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Spring 2008

  • Navigating the US Healthcare System
    The National Institute for Patient Rights (NIPR)
  • Focus the Nation
    Global Warming Solutions Conference
  • Redeveloping New Orleans
    Zack Rosenberg, Co-founder, St. Bernard Project
  • Navigating the US Healthcare System
    The National Institute for Patient Rights (NIPR)
  • Global Hunger Awareness Speaker Tour
    Pravin Parshuram Patkar, Founder, Prerana
  • Penn Safety Panel
    Maureen Rush, VP of the Division of Public Safety
  • Leadership in Business and Communcation
    Guillermo Novo and Marilyn Nyman
  • How Will China Shape the Future?
    Sponsored by PennForum and Fox Leadership
  • Immigrant Workers Rights and the Labor Movement
    Mackenzie Smith: UNITE Here
  • Evidence of Food Insecurity in the Midst of an Obesity Epidemic
    Dr. Mariana Chilton
  • The Death of Environmentalism
    Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger

Fall 2007

  • The Mindful Leader
    Mindfulness and Meditation Introduction/Orientation Meeting
  • Fox Leadership Program Student Orientation
    Learn about the opportunities that Fox has to offer
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters Student Orientation
    Orientation and Training for Penn Bigs
  • What's at Stake in the Farm Bill
    A $90 billion per year tax bill for food, feed, fiber, and fuel...
  • Jeffrey M. Blander (W '93)
    Co-founder and Director, Bienmoyo Charitable Foundation
  • World Food Day Conference
    A Fresh Food Initiative for Philadelphia
  • Pedro Juan Hernandez, Emily Carpenter, and Jesse Dyer Stewart
    Lessons from the fight for free speech and the right to organize in El Salvador
  • Michael Carroll
    Author of "The Mindful Leader" and "Awake at Work"
  • Wendy Kopp
    President and Founder, Teach for America
  • Food, Farming, and Hunger: At Home and Abroad
    Faith-based lobbyists take on Congress
  • Faith-Based Initiatives: What Does the Future Hold
    A conversation with the current and former directors of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
  • 10th Annual Gesu Symposium on Inner-City Education
    Featuring Juan Williams, Senior Correspondent for NPR's Morning Edition
  • Philip Jenkins
    Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies, Penn State University
  • One Student, One Vote
    Explore the impact of student voters in the upcoming 2008 presidential election

Spring 2007

  • Starfinder Foundation
    Using soccer to develop children's character, attitude, and leadership
  • Young College Alumni Panel:
    How to Land a Job on Wall Street with a College Degree
  • Jerusalem: One City, Three Religions
    Panel and discussion
  • Leadership in Small Business: Philaelphia Full of Flavor featuring Ellen Yin
    Owner, Fork Restaurant
  • Marc Morial (C '80)
    President and CEO, The National Urban League and Former Mayor of New Orleans
  • U.S. Naval Academy Leadership Conference 2007
    Building the Bond of Leadership
  • Lynn Minello
    Vice President of Human Resources, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
  • Scott Calvert and Phillip Peche: Military Leadership
    U.S. Naval Aviators
  • A Night on the Town
    Benefit event for the Sister to Sister Foundation
  • Eric Wilden
    Leading Yourself through Meditation
  • West Philadelphia: Skeleton in Penn's Closet
    Panel Discussion
  • Tim Feige
    Co-president, Prudential International Insurance
  • C.S.I Penn: Leadership in Law Enforcement, Part III
    Philadelphia Police crime lab tour and discussion
  • Dark Night: Film Screening and Director-led Discussion
    Semi-political film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • Michael Mungai
    Founder of Dagoretti for Kids
  • Mitchell Modell
    CEO, Modell's Sporting Goods
  • C.S.I. Penn: Leadership in Law Enforcement, Part IV
    How to Build an Effective Public Safety Team
  • New Orleans: Government, Community, and Student Response and Direction
    Film and Panel discussion
  • Tamara Stanton Luzzatto
    Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
  • Michael Carroll
    Author of Awake at Work and The Mindful Leader
  • Alex Counts
    President and CEO, Grameen Foundation
  • David Kuo
    Former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and Depuy Director of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
  • Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
    Former Lt. Governor of Maryland and Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States

Fall 2006

  • Lead the Vote 2006
    Discussions about the Issues Surrounding Youth Voting in November 2006
  • Fox Leadership Program Student Orientation
    Learn about the opportunities that Fox has to offer
  • C.S.I. Penn: Leadership in Law Enforcement featuring Maureen S. Rush, M.S., CCP
    Vice President for Public Safety, University of Pennsylvania
  • Leadership in the Arts featuring the Drummers of Burundi
    International Percussion Ensemble
  • FarmEcology's 3rd Annual Fall Harvest Dinner
    Locally grown food comes back to Penn
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters Student Orientation
    Orientation and Training for Penn Bigs
  • Joe Klein (C'68)
    Author and Political Columnist
  • Mark Sargent
    Dean and Professor, Villanova Univeristy School of Law
  • CureDM: Researching a Cure for Diabetes
    Panel of Russian Medical Researchers
  • Raj L. Gupta
    Chairman, President, and CEO, Rohm and Haas
  • Michael Gerson
    Former Chief Speechwriter for President George W. Bush
  • Janet Poppendieck
    School Lunch: Past, Present, and Future
  • Leadership in Small Business: Philadelphia Full of Flavor featuring Marco Lentini
    Owner, Gia Pronto
  • Elaine Kamarck
    Former Clinton-Gore White House senior official and National Performance Review leader
  • Christine Whelan
    Author of Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women
  • Michele Simon
    Author of Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back
  • C.S.I. Penn: Leadership in Law Enforcement, Part II
    Table-top crisis management exercise and tour of PennComm Center
  • Affirmative Action Debate: Ward Connerly vs. Tim Wise
    Fox Red and Blue Debate

Spring 2006

  • Carol A. Ammon
    Endo Pharmaceuticals
  • Michael J. Baime, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and founder of the Penn Program for Stress Management
  • Zeev Bielski
    Chariman of the Jewish Agency
  • Peter Burwash
    Former Canadian No. 1 tennis player and International Entrepreneur
  • Mark L. Bye
    Group Vice President, Gases and Equipment Group, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
  • Rick Chertoff
    Writer and producer
  • Citigroup
    Discussion on careers in sales and trading
  • Pat Croce
    Motivational Speaker and former President of the Philadelphia 76ers
  • Ron Davis
    Wawa Foods Representative
  • Yaron Deckel
    Reporter, Political Analyst Washington Bureau Chief, Israeli Broadcasting Authority
  • Stephen Dunning
    Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
  • Michael Eric Dyson
    Professor of Religious Studies and African American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
  • Michael Feinberg
    Co-founder, The Kipp Foundation
  • Jonathan Safran Foer
    Author of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Everything is Illuminated
  • Jay Footlik
    Former Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton
  • From Penn to Politics
    Why and How Young Women Can Become Political Leaders
  • Grant Ginder
    Special Assistant to the Senior Vice President for Communications and Strategy for the Center for American Progress
  • JJ Goldberg
    Editor in Chief, The Forward
  • Sarah V. Hart
    Former Director, National Institute of Justice, United States Department of Justice
  • How Penn Students Helped Rebuild the Gulf
    Lessons learned from Spring Break trips to areas devastated by Katrina
  • Interactive Seminar: Israeli Elections 2006
    Election Reflections
  • Jerrold Kessel
    Former Jerusalem Deputy Bureau Chief for CNN
  • Robert Lehrman
    Former Chief Speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore
  • Gregory Magarian
    Law Professor, Villanova University
  • Robert W. McChesney
    Research Professor of Communications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Timothy Nelson
    Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
  • Noam Neusner
    Former Special Assistant to President George. W. Bush
  • Jennifer Palmieri
    Vice President of Communications, Center for American Progress
  • Alan Pinkus
    Former Israeli Consul General in New York
  • Mary Catherine Roper
    ACLU Attorney
  • Jonathan Saidel
    Former Controller, City of Philadelphia
  • Greg Salisbury
    Owner, Rx
  • Steve Shelly
    Farmer, Somerton Tanks Farm
  • Social Entrepreneurship at Penn
    Learn to help form a new student-run organization
  • Henry Winkler
    Actor, Producer, Director
  • Tim Zintz
    Executive Chef, Aramark Dining Services
  • Ethan Zohn
    Survivor Africa Winner and Social Activist

Fall 2005

  • Gloria Borger
    Contributing Editor, U.S. News & World Report; National Political Correspondent, CBS News
  • Wendy Born
    Owner, Metropolitan Bakery
  • Daniel Campo
    Director of Research/Postdoctoral Fellow
    Penn Institute for Urban Research
  • Arthur Caplan
    Emanuel & Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania
  • Michael X. Delli Carpini
    Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication
  • Mark A. Coblitz
    Senior Vice President Strategic Planning
    Comcast Corporation
  • Jim Donald
    President and Chief Executive Officer, Starbucks Corporation
  • John L. Esposito
    Professor of Religion and International Affairs and Islamic Studies
    Georgetown University
  • Derek Felton
    Community-Organizing Coordinator, The Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger
    and Director, The Freedom Development Corporation
  • Robert Giegengack
    Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania
  • Aryeh Green
    Senior Policy Advisor to former Israeli Minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs, Natan Sharansky
  • Amy Gutmann
    President, University of Pennsylvania
  • Beth Hagovsky
    Director of Student Life, Wharton Undergraduate Division
  • Alexander L. Hoskins
    President of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia
  • Michael B. Katz
    Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History
  • Walter Licht
    Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
  • Marc Morial (C '80)
    President and CEO, The National Urban League and Former Mayor of New Orleans
  • Eli Noam
    Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School
    Director, Columbia University Institute for Tele-Information
  • Penn vs. Drexel: Battle of the Bands
    "Rock Does Tobati Good" Benefit Concert
  • Tara L. Weiner
    Managing Partner (Philadelphia Region), Deloitte & Touche USA LLP
  • Tom Wolzien
    Senior Media Analyst, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.
  • James Q. Wilson
    Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University
  • Alan Wurtzel
    President, Research and Media Development
    NBC

Spring 2005

  • Buzz Bissinger (C '76)
    Writer, Producer
  • Derek Felton
    Community Organizing Coordinator, The Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger
  • Nathan Glazer
    Professor emeritus, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
  • Rick Helfenbein (W '70)
    President, USA, Luen Thai International Group (Hong Kong)
  • Charles Krauthammer
    Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist
  • Larry Meli
    Senior Director of Ticket Operations, Philadelphia 76ers
  • Jay Nordlinger
    Managing Editor, National Review
  • Marc Platt (C '79)
    Producer, Founder of Marc Platt Productions
  • Janet Poppendieck
    Professor of Sociology, Hunter College, City University of New York
  • David Pottruck (C '70, WG '72)
    Managing Director, The Pottruck Group
  • Lara Price
    Senior Vice President of Business Operations, Philadelphia 76ers
  • Iqbal Quadir
    Founder, GrameenPhone Ltd. and Fellow, Harvard Center for Business and Government
  • Ed Rendell (C '65)
    Governor, State of Pennsylvania
  • Brent Rossi
    Marketing Manager, Philadelphia 76ers
  • Dennis Shea
    Senior Director of Ticket Sales, Philadelphia 76ers
  • Andy Speiser
    Senior Vice President of Finance, Philadelphia 76ers
  • Judy Wicks
    Founder and CEO, White Dog Cafe
  • Naomi Wolf
    Author

Fall 2004

  • Mark Aronchick
    Attorney and Partner, Hangley, Aronchick, Segal & Pudlin, P.C.
  • Larry Atkins
    Lawyer, Temple University Professor, Op-Ed and Political Writer
  • Jeff Bell
    Partner, Capital City Partners, a political consulting group
  • John Bridgeland
    Former Director of USA Freedom Corps and Former Senior Staff Advisor to President Bush
  • William Bennett
    Former U.S. Secretary of Education
  • Frank Cannon
    Partner, Capital City Partners, a political consulting group
  • E.J. Dionne, Jr.
    Washington Post Columnist; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
  • Derek Felton
    Director of Freedom Development Corporation in West Philadelphia; Coordinator, Building Bridges Project with the West District County; Assistance Office for the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger
  • Gigi Georges
    President, Glover Park Group's New York Office and Former State Director for Senator Hillary Clinton
  • Stephen Goldsmith
    Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and Former Mayor of Indianapolis
  • Aimee Kocis Good
    Charlestown Cooperative Farm, Phoenixville, PA
  • Elaine Kamarck
    Kennedy School of Government Lecturer, Harvard University, and Former Gore Senior Policy Advisor
  • Richard Kimball
    President, Project Vote Smart
  • Wendy Kopp
    Founder, Teach for America
  • David Kuo
    Former Special Assistant to President Bush in the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
  • Anna Lappe
    Nationally recognized author, public speaker, and co-founder of the Small Planet Fund
  • Ian Lustick
    Bess W. Heyman Chair in Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
  • Thomas Mann
    Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
  • Marc Morial (C '80)
    President and CEO, National Urban League and Former Mayor of New Orleans
  • Diana Mutz
    Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication, University of Pennsylvania
  • Bob O'Donnell
    Former Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
  • Coleman Poses
    Founder: Chilly Philly
  • David M. Stone
    Producer, Director, Founder of Stone Media
  • Mary Summers
    Senior Fellow, Fox Leadership Program
  • P. Roy Vagelos, M.D. (C '50, Hon. '99)
    Retired Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer, Merck & Co., Inc.
  • Margy Waller
    Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution; former Senior Advisor for Welfare and Working Families in the Clinton Administration
  • Gary Yourofsky and Kate Timko
    Animal Rights Lecturers, Animals Deserve Absolute Protection Today and Tomorrow (ADAPTT)

Spring 2004

  • Kim Camp
    Executive Director and CEO, The Barnes Foundation
  • Barry Goldin (W '60)
    Private Investor, “How One Individual Can Lead in Society”
  • Tony Hall
    U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture
    “Leadership for the Poor: America’s Commitment to Build Hope and Alleviate Hunger”
  • Dr. Sidney Harman
    Author of Mind your Own Business; and the Founder & current CEO of Harman/Kardon International “Wait for Me—I’m your Leader
  • William P. Kupper, Jr.
    President of Businessweek Group, Publisher of Businessweek Magazine
  • Joe Lunardi
    ESPN.com columnist and ESPN SportsCenter on-air personality and bracketologist “How I turned my passion for college basketball into a business”
  • Francis McGovern
    Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
    “Mediation and the Concept of Leadership”
  • Mayor Marc Morial
    President, National Urban League and former Mayor, New Orleans
    “Leadership and Civic Responsibility
  • Marciene Mattleman
    Executive Director, After School Activities Partnership
  • Stephanie Nelson
    The Eastern Pennsylvania Campus Organizer of Good Schools PA”
  • Vijay Prashad
    Director for the International Studies Program, Trinity College
  • Joe Rascoff
    Co-founder and Co-owner of the Rascoff/Zysblat Management Firm
  • Lloyd Remick, Esq. (W '59)
    Voted "Best Entertainment and Sports Attorney in Philadelphia" by Philadelphia Magazine, March 1999
  • Doug Sherrets, Seth Berkowitz, Jared Barnett, Leslie Mitts
    “How to Start Your Own Business as an Undergrad”
  • Jennifer Smith Turner
    Novelist and Poet

Fall 2003

  • Amanda Bennett
    Executive editor and Executive Vice President, Philadelphia Inquirer
    Jane Eisner
    Nationally-syndicated Columnist
    "Women in Leadership & Journalism"
  • The Right Honourable Kim Campbell
    Former Canadian Prime Minister
    "Leading as a Woman - What I wish I'd known then"
  • Hershey Felder
    "George Gershwin", Gershwin Alone
    "Leadership in Music" performance and talk
  • Gary Foster
    Penn's Weight and Eating Disorders program
    Sandy Sherman
    Food Trust
    "Taking on the obesity epidemic; changing children's food environment."
  • Josh Hammer
    MiddleEast Bureau chief for Newsweek
    "Staring into the Void: Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the dearth of visionary leadership"
  • Dr. Iduvina Mary Hernandez
    Human rights activist for Guatemala
    "Human Rights Advocacy in Central America"
  • Walter Isaacson
    Author, Ben Franklin: An American Life
  • Moises Kaufman
    Author and Director, "The Laramie Project"
    Co-sponsored with Front Row Theatre
  • Will Marshall
    President, Progressive Policy Institute
  • David Stone (C '88)
    Founder of Stone Media, writer, producer and director
  • John Street and Sam Katz
    Philadelphia Mayoral Candidates
    "Get Involved! Get Educated!" Co-sponsored with Rock the Vote.
  • Jim Wallis
    Executive Director, Editor of Sojourners and Convener of Call to Renewal
    "The Politics of Food"
  • Marie C. Wilson
    President, The White House Project /Women's Leadership Fund
    "Gender and Political Audiences" Co-sponsored with Communication within the Curriculumand Kelly Writers House

Spring 2003

  • Willie Baptiste
    Organizer, Human Right's Campaign
  • Nick Bollettieri
    President, Bollettieri Tennis Academy
  • Lou Gerstner
    Former chairman, IBM
    (cosponsored with Wharton Leadership Lecture Series)
  • Gary Hack
    Dean of the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Co-Designer of the winning World Trade Center model
  • Beth Olanoff
    Good Schools Pennsylvania
    "Poverty and Development in the United States"
  • Adolph Reed
    Professor and Labor Party Organizer
    "Leaders and Issues in the Politics of Poverty and Development"
  • Andrew Tisch
    Chief Executive Officer, Loews Corporation
  • Carmen Vazquez
    Director of Public Policy, New York Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center

Fall 2002

  • Larry Bowa
    Manager, Philadelphia Phillies
    "Sports Leadership"
  • Marc Morial
    Former Mayor of New Orleans
    "Civil Leadership in America"
  • Janet Poppendieck
    Author, Professor, Hunter College
    "Charity, Justice and Social Action: Confronting Hunger in America"
  • Tom Rosenstiel
    Director, Project for Excellence in Journalism
    "Leadership in Journalism"
  • Eric Schlosser
    Author
    "Fast Food, Low Wage Work, and You"
  • Joseph Volpe
    General Director, Metropolitan Opera Association
  • Gary Wenet
    Author
    "The Inner Work of Leaders"

Spring 2002

  • Todd Haimes (C '78)
    Artistic Director, Roundabout Theatre
  • William Shore (C '77)
    Founder, Share Our Strength
  • Marcia Silverman (CW '65)
    Regional President, Ogilvy Adams & Rinehart

Fall 2001

  • Ken Auletta
    Author and Media Columnist, The New Yorker
  • Stanley S. Litow
    Vice President, Corporate Community Relations, IBM
  • Tim and Nina Zagat
    Founders and Authors, The Zagat Guide

Spring 2001

  • Ms. Naomi Post
    Executive Director, Philadelphia Safe and Sound

Fall 2000

  • Fran Dunphy
    Head Coach, University of Pennsylvania Men's Basketball
    "Leadership, Motivation, Teamwork"
  • Ken Fox
    Co-Founder and Managing Director, Internet Capital Group
    "What it Takes to Run an Internet Company"

Spring 2000 (Urban & Political Speaker's Series)

  • Lynne Abraham
    Philadelphia District Attorney
    "Safer Cities: Effective Leadership on Urban Crime"
  • Sam Katz
    Candidate for Mayor of Philadelphia
    "Solvent Cities: Entrepreneurial Leadership on Urban Finance"
  • Marciene Mattleman
    Director of Literacy Initiatives, Public/Private Ventures
    "Zero-Illiteracy Cities: Urban Leadership and Education Reform"
  • Richard P. Nathan
    Director, Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute
    "Stronger Cities: Executive Leadership and the Future of Cities"
  • Margaret Waller
    Director of Working Family Project, Progressive Policy Institute
    "Zero-Poverty Cities: Urban Leadership and Welfare Reform"
  • Eric Weinberg
    Vice President, Hill Solutions
    "Pro-City Suburbs: Urban Leadership and Regionalism"
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