Past Speakers
Over the past 6 years, the Impact Center has been honored to welcome so many amazing speakers from across the public, private and non-profit sectors. These speakers have engaged, educated and inspired the Impact Center's network of accomplished and emerging speakers. Check out the full list below...
Featured Impact Center Speakers
- Dr. Madeleine K. Albright, former United States Secretary of State
- William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd President, United States of America
- Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, United States of America
- Amy Curtis-McIntyre, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Old Navy
- Mitch Kapor, Chair, Open Source Applications Foundation
- Gene Nichol, Professor of Law, UNC Chapel Hill
- Cokie Roberts, NPR and ABC News
2011 Featured Speakers
The Role of Men Promoting Women to Positions of Power
James Runde, Special Advisor, Morgan Stanley
Alfred Puchala, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Signal Equity Partners
Women Leading in Male Dominated Societies
Dawn Halfaker, President & CEO, Halfaker & Associates, LLC
Nancy Hogan, Counel, Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs
Kate Kohler, COO & Senior Vice President, PenFed Foundation
2010 Featured Speakers
Pathways to Power Conference
Marisa River-Albert, President of Mpowerment Works and former President of the National Hispana Leadership Institute
Barbara Annis, recognized leader on gender intelligence.
John Gray, expert on gender and author of “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”
Sally Helgesen, Leadership expert and author of “The Female Advantage,” “The Web of Inclusion”, and “Thriving in 24/7”
Suzanne George, a Principal of Albright Stonebridge Group
Julissa Marenco, President of ZGS Communications Station Group
Jackie Norris, Former Senior Advisor to the Corporation for National Service, and Former Chief of Staff for Michelle Obama
Tynesia Boyea Robinson, the Executive Director of Year Up
Reshma Saujani, Community Activist
Cokie Roberts, NPR and ABC News
2009 Featured Speakers
Pathways to Power Conference
Dr. Madeleine K. Albright, former United States Secretary of State
Barbara Annis, recognized leaders and author on Inclusive Leadership and Gender Diversity in the workplace
Joan DeBoer, Chief of Staff to Secretary LaHood, Department of Transportation
Betsy Myers, former Executive Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
Karen G. Mills, 23rd Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration
Claire Shipman, Senior National Correspondent for ABC News' Good Morning America and Co-Author of Womenomics
Michael Watson, Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Diversity, Girl Scouts of the USA
Hilary Rosen, Managing Partner, Brunswick Group
2008 FEATURED SPEAKERS, PANELS & WORKSHOPS
Speakers
Amy Curtis-McIntyre, Senior Vice President, Brand Communication, Global Hyatt Corporation
Mitch Kapor, Chair, Open Source Applications Foundation
Gene Nichol, Professor of Law, UNC Chapel Hill
Workshops & Panels
Organizing without Organizations
Jerome Armstrong, Founding Principal, Webstrong Group
Garrett Graff, Editor at Large, Washingtonian Magazine
Jon Wheeler, Managing Director, DemocracyInAction
The Constitution in the 21st Century: Race and Equality
Anurima Bhargava, Director, Education Practice, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund
Emily Chatterjee, National Program Law Fellow, American Constitution Society
Kristen Clarke, Co-Director, Political Participation Group, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund
Transformative Ideas: Next Great Idea
Kenneth Baer, Co-Founder and Co-Editor, Democracy Journal
Jason Bordoff, Policy Director, The Hamilton Project
Transforming Elections: Peer Leaders and Institutions in 2008
Ryan Friedrichs, Executive Director, Michigan Voice
Justin Levitt, Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU
Transformative Education: A Conversation with Kaya Henderson
Robin Chait, Senior Education Analyst, Center for American Progress
Kaya Henderson, Deputy Chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools
The Economy, Government, and Markets
Jason Bordoff, Policy Director, The Hamilton Project
David Stoopler, Legislative Assistant for Banking and Housing, Office of Senator Charles E. Schumer
Leveraging Emerging Trends in New Media
Ben Clark, Account Supervisor, Fleishman-Hillard
Relationship Building
David Burd, Associate, Arnold and Porter, LLP
How Social Networks are Reshaping Electoral Participation: I Vote You Vote
Aaron Chatterji, Professor of Management, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Liz Heller, CEO, Buzztone
Chris Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer, Facebook
Barrett Reiff, Vice President, The GROOP
How Technology is Reshaping Democratic Institutions: Open Source Government
Garrett Graff, Author, The First Campaign: Globalization, The Web & the Race for the White House
Mitch Kapor, Chair, Open Source Applications Foundation
David Weekly, CEO, Founder and Chairman, PBwiki
Leadership through Enterprise: Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship
Jose Caballer, Founder and CEO, The GROOP
Blake Mycoskie, Founder, Tom's Shoes
Darnell Strom, Millennium Network Director, Clinton Foundation
Judith Zarin, Board Member, ADI
2007 FEATURED SPEAKERS, WORKSHOPS & PANELS
Speakers
Araceli Ruano, Chief Executive Officer, ALAS Foundation
Blake Mykoskie, Founder, TOM's Shoes
David Wilhelm, Founder & President, Woodland Venture Management
Gene Nichol, President, College of William & Mary
Melissa Fitzgerald, Actor & Co-Founder, Voices in Harmony
Wendy Carrillo, Host, Power 106 "Knowledge is Power"
William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd President, United States
Workshops & Panels
Launching and Incubating Ideas
Erica Payne, Founder, Tesseract
Joey Cheek, Founder, Where Will We Be?
Jon Schnur, Co-Founder and CEO, New Leaders, New Schools
Judith Zarin, Former Producer, ADI Board Member
Justin Krebs, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Living Liberally
Khalid Reede Jones, Co-founder and General Counsel, Thrasher Funds
Taz Tagore, Founder, Reciprocity Foundation
Collaborations & Partnerships
Anil Soni, Executive Vice President, Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative
Declan Kelly, President & CEO, Financial Dynamics
Michael Madnick, Senior Vice President, UN Foundation
Priya Berry, Director of Strategy & Business Development, Virgin Unite
Scott Shalett, Principal, Dewey Square Group
Mobilizing Support
Jamal Simmons, President, New Future Communications
Jed Alpert, Co-Founder and CEO, Mobile Commons
Joe Eyer, Principal, Dewey Square Group
Peter Colavito, Political Director, Local 32BJ, SEIU
Emerging Trends in New Media
Charles Forman, Founder, iminlikewithyou
Dina Kaplan, COO, Blip.tv
Geronimo Rodriguez, VP, Diversity & Community Outreach, Seton Family of Hospitals
Michael Bassik, Vice President/Interactive Marketing, MSHC Partners, Inc.
Peter Greenberger, Manager, Campaign Team, Google
New & Emerging Media
Angela Sun, Host & Producer, Current TV
Barrett Reiff, Vice President of Client Services, THE GROOP
Evan Schumacher, CEO, Going.com
Roy Sekoff, Founding Editor, The Huffington Post
Relationship Building: Networking & Finding Allies
Sandra Gonzales-Castro, International Representative, Service Employees International Union
Empowering Change through Film
Adrian Sexton, Executive Vice President, Digital, Participant Productions
John Prendergast, Author, Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur & Beyond
Melissa Fitzgerald, Actor & Co-Founder, Voices in Harmony
Ted Braun, Writer & Director, Darfur Now
Voter Engagement
Jonah H. Goldman, Campaign Director, National Campaign for Fair Elections
Justin Levitt, Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
Timothy Killikelly, Professor of Political Science, City College of San Francisco - Founder & Coordinator of Mobilizing Democracy
Making Change Your Career
Benjamin Goldhirsh, Founder & CEO, GOOD
Isabelle Rodriguez, Executive Director, Boys & Girls Club, North Lake Tahoe - Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States, the White House '92-95.
Kevin Iwashina, President, The General Media Company
Stephanie S. Streett, Executive Director, William J. Clinton Foundation
Empower Change in Your Community
Ernesto Rocha, California Dream Act Advocate & Student, UCLA
Gautam Dutta, Deputy Director, Political Reform Program at the New America Foundation
Jesús Malverde, Socially Conscious Hip-Hop Artist, Malverde
Wendy Carrillo, Host, "Knowledge is Power," Power 106 & "Movin' Minds," Movin' 92.3
Transforming Education through Ecology, Economy & Equity
D'Artagnan Scorza, University of California Regent, UCLA
Michael Cox, Co-Chair, California Student Sustainability Coalition (CSSC)
Entrepreneurial Leadership
Jonathan Greenblatt, Founder, Ethos Water
Liz Heller, Founder & CEO, Buzztone, Inc.
Nancy Marmolejo, Founder, Comadre Coaching and Viva Visability
Rafi Musher, Founder & CEO Stax Inc. - Initiator of New York's Hybrid Tax
2005 Speakers
Midwest Regional Summit
Dr. Charles Middleton, President, Roosevelt University
Juan Rangel, Exec. Director, United Neighborhood Organization
Desiree Rogers, President, Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas
William McNary, President, USAction and Co-Executive Director, Citizen Action/Illinois
The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States Senator, New York, Honorary Chair, ADI Youth Initiative