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2008 Keyes Seminar DayPresentersDan Wasserman, P’11 and ’12Political Cartoons in an ElectionYear Mr. Wasserman is a politicalcartoonist for the Boston Globe.He is syndicated in 40 papersacross the world and is theauthor of two books, We’ve BeenFramed and Paper Cuts.Paula Johnson Does Your GenderMatter? The first woman in thehistory of Brigham and Women’sHospital to be chosen as chiefmedical resident, Dr. Johnson isa women’s health specialist and apioneer in the treatment and preventionof cardiovascular disease.She conceived of and developedone of the first facilities in thecountry to focus on heart diseasein women.John E. McDonough TenThings Everyone Should Knowabout Health Care PolicyDr. McDonough is the executivedirector of Health Carefor All, Massachusetts’ leadingconsumer health advocacy organization,and a teacher at theHarvard School of Public Health.From 1985 to 1997, he served asa member of the MassachusettsHouse of Representativeswhere he cochaired the JointCommittee on Health Care.Rachad Itani Oil Cube, IceCube: CO2 reductions CEO ofBalderrie Enterprises, Inc., andexecutive partner and CEO ofXenel-Balderrie, Mr. Itani’s companywas the first private CleanDevelopment Mechanism (CDM)in the countries of the MiddleEast. He has also co-authored abill for an emissions reductionsystem based on the UpstreamCarbon Offset model, a betteralternative to the cap-and-tradesystem being considered by theU.S. Senate.Galt Niederhoffer ’93 Film andFiction in 2008: Conflicts andConvergence Ms. Niederhofferis the producer and director ofthe films Prozac Nation (2001)and Grace Is Gone (2006), andauthor of the novel A Taxonomyof Barnacles.Jim Peyser P’10’14 Closing theAchievement Gap: America’sGreatest Social and EconomicChallenge Mr. Peyser is a partnerin NewSchools Venture Fund,which works to transform publiceducation, particularly for lowincomeand minority children inhistorically underserved urbancommunities.Jacqueline Bhabha P’02’06Addressing Trafficking inHumans: The Human RightsDilemma Professor Bhabha isthe Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturerin Law at Harvard Law Schooland the executive director of theHarvard University Committeeon Human Rights Studies. Shewas previously a practicinghuman rights lawyer in Londonand at the European Court ofHuman Rights in Strasbourg.Her writings on issues of migrationand asylum in Europe andthe United States include a coauthoredbook, Women’s Movement:Women Under Immigration,Nationality and Refugee Law.David Stowlow Education Reformand the Rise of Out of School TimeMr. Stowlow is the director ofstrategic development at CitizenSchools, a leading national educationinitiative that uniquelymobilizes hundreds of staff andthousands of adult volunteers tohelp improve student achievementby teaching skill-buildingapprenticeships after school.Kerry Healey P’11’13 MovingBeyond Rhetoric to AuthenticPolitical Change Mrs. Healeyserved as lieutenant governorof the Commonwealth ofMassachusetts from 2003 to2007. She assumed a broadrange of responsibilities in theRomney-Healey administration,including leading the administration’ssuccessful efforts tostrengthen drunken drivingpenalties and establish witnessprotection and gang violence preventionprograms. Mrs. Healeyalso served as a senior advisorfor governor Mitt Romney’spresidential campaign.William Janeway ’81 P’12Combating Climate ChangeMr. Janeway was the recipientof the 2006 Advocate Awardfrom Environmental Advocatesof New York. He is the directorof government relations for TheNature Conservancy.Robert Greene Diversity andRacism in Schools Director ofadmissions at Beacon Academy,Mr. Greene helped begin theschool after more than 12 years’experience in private school education,having taught middle andhigh school mathematics at TheFessenden School, The WinsorSchool, and The SteppingstoneFoundation.Dan Rea Politics, Talk Radioand Journalism Mr. Rea is a talkradio host on WBZ 1030 AM.Many of Mr. Rea’s assignmentshave involved political coverage,including all of the presidentialelections from 1976 to 2000.He has traveled to Europe on tenoccasions to cover stories affectingNew Englanders, includingfour trips to West Germanywhere he covered the return ofAmericans who were injuredor held hostage in the MiddleEast. Mr. Rea has won a NewEngland Emmy Award and alsoreceived the 1987 United PressInternational Award for outstandingnews reporting.Theo Spencer ’84 The Work ofthe Natural Resources DefenseCouncil Mr. Spencer is a seniorproject manager with the NaturalResources Defense Councilworking on global climatechange issues. He has extensiveexperience as a journalist, workingpreviously as a reporter withFortune magazine, New YorkNewsday, the Albuquerque Tribuneand the Stamford Advocate. Hehas written numerous freelancearticles for national publicationssuch as the New York TimesMagazine, New York Magazineand Art Forum.Elise Forbes Tripp ’60 IraqWar Soldiers’ Stories Ms. Trippeis a professor at HolyokeCommunity College and theauthor of Surviving Iraq: Soldiers’Stories (2007). She earned herPh.D. from the Johns HopkinsSchool of Advanced InternationalStudies and was an internationalrelations counselor for UNaffairs at the World Bank.Nick Morton ’02 Iraq WarSoldiers’ Stories Mr. Morton isa veteran of Operation IraqiFreedom, serving as a sergeantin the U.S. Army, and a contributorto Elise Forbes Trippe’s book,Surviving Iraq: Soldiers’ Stories(2007).Caroline Sabin ’86 Teach forAmerica Program Ms. Sabin wasa charter member of Teach forAmerica; she taught Englishfor three years at an urban highschool in Pasadena, California.She now teaches English atMilton Academy.Jesse Robinson ’94 Teach forAmerica Program Ms. Robinsonstarted her teaching careerthrough Teach for America in amiddle school in the Bronx. Shelater taught in charter schools inSan Jose and Boston and is workingto become a principal at anurban school.66 Milton Magazine