SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES FOR 2013 - 2016 EVENTS
A- F , G - L , M - P , Q - Z
Dr. Abe was born and raised in Gulu, Acoli, Uganda. He immigrated to the U.S. in the 1960’s completed his education and joined the faculty at North Seattle Community College in 1970. He was a Professor Human Biological for the next thirty years until his retirement from the college in 2010
Dr. Abe is a founding member and Chairman of the Board of the African Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Northwest, Seattle. He is also a member of the Uganda North American Association (UNAA) and is Uganda’s Deputy Honorary Vice Consul for Washington State.
Dr. Abe is owner and CEO of World Travel Center and Safaris, a travel and tour company which assists many Africans and other Americans who wish to travel to Africa and around the world. He continues to be an active member of the University District Rotary Club of Seattle and has led teams providing humanitarian assistance to Ethiopia and Uganda.
African Identities and Worldviews (February 2014)
Eduardo Baca Cuenca has been Consul General of Mexico in Seattle since 2013. Previous to coming to Seattle, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary for North American Affairs, in charge of the overall political relationship between Mexico and the United States and Canada.
A career diplomat for more than 25 years, Consul Baca has also served as Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Mexico in Venezuela; Deputy Head of Mission in Trinidad and Tobago; Political Officer at the Embassy of Mexico in the United States; and political Officer at the Embassy of Mexico in Canada.
Dr. Bachman is the Henry M. Jackson Professor of International Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, where he teaches on Chinese domestic politics, foreign policy, and US-China Relations. He served as the associate director of the School from 2003 to 2010 and is an adjunct professor of Political Science. He is the author of several books as well as numerous articles about Chinese politics. He served as President of the Washington State China Relations Council in 2005 and on its executive committee for 10 years.
Susan Barclay is a socio-cultural anthropologist who has specialized in peace and conflict studies, violence prevention, humanization, and social change. Susan spent over ten years living abroad in Guinea, Reunion Island, France, Israel/Palestine, and Lebanon doing fieldwork and working with local communities in theater, film, photography, exhibitions, and music. She completed her graduate work in Beirut studying social change and the arts as tools for healing in the context of civil conflict.
Coping with Conflict in Southeast Asia and the Palestinian Territories (November 2014)
Michael Brady is an agricultural economist at Washington State University, where he specializes in tree fruit, vegetable, vineyard, and other horticulture and nursery crops. He also studies issues related to water use and irrigated agriculture which is the subject of his talk at Shoreline Community College. Dr. Brady is involved in a number of projects focusing on modeling coupled human and environmental systems in an interdisciplinary framework. He has analyzed the economic impact of various agriculture industries in Washington. He also conducts research on farmland ownership, agricultural land values, and land use change.
Micheal is an Executive Directors at United Nations Association Greater Seattele Chapter. He is currently involved in developing UNA Seattle into what it can be: a local force promoting global good.This involves extensive community outreach and advocacy through event planning and execution as well as the more tedious office work of database creation and management for membership expansion. He received his BA in Humanities and Political Science from Seattle University and his Master's in Diplomacy (International Relations) from Norwich University in Vermont.
Great Discussions: The United Nations (May 2016)
Student Assistant, Student Success Center, University of Washington Bothell
Nick was awarded the University of Washington Bothell Founders Fellowship award last year and he has spent countless hours conducting research with various agriculture crops, using different hydroponic methods. He hopes to one day further those efforts by creating an organization dedicated to education, research, and policy analysis, with a strong community outreach program that addresses the complex interdisciplinary issues surrounding our food systems. Nick’s passion of sustainable agriculture and public health fuels his desire to advocate for better environmental, economic and community health policies. As a Master’s-level student he is focusing on polices and research that will increase the value and shared responsibility of supporting undeserved communities--particularly with environmental and nutritional health interventions. Nick’s work will allow him to play an active role in shaping the trends and policies of our current agriculture model that work towards creating more sustainable solutions.
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Farming of the Future:Feeding Everyone in the 21st Century (October 2016)
Tony is a Director of Communications at Rally Point/6. He was among the first Marines deployed to Iraq in 2003. After returning home, he was a Fellow at The Mission Continues and a relentless advocate for our service members. He has worked with cabinet-level officials and legislators for priority registration at public colleges, tax benefits for businesses who hire vets, and advised senior business executives on best practices. He has also appeared on radio and television as subject matter expert, and provided testimony in support of veteran's legislation. Both the California State legislature and United States Congress have recognized Tony for his continued service to the veteran’s community.
Tony holds a BA in Political Science from Chapman University, and is currently a graduate student at the University of Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs
Jonathan Bensky retired to Seattle September 2008, after 34 years of promoting US exports and providing assistance, advice and counsel to American businesses overseas At the time of his retirement he was a Senior Foreign Commercial Service Officer with the rank of Minister - Counselor.
For twenty years he served as Senior Commercial Officer in the American Embassies in Kuala Lumpur (1986 – 1990), Manila (1990 – 1992), New Delhi (1992 – 1997), Singapore (1997 – 2002) and, prior to his retirement, in the US Mission to the European Union in Brussels (2003 – 2008). As Senior Commercial Officer he was in charge of the US Department of Commerce office and staff in each of those embassies.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Jon has a BA in Economics from Oakland University in Michigan and an MA in Economics from the University of Hawaii's East West Center. His languages have included Nepali, Hindi, Tamil, Bahasa Malaysia and French. He is married to Sandra Bensky, who is from Vancouver, BC. They have a son, Brian (born in Chennai, India), and a daughter, Miriam (born in Colombo, Sri Lanka), both of whom graduated from the University of Washington.
Jon currently is President and CEO of Pacific Northwest Advisors, based in Seattle. He is also active as a volunteer in a number of international business and trade related organizations and activities, including Advisory Council, Seattle Trade Development Alliance, Advisory Committee, Foster School CIBER, Washington District Export Council, Seattle Asia Business Forum and the Consular Association of Washington. He is also a member of the American Foreign Service Association.
Dr. Bradshaw is currently chairperson of the Biology Department at the University of Washington, where he has taught since 1989. His research and publishing accomplishments are many, but he is probably best known as the victim of an incident in 2001 when his laboratory at the university was firebombed by environmental activities with Earth Liberation Front who suspected him of engaging in research to produce genetically-engineered trees.
Toby's research interests are in the detailed molecular genetic basis of adaptive evolution in natural populations, particularly the origin of new species resulting from premating reproductive isolation. In his spare time he roams the Great Basin with his Harris's hawks, in search of jackrabbits.
Derik Broekhoff joined the Stockholm Environment Institute in Seattle as a Senior Scientist in June 2015. He has worked for over 20 years on energy and climate policy, with an emphasis on greenhouse gas accounting, emissions trading, and carbon offsets. His research interests include the effective design and implementation of environmental market mechanisms, along with assessing and enabling climate mitigation policies that go beyond “carbon pricing,” especially at the local government level. His current research evaluates how city and national governments can work together most effectively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in urban areas.
Prior to joining SEI, Derik was Vice President for Policy at the Climate Action Reserve in Los Angeles, where he oversaw development of the Reserve’s “carbon offset” program and its transition into California’s groundbreaking cap-and-trade program. Before that, Derik worked at the World Resources Institute in Washington, DC, where he managed work on the design of emissions trading programs and greenhouse gas accounting standards, and provided Congressional testimony on the design of federal rules for carbon offsets. He has advised numerous state, national, and international policy initiatives on climate change, including programs to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+).
Derik has a Master’s degree in Public Policy (MPP) from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Stanford University.
WSCRC is the only State-level association, established in 1979, dedicated to promoting relations and trade between China and the United States. Members of this not-for-profit organization include over 100 corporate, ports, banks, law firms, and other manufacturers, retailers, businesses and major universities in Washington State.
Mr. Borich was born in Minnesota in 1944, received a bachelor’s degree from South Dakota State University in 1967, and a master’s degree from the University of South Dakota in 1972. Mr. Borich resides in Shoreline with his wife and their daughter.
China’s Worldview (October 2013)
U.S. Foreign Policy Challenges and a New President (October 2016)
PhD, President and CEO, Jazz, Inc
A pioneer in human dynamics and leadership, Dr. Gloria Burgess presents powerful keynotes and workshops based on her popular books, which include Flawless Leadership, Dare to Wear Your Soul on the Outside, and Legacy Living. Her focus is all about being our powerful, authentic selves—in how we live, lead, and serve.
Many years ago, Gloria triumphed over extreme poverty and vicious racism and sexism. Because she knows first-hand that your past does not predict your future, she now devotes her life to helping people of all ages discover their purpose and passion. Indeed, she loves nothing more than inspiring others to create a bridge from what was… to what is… to what can be™.
Using her unique, innovative approach, Gloria has inspired and equipped tens of thousands of people in 35 countries on six continents. She has advised, coached, and inspired diverse clients, including Starbucks, Microsoft, Google, MSNBC, Amazon, Boeing, Shoreline Community College, Edmonds Community College, Young Women’s Empowerment, Center for Courage and Renewal, YWCA, Casey Family Programs, Women’s International Network, South African Embassy, Kenyan Parliament, and Paraguay’s Office of the President.
Daryl Campbell joined Seattle Goodwill as President and CEO in 2014. Prior to coming to Goodwill he served as Interim President of Shoreline Community College, and as its Vice President for Administrative Services for five years prior.
Mr. Campbell received a B.S. degree in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Vermont, an M.B.A. from University of Phoenix, and he holds a J.D. degree from Seattle University School of Law. His career in higher education spanned 18 years, 13 of which were spent in senior leadership roles. While at Goddard College in Vermont, Daryl was the primary architect of a financial and institutional reorganization that sparked its revitalization. During his six year tenure at Shoreline Community College, he drove a strategic planning process that resulted in increased targeted enrollment, higher quality programs, and a more stable financial profile. Daryl has long been active in growing key business and education partnerships in local and international communities.
Under Mr. Campbell’s leadership Seattle Goodwill has developed and implemented its new 5-year strategic plan, with the goal to become the region’s premier workforce agency, placing over 3,000 individuals directly into good paying jobs and higher education by the year 2020.
Daryl currently serves on the Boards of the King County Workforce Development Council and World Trade Center Seattle, and is a member of the United Way of King County Reconnecting Youth Advisory Council. Since 2009 he has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Project Education Kenya.
Janet Carbary joined ONE MIND in 2013 and is currently the Chief Financial Officer. She has a diverse background in organizational development, and financial planning within the healthcare industry. Janet has been an executive with experience as a CFO, COO and CEO. She holds 25 years of knowledge that includes for profit and not for profit healthcare, as well as system environments.
Janet started her career at Empire Health Services. She left after nine years to take a position with a new joint venture that was forming between two large competing systems in Texas. She has worked with many aspects of the healthcare delivery system included acute care, air ambulance, durable medical equipment, physician practices and clinical laboratories. Prior to joining One Mind, Janet was the CFO/COO of Pacific Physician Lab.
Janet holds a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Eastern Washington University and did her graduate studies at Gonzaga University.
Bill Center is Senior Advisor to the International Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows program at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington. He has also taught courses on leadership, economics U.S. Foreign Policy.
Bill graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and the Evans School of Public Affairs at UW. He served as a senior advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on arms control, non-proliferation, environmental matters, and international agreements. He was General Colin Powell's deputy director for international negotiations and served in the same role for General John Shalikashvili. Since retiring from the Navy in 1999, Bill has used the same skills to overcome challenges facing several non-profit organizations in the Puget Sound region, including the Washington Council on International Trade, where he was President from 1999 to 2007, the Rotary Club of Seattle and the Initiative for Global Development.
A sought-after public speaker, Bill and Karla, his wife, reside in Edmonds. He enjoys spending time with their granddaughters, music, cooking, woodworking, landscape design and sports.
U.S. Foreign Policy Challenges and a New President (October 2016)
As Washington Sea Grant’s Ocean Acidification (OA) specialist, Meg is a resource on OA science, policy and outreach for diverse stakeholders, including government agencies, academic institutions, tribes, marine industries and the public. She also serves as Sea Grant’s liaison to NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Lab, a unique appointment created to facilitate the flow of NOAA’s world-class OA research to the greater scientific community and the public. Prior to joining Sea Grant, she worked with the UW School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, the Marine Stewardship Council and Seattle Chefs Collaborative. She’s (practically) a native Seattleite and is interested in everything that happens on or beneath the waves.
Dying Oceans (Acidification) (April 2016)
Kam Wing is Professor of Geography at University of Washington. His main research focuses on China's cities, migration, employment, and the household registration system. He is the author of Cities with Invisible Walls: Reinterpreting Urbanization in Post-1949 China (Oxford University Press, 1994). He has served as a Consultant for the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, United Nations, and McKinsey & Co. and worked on a number of policy projects on China. His recent commentaries and interviews have appeared in Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Economist, South China Morning Post, BBC, CBC Radio, Caixin, Ming Pao and China Daily. Visit his web page at http://faculty.washington.edu/kwchan/
China’s Urbanization and the “Left-behind” Children (February 2016)
Lisa Cohen is the Executive Director of the Washington Global Health Alliance (WGHA), a coalition of more than 60 leading global health research, development and civic organizations. WGHA activates governments, corporate and non-profit organizations and individuals in the Washington state region through shared efforts to advance global health equity.
Prior to the formation of WGHA, Ms. Cohen spent 25 years as a producer and manager in broadcast news. She taught journalism at the University of Washington, where she earned degrees in Broadcast Journalism and International Communications. She serves as Executive Director and Board Chair for the Washington Global Health Fund and on the governance boards of Global to Local, Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association and Seattle CityClub, as well as numerous civic advisory committees.
Preparing for the Next Pandemic: Lessons from Ebola and other Infectious-Disease Outbreaks (January 2015)
Mr. Costa works extensively for Brazilian banks, insurance companies, law firms, asset management and IT organizations as press and business adviser in Brazil and the United States, China, Japan, Europe and South America. In the United States, Mr. Costa has led important business missions between the two countries, especially in the industrial and aerospace sectors.
Both in the U.S. and Brazil, Mr. Costa has acted as a strategic advisor for important companies, seizing business opportunities. Some of the clientele of the Information Company are Zurich Insurance, Draft, FCB, Washington Council on International Trade (WCIT), Brazilian Manufactures Association (Fiesp), Skyway, Airbiquity, Skype, Livemocha, National Confederation of Agriculture (CNA) and Livestock and others. His specialties include Strategic Advisory for American and Brazilian companies, Communications 2.0, Documentaries, Electronic PR, Business Development, Art Exhibitions, Strategic Advisory for American and Brazilian companies.
Mr. Costa received his degree in Communications at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and has worked many years as a journalist for several newspapers, radios and magazines. More recently, he’s been working on documentaries in the United States directed towards Brazilian business television programs. Pedro lives in North Seattle and is married and a father of twin girls.
Brazil’s Worldview (November 2013)
Kristen Dailey joined Global Washington in March 2014. She has over 18 years of experience in international development including advocacy, issue campaigns, microcredit, and building partnerships among NGOs, businesses, and government. Most recently, she was the Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President at the Initiative for Global Development where she played a leadership role in growing the organization from a small program in Seattle to an international business alliance.
Her professional background also includes work at Global Partnerships, the United Nations Foundation, and working with low-income refugee and immigrant families in South Seattle. Her expertise includes strategic planning, membership models, budgeting, fundraising, and corporate partnerships.
Kristen holds a Master’s degree in public administration from the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington and is committed to finding effective, sustainable solutions to world poverty.
Exporting Airplanes, Software and Hope: The International Humanitarian Work of Washington NGOs (February 2015)
Diah Darmawaty is a board member and one of the Founders of the Indonesian Diaspora Foundation (IDF) Global, a philanthropy nonprofit organization. She is also the founder and board member of Indonesian Diaspora Network Greater Seattle (IDN GS).
Diah professional skill is an Aircraft Structure Analyst (Stress Analyst) Engineer. With over 20 years of experience, serve in primary and interior structures, she experience working on several different Aircraft programs inside and outside United States. She is currently working at the Boeing Company as a Senior Stress Analyst for Aircraft Interior Structure, as well as a Senior Lead Engineer. She is also an active member of the Boeing Asian American Professional Association (BAAPA), and a member of Fab North Diversity Council at Boeing.
Diah earned her bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Sriwijaya University, at Palembang Indonesia. She lives in Mukilteo, Washington State, with her husband and their beautiful daughter. Some of her hobbies are designing house, reading, and cross-stitching.
The World’s Largest Archipelago: Indonesia’s Culture, History and Worldview (February 2014)
Rachel David grew up in Northern California and attended U.C. Berkeley as an undergraduate. In 1992 Rachel moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington, School of Law. From 1996 to 1999 she worked as the Legal Advocate for Seattle Rape Relief, a small non-profit agency with a philosophy of anti-oppression. In that position, she worked with survivors of sexual assault through all stages of the justice system. She has been teaching Gender & Women's Studies at Shoreline since 1999. Her areas of teaching and interest include multicultural and intersectional analyses, gender violence, sexuality and intimate relationships, and global gender issues. She loves teaching in this field because of the discipline's profound potential to affect students' lives.
Women and Social Protest (November 2015)
Dan covers business, transportation and Seattle culture for seattlepi.com. Before joining the Web-only PI organization, Daniel covered business at the Bozeman Daily Chronicle in Bozeman, Montana. Prior to that, he covered government and politics at the Skagit Valley Herald in Mount Vernon, Washington. Daniel was a carpenter, among other things, before he started down the path toward journalism here at Shoreline Community College. In almost three years here, Daniel held several roles on The Ebbtide staff, including editor-in-chief for more than a year. He went on to study at the University of Missouri before finishing his degree at Western Washington University.
Online News Media (January 2016)
Mr. Recip was born in 1967. He graduated from Middle East Technical University where he studies Economics in 1990. He began working in 1992 at the Turkish Prime Ministry Undersecretariat of Treasury and Foreign Trade. He earned an MA degree in Economics at New York University in 1998.
Patrick Diller is the Marketing Manager at MSR Global Health. In his role he oversees development of project plans in support of key marketing initiatives and leads cross-functional teams in executing these projects on a local and global level. Patrick has been interested in private/public/NGO partnerships since studying development in college at Oakland University, and prior to joining MSR Global Health spent more than 6 years with Whole Foods Market in various operational roles where he worked to connect employees and customers to the corporation’s foundations and philanthropic efforts.
PATH-Private Sector Collaboration (April 2016)
Dr. Natalie DiNicola is Vice President of Sustainable Ag Partnerships at Monsanto Company, where she leads efforts to embed sustainability principles throughout the company. Her team also leads the development of public-private partnerships working with civil society, research institutions, and others to fight hunger and improve nutrition security, to protect natural resources and to improve the livelihood of farmers around the world through the adoption of improved agricultural systems. Previously, she served as a Federation of Animal Sciences Societies Science fellow in Washington, D.C., where she worked on agriculture and environment-related issues and focused on the use of science in policy making.
She received her B.A. in Biology and Environmental Biology from St. Mary’s College in 1989 and her Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995.
Biotechnology and Agriculture (February 2015)
Charles “Chip” Dodd is a Professor of Geography, International Studies, and Globalization at Shoreline Community College since 1998. He specializes in geopolitics. In the late 1980s, Chip worked in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research in the Department of State, where he specialized in water and energy resource issues, and the former USSR (Soviet Union).
Chip earned his undergraduate degree in Political Economy at UC/Berkeley, and an M.S. degree in Geography at the University of Washington.
Larry Dohrs is a founding board member of the US Campaign for Burma, a leading U.S. advocacy organization working for justice and democracy in Burma/Myanmar. Larry has been active on behalf of democracy and justice in Burma for more than 20 years. Since 2013, he has been the Executive Advisor to the executive leadership and board of directors of All You Need Is Love Charity (www.allyouneedislovecharity.org) which provides educational services to migrant and refugee communities along the Thai-Burma border. Larry is an economist, is a Visiting Scholar in Southeast Asian Studies at Texas Christian University, holds an MA in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Michigan, and has published widely on Southeast Asian affairs.
Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars ,Washington, DC, Former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief, and Fellow, Woodrow
Jill Dougherty joined CNN shortly after its founding three decades ago. In her career at the network she served as Moscow Bureau Chief and Correspondent; White House Correspondent; Managing Editor Asia/Pacific based in Hong Kong; Foreign Affairs Correspondent covering the US State Department; and U.S. Affairs Editor based in Washington, DC.
As a CNN Correspondent Jill Dougherty reported from more than 50 countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan, China and North Korea. Her strongest interest and area of expertise is Russia. From the moment she began learning the Russian language at age 13, Russia has been her passion.
She currently is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. In 2015 she was a Public Policy Scholar at the Wilson Center, where she carried out research on the Russian media and on “Putinism.” In 2014 she was selected as a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government where she researched and wrote several articles on the Russian media.
Jill Dougherty began studying the Russian language in high school. She majored in Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Michigan, and studied at Russia’s Leningrad State University. She completed graduate studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where she wrote her thesis on Russian President Vladimir Putin's Soft Power Diplomacy.
As an expert on Russia, she appears frequently on CNN, has been featured in a TedX program, and her articles have appeared in Atlantic.com, Politico.com, CNN.com, Huffingtonpost.com, The Moscow Times, and other publications.
Mr. Esonu was born in Nigerian in Port Harcourt. He had his early elementary and high school education in the town of Umuahia in the eastern (Ibo) region of Nigeria. Onum migrated to the US to further his education in the spring of 1981 here at Shoreline Community College.
He went on to complete degrees in Political Science and Urban Planning from the University of Washington. He currently works for the City of Seattle’s Department of Planning and Development in the Land Use Division.
Mr. Esonu is a member of the Africa Diaspora Advisory Committee to the African Union Ambassador to the United States, visits Nigeria annually, is current with political and economic development issues along with the challenges and cultural imperatives that influence changes there. He is an active member in the Seattle Nigeria and Igbo Community.
African Identities and Worldviews (February 2014)
Chris has been directing, acting, writing and teaching theater and film at regional colleges and theaters for over 20 years. She received an MFA in theater from Rutgers University. Her directing credits include Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill, Lady from the Sea and A Doll's House by Ibsen, Travesties by Tom Stoppard, The Skin of Our Teeth and Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire and The God of Hell by Sam Shepard.
Her plays have been workshopped or produced at Broadway Performance Hall, New City Theater, the Seattle Rep, Princeton Rep, and the Douglas Fairbanks Theater in NYC. She is co-author of Serving in Silence which was made into an Emmy-award winning film produced by Barbra Streisand and starring Glenn Close and Judy Davis. In 2002, she received the SCC Exceptional Faculty Award.
Katie graduated from Clark Community College Dental Hygiene Program in Vancouver, Washington in 1996 and earned her Bachelors' of Science in Dental Hygiene from University of Washington in 1997. Katie worked as a full-time clinical dental hygienist in the Vancouver/Portland area and the Greater Seattle area for 11 years before expanding her career into teaching. Additionally, Katie served a 1 year internship through University of Washington working in their DECOD clinic and various community clinics providing specialized treatment to mentally and physically challenged individuals. Katie began teaching at Shoreline Community College in 2005. She is a 2nd year Clinic and Screening Clinic instructor and specializes in Perioscopy instruction.
Robert Francis is the Acting Dean of the Social Sciences, Library Technology, Equity and Social Justice, World Languages, and Child Parent Center Division, and teaches Economics and International Studies at Shoreline Community College. He is also an occasional adjunct faculty member at University of Washington-Bothell and Seattle University. He earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in Economics from San Jose State University, where he specialized in Economic History and Comparative Economic Systems.
The economic perspective he prefers to work in is called institutional economics; this field examines the institutional (formal and informal rules of human behavior) context within which economic exchanges take place. For instance, how will the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) in the U.S. change the health care industry? How has economic aid in the past affected the economic development of Israel?
Dr. Gabbay's current research involves the development of mathematical models and computational simulations of network dynamics, focusing on social and political systems. He has also conducted research in the areas of nonequilibrium pattern formation, coupled oscillator dynamics, sensor development, and data analysis algorithms. His work has appeared in physics, engineering, biology, and political science publications. Dr. Gabbay received a B.S in physics from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago with a specialization in nonlinear dynamics.
Great Discussions: ISIS (April 2016)
Reggie Garrett has been performing throughout the U.S. and Canada for a number of years. Based in Seattle, Washington he performs mostly original songs mixed with pop covers and more traditional style folk ballads. He is the purveyor of a unique urban strain of acoustic folk music incorporating a number of diverse influences, including: Latin rhythms, blues, gospel, Celtic and more. The result is a musical blend that has excited and touched audiences throughout the U.S. and Canada.
The Cultural Roots of Urban-Acoustic-Folk-Soul Music (October 2014)
Ms. Gielen is a retired Boeing Executive with 28 years’ experience in the commercial avionics, space and communications industries. Her position before retiring was Director, International Regulatory Affairs for Connexion by Boeing SM -- an innovative service providing high-speed broadband connectivity to airborne passengers and crew. She and her multinational team developed and implemented a strategy to modify a global treaty to enable use of satellite communications for this purpose. The success of this endeavor convinced Karen that the efforts of ordinary people could lead to world-changing outcomes. Since leaving Boeing, she has applied her efforts and expertise to the work of ending global poverty. She is the leader of the Seattle chapter of RESULTS.
One of the many highlights from his experience in trade and politics was in 1999, when he co-chaired the WTO African Event during the 2nd WTO Ministerial Meeting in Seattle. The event attracted over 400 attendees, including trade ministers and ambassadors.
In February 2000, Mr. Gishuru participated in a five day summit in Washington, D.C., helping to finalize the National Policy Plan of Action for US-Africa relations in the 21st century. More recently, in 2010, Mr. Gishuru was awarded a certificate of appreciation, from the U.S. Department of Commerce, for achievements in trade and business development. During the course of his time with the African Chamber of Commerce, he has overseen numerous networking events, trade missions to Africa, and 15 annual Africa Day Business Forums. African Day Business Forums have seen such notable speakers as Bill Gates Sr., the Vice President of Zanzibar and the ambassadors of Uganda, Ghana, Angola, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Cote d’Ivoire. Mr. Gishuru currently serves on the Board of the National Summit on Africa and is a member of the Initiative for Global Development (IGD), a national network of business leaders that champion effective solutions to global poverty.
African Identities and Worldviews (February 2014)
John Gokcen has represented the Republic of Turkey in the Washington State as an Honorary Consul General since 2002. He is also President of the Washington State Consular Association that represents all diplomats serving in the WA State as well as emeritus and retired U.S. diplomats residing in the WA State, and a member of the Seattle World Affairs Council Board of Trustees. He is also involved in many other community service activities.
Mr. Gokcen was instrumental in organizing the first Turkish Trade Delegation visit to the Washington State in 2002. He currently is working to establishment of Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Turkish American Chamber of Commerce and Industry and will lead a Washington State trade and goodwill delegation visit to Turkey next year. He is a member of the University of Washington, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization Department, and led efforts to establish a Turkish Studies Endowment Fund at the University of Washington.
Mr. Gokcen has worked for the Boeing Company for more than 30 years as a structural engineer instructor and teaches engineering classes at the University of Washington. He is the recipient of more than 30 awards for technical achievements and community and customer services. He is married and has one son.
Steven González was appointed to the Washington State Supreme Court effective January 1, 2012. Before joining the Supreme Court, Justice González served for ten years as a trial judge on the King County Superior Court hearing criminal, civil, juvenile, and family law cases.
Prior to his election to the King County Superior Court, Justice González practiced both criminal and civil law. He was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Western District of Washington, a Domestic Violence Prosecutor for the City of Seattle and an Associate in the Business Law Department at the Seattle law firm Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson.
As an Assistant United States Attorney, Justice González was part of the team that successfully prosecuted the international terrorism case U.S. v. Ressam, in 2002. Ahmed Ressam, the so-called "Millennium Bomber," was arrested attempting to cross the Canadian-U.S. border in a rental car loaded with explosives and other bomb-making materials. Ressam planned to detonate the explosives at Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve. Justice González received two Department of Justice awards for his contributed to that prosecution.
Liberty vs. Security in the Age of Terrorism (October 2012)
Director of PATH’s Window of Opportunity Project, Senior Advisor for PATH’s Health Systems Strengthening Unit, and Chair of PATH’s Ebola Task Force.
Scott develops and manages new health policy and system strengthening projects, including projects examining scale-up of health technologies, expanding strategic approaches to health promotion and disease control programs, and assessing performance of immunization and other health systems. The Window of Opportunity Project is an integrated maternal and child health and early childhood development project in South Africa and Mozambique
Dr. Gordon has developed, managed, and evaluated global health programs for nongovernmental and academic institutions for more than 20 years. He has served in senior technical and managerial positions for PATH, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, DBL Institute for Health Research and Development, Harvard University, and Direct Relief International and has worked throughout Asia and Africa. Dr. Gordon holds a doctorate and master’s degree in health policy from Harvard University
Preparing for the Next Pandemic: Lessons from Ebola and other Infectious-Disease Outbreaks (January 2015)
JOHN HAMILTON
John R. Hamilton was United States Ambassador to Peru from 1999 to 2002, and to Guatemala
from 2003 to 2005. At the State Department he served as the Director of the Office
of Central American and Panamanian Affairs from 1992 to 1996, Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Central America, the Caribbean & Cuba from 1996 to 1998, and Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs from 1998 to 1999. Previous foreign
assignments include as political counselor in Lima, Peru (1986-1989) and in San José,
Costa Rica (1989-1992).
Ambassador Hamilton attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Morehead Scholarship, graduating with honors in 1967. He received an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Stanford University in 1982. He also served on active duty in the United States Navy Reserve in the Western Pacific 1967-69.
Guatemala and the U.S. – Past and Future (November 2015)
Dr. Mimi Harvey has spent much of her life working, traveling, studying and conducting research outside of the U.S. where she was born. This took her to Spain and Northern Africa, China, Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, and Canada. These experiences fueled her fascination with the process of communicating across cultures and differences.
Dr. Harvey’s studies and research have always centered on border crossing peoples, whether those borders were linguistic, cultural, national or economic. Her graduate work focused on ethnographic studies of speech communities as varied as South Korean immigrants in an Iowa town, ESL teachers working abroad, migrant laborers in South Korea, and women students of a distance education university in Indonesia. She has also worked on educational projects in Indonesia and the People's Republic of China.
Like Water from the Moon: Stories from migrant laborers in Asia (February 2013)
Donald Hellmann is a professor in the Jackson School of International Studies and the Department of Political Science. He teaches courses on Japanese government and politics, American foreign policy as well as the international relations of East Asia. Hellmann has been a member of the University of Washington faculty since 1967. Since 1994, he has been director of the University’s APEC Study Center and from 1994–2000 he served as chair of the US Consortium of APEC Study Centers. Hellmann has written or edited several major books on Asia and International Relations and published more than sixty articles and monographs. He received his undergraduate education at Princeton University and holds masters and doctoral degrees in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Worldviews of China, India, and Japan (February 2015)
Evan Henrich is a research assistant at Matrix Genetics, a Seattle company that develops algae products for the fuel, feed, and human health industries. He is currently focused on production process engineering, lab automation, and computational biology tools. He has a masters from UW where he researched endosymbiotic microbes' impact on biofuel feedstocks in the Doty lab. Evan is an alumnus of Shoreline’s Biotechnology Lab Specialist Program.
Biofuels and Climate Change (April 2016)
JAMES K. HILL
James K. Hill has been Consul General of Canada in Seattle since 2014. Prior to coming
to Seattle, he was Charge d'affaires at the Canadian Embassy, Kuwait (July 2014 -
November 2014), and Deputy Head of Mission at the Canadian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan
(2012-2014).
Other foreign assignments include Chargé d’affaires, Embassy of Canada in Tripoli, Libya; High Commissioner of Canada in Maputo, Mozambique; Consul General of Canada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Head of the Canadian Kosovo Diplomatic Observer Mission in Prishtina, Kosova (Yugoslavia); Consul and Trade Commissioner at the Consulate of Canada in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and, Second Secretary & Vice Consul at the Canadian Embassy in Tehran, Iran.
The Canada-U.S. Relationship (November 2015)
(Evans School of Public Affairs, Class of 2014-15) Humphrey fellows are mid-career professionals from other countries who are resident at the University of Washington (one of eighteen four-year institutions around the U.S. with similar programs) for a year of advanced non-degree study and work experience in their professional fields.
The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and is generously supported by the people of the United States.
Ms. Huster worked over 9 years as a Registered Nurse at Harborview Medical Center's Trauma Intensive Care. Since 2013 she has been spending her time working in humanitarian emergency settings -- in Gaza, then in Lebanon -- working with non-government organizations (NGOs) and the UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR), on Syrian refugee issues. Most recently she has focused her energy in Liberia and Sierra Leone working with the NGO, Partners in Health, where she served as the clinical lead of an Ebola treatment unit. Karin holds a BS in Nursing from the University of Washington (2005), earned a Master’s Degree in Public Health - from UW's Department of Global Health (2013).
Preparing for the Next Pandemic: Lessons from Ebola and other Infectious-Disease Outbreaks (January 2015)
Ernest B. Johnson II (Dr. J.) is currently a professor of critical multicultural studies in the Equity and Social Justice program at Shoreline Community College, and adjunct faculty in American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington. Dr. J. earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington Department of Linguistics, M.A. from the University of Khartoum (Institute of African and Asian Studies), and B.A. in psychology from the University of Hawaii. He has lectured in one or more of the following fields of African American history, multiculturalism, linguistics, religious studies, and ethnic studies at several community colleges and universities. He is currently advisor of the Moslem Student Association, Assistant Dean for the Social Science Division, chair of the Campus Diversity Action Committee, chair of the Strategic Action Plan sub-committee and chair of the Division Planning Committee.

Dr. Michelle Kleisath is a member of the Equity and Social Justice faculty at Shoreline, where she teaches introductory courses in Multicultural Studies and Sociology. Her work focuses on critical whiteness studies, and she has published several articles which discuss Whiteness, Buddhism, Tibet and greater China. She completed her PhD at the University of Washington. Because she is White, when she tells people she is “from” California, they are usually satisfied.
Race and Humanitarian Assistance (March 2014)
Diana E. Knauf, Ph.D. has taught Psychology at SCC since 1998, including two years of teaching virtually from Shanghai, China. She believes that the goal of learning is to gain information and skills that allow us to live better out in the real world. She also believes it is important to have fun while learning. She is an experienced traveler, and looking forward to taking a group of students to Cambodia next summer for a 3-week SCC Study Abroad program.
Dr. Knauf received her Ph.D. in Applied Developmental Psychology from Fordham University in New York City. Her research interests include: street harassment and cross-cultural psychology.
Cambodia: A Country of Contradictions (November 2015)
Amy J. Kinsel is Dean of Social Sciences, Equity and Social Justice, Library, and Parent and Child Center. She began teaching American History at Shoreline in fall 2004. She is past Faculty Senate Chair and past President of Shoreline's faculty union, SCCFT Local 1950.
Dean Kinsel holds a Ph.D. in History from Cornell University. A main focus in her historical research and teaching has been how Americans remember the past and how they have shaped historical narratives to serve past and present political and cultural purposes. In developing and teaching HIST 245, History of American Immigration, then-Professor Kinsel asked students to examine changing public policy and public debates about which newcomers to the United States have been welcome to claim status as full-fledged Americans. As we will see, the culturally dominant group that exercises power in American politics and society generally decides who is in and who is out.
Immigration & Refugees: We’ve Seen this Newsreel Before (January 2016)
Dina has more than fifteen years of experience in molecular biology, obtaining a B.A. in Philosophy and an M.A. in Biology from Sonoma State University as well as an M.S. in Epidemiology and a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Washington working primarily on HIV/AIDS. She worked as a Teaching Associate in the Department of Biology at Sonoma State and was a founding member of FOSEP, the Forum for Science, Ethics and Policy. She was a science curriculum developer and instructor for the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research, Digital World Biology, and the Systems Education Experiences program in the Baliga Lab at the Institute for Systems Biology. She currently Chairs the Biotechnology program at Shoreline where she is also an instructor and runs the Project Biotech summer camp at Shoreline for local high school students.
Program Officer, Agricultural Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Kate Kuo is a Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Agricultural Development Program which works in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia to increase the productivity and income of poor smallholder farmers. She manages the program’s external relationships with China and the US Government and leads the strategy around improving rural advisory services for smallholders. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation, she was a civil servant for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) responsible for strategy and program development for three regions, including short-term postings in 7 countries. Kate was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kyrgyzstan and NGO Trainer in Nepal. She grew up in Taipei, Taiwan, and has a B.A. in Art History from Barnard College and an M.S. in Foreign Service/International Development from Georgetown University.
Alison is a Professor of Nutrition at Shoreline Community College and was Director of Nutrition for the past Nutrition and Dietetic Technology program. She had taught Nutrition at the University of Washington, worked in product development and sensory science at Lawry’s Foods, and designed, illustrated, and authored nutrition education materials and curricula. She has a Master of Science in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Science in Foods and Nutrition from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She had completed the Pre-Professional Dietetic Program and is a Registered Dietitian.
Dental Hygiene and Nursing Service-Learning Program in Bolivia, 2015 (November 2015)
William A. Lindenmuth is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Shoreline College. He received his M.A. in philosophy in New York City from the New School for Social Research, and his B.A. in English from Saint Mary’s College in California. He’s had success in getting students to ask questions like “What does God need with a starship?” in New York, Las Vegas, Seattle, and Rome, Italy. He specializes in normative ethics and moral psychology, particularly through the mediums of literature and film, arguing that our stories show us both who we are and who we’d like to be. Regarding the motion picture, he has contributed to the forthcoming The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), The Philosophy of Christopher Nolan (Lexington), Jane Austen and Philosophy (Rowan and Littlefield), and The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy (Wiley, 2016). You can find him online in the MOOC “Philosophy and Film” at Canvas.net.
Jimmy is an Editor for BreakingNews.com, owned by NBC. In his many previous lives Jimmy was a retail manager, poker dealer, and bouncer turned flight attendant, who also dabbled in newspaper delivery, selling sewing machines, and being a clown at kids’ birthday parties. He now relies on his past experiences to help him cover the news. (Not including the balloon animals)
Jimmy earned a B.A. in Communication, after completing his associate degree at Shoreline Community College. There are many things that Jimmy is glad about, including surviving cancer in his 20’s, which he said “was sort of an awakening like maybe I should reexamine what it is I have planned for my life” He is also grateful that he completed his four-year degree before turning 40 and before his daughter starts college. “I did not want to be eating lunch in the quad with my kid. That would be awkward.”
Online News Media (January 2016)
Caoimhin MacMaolain is lecturer in Law at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Previously he held a Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration at Exeter University, and before that he taught Company, Commercial and European Union Law at Dublin City University. His research interests are in the areas of European Union Law and International Food law, and Regulation, and he has published in several of the main journals in these fields, including the European Law Review, the Common Market Law Review, the European Journal of Consumer Law, the Food and Drug Law Journal and European Public Law. He is also the author of a monograph entitled ‘EU Food Law: Protecting Consumers and Health in a Common Market’, published by Hart, Oxford.
Dr. Dima N. Malhas, Esq. represents clients in individual & corporate transactions, negotiations, International Business & international organizations, structuring outstanding investment projects, investment immigration, and private and public offerings.
Dr. Malhas has been an international consultant for the United Nations for nearly a decade. She has worked with UNPD, UNFPA, UNIFEM, and WHO, the League of Arab States, the World Bank, where she conducted legislative analysis and project document preparation and funding proposals, women entrepreneurship rights, organizational restructuring, and joint ventures for major international organizations. She has worked with the UN, U.S. and foreign organizations and law firms, and U.S. Department of State on projects in New York and Washington DC.
Dr. Malhas published papers and co-authored and edited publications. She has performed on-sight consultancies in MENA and GCC countries such as Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Malhas’ education includes a Doctorate of Jurisprudence J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco, California, a Masters of International Law LL.M. in International Legal Studies from American University Washington College of Law in Washington DC, with coursework in Paris, Geneva, & Brussels, and a Bachelor of Laws LL.B. from University of Jordan School of Law. Dr. Malhas was honored a Doctorate in Law from the Ministry of Higher Education in Jordan, and was awarded a certification for Legislative Drafting and Policy Making from the International Law Institute & Georgetown Law Center in Washington DC. Dr. Malhas speaks English and Arabic.
Jordan and the Syrian Refugee Crisis (January 2014)
Ms. Alaa Malhas is a Media and Communication consultant to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) at their office in Amman, Jordan. She develops media strategies and communication materials on the current situation in the Syrian refugee camps and host communities. She develops press releases, articles, and prepares information for both web-based and traditional media. She recently prepared a UNICEF report on the situation is one of the largest Syrian refugee camps in Syria, the Za’atari camp in Mafraq, northern Jordan.
She also works with the Arab Women Organization (AWO), where she prepares daily reports about Jordanian women’s initiatives that are posted on the AWO website. In addition, I follow-up all the organization's activities at the national level with Jordan Executive Board Member of the organization and the AWO, by preparing periodic reports on Jordan participation of various activities of the organization.
Previously Ms Malhas worked in a similar capacity as a Communications Consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). She has also worked with a number of media organizations since 2006 both in the Middle East and outside the region, including Jan National Television, the Daily Tribune Newspaper in Beirut, Lebanon, and Al Jazeera English in Doha, Qatar.
Alaa has earned Master and undergraduate degrees in communications, Journalism, Business, and Psychology from McFord University in Brownsville, Texas; Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon; and, Seattle Pacific University and Bellevue College in Seattle, Washington.
Jordan and the Syrian Refugee Crisis (January 2014)
Dr James Maynard currently teaches in the Division of Continuing Education at Bellevue College, and is a former President of the United Nations Association of Greater Seattle. During his former career in the U.S. Public Health Service he traveled extensively abroad in the Middle East and Asia as an advisor to the World Health Organization and the UN Development Fund. He also served as senior vice President of the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health in Seattle, and as Technical Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Children's Vaccine Program. In 2009, he helped lead a local fact-finding mission to Iran. Dr. Maynard received his medical degree from McGill University in Montreal and his Master of Public Health and Ph.D from the University of California Berkeley
The Role of the United Nations in Resolving International Conflict (October 2013)
MARC MCLEOD
Dr. Marc McLeod is Director of Latin American Studies and Associate Professor of History
at Seattle University. He has a B.S. degree from the School of Foreign Service at
Georgetown University as well as an M.A. in Latin American Studies and a Ph.D. in
History from the University of Texas at Austin. He teaches courses on a range of topics,
including Human Rights in Latin America, Workshop in World History, Studies in Modern
Civilization, History of Cuba, History of Mexico, and Revolution in Latin America.
His research explores the social and cultural history of the modern Caribbean with
a particular emphasis on the experiences of Haitian and British West Indian immigrants
in pre-revolutionary Cuba. He has published articles in the Journal of Social History,
the Journal of Caribbean History, Caribbean Studies, and The Americas, and served
as contributing editor for the history of Garveyism in Cuba for the three-volume Caribbean
series of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers (Duke
University Press). He is working on a book-length manuscript entitled The Strange
and Tragic Case of La Niña Cuca: Infanticide, Immigration, and Race in Early Republican
Cuba.
Great Discussions: Cuba and the United States Today (October 2015)
Former U.S Ambassador to Malawi
Mr. Meece joined the Foreign Service in 1979. During the course of his career he has served in numerous capacities, including work in the Americas office of the Bureau of International Narcotics Matters in the Department of State, on detail for two years to the Office of the Vice President, as Consul-General in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and as Director for the Office of Central African Affairs in Washington, D.C., as well as study for an academic year at the National Defense College of Canada. He was assigned as Deputy Chief of Mission in Brazzaville (Republic of Congo) from 1988 – 1991 and Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo) from 1995 – 1998, as Chargé d’Affaires in Nigeria for several months in 2003, and as Diplomat in Residence at Florida International University in Miami immediately thereafter. Mr. Meece was appointed as the U.S. Ambassador to Malawi from 2001 – 2003, and to the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2004 – 2007. He retired from active duty in the Foreign Service in September, 2007, although he was asked subsequently to serve as Chargé d’Affaires at the Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from August to December, 2009. During his Foreign Service career, Mr. Meece received numerous performance awards.
In July, 2010, the United Nations Secretary-General appointed Mr. Meece as Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission there (MONUSCO), based in Kinshasa. On completion of this appointment, he returned to the Seattle area to resume retirement in July, 2013.
After graduating from Michigan State University in 1971, Mr. Meece joined the Peace Corps as a Volunteer in Sierra Leone. This led to several Peace Corps staff assignments, including service as Associate Director for the Peace Corps in Niger and Cameroon, Deputy Peace Corps Director in the Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) and as Country Director of the Peace Corps in Gabon.
Mr. Meece has remained active in foreign affairs since retirement as a participant and speaker at programs organized by the Department of State, the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, and the Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, among others. He is fluent in French. He has been a member of the Seattle World Affairs Council since 2008. Mr. Meece was born in Indiana in 1949.
Tiffany is an advisor in the International Education Department at Shoreline Community College where she assists international students regarding their academic program of study, and immigration, cultural, vocational, and extracurricular issues. She earned a Bachelor’s degree from Beloit College, in Beloit, WI in 2005, and a Master’s degree in education from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, in 2011. In 2004, she spent five months traveling and doing cross-cultural research in Estonia and Morocco, which she will be discussing as part of Shoreline’s Global Eyes series.
Research and Travel in Estonia and Morocco (May 2013)
President and CEO Seattle World Affairs Council
Jacqueline joined the World Affairs Council as President and CEO in May 2014. After twenty years on the East Coast working in academia, think tanks, and NGOs, she is happy to be in Seattle contributing to WAC’s ongoing mission and service to the greater Seattle community.
Immediately prior to joining WAC, Jacqueline served as Director of External Relations at Independent Diplomat in New York, which works with marginalized democratic political actors to help them navigate the United Nations, the EU, and other international diplomatic fora. Previously, she was a Senior Associate at the East-West Institute (EWI) in New York, where she ran the U.S. program. At EWI, she focused on national security policy, the U.S.-Russia and U.S.-China relationships, as well as nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation issues. Among her favorite projects there were a joint U.S.-Russia working group on Afghan narcotrafficking and a high-level forum on disarmament and nonproliferation that she ran at the United Nations. She has also served as the deputy director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Washington (DC) programs, where she oversaw membership events as well as outreach on Capitol Hill and the DC diplomatic community. She got her start in think tanks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where she was deputy director of the Russia and Eurasia program. She has also taught at The George Washington University, where she undertook graduate work after earning undergraduate and graduate degrees from Cornell University.
She has been a commentator for various news sources (print, web, and broadcast), including the New York Times, the BBC, CBC, and Voice of America. Her honors include being named a Truman Security Fellow as well as receiving a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) for Russia. She was also an International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Visiting Scholar in Kyrgyzstan.
Jacqueline’s international background extends beyond her training and professional experience. Her first international travel was when her family moved from Australia to the United States when she was young. Her deep and broad fascination with international affairs began in childhood with nightly conversations about current events and world history around the dinner table—an invaluable tradition she continues today with her own young family.
Duygu is the newest member of Shoreline’s growing Theater and Film Department. In her native Turkey, she has over twenty-years working as a professional actor in theatre, television, and film. She also founded an award-winning feminist theatre company in Istanbul and was a lecturer at Beykent University, Istanbul. Despite a language barrier, Duygu auditioned and landed several roles in New York City, before moving to Seattle, where she continued to work as an actor, and entered the PhD program at the University of Washington, School of Drama. She is presently completing a dissertation that looks at the Ottoman relationship with Europe and how the Turk image was created on European stage, ballet, and opera. She also is participating in the collaboration between the City of Shoreline and Shoreline Community College to establish a professional film studio here.
Civil Rights in the Movies (January 2016)
Stephen Murphy provides high level entree to government and business leaders in all Latin America's major markets—especially in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico—with longstanding personal relationships throughout the Americas. Special expertise includes verifying bona fides of potential partners, negotiating intellectual property licensing and joint-venture accords, and assisting start-up companies in the sometimes 'hostile', inflationary and bureaucratic environments of 'Mercosur' and CAFTA countries.
Mr., Murphy has actively engaged in Brazil and Latin America for 40+ years as business consultant, public official, and educator, recently advising international language institutes, software, clean energy, Brazilian media firms and the Inter-American Development Bank's Multilateral Investment Fund in Washington D.C.
During the administration of President George W. Bush (2001-2009) he served as Director for the Inter-Americas & Pacific Region of the U.S. Peace Corps, supervising 2,200 volunteers and 1,000 staff in 23 countries. In the administration of George H.W. Bush (1989-1993) he was Director of Worldnet Television, managing 320 employees and its satellite TV network on several continents. He negotiated a Mexico-USA volunteer agreement, emphasizing Information Technology (IT) small business development, and creating satellite feeds to emerging Latin American and Eastern European cable TV systems.
Mr. Murphy also spearheaded Brazil's first international conference on financial remittances from immigrants abroad, mobilizing high level government, multilateral and private banking support for this initiative. In the 1980's, Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios appointed him Vice President, Latin America, responsible for starting up ten video operating companies, in alliance with the Motion Pictures Association, Latin American producer and copyright trade associations. In the mid-1970s, he served as Chief Lending Officer, Rio de Janeiro branch, BankBoston, and later, Vice President, Multinational Division, financing investment and trade operations for select Fortune 500 companies worldwide.
Mr. Murphy is fluent in Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, and has basic knowledge of Arabic. He earned his BA in Economics & History at the University of Washington, and an MBA in Finance at Columbia University.
Brazil’s Worldview (November 2013)
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Transforming Lives Through Education (March 2014)
Director of International Affairs at City of Seattle
Paul is a Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Department of State currently on assignment to the City of Seattle as Director of International Affairs. His next assignment is at the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Previously, Paul served at the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana, Mexico, and in Washington, D.C. as the desk officer for the Pacific Islands, and in the Office of Public Diplomacy for South Asia. Before joining the Foreign Service Paul was an economic development consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development. He served in the Peace Corps in the Kingdom of Tonga.
Tuu-Van Nguyen is an Associate Program Officer in the Agricultural Policies team of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he manages a portfolio of grants on Agricultural Data & Statistics. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation, he served in the British Government as an economic forecaster, and at the World Bank where he designed “scaling up” mechanisms for community-driven development initiatives. He holds a M.Sc. in Development Planning from University College London and a M.A. in Development Economics from the University of Sussex.
Derek Norberg is the President and founder of the Council of U.S.-Russia Relations (Seattle) and Executive Director of the bilateral forum between the United States and the Russian Federation “Russian American Pacific Partnership” (RAPP). RAPP seeks to expand bilateral trade and trans-Pacific cooperation working with the private sector of both countries and the U.S. Departments of Commerce and State and the Russian Ministries of Economic Development and Trade and Foreign Affairs, and the regional administrations of Eastern Russian and the Western U.S. States.
Mr. Norberg has over twenty years’ experience with Russia in sales, transportation logistics and shipping, fisheries, timber and wood processing, finance and investment, and over the past ten years in intergovernmental relations. He resided in Khabarovsk, Russia for two years in the late 1990s as Vice President and Regional Director of the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund (TUSRIF) engaged in banking/finance partnerships and investment evaluations.
He received a B.A. in Political Science with a Soviet emphasis from the University of California Berkeley, and pursued non-degree Russian Studies post-graduate work at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He is fluent in Russian.
Russia’s Worldview (October 2013)
Nader Nazemi was born in Iran. He has been educated in Iran, England and the United States. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington, specializing in Middle East politics, politics of developing regions and international relations. Currently he is founding faculty member in Political Science and History at Cascadia Community College; he also lectures at the University of Washington Bothell. At Cascadia he chairs the Global Education Committee which aims to enhance global awareness on campus and in the greater community.
Iran’s Worldview (November 2013)
Samsam was born in Kenya and immigrated with her family to the U.S. in 2007. She completed elementary school in Kenya, and middle and high school in the U.S. Samsam is in the second year of her studies at Shoreline Community College with a concentration in Social Work. Her goal after earning her Associate Degree is to transfer to a four-year university to earn B.A. and M.A. degrees in social work with a concentration on Mental Health.
Samsam spent the 2013-2014 academic year in Kenya, visiting family and reacquainting herself with that society and culture. While there she volunteered at a school for deaf children in the city of Isiolo where she met some amazing and talented students.
Prior to assuming the post of Consul General of Japan in Seattle, Mr. Omura served as Deputy Director General of the National Institute of Public Administration, National Personnel Authority. Previous assignments include a Senior Fellow at the Research Institute of the Cabinet Office, Minister at the Japanese Mission to International Organizations in Vienna, and Director of the Second Africa Division of MOFA. He also served at embassies in Washington, DC, Jakarta, and Kenya. He is a graduate of Yale University Graduate School (MA in International Relations) and University of Tokyo (BA in Public Law).
Christina Owen is a Program Officer in the Agricultural Development group at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she has worked since 2010. She develops and manages Research & Development grants, with a focus on leveraging discovery science and innovation for smallholder farmers in developing countries. She also has a strong interest in science communication and outreach, and spent time as a radio journalist covering science and the environment. Christina has a PhD from the University of Washington in evolutionary genetics of flowering plants.
Michelle O’Brien is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology and a 2015-2017 Fellow in the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington. Her dissertation focuses on the relationship between political conflict and migration. Other collaborative projects include an Agent-Based Model on armed conflict and migration in Nepal, and population change and political conflict in the South Thailand insurgency. Michelle was a FLAS fellow studying advanced Russian in 2012. She studied abroad in St. Petersburg in 2006, and lived in Moscow in 2007 after completing her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Michigan. Her CV, publications, and podcast versions of select lectures can be found at www.michellelobrien.com.
Great Discussions: Migration (May 2016)
TOD O’DRISCOLL
Tod has an M.A. in Photojournalism, and has been photographing professionally for
25 years. He has worked all over the U.S., as well as in Uganda, Ethiopia, Mexico,
and Cuba. Tod’s work has been published by the Washington Post, the Associated Press,
DreamWorks Television, Congressional Quarterly Magazine, Partners in Action, The Tacoma
News Tribune, Seattle Pacific University, and other publications, universities and
corporations.
Cuba – A Country in Flux (October 2015)
TIM PAYNE
Tim Payne is an educator and an economist with interests in sustainable development
and the power of local organizations in improving lives of individuals and communities.
As a teacher, he has devoted 3 decades in the classroom at Shoreline Community College,
Western Washington University, and Washington State University, teaching principles
of Economics and International Studies to thousands of students from a multitude of
countries and backgrounds. Some of his early economic research in sustainable agriculture
and energy in the Pacific Northwest inspired him to explore principles and practices
of sustainability in other parts of the world, including SE Asia, Central America,
and recently in Cuba.
Cuba – A Country in Flux (October 2015)
Professor Judy Penn has taught microbiology at SCC for 26 years. She also teaches an online non major course called "Epidemics and Culture." Her graduate work was completed at Louisiana State University, and she worked in both clinical and research laboratories at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston for six years prior to relocating to Washington state in 1988. She is a member of the American Society for Microbiology.
Department of History, University of Washington
Born and educated in the Philippines (He received his B.A. in history and philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University in 1977, his PhD in History from Cornell University in 1984), Dr. Rafael now lives and teaches in the U.S., and frequently travels back to the Philippines to visit family and to conduct research.
Dr. Rafael is the author of several works on the Philippines including Contracting Colonialism, White Love and Other Events in Filipino History, The Promise of the Foreign, and most recently, Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language Amid Wars of Translation. He recently returned from a two month stay where he had a front row seat to observe what's going on in the country.
Dr. Nino Ramirez is internationally known for his work in neuronal control of breathing. He joined the Seattle Children’s Research Institute in 2008 where he established the Center for Integrative Brain Research (CIBR). He is currently the Director of CIBR and Professor for Neurological Surgery and Pediatrics and Adjunct Professor for Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington (Seattle). He serves as the Associate Director for the Center on Health Development and Disability (CHDD) at the University of Washington and Co-Director for the Neurodevelopmental Research Consortium (NDRC).
New Technologies in Brain Research & Therapies (October 2014)
Senior Consultant, Loft9 Consulting
AJ Rei-Perrine's professional career began a US diplomat, implementing foreign policy and providing first-hand reporting and analysis in Eastern Europe and South America. Later AJ helped run an international film company, producing television, short films, music videos, and documentaries overseas. AJ practiced law for several years upon returning to the beautiful Pacific Northwest, and is now in management consulting. AJ speaks Spanish and Albanian and is an alumnus of the University of Washington School of Law, Vassar College, and Shorecrest High School. AJ is from Seattle. www.linkedin.com/in/ajrei
Amy has been teaching Nutrition at Shoreline Community College for 5 years and love sharing and learning with her students. She has always been interested in food and its connection to health and well-being. Her undergraduate degree was in Hotel Administration with a concentration on Food & Beverage Management from Cornell University. After working several years, she earned a Master of Public Health and Nutrition degree from the University of Washington, and completed their Pre-Professional Dietetic Program to become a Registered Dietitian.
Food and Wellness around the World Food MOOC, summer 2015 (February 2016)
Patty has led a variety of engagements at FSG, including projects focused on global health and development, evaluation, CSR, shared value, and community-based philanthropy. Recent engagements include developing a sustainability strategy for Muhimbili National Hospital in Tanzania as well as creating a healthcare company’s shared value strategy to improve the stability of their supply chain by investing in locally-sourced dairy in India.
Prior to joining FSG, Patty worked on evaluation and strategy projects as a manager of business planning at Biogen Idec, a Boston-based biotechnology firm. She has authored multiple publications on philanthropy and shared value, most recently “Strategic Philanthropy for a Complex World” (2014) published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Patty holds a BA from Middlebury College and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Jason grew up in Seattle, Washington and attended Shoreline Community College and the University of Washington where he earned his B.A. in Ethnomusicology in 2000. Jason earned an M.A. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Washington in 2002 specializing in popular music of Cuba, West Africa and the United States focusing on issues of social protest, nationalism, ethnicity and performance.
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Jonathan Scanlon, Lead Organizer, Economic Justice at Oxfam America, has a range of experience in public policy and advocacy. Based in Seattle, Scanlon works with Oxfam supporters and allies across the country to advocate for effective U.S. government policies aimed at ending poverty and injustice around the world. Scanlon is a former Presidential Management Fellow, where he served at the U.S. Department of State as a U.S. delegate to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, a West Africa desk officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and a legislative fellow for U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, (D) Missouri. Scanlon previously worked with CARE USA and for Governor Roy Barnes of Georgia. He also spent one year teaching English in Japan. Scanlon has a B.A. in Italian Studies from Emory University and a M.S. in International Affairs from the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Jesse Schubert is a Technical Officer with PATH's Devices and Tools Global Program. For the past 12 years he has been a project manager and user-centered design researcher in a variety of product development groups including PATH’s Health Technologies for Woman and Children and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene portfolios. Before coming to PATH, Jesse was an environmental Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines and he has earned a Master of Arts degree in Environment and Community from Antioch University a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Anthropology from Central Washington University.
Jesse Schubert is a Technical Officer with PATH's Devices and Tools Global Program. For the past 12 years he has been a project manager and user-centered design researcher in a variety of product development groups including PATH’s Health Technologies for Woman and Children and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene portfolios. Before coming to PATH, Jesse was an environmental Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines and he has earned a Master of Arts degree in Environment and Community from Antioch University a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Anthropology from Central Washington University.
Phil is a Lecturer at the University of Washington Foster School of Business and the former Managing Director of the EU Center of Excellence, Center for West European Studies, at the UW, Seattle. He has traveled extensively in Europe. He earned a Master’s Degree in Political Science at UW, and his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and History at the University of California San Diego. He regularly speaks on EU topics in local classrooms and community venues, and has led student study programs to Brussels and several other European cities.
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Great Britain and the European Union (November 2016)
Mr. Shepherd, concurrently, is a Senior Advisor at Associates in Cultural Exchange, Seattle. He also runs a consulting firm, Shepherd & Associates. Previously he was President of the National Association of Japan-America Societies, Washington, DC. (2004 – 2009), and Executive Director/CEO of the Fulbright program in Tokyo, Japan (1994-2004).
In November 2010, the Japanese Government announced that His Majesty the Emperor of Japan had decorated Shepherd with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Leaf with Rosette in recognition of his “contribution to strengthening of the relations between Japan and the United States through educational exchanges and internationalization of education in Japan.”
Chinese-Japanese Relations in a New World Order (October 2015)
Michael Sims is a third-year PhD Student in the Near and Middle Eastern Studies Program at the University of Washington, where he is researching nationalism and inter-communal relations in Late Ottoman Kurdistan. His pre-PhD program experience with Kurdistan includes work for the Kurdistan Regional Government's Representation Office in DC, and military service in Northern Iraq with the United States Army.
Great Discussions: The Future of Kurdistan (April 2016)
Clark W. Sorensen is Professor of International Studies at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He is Chair of the Korea Studies Program, and Director of the Center for Korean Studies there. He has adjunct appointments in Anthropology and Women’s Studies, and has been Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Korean Studies (2009-2016). He received his BA in Geography in 1970 from the University of California, Berkeley, his MA in Korean Studies in 1974, and his PhD in Anthropology in 1981, both from the University of Washington. He is author of Over the Mountains are Mountains: Korean Peasant Households and their Adaptations to Rapid Industrialization (University of Washington Press 1988, reprinted with new introduction 2013), and has published articles in Journal of Anthropological Research, Anthropos, Comparative Education Review, and other journals. He is editor of the monograph series Korean Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies published by the University of Washington Press, and also is editor of The Center for Korean Studies Publication Series that is distributed by University of Washington Press, including Rethinking the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979 co-edited with Hyunga Kim of Australian National University (2011), Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945 co-edited with Hong Yung Lee and Yong Chool Ha (2013), Spaces of Possibility: In, Between, and Beyond Korea and Japan, co-edited with Andrea Arai (Fall, 2016).
Great Discussions: The Koreas (May 2016)
Dr. Matt Sparke is Professor of Geography, International Studies and Global Health at the University of Washington, where he also serves as the Director of Integrated Social Science. He is the author of Introducing Globalization: Ties, Tensions and Uneven Integration and scores of other publications. His classes on globalization, both face-to-face and online, are among the most popular at the university.
Sulaiman is a Consultant and Trainer, IBEX, Inter-Cultural Business Excellence. She was Manager, Linguistic Services, Swedish Medical Center and Business Consultant, Private and REL Consultancy
She has extensive international experience in consulting and management in industries
including, but not limited to, healthcare, hospitality, aviation, training, manufacturing,
retail, electronics, government and military. Experience working with a broad base
of stakeholders, in both the non-profit and for profit worlds, managing programs,
delivering business solutions and advising managers and executives.
Anita is also fluent in Bahasa Indonesia & Malay; basic Mandarin.
Specialties: Areas of expertise: management development, cultural competency, diversity
& inclusion, language access & linguistic services, communications, change management,
process reengineering for quality improvement, program management, working capital
management, marketing, organization structure & design. I promote excellence through
culture, executive & business coaching.
The World’s Largest Archipelago: Indonesia’s Culture, History and Worldview (February 2014)
BILL TALBOTT
Professor Talbott has taught Philosophy at the University of Washington since 1989.
He is the author of two books on human rights: Which Rights Should Be Universal? (2005),
and Human Rights and Human Well-Being (2010). He has also written numerous articles
on moral and political philosophy, the philosophy of law, and rational choice theory.
He received a UW Distinguished Teaching Award in 2011. Dr. Talbott earned his bachelor's
degree in philosophy from Princeton and his doctorate from Harvard. See Professor Talbott’s resume.
How to Believe in Universal Human Rights without Being a Moral Imperialist (October 2015)
Trevor McMorris Tate is immediate past-president and current Board member of the United Nations Association, Greater Seattle Chapter. He is the Pacific North-West representative of UNA-USA's Council of Chapters and Regions--Steering Committee (CCR-SC).
He received his education at the University of Manitoba (MA) and Queen's University in Ontario (Ph.D., International Studies). He has taught at Simon Fraser University and Royal Roads Military College in British Columbia and is an Adjunct Professor at Eastern Washington University. His work has appeared in, among others, the Journal of Peace Research. Dr. Tate grew up in the Caribbean and is a citizen of Canada.
The Role of the United Nations in Resolving International Conflict (October 2013)
Ms.Toutonighi was born in Seattle but her family roots are in the Middle East. Her father was born in Cairo, and his family originated in Beirut, Lebanon and Aleppo, Syria. Mary is an educator and enjoys working with teens and young adults. She just finished a Master's Degree in International Studies at the UW Jackson School of International Affairs, where she researched the effects of racism, assimilation, and anti-immigrant attitudes on Arab-American youth. Her conclusion was one of amazement at how well the young people she worked with have figured out a lot about being proud of their Arab ethnicity while simultaneously fully participating as Americans. In Mary’s own words, “They have not let ignorance and stereotyping stop them.” Ms. Toutonighi holds an undergraduate degree in Education from Seattle University. She currently works at the Arab Center of Washington.
Arab-American Youth and Assimilation (February 2014)
Andrew is an associate professor of dramatic arts at the University of Washington School of Drama where he heads the undergraduate drama program, leads summer drama programs at the Edinburgh Festival and is the artistic director of The Drama Collective, a European theatre studies creative lab in Europe. He received his Master of Fine Arts in 1990 from California Institute of the Arts, and worked in regional theatres and off-Broadway. He was also a resident director of the Indiana Repertory Theatre from 1992-1995. In 1995, Andrew moved to Los Angeles to begin his career in television. He has directed dozens of episodes for prime time television. Internationally, he has produced and directed noted theatre works at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
To learn more about Tsao's research and creative works, visit drama.washington.edu.
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Stephanie holds a B.S. in Psychology from Wright State University and is currently an Employment and Training Specialist based at Shoreline Community College. Over the past 9 years, she has held several volunteer and intern positions working with captive wild animals, many of which are native African species. In 2012, she was able to realize a long-held dream when she traveled to Kenya on a safari. While there, she explored her interests in zoology, photography and anthropology. It was a journey full of “ah-ha” moments, and there were more when she returned to the U.S.
Consul (Business and Government Affairs), UK Government Office, Seattle
Robin Twyman took up his assignment as Consul (Business and Government Affairs), Seattle, in January 2013. His job is to support business, trade, investment and scientific collaboration between the UK and Washington State. He has served in the United States since 2009, previously working at the British Embassy in Washington DC as First Secretary (Trade Policy, Business Affairs and Agriculture).
Born in Canterbury, UK, in 1968, Robin joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1987. His diplomatic career has seen him serve overseas tours in America, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. His assignments at home and abroad have covered a range of foreign policy, security policy and commercial diplomacy duties. In London, Robin managed the UK’s Afghanistan Counter Narcotics programme, led the FCO’s Falkland Islands team, and served as a Foreign Office spokesman. In Geneva, Robin was a UK delegate to the World Trade Organisation, covering trade disputes and the Doha Trade Round’s agriculture negotiations.
Robin is accompanied in Seattle by his wife, Laura (from Cleveland, Ohio), and their two daughters. They enjoy travelling, music and outdoor pursuits.
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Great Britain and the European Union (November 2016)
Dr. Undem is currently an Affiliate Professor at the Jackson School of International Studies, where he teaches courses on International Safeguards, Nonproliferation, and Weapons of Mass Destruction-related issues. Previously, he served as an U.S. Air Force officer, as a senior advisor in Nonproliferation Technology and Safeguards within the National Security Directorate of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and was employed by the International Atomic Energy Agency, assisting in the modernization of containment sealing systems, a major safeguard against nuclear material and theft.
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The Iranian Nuclear Deal – Preventing a Weapons Program? (October 2016)
Brady Walkinshaw is a Program Officer in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Development Program. He manages the foundation’s agricultural work in Brazil, along with a portfolio of investments in agricultural education and training in Sub-Saharan Africa. Brady previously spent time at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., and in Tegucigalpa, Honduras as a Fulbright Scholar. He founded Proyecto Villa Nueva in Honduras, a small not-for-profit focused on education and youth development in urban slums, which was recognized by UNESCO in 2011 as an Organization for Peace.
Brady is a graduate of Princeton University and is active on several local boards and advisory groups. Brady lives in Seattle with his partner and enjoys fly-fishing, kayaking and is an avid hiker.
Kathleen is the Deputy Director, Strategy Planning and Management in the Office of the President, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Ms. Walsh joined the Gates Foundation in 2007. In her role, Kathleen ensures the President’s time is efficiently used in support of Global Development priorities and leads complex initiatives in support of the President. She also drives the strategic and operational aspects of the foundation’s Emergency Relief and Multilateral Partnership programs including the foundation’s response to the West Africa Ebola epidemic. Ms. Walsh holds an MA in Library & Information Science from the University of Washington and a BA in Arts in History from Mount Holyoke College.
Watkins taught for 29 years at Shoreline Community College, she became Professor Emeritus in 2013. She’s passionate in community outreach and social justice themes in her professional and personal life. In 1973, Hermien was the first NP to go into private practice in Northern California, focusing on OB-GYN care. While teaching, she has volunteered during the summers in local clinics and abroad. She has also worked with Project Hope in Central Eastern Europe, and spent time in Guatemala. Hermien considers nursing to be a combination of spiritual, art and science. “Taking those three, it allows me to make a change in that person’s current situation,” she says. “To be present means meeting the client where the client is.”
Zika Virus: Science and Pregnancy (March 2016)
Paul is a shellfish biologist at the Suquamish Tribe. He started in 1992, a time when the Squamish were limited to harvesting clams on a few beaches adjoining their reservation. For the first two years he managed harvests, enhanced clam and oyster populations and assisted in the legal efforts to restore Treaty reserved rights to harvest all species of shellfish to the Washington Treaty Tribes.
In 1994, the Tribes won. The Federal Court ruled the Tribes had never relinquished ownership of the shellfish resources, and so the list of species Paul managed grew to include shrimp, crab, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and geoduck. The area he managed also expanded to include all the waters historically fished by the Suquamish: from Vashon Island to the Canadian Border. Over the past 20 years, Paul has developed dozens of cooperative annual management plans, conducted countless biomass surveys and enhancement projects and even started a tribal enterprise to harvest geoducks for sale to China. More recently, Paul has been working on K-12 environmental and sustainability education, computer assisted zooplankton recognition, and growing sea cucumbers.
David Woodward first joined Associates in Cultural Exchange (A.C.E.) in 1980 after graduating from the University of Washington. He has 34 years of professional international experience, including 26 years of senior management roles in educational administration, business management, consultancy, and facilitation of programs and services with clients from all major world markets.
Mr. Woodward was born in Teheran, Iran, and spent his early youth in Southern Iran until moving with his family to the U.S. in 1968. He received a National Resource Fellowship in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization while at the University of Washington, and taught English as a foreign language at Kuwait University for one year (1982-83) before returning to A.C.E. He has led in the establishment of a master's degree program in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, has taught Modern Middle East History, and has presented extensively in forums and conferences on Middle East issues, Islam, cross-cultural communication, language education, and international program administration.
Mr. Woodward is fluent in Persian(Farsi), Arabic and French and has studied Hebrew and Greek. He is a member of the U.S. Secretary of Commerce-appointed District Export Council for Washington State, the Seattle Rotary Club, the Advisory Board of the Trade Development Alliance of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the Global Business Advisory Board of Seattle University's Albers School of Business and Economics, is immediate Past Chair for the Middle East Interest Group of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, and a member of the Taproot Theatre Advisory Board.
Mr. Woodward holds multiple degrees from the University of Washington including a Master of Education in Higher Education with a specialization in Teaching English as a Second Language, a Master of Arts in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics, and a Bachelor of Arts in History.
Anand A. Yang, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Professor, International Studies and History, is the former Director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle.
Yang is the author of books on The Limited Raj: Agrarian Relations in Colonial India and Bazaar India: Peasants, Traders, Markets and the Colonial State; and the editor of volumes on Crime and Criminality in British India and Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History. His forthcoming books are on Empire of Convicts and Thirteen Months in China, a co-translated work.
A former editor of The Journal of Asian Studies and Peasant Studies, Yang was the former president of the Association for Asian Studies and of the World History Association.
Biofuels and Climate Change (April 2016)
Anna Zelenz is a PhD student in the UW political science department and a fellow in both the University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC) and the Comparative Law and Societies Studies center (CLASS). She studies international relations, comparative politics, and public law. Anna's work focuses primarily on violence, state repression, insurgency formation, and the Middle East. Anna is currently completing a project exploring how rumor-spreading tactics were used to support the brutal repression of Syrian protests in 2011. Anna also recently presented a project at the International Studies Association conference (co-authored with Meredith Loken) titled "Explaining Extremism: Western Women in Daesh."
Great Discussions: Middle East (April 2016)