Guest
Speakers
At each LeadAmerica
conference, students meet and attend
briefings with leaders in the field
they are studying. Lectures, discussions
and question-and-answer sessions
bring leadership alive. Past speakers,
meetings and briefings have included:
White
House and Cabinet Members
- Madeline
Albright, Former Secretary of
State
- George W. Bush, President
- Laura Bush, First Lady
- Andrew Card, White House Chief
of Staff
- Jimmy Carter, Former President
- Dick Cheney, Vice President
- Elaine Chow, Secretary of Labor
- Bill Clinton, Former President
- Arie Fleischer, Former White House
Press Secretary
- Al Gore, Former Vice President
- Stephen Lineberry, Deputy Associate
Director, Office of Public Liaison
- Rod Paige, Secretary of Education
- Janet Reno, Former Attorney General
- Donald Rumsfeld , Secretary of Defense
Lawyers,
Judges and Legal Experts
- Maryam Ahranjani, Professor, American
University Washington College of
Law
- Olegario Cantos, Office of the
Attorney General
- Michele
Coleman-Mayes, Senior Vice President & General
Counsel, Pitney Bowes, Inc.
- David Cross,
Associate, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
- Toby Heytens, Law Clerk to Supreme
Court Justice Ginsberg
- Brian Hook, White House Policy
Counsel
- Robert Khuzami, Former Assistant
U.S. Attorney, New York City, New
York
- Karen McKenna, Deputy Director,
Victim/Witness Assistance Unit Program
- Michael Melloy, Judge, 8 th Circuit
Court of Appeals
- Gilbert Morris, Ph.D., Barrister
- Paul Palumbo, Special Agent, Federal
Bureau of Investigation
- Jamin Raskin, Professor, American
University Washington College of
Law
- Brian Sandoval, Attorney General,
Nevada
- Susan Sloane, Attorney
- Edward Stern,
Assistant Dean for Pre-Law Advising,
Boston University
- Thomas Tauke, Esq., Former Congressman,
E.V.P., Public Affairs and Communications,
Verizon
- David Vinikoor, Attorney
- Felicia Walker , Director, MLK
Forensics Speech and Mock Trial Teams,
Howard University
- Steve Wermiel, Professor, American
University Washington College of
Law
- Jack Wertzberger, Assistant Director
of Development, Georgetown University
Law Center
Business
Leaders and Academics
- Ryan Allis, CEO, Broadwick Corporation
- Page Arnof-Fenn,
CEO, Mavens & Moguls
- Lynn Baker, Director of Product
Development, Illinois Coalition
- Robert Bennett, Senator, Vice Chairman,
Joint Economic Committee
- Theresa
Boyce, President & Partner,
Hodak Value Advisors, LLC
- Paul Buckovich, Vice President
of Finance, Competitive Power Ventures
- Julie Coker, General Manager, Hyatt
Lodge Oak Brook
- James Dickenson,
Writer & Media
Consultant
- J.J. Gilmartin, Account Director,
Euro RSCG 4D
- Aaron Greenspan, CEO, Think Computer
- Patrick Gregory, Director, Hughey
Center for Financial Services,
Bentley College
- Artis Hampshire-Cowan,
Vice President & Secretary,
Howard University
- Shawn He, CEO, iNetworks 128
- John Katzman,
Founder & CEO,
The Princeton Review
- Allyson Knox, Harvard Graduate
School of Education
- Marty Kress, President, SCORE Boston
- Randall Lucas, CEO, Super Survey
- John Magee, Director of Marketing
Technology, Euro RSCG 4D
- Bob Mauro, Former COO, CBS
- Steve McCoy, Former Assistant Program
Director, Old Dominion University,
Model United Nations Society
- Bob McHardy, President, The PLUS
Corporation, Canada
- Rob McHardy, Account Manager, The
Plus Corporation, Canada
- Jerry Mitchell, President, Midwest
Entrepreneurs Forum
- Barry Moltz, Co-Founder, Prairie
Angels
- Gordon Reichard, Partner, Northern
Illinois Angels LLC
- David Sabin, Chairman, Salton Inc.
- Andy Schlessinger,
Principal, Andy & Associates
- Gaurav Shah, Director, Center for
Marketing Technology, Bentley College
- Kathy Shea, CFO, Capital Thinking
- Michael Simmons, CEO, Success Manifesto
- Celia Szelwach, President, Creative
Collaborations Consulting, Inc.
- Nancy Van
Milligan, President & CEO,
Community Foundation of Greater
Dubuque, IA
- Marc Vial, MIT Ph.D. Programmer
- Jocelyn Vigreux, CEO, TomTom USA
- John Werner, Executive Director,
Citizen Schools
Physicians
and Health Professionals
- Arturo Bendixin, AIDS Foundation
of Chicago
- John Bogdan, M.D., Scientific Review
Administrator, National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
National Institutes of Health
- Marcis Braunfelds, M.D.
- Louis Cohen , M.D., Rheumatologist
- Ryan D'Souza, M.D.
- Byron Eisenstein, M.D., Otolaryngologist
- Craig Ferris, Ph.D., Director,
Center for Comparative NeuroImaging
, University of Massachusetts Medical
School
- John Finerty, M.D., Department
Head, Micro-Immunology, National
Institutes of Health
- Mike Gilboe, Lake Forest College
- Hilary Godwin, Ph.D., Professor
of Chemistry Northwestern University,
Institute for Nanotechnology
- Susie Graw, Accelerated Rehab Specialist
- Bruce Harris, M.D., Emergency Medicine
- Beverly
Hubble Tauke, Therapist & Author,
Cornerstone Family Counseling
- Kathy Kopnisky,
M.D., Chief, Secondary Cellular & Molecular
Mechanisms of Neuropathogenesis,
National Institute of Mental Health
- Sam Mbulaiteye, M.D., Principal
Investigator, National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health
- Sarah Meier, Lake Forest Hospital
- Karen Middleton, ABCCPR, Inc.
- Kenneth Robertson, M.D.
- M. Rosenblatt, M.D., Gastroenterologist
- Aziza Shad,
M.D., Director, Division of Pediatric
Hemotology & Oncology,
Georgetown University Hospital
- Jan Sikorsky, Ph.D., Associate
Director of Academics, LeadAmerica
- Sue Sirota, M.D., Pediatrics
- David Spitz, Public Information
Officer, Pan American Health Organization,
Regional Office, World Health Organization
- Karen Stec, Executive Vice President,
Advanced Life Sciences
- Megan Steinbeck, Highland Park
Hospital
- Cam Trout , R.N.
- Angela Wakhweya, M.D., Center for
International Health, Boston University
- Robert Witzberg, M.D., Associate
Dean, Boston University School of
Medicine
Criminology and Forensic
Science Speakers
- Bradley Adams, M.D., Forensic Anthropologist,
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner,
New York City, New York
- Michael Byrnes, Special Agent,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Frank Cornetta, Sergeant, Broward
County Florida Bomb Squad
- Joi Dickerson, Senior Forensic
Specialist, Culver City Police Department
- Lisa Ference, Special Agent, Federal
Bureau of Investigation
- John Giordano, D.D.S., Forensic
Odontologist
- Erin Gould, Criminalist, San Diego
County California Sheriff's Office,
Regional Crime Laboratory
- Madeline Hinkes, Forensic Anthropologist,
San Diego County California Medical
Examiner's Office
- Vici Inlow , U.S. Secret Service
- Lori Jensen , Special Agent, Federal
Bureau of Investigation
- Tin Nguyen, 2nd
Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps
- Amy Solen, Special Agent, Federal
Bureau of Investigation
- Norman Sperber, Chief Forensic
Odontologist, Reserve Deputy Sheriff,
Homicide Unit, San Diego and Imperial
Counties, California
- Barry Vecchioni, Special Agent,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Members of the U.S. Military
and Military Science Experts
- William B. Allen, Professor of
Political Science, Michigan State
University
- Charles F. Brower, Brigadier General,
Virginia Military Institute
- Nathaniel H. Brown, Lieutenant,
U.S. Navy, Virginia Military Institute
- Steve Brozak, Lieutenant Colonel,
Ret., U.S. Marine Corps
- Randy Cheek, Department of Defense
- Chae Chels, Lieutenant Colonel,
U.S. Army
- Wesley Clark, General
- Daniel Colfax , Lieutenant Colonel,
U.S. Marine Corps
- Stephen P. Colvin, Captain, U.S.
Air Force
- Dan Connely, Major, U.S. Marine
Corps
- Dean M. Danas, Major, U.S. Air
Force
- Jose A. DeVarona, Major, U.S. Air
Force
- Sherman
L. Fleek, Program Manager for Interpretation & Education,
Shenandoah Valley Battlefields
Foundation, New Market Battlefield
- Tommy Franks, General, Ret., U.S.
Army
- David Griffith, Lieutenant Colonel,
U.S. Army, National War College
- Clifford D. Harmon, Instructor
of History, Virginia Military Institute
- James B. Hickey, Colonel, U.S.
Army
- Stewart W. Husted, Professor of
Business, Virginia Military Institute
- Joseph M. Irby, II, Lieutenant
Colonel, U.S. Army
- John D. Johnson, Colonel, Pentagon
- Stuart Jolly, Lieutenant Colonel,
U.S. Army, Professor of Military
Science, Central Oklahoma University
- Chad A. Joyce, Instructor, Virginia
Military Institute
- Daryl J. Laninga, Major, U.S. Marine
Corps
- Frank Lever, Command Sergeant Major,
U.S. Army National Guard
- Robert C. Lynn, Colonel, U.S. Air
Force
- Stewart A. MacInnis, Lieutenant
Colonel, U.S. Army
- Alex Major, Captain, U.S. Air Force,
Defense Intelligence Agency
- David B.
Mann, Author, "Battle
of Zig Zag Pass"
- David McCaffree, Jr., Manpower
and Reserve Affairs, CMC, U.S. Marine
Corps
- Philip McChesney, Lieutenant Colonel,
Ret., U.S. Army
- Turk M. McCleskey, Professor of
History, Virginia Military Institute
- Timothy S. McElhannon, Commander,
U.S. Navy, Virginia Military Institute
- John W. Mountcastle, Brigadier
General, Ret., U.S. Army
- Malcolm Muir, Jr., Professor of
History, Virginia Military Institute
- Brian L. Quisenberry, Captain,
U.S. Navy, Virginia Military Institute
- Frank Reynolds, Lieutenant Colonel,
U.S. Army
- James S. Romasz, Major, U.S. Army
- Bill Shugrue, Colonel, U.S. Army
- Fred Winton Smith, Commander, U.S.
Navy, Pentagon
- Robert J. Smullen, Major, U.S.
Marine Corps, White House Fellow
- Robert Spidel, Sergeant Major,
U.S. Army National Guard
- Thomas W. Stevenson, Assistant
Instructor, Virginia Military Institute
- Wilma Vaught, Brigadier General,
Ret., U.S. Air Force and President,
Women in Military Service Memorial,
American Memorial Foundation, Inc.
- John D. Willis, Major, U.S. Air
Force
- John J. Wranek, Major, U.S. Army
Intelligence,
National Security and Defense Officials
- Marcus Bembenisa, Defense Intelligence
Agency
- Steve Berry, Federal Bureau of
Investigation
- Joe Biden, Senator, Committee on
Foreign Relations
- Kit Bond, Senator, Select Committee
on Intelligence
- Alan Capps, Editor-in-Chief, Journal
of Homeland Security, Anser Institute
for Homeland Security
- Saxby Chambliss, Senator, Armed
Services Committee
- Hillary Clinton, Senator, Armed
Services Committee
- Elizabeth Dole, Senator, Armed
Services Committee
- Michael Duffy, Nuclear Information
Officer
- Bob Etheridge, Representative,
Homeland Security Committee
- Ken Gerhardt, Defense Intelligence
Agency
- Erika Green, Defense Intelligence
Agency
- Enrique Gonzalez, Hiring Official,
Central Intelligence Agency
- Lindsey Graham, Senator, Armed
Services Committee
- Chuck Hagel, Senator, Select Committee
on Intelligence
- Orrin Hatch, Senator, Chairman,
Select Committee on Intelligence
- James Inhofe, Senator, Armed Services
Committee
- Ted Kennedy, Senator, Armed Services
Committee
- Debra Lake, Hiring Official, Central
Intelligence Agency
- Michael Levin, Intelligence Official,
National Security Agency
- Joe Lieberman, Senator, Armed Services
Committee
- Richard Marshall, Former Deputy
Director of Critical Infrastructure
Assurance Office, U.S. Department
of Defense
- Paul Palumbo, Federal Bureau of
Investigation
- Jeff Sessions, Senator, Armed Services
Committee
- John Schuhart, Central Intelligence
Agency
- John Warner, Senator, Chairman,
Armed Services Committee
- Warren Wofford, Master Sergeant,
USAF, National Security Agency
- John Wolfarth, Anser Institute
for Homeland Security
Governors, Mayors, State and Local
Officials
- Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of the
City of New York
- Howard Dean, Former Governor of
Vermont
- Rudy Giuliani, Former Mayor of
the City of New York
- Jennifer Granholm, Governor of
Michigan
- Kerry Healey, Lieutenant Governor
of Massachusetts
- Bernard Kerik, Former Police Commissioner
New York, New York
- Linda Lingle, Governor of Hawaii
- Thomas Menino, Mayor of Boston
- Janet Napolitano, Governor of Arizona
- Martin O'Malley, Mayor of Baltimore
- George Pataki, Governor of New
York
- Ed Rendell, Governor of Pennsylvania
- Bill Richardson, Governor of New
Mexico
- Mitt Romney, Governor of Massachusetts
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor
of California
- Marc Racicot, Former Governor of
Montana
- Michael Steele, Lieutenant Governor
of Maryland
- Carolyn Stennett, Chief Administrative
Officer, Washington D.C. Department
of Youth Rehabilitation Services
- Bob Taft, Governor of Ohio
- Regena Thomas, Secretary of State,
New Jersey
- Mike Van Milligan, City Manager,
City of Dubuque, Iowa
- Christie Vilsack, First Lady of
Iowa
- Mark Warner, Governor of Virginia
Political
Leaders, Policy Experts & Lobbyists
- Carina Armenta, Legislative Director,
Office of Representative Hilda
Solis
- Ward Baker, Republican Political
Director, State of Mississippi
- Sara Gear Boyd, Secretary of the
Republican National Convention
- Carol Mosely Braun, Former Senator
and Democratic Primary Candidate
- Donna Brazile, Al Gore Campaign
Manager
- Marilyn Byers, President, National
Conference of Republican County
Officials
- Chuck Cunningham, Director of Federal
Affairs, National Rifle Association
- Michael Davis, Senior Deputy and
Voting Supervisor
- Susan Davis, President, Irish-American
Republicans
- Bonnie Garcia, Assistant Secretary
of the Republican National Convention
- Kevin Gentry, Campaign Consultant
- Ed Gillespie, Former Republican
National Party Chairman
- Christine Hanson, Deputy Press
Secretary, Senator Bill Nelson
- Bill Harris, CEO, 2004 Republican
National Convention
- Eric Hoplin, President, College
Republicans
- Reverend Jesse Jackson, President,
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
- Christine Kocher, Program Assistance,
Global Education Center, The Academy
for Educational Development
- Dennis Kucinich , Democratic Party
Candidate
- Michael Mack, Young Republicans
President
- Fernando Mateo, President, Hispanics
Across America
- Kenneth Maxey II, Democratic National
Convention GAIN Director of Grass
Roots Campaigns
- Terry McAuliffe, Former Democratic
Party Chairman
- Pat McCrory, President, Republican
Mayors and Local Officials
- Jane Norton, Assistant Secretary
of the Republican National Convention
- Dario Payo, Congressional Leader,
Independent Democratic Union
- Tim Phillips,
Founder & Vice
President, Century Strategy
- Ralph Reed,
Founder & President,
Century Strategy
- Al Sharpton, Presidential Candidate
and Political Activist
- John Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO
- Joe Trippi, Chair , Howard Dean
Campaign
- Ann Wagner, Co-Chairman, Republican
National Convention
- Michael Williams, Assistant Convention
Secretary
- Grant Woodward, National President,
Young Democrats
Members
of the Diplomatic Community
- Nawaf Al Ahamad, Second Secretary,
Embassy of Kuwait
- Zainab Al-Suwaij, Executive Director,
American Islamic Congress
- Steve Atkins, Press Advisor, Embassy
of Britain
- Catherine Bertini, Under Secretary
General for Management, United
Nations
- Gary Crocker, U.S. Department of
State
- Stephanie Dejarric, Associate Spokesperson,
United Nations
- George Dragnich, Deputy U.S. Coordinator,
U.S. State Department
- Scott Harris, U.S. Department of
State
- Kevin Kennedy, Branch Chief, United
Nations
- Jean David Levitt, Ambassador,
Embassy of France
- Juliana Lindsey, Coordinator, Humanitarian
Response Unit, UNICEF
- Katsuo Nagai, Deputy Press Secretary,
Embassy of Japan
- Mary Pensabene, Team Leader of
Washington Programs, U.S. Department
of State
- Carina Perelli, Department Director,
United Nations
- Elisabeth Reuss, Embassy of Austria
- Anna Schwan, Public Diplomacy Specialist,
Embassy of Germany
Members
of the Media
- James Carville,
Host of CNN's "Crossfire"
- Ben Ferguson, Radio Talk Show Host
and Author
- Arianna Huffington, Syndicated
Political Columnist
- Rich Lowery, Senior Editor, National
Review
- Ron Reagan, Host, MSNBC
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