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SUMMARY:Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For
DESCRIPTION:Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For\n\n\n\nA Conversation with Ambassador Susan Rice\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNational Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice will share pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy. Taught early\, with tough love\, how to compete and excel as an African American woman in settings where people of color are few\, Amb. Rice now shares the wisdom she learned along the way and makes an urgent appeal to the American public to bridge our dangerous domestic divides in order to preserve our democracy and sustain our global leadership.\n\n\n\nRice’s new book\, “Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For\,” provides an insider’s account of some of the most complex issues confronting the United States over three decades\, ranging from “Black Hawk Down” in Somalia to the genocide in Rwanda and the East Africa embassy bombings in the late 1990s\, and from conflicts in Libya and Syria to the Ebola epidemic\, a secret channel to Iran\, and the opening to Cuba during the Obama years. With unmatched insight and characteristic bluntness\, she reveals previously untold stories behind recent national security challenges\, including confrontations with Russia and China\, the war against ISIS\, the struggle to contain the fallout from Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks\, the U.S. response to Russian interference in the 2016 election\, and the surreal transition to the Trump administration. \n\n\n\nPre-registration is required. Register HERE. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTough Love\n\n\n\nAmb. Susan Rice’s book\, Tough Love\, is available for purchase here.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew Member? Time to Renew?\n\n\n\nMembers at the $100+ giving level will receive one free speaker book. \n\n\n\nLearn More\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpecial thanks to\n\n\n\n\nSeason Sponsor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsorship opportunities for this event are available.\n\n\n\n\nLearn more\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\nParking is available for free at MGM Springfield\, on-street at meters near Symphony Hall\, or paid parking in the garage under I-91North next to Symphony Hall. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Ambassador Susan Rice\n\n\n\nIn her role as National Security Advisor from July 1\, 2013\, to January 20\, 2017\, Ambassador Rice led the National Security Council staff of approximately 400 defense\, diplomatic\, intelligence\, and development experts. She chaired the cabinet-level National Security Principals Committee\, provided the president daily national security briefings\, and was responsible for coordinating the formulation and implementation of all aspects of the administration’s foreign and national security policy\, including the $680 billion national security budget and all diplomatic\, intelligence\, homeland security\, and military efforts. \n\n\n\nAmbassador Rice’s twenty-five years of public service and unique experience at the highest levels of the U.S. government afford her deep and rare insight into the current geo-strategic environment\, political risk\, emerging markets\, and leadership dynamics in the Asia-Pacific\, especially China\, as well as Europe\, North America\, the Middle East\, and Africa. She is also deeply versed in counter-terrorism\, economic development\, and cyber policy as well as U.S. government decision-making. \n\n\n\nAs U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and a member of President Obama’s cabinet (2009-2013)\, Ambassador Rice worked to advance U.S. interests\, defend universal values\, strengthen the world’s security and prosperity\, and promote respect for human rights. In a world of 21st century threats that pay no heed to borders\, Ambassador Rice helped rebuild an effective basis for international cooperation that strengthened the United States’ ability to achieve its foreign policy objectives and made the American people safer. As U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN\, she marshalled and oversaw all U.S. contributions to the UN\, which account for 22% of its regular budget and 28% of its peacekeeping budget\, and championed the UN management and reform agenda. \n\n\n\nAmbassador Rice is currently a Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at American University’s School of International Service and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She is also a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. \n\n\n\nFrom 2002-2008\, Ambassador Rice was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution\, where she conducted research and published widely on U.S. foreign policy\, transnational security threats\, weak states\, global poverty\, and development. \n\n\n\nAmbassador Rice served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1997-2001. In that role\, she formulated and implemented U.S. policy towards 48 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and oversaw the bureau’s annual operating budget of $100 million and almost $800 million assistance budget. She was responsible for the management of 43 U.S. embassies and more than 5\,000 American and national foreign service employees. Ambassador Rice was co-recipient of the White House’s 2000 Samuel Nelson Drew Memorial Award for distinguished contributions to the formation of peaceful\, cooperative relationships between states. From 1993-1997\, she served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council\, as well as Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping on the National Security Council staff. \n\n\n\nAmbassador Rice began her career as a management consultant with McKinsey and Company where she served natural resource\, industrial\, and some consumer companies. Ambassador Rice has previously served on numerous boards\, including as a director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts\, Bureau of National Affairs (now Bloomberg BNA)\, Common Sense Media\, the Beauvoir School in Washington\, D.C.\, and U.S. Fund for UNICEF. She is currently on the board of Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) and is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group\, the American Academy of Diplomacy\, and the Council on Foreign Relations. \n\n\n\nAmbassador Rice received her master’s degree (M.Phil.) and Ph.D. (D.Phil.) in international relations from New College of Oxford University\, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She was awarded the Chatham House-British International Studies Association Prize for the most distinguished doctoral dissertation in the United Kingdom in the field of international relations in 1990. Ambassador Rice received her B.A. in history with honors and distinction from Stanford University in 1986\, where she was junior Phi Beta Kappa and a Truman Scholar. In 2017\, French president Francois Hollande presented Ambassador Rice with the Award of Commander\, the Legion of Honor of France\, for her contributions to Franco-American relations. \n\n\n\nA native of Washington D.C.\, Ambassador Rice is married to Ian Cameron\, and they have two children. She is a sports enthusiast\, avid tennis player\, and retired basketball player.
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SUMMARY:Election 2020: What's Next?
DESCRIPTION:Election 2020: What’s Next?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis much we know — Joe Biden is President-elect and Kamala Harris makes history as the first woman and the first person of color to be Vice President-elect. But questions abound. \n\n\n\nWho will win the remaining undecided seats in the Senate? How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect voter turn-out? Did first-time voters make a difference?  How will the transition play out? \n\n\n\nWe’ll have some answers soon — and a whole new round of questions! \n\n\n\nNew England Public Media and the Springfield Public Forum present an open conversation on the future of our country and where we are headed in the wake of the election. Join NPR senior political correspondent Domenico Montanaro and Weekend All Things Considered host Michel Martin for “Election 2020: What’s Next?” NEPM’s Kari Njiiri will moderate this free event\, and your questions will be welcome as we gather on Zoom. \n\n\n\nRegister HERE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew Member? Time to Renew?\n\n\n\nMembers at the $100+ giving level will receive one free speaker book. \n\n\n\nLearn More\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\n\n\nMichel Martin is the weekend host of All Things Considered. Michel came to NPR in 2006 and launched the NPR daily news and talk show Tell Me More. She joined NPR from ABC News\, where she served as correspondent for Nightline from 1996 to 2006\, reporting on congressional budget battles\, the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa\, racial profiling\, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and more. Before joining ABC\, Martin covered state and local politics for the Washington Post and national politics and policy at the Wall Street Journal\, where she was White House correspondent. She has also been a regular panelist on the PBS series Washington Week. A native of Brooklyn\, N.Y.\, Martin graduated cum laude from Radcliffe in 1980 and earned a Master of Arts from the Wesley Theological Seminary in 2016. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDomenico Montanaro is NPR’s senior political editor/correspondent. Based in Washington\, D.C.\, his work appears on air and online delivering analysis of the political climate in Washington and campaigns. He also helps edit political coverage. Montanaro joined NPR in 2015 and oversaw coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign\, including for broadcast and digital. Before joining NPR\, Montanaro served as political director and senior producer for politics and law at PBS NewsHour. There\, he led domestic political and legal coverage\, including the 2014 elections\, the Supreme Court\, and the unrest in Ferguson\, Mo. Prior to PBS NewsHour\, Montanaro was deputy political editor at NBC News\, where he covered two presidential elections and reported and edited for the network’s political blog\, “First Read.” Montanaro earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Delaware and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
URL:https://springfieldpublicforum.org/event/election-2020-whats-next/
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SUMMARY:Americans Reaching for Hope
DESCRIPTION:Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope\n\n\n\nNicholas Kristof + Sheryl Wudunn\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthors of the best-selling Half the Sky\, Kristof and WuDunn introduce us to the working-class families of Kristof’s hometown who’ve been profoundly damaged as a result of policy mistakes.\n\n\n\nMany of his peers have died from drugs\, alcohol\, suicide\, or reckless accidents. The authors also share stories of resurgence and shine a light on programs and people who are dramatically improving outcomes in people’s lives.  \n\n\n\nThe event recording is available on our YouTube Channel here.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope\n\n\n\nNicholas Kristof + Sheryl Wudunn’s book\, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope\, is available for purchase here. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout Nicholas Kristof + Sheryl Wudunn\n\n\n\nNicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have co-authored several books including A Path Appears and Half the Sky. Together they were awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for their coverage of China. They also received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2009.  \n\n\n\nNow an op-ed columnist for the New York Times\, Kristof was previously bureau chief in Hong Kong\, Beijing\, and Tokyo. He won his second Pulitzer in 2006 for his columns on Darfur. WuDunn worked at the New York Times as a business editor and foreign correspondent in Tokyo and Beijing. She now works in banking. \n\n\n\n\nThis program is funded by Mass Humanities which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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SUMMARY:Founder of Freedom to Marry Attorney Evan Wolfson
DESCRIPTION:Free Virtual Event \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Center for Social Justice and Springfield Public Forum are thrilled to welcome Evan Wolfson\, founder of Freedom to Marry—the successful campaign for marriage equality in the United States—as the Center’s inaugural Gervino-Ward LGBTQ+ Speaker. Wolfson will be joined by WNE School of Law Professor Jennifer Levi\, director of GLAD’s Transgender Rights Project\, who will moderate a Q&A-style event.  \n\n\n\nThe recording of the event is available on the WNE School of Law’s facebook page HERE. \n\n\n\nAbout Evan Wolfson \n\n\n\nDuring the 1990’s Wolfson served as co-counsel in the historic Hawaii marriage case that launched the ongoing global movement for the freedom to marry\, and has participated in numerous gay rights and HIV/AIDS cases. In 2012\, Wolfson received the Barnard Medal of Distinction alongside President Barack Obama. Wolfson earned a B.A. in history from Yale College and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. \n\n\n\nWolfson now devotes his time to advising and assisting diverse movements and causes in the U.S. and around the world. Based in New York City\, Wolfson has been named a Distinguished Visitor from Practice at Georgetown Law Center\, where he teaches law and social change; a Distinguished Practitioner in Grand Strategy at Yale University; and Senior Counsel at Dentons\, the world’s largest law firm.
URL:https://springfieldpublicforum.org/event/founder-of-freedom-to-marry-attorney-evan-wolfson/
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SUMMARY:The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us
DESCRIPTION:The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Tough is the bestselling author of “How Children Succeed” and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine and This American Life. In his new book\, “The Years That Matter Most\,” Tough describes the way higher education in America can both help and hinder young people searching for better opportunities. The book tells the stories of several remarkable students\, including some for whom college acts as a powerful engine of social mobility. But Tough also reveals the sometimes hidden ways that our higher education system favors children of wealth and privilege and holds back striving young Americans from modest backgrounds.\n\n\n\nTo join us at the post-event dinner at The Armory at MGM Springfield\, please register here. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of our “Spotlight on Education Series” which is sponsored by Platinum Sponsor\, MassMutual. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpecial thanks to\n\n\n\n\nPlatinum Sponsor
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