Momentum 2008: Conference Program
Access Privileges
Access is currently restricted to the following group(s):
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- Tzeporah Berman, co-founder of Forest Ethics
- America Bracho, director and founder of Latino Health Access
- Melissa Lynn Bradley, president and founder of New Capitalist and a member of Tides Board of Directors
- Ken Cook, co-founder of the Environmental Working Group
- Colin Finlay, renowned documentary photographer and five-time Picture of the Year Award winner
- Alex Gibney, Oscar-winning director and producer of Taxi to the Dark Side and No End in Sight
- Robert Greenwald, founder of Brave New Films
- Jacob Hacker, Resident Fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University and a fellow at the New America Foundation
- Tanya Harris, lead organizer for New Orleans ACORN
- Mary Anne Hitt, executive director of Appalachian Voices
- Kirk Johnson, founder of the List Project
- Robert Johnson, founder and former chairman of BET and founder of the Urban Trust Bank
- Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights
- Annie Leonard, creator of “Story of Stuff”
- Larry Lessig, founder of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School
- Stephen Lewis, co-director of AIDS-Free World and former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
- Peter Leyden, director of the New Politics Institute
- Robert Malley, Middle East and North Africa Program Director for the International Crisis Group
- Firoze Manji, co-director of pan-African social change advocacy group Fahamu
- Andreas Merkl, executive director of the Conservation and Community Investment Forum
- Eboo Patel, founder of the Interfaith Youth Core
- Gihan Perera, co-founder and executive director of the Miami Workers Center and co-founder of the Right to the City
- Maria Teresa Petersen, founder and executive director of Voto Latino
- Shivon Robinsong, co-founder of the Hollyhock Leadership Institute and co-director of socially engaged community ensemble Gettin’ Higher Choir
- Robert Rosenthal, executive director of the Center for Investigative Reporting
- Robert Ross, president and CEO of The California Endowment
- Premal Shah, president of Kiva
- Angelica Salas, co-director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles
- Deborah Small, executive director and founder of Break the Chains
- Joel Solomon, president of Renewal Partners seed capital firm and the Endswell Foundation and founding board member of Tides Canada
- Tom Steyer, co-founder of the OneCalifornia Bank and Foundation
- Drew Westen, professor of psychology at Emory University and author of The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
