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America Abroad Media
-1020 19th St, NW, Suite 650; Washington DC 20036 (202) 457-8050 | F: 202-457-8056 | Web: http://www.americaabroadmedia.org/about-aam
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“America Abroad Media is a non-profit organization that provides in-depth reporting and analysis on the critical issues of our time for America and the world. We believe high-quality journalism has the power to promote the free exchange of ideas, foster critical thinking, and empower self-governing citizens worldwide.” [Oh, hey, and by the way, I have a bridge I want to sell you. There are at least a dozen lies in those two sentences alone, &c.]
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Advisory Board
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Spencer Abraham - Chairman and CEO of The Abraham Group
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David Abshire – President and CEO, The Center for the Study of the Presidency
David Abshire is President of the Center of the Study of the Presidency in Washington, DC. He also holds the position of President at the Richard Lounsberry Foundation in New York. Read Full Bio | Homeland Security Policy Institute (GWU) « Fed up USA * Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) « Fed up USA * Aaron to Adelman « Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Webnet , etc. | -David M Abshire 311 S Saint Asaph St; Alexandria, VA 22314-3745 [65+ / Carolyn Abshire]
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Peter Ackerman – Managing Director, Rockport Capital, Inc.
Peter Ackerman is Founding Chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict and Managing Director of Rockport Capital, Inc., a private investment firm. Read Full Bio | Council for a Community of Democracies « Fed up USA * Aaron to Adelman « Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Webnet - ”..an immensely wealthy ‘investor’…founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict and the managing director of Rockport Capital Incorporated. He chaired the board of trustees of Freedom House from September 2005 until January 2009, etc.” | Peter Ackerman: billionaire sponsor of toxic NGO’s « Louis … - ”Michael Milken’s right-hand man and George Soros wannabe.” | Council on Foreign Relations – director; Fletcher School – chairman; International Center on Nonviolent Conflict – founding chair; Rockport Capital Incorporated – managing director; Tufts University – board member, trustee emeritus; Unity08 – director; U.S. Olympic Committee – business advisory council member. Past: Freedom House – chairman. …lives and/or works in Washington, DC.******
Madeleine Albright – Chair of Albright Stonebridge Group and Chair of Albright Capital Management LLC
Madeleine K. Albright is Chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm, and Chair of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets. Read Full Bio | Center for a New American Security « Fed up USA * Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) « Fed up USA * Albright Stonebridge Group, etc. – Father, Josef Korbel: art thief, “holocaust survivor” (she claimed she didn’t know she was a jew) and Denver University / Condi-sleezy Rice professor. …Albright was asked whether the over half a million children killed by the [Iraqi] sanctions were “worth it.” Her response was: “It’s a hard choice, but I think, we, think, it’s worth it.” [60 Minutes, May 11, 1996] | –>http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/madeleine-albrights-house/<– Purceville, Va.-Madeleine K Albright 1318 34th St NW Washington, DC 20007-2801
-Madeleine K Albright 3700 39th St NW Washington, DC 20016-5513
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Hushang Ansary – Chairman, Stewart & Stevenson, LLC
Hushang Ansary is a Trustee of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation and sits on the Board of Overseers of the Weill Cornell Medical College. Read Full ******
Michael Armacost – Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow, The Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University
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Richard L Armitage – President, Armitage International
Richard L. Armitage is President of Armitage International, a position he has held since 2005. Armitage was also Deputy Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005. Read Full Bio | AKA Richard Lee Armitage, Honorary KCMG (born 1945) was the 13th United States Deputy Secretary of State, the second-in-command at the State Dep’t, serving from 2001 to 2005. He gained notoriety in 2003 for having leaked information to columnist Robert Novak, ‘outing’ Valerie Plame Wilson as a covert CIA agent. The Plame Affair caused a national scandal which is still unresolved, etc. -hiccupedia. (Former) member of PNAC, Deputy Secretary of State; met with General Mahmoud Ahmad, head of Pakistan’s ISI and 9-11 financier, shortly after 9-11. -http://www.whodidit.org/cocon.html | http://wh.conocophillips.com/about/reports/ar07/leadership.html.-?>Richard L Armitage 9979 Stone Vale Dr; Vienna, VA 22181-5932 (703) 281-1335 [65+ / Laura L Armitage]
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Norman R Augustine – Former President and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Norman R. Augustine is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the world’s largest defense contractor. Read Full Bio | http://wh.conocophillips.com/about/reports/ar07/leadership.html.-Norman R Augustine 9826 Sorrel Ave; Potomac, MD 20854-4743 [65+ / Margareta E Augustine]
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Charlene Barshefsky – Senior International Partner, WilmerHale
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Samuel “Sandy” Berger – Chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group
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Richard Burt – Chairman, International Equity Partners
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Zbigniew Brzezinski – Counselor and Trustee, The Center for Strategic and International Studies
”Dr.” Brzezinski is Counselor and Trustee at The Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and President of Z.B. Inc. Read Full Bio******
Henry Catto – Vice Chairman, The Aspen Institute
Henry E. Catto currently serves as chairman of the Atlantic Council of the United States as well as the vice-chairman of the Aspen Institute.Read Full Bio
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Michael Chertoff – Co-founder and Managing Principal, Chertoff Group
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Eliot Cohen – Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies; Director of Strategic Studies Program; Director of Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies
Eliot Cohen is Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. He also serves as Director of the Strategic Studies Program and the Philip Merill Center for Strategic Studies at SAIS. Read Full Bio
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Paula Dobriansky – Senior Vice President and Global Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs at Thomson Reuters
She is also an adjunct Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s JFK Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and holds the Distinguished National Security Chair at the U.S. Naval Academy. Read Full Bio
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William H Draper – Managing Director, Draper Richards LP
William H. Draper III is the Managing Director of Draper Richards, LP, and Co-Founder, Director, and Trustee of the Draper Richards Foundation. Read Full Bio
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Ken Duberstein – Chairman and CEO, The Duberstein Group
Ken Duberstein serves as Chairman and CEO of The Duberstein Group. Mr. Duberstein served as U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s White House Chief of Staff from 1988 to 1989. Read Full Bio
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Bruce Gelb – Co-Chair of the Council of American Ambassadors
Ambassador Bruce Gelb is Co-Chair of the council of American Ambassadors. Read Full Bio
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Leslie H Gelb – President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations
“Dr.” Leslie H. Gelb is among America’s most prominent foreign policy experts. He is currently president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, having served as president of the organization from 1993-2003. Read Full Bio
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David Gergen – Director, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School
David Gergen is the Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, as well as a Professor of Public Service. Read Full Bio
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James K Glassman
Ambassador Jim Glassman is founding Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute and host of “Ideas in Action,” a weekly public television series on trends, conditions and ideas “at the heart of the important issues of the day.” Read Full Bio
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C Boyden Gray – Former US Ambassador to the European Union
Ambassador C. Boyden Gray currently serves on the board of directors for the Atlantic Council. Read Full Bio
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Lee Hamilton – President and Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Lee Hamilton has served as Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars since 1999. Read Full Bio
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Carla Hills – Chairman and CEO, Hills and Company
Ambassador Carla Hills is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hills and Company, a Washington D.C.-based consulting company that advises clients on international trade and investment issues. Read Full Bio
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Stanley Hoffmann – Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Harvard University
Stanley Hoffmann is the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University, where he served as Chairman of the Center for European Studies from its creation in 1969 until 1995. Read Full Bio
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Martin Indyk – Acting Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
Ambassador Martin Indyk is Acting Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy at The Brookings Institution. Read Full Bio
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John Kerry (Kohn) – Massachusetts Senator, United States Senate
John Kerry is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. He has been a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for 19 years. Read Full Bio
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Zalmay Khalilzad – President and CEO, Khalilzad Associates LLC
Zalmay Khalilzad, Ph.D., served as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and most recently the United Nations, before stepping down in January 2009. Read Full Bio
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Richard Lugar – Indiana Senator, United States Senate
Richard Lugar is the senior United States Senator from Indiana and the longest serving senator in Indiana history, having being elected to a fourth term in 1994. Read Full Bio
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Thomas F McLarty III – Chairman and President, McLarty Associates
Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty III is Chairman and President of McLarty Associates, formerly Kissinger McLarty Associates. Read Full Bio
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Ron Nessen - Journalist in Residence, The Brookings Institution
Ron Nessen is Journalist in Residence at The Brookings Institution. From 1974 to 1976, he served as press secretary to President Gerald Ford. Read Full Bio
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Thomas Pickering – Vice-Chairman, Hills and Company
Ambassador Thomas Pickering is the Vice Chairman of Hills and Company. Read Full Bio
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Margot Pritzker – President and Founder, WomenOnCall.org
Margot Pritzker is the founder and President of WomenOnCall.org, a Chicago-area network that matches women with non-profit organizations that have specific and immediate volunteer needs. Read Full Bio
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Felix Rohatyn – President and Chairman, Rohatyn Associates LLC
Felix Rohatyn is currently the President and Chairman of Rohatyn Associates, LLC. He previously served as the U.S. Ambassador to France under the Clinton Administration from 1997-2000.
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Stephen P Rosen
Stephen Peter Rosen is the Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs at Harvard University and director of Harvard’s Olin Institute for Strategic Studies. Read Full Bio
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Brent Scowcroft – President and Founder, The Scowcroft Group
General Brent Scowcroft is President and founder of The Scowcroft Group, an international consulting firm. Read Full Bio
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Daniel Senor – Managing Director, Rosemont Solebury Capital Management
Daniel Senor is Managing Director and a founding partner of Rosemont Solebury Capital Management. He is also an adjunct senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Read Full Bio
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Kristen Silverberg – COO of Vorbeck Materials
Ambassador Kristen Silverberg is currently the COO of Vorbeck Materials, a nanotechnology company in Maryland. Ambassador Silverberg was nominated by President George W. Bush on April 24, 2008. Read Full Bio
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Strobe Talbott – President, The Brookings Institution
Strobe Talbott has served as President of the Brookings Institution since 2002. He was previously Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization at Yale University. Read Full Bio
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Margaret Tutwiler – Senior Vice President and Head of Global Communications and Public Affairs, Merrill Lynch
Ambassador Margaret Tutwiler is Senior Vice President and Head of Global Communications and Public Affairs at Merrill Lynch. Read Full Bio
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Vin Weber – Managing Partner, Clark and Weinstock
Vin Weber is managing partner of the Washington, D.C. branch of Clark & Weinstock and Vice-Chair of the National Endowment for Democracy. Read Full Bio
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John C Whitehead - Chairman, Goldman Sachs Foundation
John C. Whitehead is Chairman of the Goldman Sachs Foundation. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co., in 1947 and worked there for 38 years. Read Full Bio
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James Q Wilson – Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy, The Pepperdine School of Public Policy
James Q. Wilson is the Ronald Reagan professor of public policy at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy. Read Full Bio
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Philip Zelikow – White Burkett Miller Professor of History, the University of Virginia
“Dr.” Philip D. Zelikow is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Read Full Bio
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Staff
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Aaron Lobel – President
Aaron Lobel founded America Abroad Media (AAM) and serves as the organization’s president and chairman of the board, as well as executive producer of America Abroad and AAM Television. Read Full Bio
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Farhan Alam
Farhan Alam completed his TV production diploma from Los Angeles City College and Kodak Cinematography workshop. Read Full Bio
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Nichole Baker – Office Manager
Nichole received a dual BS in Conservation and Anthropology from Kent State University and her Master’s in Public Administration from San Francisco State University. Read Full Bio
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Javier Barrera – Online Editor/Multimedia Producer
Javier completed his MFA degree from Hunter College, CUNY in film and media studies focusing on multimedia journalism. Read Full Bio
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Monica Bushman – Assistant Producer
Monica received her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Notre Dame where she majored in American Studies with a focus on History and Political Science. Read Full Bio
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Sam Lavine – Multimedia Coordinator
Sam received his Bachelors degree in Multimedia Art from American University in Washington, DC. Read Full Bio
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Celeste Le Roux – Director for Foundation Support
Celeste joined AAM in the spring of 2008 as the Development Coordinator, and is currently the Director for Foundation Support. Read Full Bio
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Boris Maguire – Executive Assistant to the President
Boris was born and raised in the Boston area and double majored in Political Science and History at Duke University. Read Full Bio
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Andrew Masloski – Director of Educational Outreach
Before joining America Abroad Media in the spring of 2009 as Educational Outreach Coordinator, Andrew worked as a research assistant at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. Read Full Bio
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Matt Ozug – Reporter/Producer
Matt Ozug studied documentary radio production at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. Read Full Bio
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Megan Selland – Development Coordinator
Megan Selland completed her MPhil in International Peace Studies with distinction from Trinity College Dublin. She also graduated summa cum laude from Concordia College, Moorhead with a major in Global Studies. Read Full Bio
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Ilana Weinberg – Managing Producer, AAMTV
Ilana graduated with honors with a B.A. in journalism from the George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs. Read Full Bio
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Board of Directors
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Elena Lytkina Botelho – Principal, ghSMART
Elena is a Principal at ghSMART. The firm offers quality-guaranteed services in the areas of management assessment and leadership coaching. Read Full Bio
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Tim Crawford – Associate Professor, Boston College
Timothy W. Crawford is associate professor of political science at Boston College, where he teaches courses on international security, intelligence, and the United Nations. Read Full Bio
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Andrew Erdmann – Management consultant
Andrew Erdmann has worked for a major international consulting firm since 2005. Read Full Bio
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Kevin Fletcher – International Economic Advisor
Kevin Fletcher joined an international financial institution in Washington, D.C., shortly after receiving his Ph.D. Read Full Bio
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Paul Lettow
Paul Lettow is a lawyer with an international law firm in Washington, DC. Read Full Bio
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Amy Wilkinson – Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Amy Wilkinson is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Read Full Bio
