Dr. Bobby Austin, Vice President of University Relations and Communications at the University of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.; presented a paper, “Educating the World on Peace and Prosperity” at a 2006 conference on peace in Hiroshima, Japan; organized the civil society Peoples Assembly in D.C. for the People Programme with a Ford Foundation grant; created the Citizen Diplomat certificate; founder of the Village Foundation; former Senior Program Advisor at the Kellogg Foundation
Joy Austin, Executive Director, Washington, D.C. Humanities Council; organizer of the “Soul of the City” program and a program in partnership with the French Embassy to honor Josephine Baker’ s 100th birthday anniversary.
Joseph Boyce, retired Senior Editor, Wall Street Journal; former Bureau Chief, Time magazine in Atlanta and San Francisco
Professor Jan Carew, distinguished professor, University of Louisville; retired Chair, African-American Studies Department, Northwestern University; founding Chair, Black Studies, Princeton University; former Poet Laureate of Guyana; advisor to late Presidents Michael Manley (Jamaica) and Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana); award-winning poet and author
John Casey, retired Secretary General of the World Alliance of YMCA’ s in Geneva, Switzerland; former President of the Metropolitan Chicago YMCA; former Executive Director, Legislative Advisory Council on Public Aid, Illinois legislature, Springfield, Illinois
Coming soon.
Congressman Danny K. Davis, 7th Congressional District of Illinois since 1996; a Regional Whip in the Democratic Caucus; member of the Congressional Black Caucus (Secretary) and the Congressional Progressive Caucus; former Cook County Commissioner, 29th Ward Alderman, and health planner/administrator
Lord Meghnad Desai, member of the House of Lords; retired Professor of Economics and Director, Center for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics; consultant to the United Nations Human Development Report; author of numerous books
Harlem Desir, Socialist Member of the European Parliament (France); member of Capital Tax, Fiscal Systems, and Global Intergroup of the European Parliament campaign to reform the WTO; rapporteur for “openness and democracy in international trade” (report adopted by the European Parliament in 2001); co-sponsor of report From Rio via Doha to Johannesburg
Dr. Maria Diedrich, Professor, University of Munster, Germany; fellow at the W.E. B. DuBois Institute, Harvard University; founding President of the European-based Collegium for African-American Research; author of Love Across the Color Line and numerous other books, articles and monographs
Glyn Ford, Labour Member of the European Parliament (UK); EP member of the Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy committees; observer of elections in Cambodia (August 2003); Kenya (December 2002); and South Africa’ s multi-party election in 1994. Expertise in Asian affairs
Dr. James Jackson, Director, Institute for Social Research and Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan — one of the pre-eminent and largest social research centers in the world; author and professor; expert on experimental and survey methodology
Dr. Frank Morris, retired Dean of Graduate Studies, Morgan State University; former Executive Director of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation; board of directors, Ron Brown Foundation; national policy committee, AARP; social justice committee, United Methodist Church
Dr. Kaarle Nordenstreng, Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Tampere, Finland since 1971; Consultant at UNESCO; recipient of Euroaward for outstanding achievements in journalistic education; former President, International Organization of Journalists; Director of Academy of Finland projects; frequent visiting professor at universities in California, Illinois, Maryland and Texas; author of more than 20 books
Dr. Berndt Ostendorf, retired Professor of North American Cultural History at the Amerika Institut, University of Munich; author, with Ulla Haselstein of Cultural Interactions: Fifty Years of American Studies in Germany , “World Heritage New Orleans: Ten Reasons for Saving the City,” and numerous other books and monographs. Dr. Ostendorf is a jazz expert.
Dr. Brenda Gayle Plummer, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison; author of Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960 and editor of Window on Freedom
Dr. Robert Rich, Director, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois; Law professor with appointments in the College of Medicine and the Political Science Department; recipient of the Mercator Professorship at Humbolt University, Berlin, Germany; author of numerous books and articles about health law and policy
Julieanna Richardson, founder and CEO, TheHistoryMakers, offering on-line live interviews, biographies, photographs, and television programs of more than 1000 notable African-Americans; recipient of the first Vernon Jarrett fellowship, Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago; Harvard law graduate; founder of SCTN Teleproductions
Richard Rubenstein, Professor of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs, George Mason University; author of Aristotle’ s Children and When Jesus Became God; Fulbright Visiting Professor, Universite de Provence, 1977; Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Malta, 1994; Oxford U., MA; Harvard Law
Dr. Shashi Tharoor, former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations for Communications and Public Information, now Chairman of Afras Ventures, Dubai; named a “Global Leader of Tomorrow” in 1998 by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland; recipient of the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, 2004; author of numerous award-winning books
Professor Christopher Wambu, Economics and Political Science, Hunter College; Chairman of the International Committee at Abyssinia Church, New York City
