BIOS OF PANELISTS
"WHAT" PANEL (Monday, December 10: 9:45 am – 11:15 am)
"WHAT" PANEL (Monday, December 10: 9:45 am – 11:15 am)
MODERATOR:
MODERATOR:
STEVE ELKIN has a Ph.D from Harvard in political theory and has taught at Smith College, UPenn and the University of Maryland. He is the author of many books and articles and the Founding Editor of the journal The Good Society. He has also taught many OLLI courses in political theory and political science. His current OLLI course is "When do Democracies Die?".
STEVE ELKIN has a Ph.D from Harvard in political theory and has taught at Smith College, UPenn and the University of Maryland. He is the author of many books and articles and the Founding Editor of the journal The Good Society. He has also taught many OLLI courses in political theory and political science. His current OLLI course is "When do Democracies Die?".
KEYNOTE PRESENTER:
KEYNOTE PRESENTER:
DIEGO RODRIGUEZ-PINZON is Co-Director of the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the American University Washington College of Law where he is Professorial Lecturer in Residence and Co-Director of the LLLM program in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Dr Rodriguez has served in many prominent positions as adviser, judge and commissioner with respect to international human rights law and is the correspondent for the Americas fir the periodical Butterworths Human Rights Cases (Lexis Nexis). As a leading world authority on human rights, he has many noteworthy publications, including, most recently, books and articles on the protection of the rights of older persons and the prohibition of torture.
DIEGO RODRIGUEZ-PINZON is Co-Director of the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the American University Washington College of Law where he is Professorial Lecturer in Residence and Co-Director of the LLLM program in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Dr Rodriguez has served in many prominent positions as adviser, judge and commissioner with respect to international human rights law and is the correspondent for the Americas fir the periodical Butterworths Human Rights Cases (Lexis Nexis). As a leading world authority on human rights, he has many noteworthy publications, including, most recently, books and articles on the protection of the rights of older persons and the prohibition of torture.
PANELISTS:
PANELISTS:
BOB COE has been teaching mostly history courses at OLLI since 2005. He has been on the OLLI Board and now handles history courses on the Curriculum Committee. He has a BA from Princeton and MAs from Wesleyan, Columbia, and Harvard. His career was in the U.S. Foreign Service, much of his time as an economist in developing countries. His current OLLI course is "Gandhi: Triumphs and Tragedies".
BOB COE has been teaching mostly history courses at OLLI since 2005. He has been on the OLLI Board and now handles history courses on the Curriculum Committee. He has a BA from Princeton and MAs from Wesleyan, Columbia, and Harvard. His career was in the U.S. Foreign Service, much of his time as an economist in developing countries. His current OLLI course is "Gandhi: Triumphs and Tragedies".
MARION CONNELL served on the Board of Directors of the Unitarian-Universalist United Nations Office (2008-2011) and interned at the International Labour Office in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1961. She worked more than 30 years in local, state and Federal government. Marion graduated from Mount Holyoke College, majoring in political science, and holds a master's degree in public administration. Her current OLLI course is "Frances Perkins: Woman Behind the New Deal".
MARION CONNELL served on the Board of Directors of the Unitarian-Universalist United Nations Office (2008-2011) and interned at the International Labour Office in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1961. She worked more than 30 years in local, state and Federal government. Marion graduated from Mount Holyoke College, majoring in political science, and holds a master's degree in public administration. Her current OLLI course is "Frances Perkins: Woman Behind the New Deal".
ELLY GREENE has taught history, trained teachers, directed projects, and designed curricula in history education and conflict management in Massachusetts and the Washington DC area. In the 1990s she worked with Street Law, Inc. to create Human Rights for All, an interactive text first for South African, then for American audiences. She has led OLLI workshops on Eleanor Roosevelt, the Laurel Grove School (a one-room “colored” school started by its African American community), Seven Photographers Documenting 20th Century America, and The Progressive Movement.
ELLY GREENE has taught history, trained teachers, directed projects, and designed curricula in history education and conflict management in Massachusetts and the Washington DC area. In the 1990s she worked with Street Law, Inc. to create Human Rights for All, an interactive text first for South African, then for American audiences. She has led OLLI workshops on Eleanor Roosevelt, the Laurel Grove School (a one-room “colored” school started by its African American community), Seven Photographers Documenting 20th Century America, and The Progressive Movement.
ARNOLD LEIBOWITZ is an attorney in Washington, DC, in practice for over 40 years. His special interests are major social and political trends. His current course at OLLI is "Great American Trials".
ARNOLD LEIBOWITZ is an attorney in Washington, DC, in practice for over 40 years. His special interests are major social and political trends. His current course at OLLI is "Great American Trials".
HELEN SCHWARTZ, Emerita Professor of English, has taught OLLI courses on Shakespeare, post-World War II recovery, modern literature, and world-changing documents. She writes World War II thrillers set in France. Her current OLLI course is "Fateful Documents: Their Histories and Outcomes".
HELEN SCHWARTZ, Emerita Professor of English, has taught OLLI courses on Shakespeare, post-World War II recovery, modern literature, and world-changing documents. She writes World War II thrillers set in France. Her current OLLI course is "Fateful Documents: Their Histories and Outcomes".
"HOW" PANEL (Monday, December 10: 11:45 am – 1:15 pm)
"HOW" PANEL (Monday, December 10: 11:45 am – 1:15 pm)
MODERATOR:
MODERATOR:
ROBERT CROOG earned a BA in English from Harvard College and a JD from Columbia University. He is a retired intellectual property lawyer and was a professor of ethics, communication and writing at Rochester Institute of Technology, and at Trinity University in Washington, DC. His current course at OLLI is "Can Morality and War Coexist?"
ROBERT CROOG earned a BA in English from Harvard College and a JD from Columbia University. He is a retired intellectual property lawyer and was a professor of ethics, communication and writing at Rochester Institute of Technology, and at Trinity University in Washington, DC. His current course at OLLI is "Can Morality and War Coexist?"
KEYNOTE PRESENTER:
KEYNOTE PRESENTER:
ESTHER BRIMMER is the Executive Director and CEO of NAFSA: Association of International Educators. She has been on the faculty of George Washington University, the Johns Hopkins University, and the College of Europe in Belgium. She was the US Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. She received her DPhil and MPhil from Oxford University and her BA from Pomona College.
ESTHER BRIMMER is the Executive Director and CEO of NAFSA: Association of International Educators. She has been on the faculty of George Washington University, the Johns Hopkins University, and the College of Europe in Belgium. She was the US Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. She received her DPhil and MPhil from Oxford University and her BA from Pomona College.
PANELISTS:
PANELISTS:
ED ELMENDORF has degrees from Yale, George Washington and Johns Hopkins universities As a U.S. foreign service officer, he participated in the concluding negotiations on the UN Human Rights Covenants. Following service in the UN Secretariat, he worked in the World Bank. He was co-author of ‘Better Health in Africa,’ published by the World Bank. He has served as President of the UN Association of the National Capital Area (UNA -NCA) and subsequently as President and CEO of UNA-USA. He is currently senior adviser for the UNA-NCA Human Rights Committee and for its Graduate Fellows Program.
ED ELMENDORF has degrees from Yale, George Washington and Johns Hopkins universities As a U.S. foreign service officer, he participated in the concluding negotiations on the UN Human Rights Covenants. Following service in the UN Secretariat, he worked in the World Bank. He was co-author of ‘Better Health in Africa,’ published by the World Bank. He has served as President of the UN Association of the National Capital Area (UNA -NCA) and subsequently as President and CEO of UNA-USA. He is currently senior adviser for the UNA-NCA Human Rights Committee and for its Graduate Fellows Program.
RITA HADDEN is a graduate of Brown University, and has done management consulting for 40 years, with an emphasis on information technology and organization transformation. She has also taught Internet Commerce and Project Management in Nanjing, China, and in the USA. Rita has lived in SE Asia for 18 years, and has been President of the Asian American Forum in Washington DC. Her current course at OLLI is "Understanding Asia".
RITA HADDEN is a graduate of Brown University, and has done management consulting for 40 years, with an emphasis on information technology and organization transformation. She has also taught Internet Commerce and Project Management in Nanjing, China, and in the USA. Rita has lived in SE Asia for 18 years, and has been President of the Asian American Forum in Washington DC. Her current course at OLLI is "Understanding Asia".
MARK NADEL taught social policy at Georgetown and the University of Maryland. Most recently he was a visiting professor of public policy at Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy. He spent 20 years at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) with responsibility for its reports on health policy and welfare systems and has been an associate commissioner at the Social Security Administration. At OLLI he has taught a short course on how tyranny develops as well as full length courses on paradoxes of public policy and on American social policy. His current course at OLLI is "American Social Policy: Safety Net or Hammock".
MARK NADEL taught social policy at Georgetown and the University of Maryland. Most recently he was a visiting professor of public policy at Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy. He spent 20 years at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) with responsibility for its reports on health policy and welfare systems and has been an associate commissioner at the Social Security Administration. At OLLI he has taught a short course on how tyranny develops as well as full length courses on paradoxes of public policy and on American social policy. His current course at OLLI is "American Social Policy: Safety Net or Hammock".
RON RIDKER has led an OLLI study group on climate change (focusing on economic and political aspects) for several years. Long before that, he wrote a couple of books, one called "Economic Costs of Air Pollution: Studies in Measurement", another called "To Choose A Future: Resource and Environmental Consequences of Alternative Growth Paths". In between, he worked for USAID and the World Bank on developing countries and spent two years in India. He has a PhD in Economics from a different era and has been busy updating his liberal arts education..
RON RIDKER has led an OLLI study group on climate change (focusing on economic and political aspects) for several years. Long before that, he wrote a couple of books, one called "Economic Costs of Air Pollution: Studies in Measurement", another called "To Choose A Future: Resource and Environmental Consequences of Alternative Growth Paths". In between, he worked for USAID and the World Bank on developing countries and spent two years in India. He has a PhD in Economics from a different era and has been busy updating his liberal arts education..
ANDERS ZEIJLON, Economist, graduate of Uppsala University, Sweden, has taught and done research in the Department of Economic Studies at Uppsala University, and has been an economist and project manager at the UN and the Swedish Government Bilateral Assistance Agency. Between 1987 and 2016 he was an economist and program manager at the World Bank where he also headed a staff training program on human rights and development. His current course at OLLI is "Development Economics and Practice for Non-economists".
ANDERS ZEIJLON, Economist, graduate of Uppsala University, Sweden, has taught and done research in the Department of Economic Studies at Uppsala University, and has been an economist and project manager at the UN and the Swedish Government Bilateral Assistance Agency. Between 1987 and 2016 he was an economist and program manager at the World Bank where he also headed a staff training program on human rights and development. His current course at OLLI is "Development Economics and Practice for Non-economists".
FILM SHOWING (Monday, December 10: 2:15 pm – 4:15 pm)
FILM SHOWING (Monday, December 10: 2:15 pm – 4:15 pm)
INTRODUCER:
INTRODUCER:
ELLY GREENE (for bio see above)
ELLY GREENE (for bio see above)
"The Eleanor Roosevelt Story", written by Archibald MacLeish and narrated by Eric Sevareid, won an Oscar in 1965.
"The Eleanor Roosevelt Story", written by Archibald MacLeish and narrated by Eric Sevareid, won an Oscar in 1965.
EVENT ORGANIZERS:
EVENT ORGANIZERS:
BOB KOLODNEY (bobkolive@gmail.com) has taught an OLLI course on venture capital and has organized Bloomsday readings of James Joyce's "Ulysses". His continuing evolution: Corporate lawyer – Consultant – Manager – Serial Entrepreneur – Angel Investor – Nirvana Education: Harvard College/Columbia Law School/INSEAD (the European Institute of Business Administration)
BOB KOLODNEY (bobkolive@gmail.com) has taught an OLLI course on venture capital and has organized Bloomsday readings of James Joyce's "Ulysses". His continuing evolution: Corporate lawyer – Consultant – Manager – Serial Entrepreneur – Angel Investor – Nirvana Education: Harvard College/Columbia Law School/INSEAD (the European Institute of Business Administration)
TERRY PROVANCE (terryprovance@gmail.com) has taught an OLLI course on "The Brief History of Humankind" and organized an event to commemorate the 5oth Anniversary of My Lai.
TERRY PROVANCE (terryprovance@gmail.com) has taught an OLLI course on "The Brief History of Humankind" and organized an event to commemorate the 5oth Anniversary of My Lai.