This event will include a conversation with Canadian Ambassador to the U.S., Gary Doer. In October 2009, Gary Doer assumed his responsibilities as Canada’s 23rd representative to the United States of America.

Prior to taking up his current position in Washington, Ambassador Doer served as Premier of Manitoba for ten years. During that time, he worked extensively with U.S. Governors to enhance Canada-U.S. cooperation on trade, agriculture, water protection, climate change and renewable energy. In 2005, he was named by Business Week magazine as one of the top 20 international leaders on climate change.

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Location

Blinken Auditorium, The Residential and Academic Facility (RAF)

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Business professional

Francisco J. Sánchez serves as Under Secretary for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce, a post he was appointed to by President Barack Obama in 2009, and will be our guest speaker for this event.

As Under Secretary, Sánchez leads the International Trade Administration, an organization of 2400 employees with offices throughout the United States and in 72 countries. Sánchez leads the efforts to improve the global business environment by helping U.S. businesses compete abroad.

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Location

Blinken Auditorium, The Residential and Academic Facility (RAF)

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Business professional

The public sphere in America is currently undergoing a profound evolution. Whereas the federal government was once the single central hub in virtually all networks of power, today it is only one hub among many in a vast web of relationships and networks. We still look to the federal government, of course, to help with our biggest problems. But today we are less confident in its ability to solve them on its own, and we look increasingly to other kinds of entities and networks to be a part of the solutions.

Today’s concepts of corporate citizenship and philanthropy are also evolving. The private sector—including corporations, foundations and individual philanthropists—has growing influence in shaping our lives. We look to the private sector to create jobs, individual philanthropists transform communities, and when disaster strikes private organizations are often the first on the scene with the expertise and capability to fix things.

The Washington Center invites you to join in conversation with some of the leaders in today’s private philanthropic community for the Roundtable on Philanthropy and Social Responsibility. Together we will explore new avenues for addressing our most pressing problems and advancing our national project of forming a more perfect union here and around the world.

Panelists

William McGinly, Ph.D.

President

Association for Healthcare Philanthropy

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Scott Sapperstein, J.D.

Executive Director, Public Affairs

AT&T External & Legislative Affairs

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Aaron Sherinian

Vice President, Communications and Public Relations

United Nations Foundation

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Kevin Webb

Director

Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation

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Moderator

Anna Cable

Program Manager

Tomodachi Initiative

U.S.-Japan Council

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Brian Lamb is Executive Chairman of C-SPAN Networks. He’s been a part of the public affairs channel since he helped the cable industry launch it 33 years ago on March 19, 1979.

Brian has also been a regular on-air presence at C-SPAN since the network’s earliest days. Over the years, he has interviewed Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama, and many world leaders such as Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev. For 15 years, beginning in 1989, he interviewed 800 non-fiction authors for a weekly program known as Booknotes. Four books of collected interviews have been published based on the Booknotes series. Currently, Brian hosts Q and A, an hour long interview program on Sunday evening with people who are making things happen in politics, media, education or technology.

Today, C-SPAN employs approximately 270 people and delivers public affairs programming on three television channels to the nation’s cable and satellite customers; globally to Internet users via C-SPAN.org and 15 other internet sites; and to radio listeners through C-SPAN radio—an FM station in Washington that can also be heard on XM satellite service nationwide.

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Lawrence J. Korb is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. He is also a senior advisor to the Center for Defense Information and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Prior to joining the Center for American Progress he was a senior fellow and director of national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. From July 1998 to October 2002 he was council vice president, director of studies, and holder of the Maurice Greenberg Chair.
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Blinken Auditorium, TWC Residential & Academic Facility (RAF)

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Kate Lehrer

Ms. Lehrer has written four novels including Best Intentions, When They Took Away the Man in the Moon, Out of Eden and Confessions of a Bigamist, as well as short stories, essays and book reviews.  Her work has received outstanding reviews and Out of Eden won the Western Heritage Award for outstanding fiction.

Ms. Lehrer is a frequent panelist on the Diane Rehm Show’s “Reader’s Review” on National Public Radio, and she has been a guest on a number of national television shows.  She participates in wide range of literary organizations and often speaks at book club meetings and other events.  A founding member of PEN/Faulkner, she now serves on the organization’s Writers in Schools Advisory Board.  She also has been active in the Washington Literacy Council.

Ms. Lehrer lectures at colleges and universities and serves on the Board of Visitors at TCU’s AddRan College of Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as the advisory council for the Arts and Sciences at George Mason University.  With Jim Lehrer, she was keynote speaker at the AddRan College Board of Visitors lunch in 2003 and was a participant in the inaugural Schieffer Symposium last year.

Ms. Lehrer previously has been recognized with honorary Doctors of Letters degrees from Goucher College and McDaniel College.

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Jim Lehrer

Executive Editor & Anchor--PBS

Host of "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS, Jim Lehrer has been honored with numerous awards for journalism, including the Chairman’s Award at the 2010 National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences News & Documentary Emmy Awards, the 1999 National Humanities Medal, presented by President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, and in October 2011, the National Press Club presented him with their top honor, the Fourth Estate Award. In 1999, Lehrer was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame with MacNeil and into The Silver Circle of the Washington, DC, Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He has won two Emmys, the Fred Friendly First Amendment Award, the George Foster Peabody Broadcast Award, the William Allen White Foundation Award for Journalistic Merit and the University of Missouri School of Journalism’s Medal of Honor. In 1991, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Larry D. Lauer

Moderator

Larry D. Lauer is a pioneer in integrated marketing and strategic communication for academic institutions and nonprofit organizations. From 1999 to 2009 he served as TCU’s first vice chancellor for marketing and communication, and was executive director of its strategic planning initiative, The Commission on the Future of TCU. In 2009 he became TCU’s first vice chancellor for government affairs. In addition, he is distinguished professor of strategic communication at TCU’s Schieffer School of Journalism and an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. Currently he also serves as strategic marketing advisor to the American Council on Education (ACE).

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Location

TWC’s Residential & Academic Facility (RAF)

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The Washington Center invites you to join in conversation with some of the most important leaders in today’s private philanthropic community for the Roundtable on Philanthropy and Social Responsibility. Together we will explore new avenues for addressing our most pressing problems and advancing our national project of forming a more perfect union here and around the world.

Participants

Katherine B. Bradley

President

CityBridge Foundation

Herb Tillery

Executive Director

College to Success Foundation

Alison Derbenwick Miller

Director of Corporate Citizenship

Oracle Education Foundation

Douglas Wood

Program Officer

Ford Foundation

Lori Smedley—Moderator

Senior Vice President

The Washington Center

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In preparation for this SMLS, we would like you to view some of the following from C-SPAN’s archives. The Heart Mountain Dedication Ceremony commemorates the opening of the Visitors Center where Norman Mineta and other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. The oral history interview gives you some background on Sec. Mineta’s historical involvement and finally, there is the ceremony at the White House where he received the highest honor that can be bestowed on a U.S. citizen, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Recognized for his leadership, Norman Y. Mineta has received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom – our nation’s highest civilian honor – and the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy, which is awarded for significant public service of enduring value to aviation in the United States. While in Congress, he was the co-founder of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and Chair of the National Civil Aviation Review Commission in 1997.

Mineta was appointed Secretary of Transportation by President George W. Bush in 2001, where he served until 2006. Following the horrific terrorist acts of September 11, 2001, Mineta guided the creation of the Transportation Security Administration – an agency with more than 65,000 employees – the largest mobilization of a new federal agency since World War II. Mineta was also a Vice President of Lockheed Martin where he oversaw the first successful implementation of the EZ-Pass system in New York State.

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