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Civic Activism: Past and Present
A Special Program Celebrating 90 Years
of Making Democracy Work: A History of
Change. A Future of Hope.
January 28, 2010
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Speaker Biographies
Lee H. Hamilton
Lee H. Hamilton is president and director of the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and director of The
Center on Congress at Indiana University. Hamilton served for 34 years
in Congress representing Indiana's ninth district, from January 1965 -
to January 1999.
Since leaving the House, Hamilton has served on the United States
Commission on National Security in the 21st Century (the Hart-Rudman
Commission), and was co-chair of the Baker-Hamilton Commission to
Investigate Certain Security Issues at Los Alamos. Mr. Hamilton served
as Vice-Chair of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the
United States (the 9/11 Commission), and as co-chair of the Iraq Study
Group. He is Co-Chair of the National Security Preparedness Group with
Tom Kean, Co-Chair of the National Advisory Committee to the Campaign
for the Civic Mission of Schools with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, and
serves on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, the FBI
Director’s Advisory Board, the US Department of Homeland Security Task
Force on Preventing the Entry of Weapons of Mass Effect on American
Soil, and the CIA External Advisory Board.
Hamilton is the author of A Creative Tension - The Foreign
Policy Roles of the President and Congress ; How Congress
Works and Why You Should Care; Strengthening Congress;
and co-author of Without Precedent: the Inside Story
of the 9/11 Commission and The Iraq Study Group Report.
Madeleine M. Kunin
Madeleine May Kunin was the fourth woman to be elected Governor in
the U.S. and the first woman to serve as Governor of Vermont. She
served as Deputy Secretary of Education and Ambassador to Switzerland
in the Clinton Administration. She is the founder of the Institute
for Sustainable Communities, a non-government organization with
projects in many countries, including China. Ms. Kunin is now a Marsh
Scholar Professor at Large at the University of Vermont, a commentator
on Vermont Public Radio, and a blogger on the Huffing ton Post.
She is the author of Pearls, Politics and Power, How Women can
Win and Lead; Living a Political Life; and The Big
Green Book. She is a fellow at the Academy of Arts and Sciences.
She is married to John W. Hennessey and they live in Burlington,
Vermont.
Mary G. Wilson
Mary G. Wilson is the 17th president of the League of Women Voters of
the United States (LWVUS) and chair of the League of Women Voters
Education Fund (LWVEF). A resident of New Mexico, Ms. Wilson has been
a League member since 1984. During her years of service with the
League of Women Voters, Ms. Wilson has held leadership positions at the
national, state and local levels. An attorney with over 30 years
of experience in diverse fields of practice including estate
planning, corporate and environmental law, and employment law, Ms.
Wilson is a partner in the Law Firm of Aungier & Wilson, which
serves clients in New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado. In
1991, Ms. Wilson served on the Committee on Judicial Performance
Evaluation, established by the New Mexico Supreme Court to recommend a
judicial performance evaluation process for the State. She
currently serves on the Advisory Committee for the O'Connor Initiative
to promote greater understanding about the merit selection of
judges.
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