texas at Dallas. The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service exists to inform public policy, deliver public service and develop and inspire public leaders. Faculty and staff at the center participate in the life of the University through joint academic appointments, teaching, research and other service to the mission of the University. Terry holds a PhD in public affairs from the University of Texas at Dallas, an MPA in public administration from San Diego State University, and a BA in black studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Leslie Greene-Bowman

President, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc.

Leslie Greene Bowman is President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., which owns and operates Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. Prior to coming to Monticello, she served nine years as executive director of Winterthur, the nation’s greatest museum of American decorative arts. She spent the first half of her career as a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where she rose to become head curator of decorative arts as well as assistant director of exhibition programs. While in Los Angeles, she also enjoyed academic appointments with both USC and UCLA, where she taught American decorative arts history. Leslie has served at the highest levels of the museum field, both as an accreditation commissioner for the American Association of Museums and a board member of the Association of Art Museum Directors. She has recently been appointed by President Obama to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, on which she previously served under Presidents Clinton and Bush from 1993-2010. She is currently a Trustee on the Board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Stewart Gamage

Director, Morven Programs

Stewart Gamage serves as Director of Morven Programs at the University of Virginia. Her responsibilities include coordination of strategic planning for Morven, the 3,000 acre property given to the University by philanthropist John W. Kluge. Her experience draws from a wide range of assignments. Prior to joining the University of Virginia, Ms. Gamage served as Vice President for Public Affairs at the College of William & Mary for 15 years. She has served as Chief Operating Officer of APCO Associates, one of the largest public affairs firms in Washington, D.C.; Policy Director to the Majority Leader in the US House of Representatives; Director of the Virginia Liaison Office and Senior Assistant to Governors Charles Robb and Gerald Baliles; and Associate Deputy of Intergovernmental Affairs at the White House during the Carter Administration. In 1999 she was appointed to the Commission for Presidential Scholars by President Bill Clinton. She graduated summa cum laude from William & Mary in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts, and earned her MPA from the University of Southern California in 1979.

Yoni Applebaum

Senior Editor for Politics, The Atlantic

Yoni Appelbaum is Senior Editor for politics at The Atlantic. Appelbaum was previously a columnist for the publication. Appelbaum holds an A.B. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in history from Brandeis University. Before moving to The Atlantic, Appelbaum taught at Harvard University. Appelbaum’s academic work focused on what he has jokingly called the, “guilded age,” the associative republicanism of the late 19th century, an era when mass-membership organizations like the Knights of Pythias, Chicago Lumber Exchange, and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union were central to national politics.

Joanne Freeman

Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University

Joanne Freeman is an American historian and tenured Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. Having researched Alexander Hamilton both independently and collaboratively with mentors and peers for more than forty years, she is regarded as “a leading expert” on his life and legacy. Freeman has published two books as well as articles and op-eds in newspapers including The New York Times, magazines like The Atlantic and Slate and numerous academic journals referencing this notable Founding Father. In addition to her many public lectures on Hamilton, outside of her regular student curriculum at Yale, her talks on the topics of political partisanship and violence in the pre-Civil War Congress have appeared on CSPAN In 2005 she was rated one of the nation’s “Top Young Historians.”

Daniel Twining

President, IRI

Daniel Twining joined IRI as president in September 2017, where he leads the Institute’s mission to advance democracy and freedom around the world. He heads IRI’s team of nearly 500 global experts to link people and governments, motivate people to engage in the political process, and guide politicians and government officials to be responsive to citizens. Previously, he served as counselor and director of the Asia Program at The German Marshall Fund of the United States, based in Washington, DC. As counselor, he served on the executive management team that governs GMF’s annual operations; as director of the Asia Program, he led a team working on the rise of Asia and its implications for the West. He holds a BA with highest distinction from the University of Virginia and MPhil & DPhil degrees from Oxford University, where he was the Fulbright/Oxford Scholar from 2004-07. He has been a columnist for Foreign Policy and Nikkei and has served as an advisor to six presidential campaigns.

Aaron Presnall

President, The Jefferson Institute

Aaron Presnall is president of the Jefferson Institute. He is a political economist specializing in the relationships of information and participatory decision making. In addition to scholarly works and popular opinion pieces, he has written on the business and political environment of Eurasia for the United Nations Development Program, the Economist Intelligence Group, the OSCE, and numerous private and governmental organizations in the United States. Before joining the Jefferson Institute, he served with the EastWest Institute for seven years in Prague, then in Belgrade for three years as EWI’s Regional Director of Southeast Europe. He is currently PI on grants from the NSF Arctic Social Sciences Program, and the Department of Defense Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative.

James Ryan

President, The University of Virginia

James Ryan serves as the ninth president of the University of Virginia. A leading expert on law and education, Ryan has written extensively about the ways in which law structures educational opportunity. Before coming to UVA, Ryan served as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In this role, Ryan increased the size, strength, and diversity of the faculty through new hires and promotions. He established the Harvard Teacher Fellows program, an innovative teacher training program for Harvard College seniors and recent alumni, and began a school-wide effort to reimagine its master’s degree programs. Under his leadership, the school surpassed its campaign goal of $250 million more than a year ahead of schedule. Ryan received his AB summa cum laude from Yale University and his JD from the University of Virginia, which he attended on a full scholarship and from which he graduated first in his class. After law school, Ryan clerked for William H. Rehnquist, the late Chief Justice of the United States, and then worked in Newark, N.J., as a public interest lawyer before entering into teaching. Ryan and his wife, Katie, have four children.

Andy Rabens

Special Advisor, Office of the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Andy Rabens serves as a Special Advisor at the U.S. Department of State in the Office of the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. He focuses on global youth issues and helping the U.S. Government better engage young people internationally to help solve the pressing challenges of today while also building greater global connectivity and networks to shape a more secure and prosperous future. He serves as the principal representative on youth issues for the U.S. Department of State and leads efforts to coordinate and amplify global youth policy and initiatives. Andy previously served at the U.S. Department of State in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs as the Special Advisor for Youth Engagement in the Middle East and North Africa and as the Public Diplomacy Desk Officer for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs. He has also served in the Bureau of African Affairs; the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs; and in the Office of the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. Andy holds a bachelors degree from Harvard University and a masters degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sara Bon-Harper

Executive Director, James Monroe’s Highland

Sara Bon-Harper is the Executive Director of James Monroe’s Highland. She earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and she has an undergraduate degree in Anthropology and Classics from the University of Arizona. Before coming to Highland, she worked as Archaeological Research Manager at Monticello (1999-2012), where she led a team investigating lost elements of the plantation landscape and developed a passion for reaching multiple audiences through interpretation of research about the past. Sara has taught at the University of Virginia, and has also conducted archaeological research and trained archaeological students in Europe and North America. Her research has focused on Roman peripheries in Italy and France as well as the disenfranchised in state societies, with topical expertise in archaeological ceramics and research methods. She has lectured and written about a variety of topics, including the analysis of archaeological data, landscapes of slavery, and the construction of historic narratives. Her current focus at Highland is sharing the relevance of James Monroe in understanding U.S. history as well as current social and political debates.

Ross Baird

Co-Founder, Village Capital

Ross Baird is an entrepreneur and investor who is best known for finding, developing, and backing entrepreneurs and ideas overlooked and undervalued by mainstream markets. He co-founded Village Capital in 2009, and has invested in over 100 entrepreneurs in the last decade, and supported over 1,000 founders in 50 countries through affiliated programs. He is also the author of the bestselling book, The Innovation Blind Spot: Why we Back the Wrong Ideas, and What to Do About it. An Atlanta native, he also serves as a Venture Partner with Access Ventures, leading a nationwide collaborative to promote inclusive economic growth in Opportunity Zones; and also is an Innovator-in-Residence with the Kauffman Foundation.

Neal Piper

Executive Director, The Presidential Precinct

Neal Piper is the Executive Director of the Presidential Precinct, a non-profit that engages and inspires emerging leaders to address the most pressing challenges in their countries. Neal has years of experience managing teams worldwide and creating innovative solutions for Fortune 100 companies, startups, and nongovernment organizations. He previously worked for Population Services International (PSI), the world’s largest social marketing NGO and expanded its medical sales training curriculum to help improve the quality of healthcare services globally. Neal has extensive experience in global management and strategic development for Fortune 100 companies, start-ups, nonprofit and non-governmental organizations. He began his career in global health through Pfizer’s Global Health Fellows Program, an international corporate social responsibility program that strengthens basic healthcare delivery and infrastructure worldwide. After managing teams in Swaziland, Africa, he was elected President of the Global Health Fellows Alumni Business Network. Neal also served as a Global Malaria Advisor for Pfizer’s Emerging Markets Division. During his career Neal has founded several startups including Living the Dream, a media company with a mission to inspire people to live out their dreams and Hope Rising, a healthcare organization that provided counseling to children and adolescents in Atlanta. He has travelled to over 60 countries on all seven continents.

Casey Gerald

Co-Founder & CEO, MBAs Across America

Casey Gerald is the Co-Founder & CEO of MBAs Across America. Casey was the poster child for the American Dream, escaping a harrowing childhood to enter a new world of elite universities and secret societies. While at Yale, Casey attended a law school event at which the speaker made an observation that made a lasting impact upon him. “He said law was the instrument of social change in the twentieth century,” Casey explains, “but if you want to change the world in the twenty-first century, get an MBA.” Casey applied, and was accepted into, HBS’ deferred admission 2+2 program, using the two years of work experience to explore options in both social policy and business; the former, through staffing assignments at the Center for American Progress, the Cities of Service Coalition, and Reboot, “a design-based approach to innovation in the public sector,” and the latter through Neiman Marcus, where he worked on the president’s five-year strategic plan. But as he climbed the social ladder, he saw how this hierarchy stifled those at the margins, and that “salvation stories” like his could be used to keep others from rising. Now, he uses his platform to splinter the myth of the American Dream, illuminate inequality, and set forth a bold new direction for a generation navigating a fractured nation.

Kennedy Odede

CEO & Co-Founder, Shining Hope for Communities

Kennedy Odede is the CEO & Co-founder of Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO). A former street child who lived most of his life in Kibera, Africa’s largest slum, he founded SHOFCO with savings from his $1 per day factory job. SHOFCO’s programs will collectively serve over 76,000 individuals in 2015. The organization is scaling across Kenya’s slums with a model that links free schools for girls to holistic community services for all, currently focused on the Kibera and Mathare slums. In October 2015, Kennedy and his wife, Jessica Posner, released their first book Find Me Unafraid based on their story and the work they’ve done to help improve the lives of girls in Kibera and similar communities throughout the world. Senator Cory Booker called Find Me Unafraid “A powerful reminder of an individual’s capacity to make a meaningful difference in the world around them. Kennedy and Jessica’s inspiring words are a soaring call to action for anyone who has confronted seemingly insurmountable odds—and found hope.”

Wael Ghonim

Computer Engineer, Internet Activist, and Social Entrepreneur

Wael Ghonim is a computer engineer, an Internet activist, and a social entrepreneur. He is best known for his role in the Egyptian revolution that led to the removal of Husni Mubarak out of power in 2011. Wael worked for Google heading their Marketing and Product operations in the Middle East. He is the author of “Revolution 2.0: The Power of the people is greater than the people in power”. Wael was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, was named one of Time 100 most influential people and received the JFK Profile in Courage Award. He has been writing and thinking about populism, polarization, and the unintended consequences of social media platforms.

Pia Mancini

Co-Founder, OpenCollective

Pia Mancini Using software to inspire public debate and enable voter engagement, Pia Mancini hopes to upgrade modern democracy in Argentina and beyond. After a disappointing brush with traditional political parties in Argentina, Pia Mancini realized that the existing democracy was disconnected from its citizens — and that no one was likely to fix it. In response, Mancini helped launch Democracy OS, an open-source mobile platform designed to provide Argentine citizens with immediate input into the legislative process. To promote it, she helped found the Partido de la Red, a new party running candidates committed to legislate only as directed by constituents using online tools for participation.

Greisa Martinez Rosas

Deputy Executive Director, United We Dream

Greisa Martinez Rosas is the Deputy executive director of United We Dream—the largest immigrant youth-led network in the country with more than 400,000 members. In this capacity, Greisa serves a UWD strategist and implements UWD’s vision, as the organization continues to build power throughout the country. Greisa began organizing in her hometown of Dallas, TX in 2006 to help young Latinos in Texas register to vote, and has since become a fearless defender of her undocumented community and advocate for the rights of women. Originally from Hidalgo, Mexico, Greisa migrated to the U.S. with her parents at a young age and grew up in Texas. While studying Biology at Texas A&M University, she co-founded the Council for Minority Student Affairs (CMSA). CMSA is the first undocumented youth-led organization in the conservative university’s more than 100 year history. Greisa has been featured as a leading voice in the progressive movement and has been featured on many of the top outlets like CNN, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, BBC, Telemundo, Univision among others. Greisa is the living embodiment of the United We Dream spirit—transforming personal adversity into personal power and hope that has inspired thousands into action.

GLOBALPATHFINDERSUMMIT

GLOBALPATHFINDERSUMMIT

May 20-24, 2019

There is no better time to convene with other young, passionate leaders to learn how to change our world for the better, together.

INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED KEYNOTES

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS

COMMUNITY SERVICE AND ENGAGEMENT

ART & ENTERTAINMENT EVENTS

SPEAKERS

Derrick Alridge

Sara Bon-Harper

Selena Cozart

Joanne Freeman

Brennan Gould

Yoni Applebaum

Catherine Bradshaw

Nancy Deutsch

Stewart Gamage

Johari Harris

Aaron Azelton

John Bridgeland

Frank Dukes

Casey Gerald

Samson Itodo

Ross Baird

Catherine Constantinides

Caroline Emerson

Wael Ghonim

Josephine Kibe

Brian Balogh

Christian Cotz

Michael Foreman

P.M. Ralph Gonsalves

Pia Mancini

Amb. Derek Mitchell

Neal Piper

Andy Rabens

Doug Smith

Kristina Weaver

Amb. Stephen Mull

Tanja Porcnik

Ravi Respeto

Kathy Spangler

Gaye Wilson

Kennedy Odede

Jessica Posner

Greisa Martinez Rosas

Denise Stewart

Liam O'Doherty

Jon Paul Potts

James Ryan

Larry Terry

Nicol Perez

Aaron Presnall

Liziane Silva

Daniel Twining

AGENDA

11:15AM The Role of Citizens in a Democracy

11:45AM Mash-Up: Youth, Power, and Voice

12:30PM Lunch

1:15PM A Collective Vision for the Future: The Virginia Resolutions

2:30PM Deep Dive Breakouts

Climate Change: A New Understanding

Economic Opportunities for Youth: The Path to Empowerment

The Human Freedom Index: Is Freedom Under Attack?

Combatting Corruption: Changing the Incentives

Inclusive Societies: Tackling Discrimination & Intolerance

9:00AM Engagement in Action: Community Service in Charlottesville

12:00PM Lunch & Community Service Reflections

2:00PM A Collective Vision for the Future: The Virginia Resolutions

3:15PM Unintended Consequences: Introspections of an Activist

4:15PM Panel: Technology for Social Change

5:15PM 5 Participant Ignite Talks: Stories from the Field

8:30AM Perspectives on Representative Democracy

10:00AM A Collective Vision for the Future: The Virginia Resolutions

11:00AM Interactive Story Session: Leadership for Democracy

12:15PM Lunch Session: “Who Am I, Who Are We, Who Defines Our History”: Why This Matters in Educating for Democracy and Social Justice

2:30PM Teachable Moments: Education and the Spread of Democracy

6:30PM Dinner Event: Celebrating Democracy, Shaping The Future, Changing The World

9:30AM Presidential Home Visits and Workshops

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