ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP

AGENDA

2009Civic Health in Hard Times

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

9:00am TRIBUTE TO SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY Chris Matthews - Host of Hardball on MSNBC and the Chris Matthews Show on NBC

9:15am WELCOME Michael Weiser - Chairman, NCoC Board of Directors and David B. Smith - NCoC Executive Director

9:20 am PANEL: SOCIAL INNOVATION IN CIVIC LIFE Introduction: Jocelyn White - NCoC Board of Directors Moderator : Jean Case - CEO, The Case Foundation Participants: Barbara Bush - President, Global Health Corps, Justin Rockefeller - Vice President, Uhuru Capital Management, Sonal Shah - Director, White House Office of Social Innovation, and Diana Wells - President, Ashoka

10:10am BREAK

10:20am PANEL: CIVIC HEALTH IN HARD TIMES Introduction: John Bridgeland - Chairman, NCoC Board of Advisors and CEO, Civic Enterprises Moderator : Karen Tumulty - National Political Correspondent, TIME Magazine Participants: Bob Graham - Former U.S. Senator and Governor (FL), Mark Ritchie - Secretary of State (MN), and Helen Iris Torres - Executive Director, Hispanas Organized for Political Equality

11:10am VIDEO: “THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA” Introduction: Eric Federing - NCoC Board of Directors Remarks: Robert G. Stanton - Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy & Program Management in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget at the U.S. Department of the Interior RECOGNITION OF CCC ALUMNI

11:30am CONVERSATION WITH ASSOCIATE JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA AND PRESENTATION OF FRANKLIN AWARD Facilitated by: Thomas Susman - American Bar Association and NCoC Board of Directors

12:15pm PRESENTATION OF HOOAH AWARD COMMISSIONED BY THE MAJOR GEORGE A. SMITH MEMORIAL FUND Presentation: Admiral Dennis McGinn - NCoC Board of Directors Recipient: Eric Greitens - U.S. Navy SEAL and CEO, The Mission Continues

12:25pm NATURALIZATION CEREMONY Introduction: Michael Weiser - Chairman, NCoC Board of Directors Remarks: Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen - U.S. House of Representatives (FL) Ceremony: The Honorable Royce C. Lamberth - Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

12:50pm DISMISSAL David B. Smith - NCoC Executive Director and Kristen Cambell - NCoC Program Director

Founded in 1946 and chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1953, the National Conference on Citizenship

(NCoC) is a leader in promoting our nation’s civic life. We track, measure and promote civic

participation and engagement in partnership with other organizations on a bipartisan, collaborative

basis. We focus on ways to enhance history and civics education, encourage national and community

service, and promote greater participation in the political process.

Many distinguished Americans have been involved with the growth and development of the NCoC

over the years including Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower and Chief Justices

Earl Warren and Warren Burger. The roster of board members, advisors and guest speakers at

NCoC events represent a diverse spectrum of leaders from across government, industry, academia,

community and nonprofit organizations and the media; people like Senators Robert Byrd and Lamar

Alexander, Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Stephen Breyer, philanthropists Ray Chambers and

Eugene Lang, authors David McCullough and Walter Isaacson, scholars Robert Putnam and Stephen

Goldsmith, MTV’s Ian Rowe, ABC’s Cokie Roberts, AOL’s Jean Case, Facebook’s Sean Parker, former

Clinton Administration advisor William Galston and former Bush Administration advisor John

Bridgeland.

The NCoC’s accomplishments are many, ranging from fueling the civic energy of the Greatest

Generation freshly home from WWII to leading the celebration of our nation’s Bicentennial in 1976.

The NCoC helped establish the observance of Citizenship Day, every September 17, the week in

which we were chartered to hold our annual conference focusing on building an active and engaged

citizenry. Since 2006, the NCoC has produced America’s Civic Health Index, the nation’s leading

measure of citizen actions and attitudes. In April 2009, NCoC was named in the Edward M. Kennedy

Serve America Act to work with the Corporation for National and Community Service and the U.S.

Census Bureau to create a civic health assessment in order to help communities harness the power

of their citizens.

To advance our mission to better understand the broad dimensions of citizenship today and to

encourage greater civic participation, the NCoC has developed and sustained a network of over 250

like-minded institutions that seek a more comprehensive and collaborative approach to strengthening

our system of self-government.

For more information, please visit www.ncoc.net

This year, NCoC is excited to expand beyond our Conference walls to allow individuals who cannot join the event in Washington DC to participate online via UStream.

Through the utilization of live conference streaming, virtual attendees from across the country are joining us today by watching the event online.

For those in the room and those online, we invite you to:

NCoC GOES VIRTUAL

The official hashtag for this event is #NCoC. Every time we open for Q&A, we’ll turn to the “Twitter Correspondents Desk” to take a question from online.

We have a live blogging section and invite all participants to carry on conference discussions after the event dismisses. Tweet your links with #NCoC, or send them to us at conference@ncoc.net, and we’ll link them from our website

We’ll be uploading the conference content to YouTube after the event, but we invite you to show us what the program looks like from where you sit. Bring your flipcam and upload your video to our Facbeook page at Facebook.com/NCoC1

Photos can be uploaded to a fan album on our Facebook page at Facebook.com/NCoC1

We’ll compile the thoughts, comments, questions, tweets, and pics you submit to create an interactive conference report that will help tell our story, a story that defines modern citizenship during these challenging times.

We want to offer special thanks to the Case Foundation for serving as the official Online Engagement sponsor of the conference, and for their continued leadership in elevating the use of social media in the civic engagement field.

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In 1731, Benjamin Franklin worked with his fellow citizens to chip in their books and raise funds to build the first public subscription library in America. Carved into stone atop that Library Company of Philadelphia are Franklin’s words: “Communiter Bona Profundere Deum Est” to provide benefits for the common good is divine.

NCoC shares Franklin’s belief and gives out an award in his name to outstanding individuals in federal service who are working to strengthen citizenship in America. The award bears an inscription with the famous Franklin quotation “A Republic if you can keep it.”

Past Franklin Awards Recipients include:

Senator Lamar Alexander

Senator Robert Byrd

Justice Stephen Breyer

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor

JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIAAntonin Scalia became the first Italian-American to serve on the

U.S. Supreme Court in 1986 when he was appointed Associate

Justice by President Ronald Reagan. He is considered the court’s

leading advocate for textualism and originalism as he adheres to

a strict interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. This year marks

Justice Scalia’s twenty-third year of service in the Supreme

Court.

Before assuming the role as a Supreme Court Justice, Scalia

faithfully served his country in a variety of different roles.

From 1971-1972 he worked as General Counsel for the

Office of Telecommunications Policy; he was Chairman of the

Administrative Conference of the United States from 1972–

1974, and was also Assistant Attorney General for the Office of

Legal Counsel from 1974–1977. He served on the United States

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1982

until 1986.

Justice Scalia has also served on the faculties of numerous

universities including the University of Virginia, University of

Chicago Law School, Tulane University Law School, Stanford

University, and his Alma mater Georgetown.

He received his B.A. from Georgetown University in 1957,

graduating summa cum laude, and his LL.B. from Harvard Law

School in 1960. While in Boston he met his wife Maureen;

together they have nine children.

FRANKLIN AWARD

This year marks the initial offering of the HOOAH Award, an award sponsored by the Major George A. Smith Memorial Fund and presented by the National Conference on Citizenship. This award recognizes a notable veteran who defines their citizenship through service to our country, both in uniform and beyond.

About Major George A. SmithMajor (Ret.) George A. Smith served his country as a career military officer, serving in the Army for over 20 years. Eager to serve, Mr. Smith enlisted in the Army at the age of 17 and rose quickly through the ranks. Mr. Smith fulfilled his dream as part of the 82nd Airborne and later commanded the Ranger’s Alpha Company. He completed many tours overseas including peacekeeping missions in Lebanon, Yemen, and Egypt. As part of the 7th Infantry out of Fort Ord, he served in Just Cause, a military operation in Panama. In 1993, Major Smith retired out of the Presidio in San Francisco, his family’s home for many generations.

After retiring, Mr. Smith attended Washburn Law School in Topeka, Kansas, hosted a military talk show in Okinawa, Japan, and served the European Congress of American Parents, Teachers, and Students (ECAPTS) while living in Germany. After returning to the states in 2004, he continued his acts of service while working for FEMA, helping with the hurricane aftermaths in Florida.

Major (Ret.) George A. Smith passed away on January 25, 2009 and was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery.

The Major George A. Smith Memorial Fund was founded in his memory by his children Jennifer, David, Adam, and Chloe.

Eric Greitens was born and raised in Missouri, where he was

educated in the public schools. He was an A.B. Duke Scholar at

Duke University where he studied ethics, philosophy, and public

policy. Selected as a Rhodes and Truman Scholar, he attended the

University of Oxford from 1996 through 2000. There he earned

a master¹s degree in 1998, and a Ph.D. in 2000.

Eric is a United States Navy SEAL officer, and he has deployed

four times during the Global War on Terrorism: to Iraq,

Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, and Southeast Asia. He has

served as the Commander of a Joint Special Operations Task Unit,

Commander of a Mark V Special Operations Craft Detachment,

and as Commander of an Al Qaeda Targeting Cell. His personal

military awards include the Joint Service Achievement Medal,

the Navy Commendation Medal, the Combat Action Ribbon,

the Purple Heart, and the Bronze Star.

Eric donated his combat pay from Iraq to start The Mission

Continues, and organization that empowers wounded and

disabled veterans to continue their service to their country and

communities as citizen leaders here at home. From April 2007

to June 2009, Eric contributed over 2,700 volunteer hours as a

volunteer Chief Executive Officer.

In 2005, Eric was appointed by the President to serve as a

White House Fellow, and was recently named a Fellow by The

Draper Richards Foundation. Eric is an award winning sub-3

hour Marathon runner and boxer. Eric also serves as a Senior

Fellow at the Truman School of Public Affairs at the University of

Missouri, where he teaches on public service and is the Director

of the Center on Leadership for Social Innovation.

Eric¹s book of photographs and essays, “Strength and

Compassion”, grew from his extensive work as a humanitarian

volunteer, and has been recognized as winner of the 2009 Indie

Excellence Book Award for Photography, Foreword Magazine¹s

Photography Book of the Year, and was selected as the Grand

Prize Winner of the 2009 New York Book Festival.

ERIC GREITENSHOOAH AWARD

BARBARA BUSHJOHN BRIDGELANDBarbara Bush graduated from Yale University with a degree in

Humanities in 2004. She is President and co-founder of Global

Health Corps, an organization that aims to strengthen the

movement for global health equity and improve the quality of

healthcare services for the poor by connecting outstanding

young leaders with organizations working on the front lines in

the fight for global health.

For the past two years, she worked in Educational Programming

at the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design

Museum. After college, she worked for Red Cross Children¹s

Hospital in Capetown, South Africa and interned for UNICEF

in Botswana. She has traveled extensively with the UN World

Food Programme, focusing on the importance of nutrition in

ARV treatment.

Barbara is a member of UNICEF’s Next Generation Steering

Committee and is on the Board of Advisors for Covenant House

International. She is a regular contributor to the UK magazine

POP.

John Bridgeland is President & CEO of Civic Enterprises. He

works on issues ranging from the high school dropout crisis

and the conservation of our national parks to community and

national service and poverty. He is Vice Chairman of Malaria No

More and a senior advisor to the United Nations Special Envoy

for Malaria, working to end malaria deaths in Africa by 2015. His

work on the high school dropout crisis has fostered a national

movement to increase high school graduation rates. He also

is one of the leaders of Service Nation, which resulted in the

enactment of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act.

Before Civic Enterprises, Bridgeland served as Assistant to the

President of the United States and the first Director of the

USA Freedom Corps. In that role, he coordinated more than

$1 billion in domestic and international service initiatives and

worked with non-profits, corporations and schools to foster a

culture of service in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Prior

to that, Bridgeland served as Director of the Domestic Policy

Council at the White House, where he coordinated policy on

more than 100 issues. Bridgeland began his professional career

by practicing law in the New York and Paris, France offices of

Davis Polk & Wardwell. He also served as Chief of Staff and

Counsel to former U.S. Congressman Rob Portman. Bridgeland

graduated with honors in government from Harvard University

and received his J.D. at the University of Virginia School of Law.

BIOGRAPHIES

JEAN CASEJean Case is an actively engaged philanthropist and a pioneer in

the world of interactive technologies. Her career as a technology

executive in the private sector spanned nearly two decades

before she and her husband, Steve Case, created the Case

Foundation in 1997. A passionate believer in all things digital and

the amazing potential of technology to change the world for the

better, Jean and her team focus the efforts of the Foundation

around many of the same entrepreneurial approaches she and

Steve cultivated throughout their business careers. The Case

Foundation is recognized for its innovative efforts to increase

giving and catalyze civic and business participation, as well

as promote innovation, collaboration and leadership in the

nonprofit sector.

Prior to co-founding the Case Foundation, Jean was a

technology executive in the private sector. As a senior executive

at America Online, Inc. (AOL), Jean directed the marketing

and branding effort that launched the AOL service, directed

the communications strategy for taking the company public,

and helped establish AOL as a household utility. Before joining

AOL, she held strategic marketing positions at GE’s Information

Services Division and at The Source, the nation’s first online

service.

In addition to her role as CEO of the Case Foundation, Jean has

served in two appointed roles leading strategic public-private

efforts, including Chair of the President’s Council on Service

and Civic Participation and Co-chair of the U.S.-Palestinian

Partnership.

Jean serves on the boards of PlayPumps International, Points of

Light Institute, Malaria No More, Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure

(ABC2), ePals, SnagFilms, National Geographic Ventures, and

the Potomac School. She also serves on the advisory council of

the National Geographic Society and the advisory board to the

National Conference on Citizenship.

ERIC FEDERINGEric K. Federing is Executive Director, of Business Public

Policy, Office of Government Affairs at KPMG LLP. He is a

senior strategic advisor to the firm’s management, practices,

partners and clients. Eric is a graduate of George Washington

University, Phi Beta Kappa. He served for a dozen years in senior

communications positions in the US House of Representatives

and the U.S. Senate.

Eric is a member of the NCoC Board of Directors and is active

in civic and international affairs. He founded the Uni-Capitol

Washington Internship Programme, a pro bono effort that

matches Australian university students to select congressional

offices for 8-week internships annually. He is also a Board Member

of the National Japanese American Memorial Foundation and he

has been listed in Who’s Who in America annually since 2000.

ROYCE C. LAMBERTHRoyce C. Lamberth was appointed as a U.S. District Judge for

the District of Colombia in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan

and subsequently became Chief Judge on May 1, 2008.

Judge Lamberth, a native of San Antonio, Texas, received a B.A.

Degree from University of Texas and an LL.B. Degree from

University of Texas School of Law in 1967. He served as a

Captain in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the United

States Army from 1968 to 1974. After service at Fort Bragg,

North Carolina, and in Vietnam, Judge Lamberth served in the

Litigation Division of the Office of the Judge Advocate General

of the Army at the Pentagon from 1971-1974.

Judge Lamberth was an Assistant United States Attorney for

the District of Columbia from 1974 to 1987. He was chief of

the Civil Division of the United States Attorney’s Office, 1978-

1987. During 1977-1978, he served as Attorney General Griffin

Bell’s representative to the President’s Reorganization Project,

Federal Legal Representation Study. On May 19, 1995, Judge

Lamberth was appointed by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist

to the Presiding Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence

Surveillance Court. His appointment ended May 19, 2002.

BIOGRAPHIES

BOB GRAHAMSenator Bob Graham is the former two–term governor of

Florida and served for 18 years in the United States Senate. This

is combined with 12 years in the Florida legislature for a total

of 38 years of public service. As Governor and Senator, Bob

Graham was a centrist, committed to bringing his colleagues

together behind programs that served the broadest public

interest. He was recognized by the people of Florida when he

received an 83% approval ranking as he concluded eight years

as Governor. Bob Graham retired from public service in January

2005, following his Presidential campaign in 2004.

After retiring from public life, Senator Graham served for a

year as a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of

Government where he lectured to undergraduate, graduate and

executive management students. His primary focus was on civic

education and intelligence, issues which continue to be of great

importance to him. Senator Graham serves as the chair of the

Board of Overseers of the Graham Center for Public Service at

the University of Florida.

Senator Graham is currently the Chairman of the Commission

on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation

and Terrorism and Commissioner on the Financial Crisis Inquiry

Commission. In addition, Senator Graham is also the author of

a new book about civic participation, entitled “America: The

Owner’s Manual.”

Bob and his wife Adele have returned to their home in Miami

Lakes, Florida, and are enjoying time with their four daughters

and eleven grandchildren.

CHRIS MATTHEWSA television news anchor with significant depth of experience,

Matthews has distinguished himself as a broadcast journalist,

newspaper bureau chief, presidential speechwriter, and bestselling

author. Matthews covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first all-

races election in South Africa, the Good Friday Peace Accord in

Northern Ireland, and the funeral of Pope John Paul II. He has

covered every American presidential election campaign since

the 1980s.

Matthews worked for fifteen years as a newspaper journalist,

thirteen of them as a Washington bureau chief for the San

Francisco Examiner and two as a national columnist for the San

Francisco Chronicle. Before that, he had a fifteen year career in

public service: in the U.S. Senate for five years for Senator Frank

Moss of Utah and Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine; in the

White House for four years under President Jimmy Carter as a

presidential speechwriter and on the President’s Reorganization

Project then for six years as the top aide to Speaker of the

House Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Jr.

Matthews has received the David Brinkley Award for Excellence

in Broadcast Journalism and the Gold Medal Award from

the Pennsylvania Society. He was a visiting fellow at Harvard

University’s John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics and holds twenty-

three honorary degrees.

A graduate of Holy Cross College, Mr. Matthews did graduate

work in economics at the University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill. Matthews also served for two years with the U.S.

Peace Corps in Swaziland, Africa.

Matthews is the author of four best-selling books. He is married

to Kathleen Matthews, Executive Vice President of Marriott

International.

DENNIS McGINNRetired Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn took the helm at

RemoteReality after five years with Battelle Memorial Institute,

the world’s largest nonprofit independent research and

development organization, where he was a corporate officer

and led the energy, transportation and environment division.

Additional assignments with Battelle included serving as vice

president of strategic planning and national security business

development, and as a director on the Board of Brookhaven

Science Associates.

Prior to joining Battelle, Admiral McGinn served 35 years

with the U.S. Navy as a naval aviator, test pilot, aircraft carrier

commanding officer, and national security strategist. His last

assignment with the Navy was Deputy Chief of Naval Operations

for Warfare Requirements and Programs at the Pentagon. He

also commanded the U.S. Third Fleet, which is responsible for

some 50 million square miles of the eastern and northern Pacific

Ocean. As Third Fleet Commander, he was recognized for leading

great advances in operational innovation, the rapid prototyping

of sea-based information technology, and international naval

force experimentation and coordination.

Admiral McGinn serves as a director on the board of the National

Conference on Citizenship, as a senior policy advisor to the

American Council on Renewable Energy and is an international

security senior fellow at the Rocky Mountain Institute.

Admiral McGinn has previously served as chairman of the U.S.

Naval Institute Board of Directors, and served for three years

as a commissioner on the National Commission on Disabled

Veterans’ Benefits in Washington, D.C.

He received a B.S. degree in naval engineering from the U.S.

Naval Academy, attended the national security program at the

Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and was a

strategic studies fellow at the U.S. Naval War College.

BIOGRAPHIES

Justin Rockefeller is Vice President of Uhuru Capital Management,

an investment management platform designed to enable

investors to pursue superior financial returns while facilitating

global economic and social development; 25% of performance

fees supports social entrepreneurship.

Prior to joining Uhuru Capital Management, Mr. Rockefeller

co-founded and was National Program Director of

GenerationEngage, a nonprofit organization that empowers

young adults with the resources and access they need to

become leaders in their communities and active participants

in our democracy. At his departure from fulltime employment,

GenerationEngage was active in four American cities, had

approximately 8,500 members, and had an annual budget of

$1.5 million.

He currently chairs the board of GenerationEngage, and also

serves on several other boards: Rockefeller Brothers Fund;

Japan Society; Population Council; and Rockefeller Family Fund.

He was appointed by Governor Spitzer to the New York State

Commission on National and Community Service. In addition,

he serves on the National Leadership Council of GLSEN (the

Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network), on the Executive

Committee of The International Council of The Museum of

Modern Art, and on several advisory boards.

Previously he served five years (2003–2008) on the board of

the Alliance for the Arts. From 2002 - 2005, Mr. Rockefeller

worked in Government and Community Relations and handled

VIP construction tours for New York’s Museum of Modern

Art. In 2002 he received a B.A. from Princeton University,

where he studied politics and art and was active in debate and

race relations on campus. Since graduating, Mr. Rockefeller

has received three awards: the 2007 Common Cause Andrew

Heiskell Youth Democracy in Action Award; the 2008 New

Leaders Council 40 Under 40 Emerging Leader Award; and the

2008 Edwin Powell Hubble Medal of Initiative.

JUSTIN ROCKEFELLERMARK RITCHIEMark Ritchie serves as Minnesota’s Secretary of State where

he partners with township, city, and county officials to organize

elections on behalf of Minnesota’s nearly 4 million voters.

Ritchie also oversees a wide range of services provided by the

Office of Secretary of State including business filings, the archiving

of official documents, administering the appointments process

for state-level commissions, and operating Minnesota’s address

confidentiality programs. As an elected Constitutional Officer he

sits on the state’s Executive Council, Board of Investment, and

Historical Society.

In the 1980s, Ritchie worked for Governor Rudy Perpich in the

Minnesota Department of Agriculture, addressing the economic

crisis threatening family farmers and rural communities. From

1988 to 2006, he served as president of the Institute for

Agriculture and Trade Policy.

In 2008 Secretary Ritchie was named “Politician of the Year” by

Politics in Minnesota, the state’s largest non-partisan political

news journal, and the “Most Valuable State Official in the

United States” by the Nation. In 2009, he received the Election

Verification Network’s national recognition award for his long-

standing efforts to promote fair and accurate elections as well

as his exceptional non-partisan leadership during Minnesota’s

2008 U.S. Senate recount. Ritchie is a member of the Executive

Committee of the National Association of Secretaries of State

and was elected Secretary of the Association at their recent

convention.

ILEANA ROS-LEHTINENSince her election in 1989 to the United States Congress,

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has proudly represented Florida’s

18th Congressional District in the United States House of

Representatives. Forced to flee with her family from the

oppressive communist regime of Fidel Castro, Ros-Lehtinen

became the first Hispanic woman and first Cuban-American

elected to Congress.

Ros-Lehtinen is the Ranking Member on the House Committee

on Foreign Affairs where she has been a tireless advocate for the

advancement of human rights across the globe and continues to

be a strong voice in opposition to Castro’s dictatorial regime in

Cuba. Previously, she served as Chair of the Subcommittee on

the Middle East and Central Asia, the Subcommittee on Africa,

the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human

Rights and as Vice-Chair on the Subcommittee on the Western

Hemisphere.

Throughout her life, Ros-Lehtinen has been dedicated to serving

her community. After completing public education in Miami and

graduating from Miami-Dade Community College, she earned

a Bachelors of Arts in Education from Florida International

University. She then founded and served as the principal and

teacher of a private bilingual elementary school in Hialeah. Her

passion for education continued while completing a Masters

in Educational Leadership at FIU, and earning a Doctorate of

Higher Education from the University of Miami.

Ros-Lehtinen was elected in 1982 to the Florida State House of

Representatives, becoming the first Hispanic woman in that body,

and in 1986, was elected to the Florida State Senate. During

this time, she met and married fellow Florida legislator Dexter

Lehtinen, who became the U.S. Attorney for the Southern

District of Florida. They have two children, Amanda Michelle and

Patricia Marie, and two step-children, Katharine and Douglas.

Sonal Shah heads the White House Domestic Policy Council’s

Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation (SICP). The

goal of the office is to help catalyze action by citizens, non-

profits, foundations and the private sector to lead change in

communities across America and make progress on several

key priority areas, including health care, education, poverty

and energy conservation. SICP will focus on creating a social

innovation fund and partnerships with Federal agencies; public-

private partnerships that catalyze action; new media tools that

increase civic participation; and expanding national service. She

also served on President Obama’s Transition Board overseeing

the Technology, Innovation, Government Reform working

group. Prior to joining the White House, Sonal led Google.org’s

global development efforts focused on transparency, openness,

and civic participation, as well as growing small and medium sized

enterprises. Prior to joining Google, she was Vice President at

Goldman Sachs, where she developed and implemented the firm’s

environmental strategy. Sonal is the co-founder and Director of

Indicorps, a U.S.-based non-profit offering fellowships for Indian-

Americans to work on development projects in India. Sonal

worked on trade, outsourcing and post-conflict reconstruction

issues at the Center for American Progress, and developed

and managed policy and advocacy programs for the Center for

Global Development. She worked for eight years at the Treasury

Department as well as in the National Security Council. Sonal

received her MA in Economics from Duke University and BA

in Economics from the University of Chicago. She is an Aspen

Crown Fellow, Next Generation Fellow.

SONAL SHAH

BIOGRAPHIES

DAVID B. SMITHDavid B. Smith is the Executive Director of the National

Conference on Citizenship (NCoC). Prior to joining NCoC,

David founded and served as the Executive Director of

Mobilize.org, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating,

empowering, and energizing the Millennial Generation to

increase civic engagement and political participation. Under his

tenure, Mobilize.org expanded from a team of 10 students to

over 30,000 activists with a presence in over 200 communities

in 40 states and published the acclaimed “Mobilizer’s Guidebook”

and Democracy 2.0 Declaration.

David currently serves as the co-founder and Vice Chair of

YPAC, an award winning website that serves as a central hub for

legislative action alerts pertaining to youth issues for over 100

national organizations and 30,000 online advocates.

David has been honored with awards including the YouthVote

Coalition’s “30 under 30” and the International Youth Foundation’s

“YouthActionNet Fellowship” for social entrepreneurship. He

has been featured in books including the Millennial Manifesto

and Generation We, and has published essays in Rebooting

America and Dream of a Nation. David also serves on the board

of directors of Common Sense California, Prepare the Future,

Americans for Generational Equity, Mobilize.org and chaired the

Youth Entitlement Summit.

David graduated from Berkeley with a Bachelor’s Degree in

Political Science. While at Cal, he taught a class on National

Youth Policy and researched the causes and possible solutions to

the Youth Civic Engagement crisis in America.

ROBERT G. STANTONRobert G. Stanton is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy

and Programs Management in the Office of the Assistant

Secretary – Policy, Management and Budget, U.S. Department of

the Interior. He provides assistance and executive direction with

respect to policy; youth programs; environmental project review

and compliance; international affairs; wild land fire coordination;

oceans, great lakes and coastal zone management; and natural

resource damage assessment and restoration.

Since beginning his career as a National Park Service ranger

47 years ago, in Grand Teton National Park, Bob Stanton has

dedicated his life to improving the conservation and management

of our treasured landscapes and national icons. He concluded

his a long career with the National Park Service by serving as

the Director for 1997-2001. Mr. Stanton has received numerous

national awards for outstanding public service and leadership in

conservation, historic preservation, youth programs, and diversity

in employment and public programs.

Since 2001, he has served as an Executive Professor at Texas

A&M University and a visiting professor at both Howard and

Yale Universities. He also has provided consulting services to

the Natural Resources Council of America on increasing cultural

diversity in conservation organizations and programs.

Stanton earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Huston-

Tillotson University in Austin, Texas, and did his graduate work

at Boston University. Mr. Stanton and his wife have two children

and reside in Fairfax Station, Virginia.

Tom Susman, of Washington, is the Director of the American Bar

Association’s Governmental Affairs Office. He took this position

in early 2008 after serving as a partner at the law firm of Ropes

& Gray, where he maintained a diverse government relations

and regulatory practice since 1981.

Tom is a graduate of Yale College and received his law degree

from the University of Texas. After clerking on the Fifth Circuit

Court of Appeals, he served at the U.S. Department of Justice

before going to Capitol Hill. Tom was counsel to the Senate

Judiciary Committee and several of its subcommittees.

Tom is a member of the American Law Institute and chairs

the Ethics Committee of the American League of Lobbyists.

He has been an adjunct professor at the American University’s

Washington College of Law and held a number of leadership

positions in the American Bar Association.

THOMAS SUSMAN HELEN IRIS TORRESHelen Iris Torres is the Executive Director of Hispanas Organized

for Political Equality (HOPE), one of the nations leading women’s

advocacy and leadership training nonprofits. She is responsible

for the day-to-day operations of HOPE, and its strategic

direction.

HOPE’s mission is to ensure political and economic parity for

Latinas through leadership, advocacy, and education to benefit

all communities and the status of women. Ms. Torres works

with community, corporate, and political leaders to create and

promote opportunities that advance Latinas by establishing

“Latina Smart” policy recommendations. In partnership with

the HOPE Board of Directors and staff, Ms. Torres produces

statewide and national conferences that educate and train over

three thousand Latinas per year. She also has been instrumental

in the development and implementation of the HOPE Leadership

Institute (HLI) - a program that prepares adult Latinas for their

next level of civic participation.

She is currently serving as a Commissioner on the California

Volunteers statewide commission charged with overseeing the

state’s volunteer efforts and Americorp programming. Most

recently, Ms.Torres has been appointed to The Zero Divide

Foundation Board of Directors (formerly The California

Community Technology Foundation). Torres has also served as

a Commissioner of the Los Angeles Commission on the Status

of Women.

Ms. Torres earned a Masters degree in Urban Studies and

Communications from Michigan State University. She holds

a Bachelors degree in Communication from Michigan State

University as well, and is a McNair Scholar.

MICHAEL WEISERKAREN TUMULTYMichael Weiser was elected chairman of the National Conference

on Citizenship in January, 2008.

An investor, writer and communications consultant, Mr. Weiser

has advised executives on financial and crisis communications

issues for more than 30 years. He also has been a commentator

on issues relating to citizenship and community–building for The

Washington Times, Miami Herald and other publications. Mr.

Weiser also serves as a general partner of Lowell Associates, LP,

a private investment partnership.

A former financial journalist, Mr. Weiser received a Bachelors of

Journalism degree from the University of Missouri. He resides in

New York City with his wife, Julie Greiner Weiser.

Karen Tumulty, national political correspondent for TIME, has

written or co-written three dozen cover stories for the magazine

and posts several times a day on TIME.com’s political blog,

“Swampland.” Her extensive list of TIME cover stories includes

the now-iconic “How the Right Went Wrong,” a look at how

political conservatives lost their footing, which featured a crying

Ronald Reagan as its cover image (March 2007).

Tumulty, who was named national political correspondent in

2001, has also written profiles of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton

and Mitt Romney, as well as dozens of stories about the 2008

presidential campaign from Washington and from the campaign

trail. She has also held positions with TIME as congressional

correspondent and White House correspondent.

Before joining TIME in 1994, Tumulty spent 14 years at the Los

Angeles Times, where she covered a wide variety of beats. During

her time there, she reported on Congress, business, energy and

economics out of Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C.

In 1982, Tumulty was awarded the Gerald Loeb Award for

distinguished business and financial journalism, and, in 1993, she

won the National Press Foundation Edwin Hood Award for

diplomatic correspondence.

Tumulty is a native of San Antonio, Texas, where she began her

career at the now-defunct San Antonio Light.

Tumulty holds a B.S. from the University of Texas-Austin and an

M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. She is married to Paul

Richter, who covers the State Department for the Los Angeles

Times. They have two sons, Nicholas and Jack.

BIOGRAPHIES

JOCELYN WHITEDIANA WELLSDr. Diana Wells, President of Ashoka, joined the organization in

the 1980s after graduating from Brown University with a degree

in South Asian Studies. As an undergraduate, her year-long study

abroad in Varanasi, India led her to see the need for local solutions

to solve global problems. This insight brought her to Ashoka and

inspired her to create one of Ashoka’s core programs, Fellowship

Support Services, (now Fellowship) which not only supplied

Ashoka’s social entrepreneurs with a wide array of information,

resources and services, but at the same time connected them

to one another and their ideas in a globally expansive context.

Taking a leave to pursue a Ph.D. in anthropology, she was named

both a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson scholar. Her ethnographic

research focusing on understanding how social change happens

as a local articulation of a global social movement resulted in her

dissertation: ‘Between the Difference: The Emergence of a Cross

Ethnic Women’s Movement in Trinidad and Tobago.’

She is on the Advisory Board for Center for the Advancement

of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke’s Fuqua School of

Business and on the Board of GuideStar International. Her Ph.D.

is from New York University (2000), and her undergraduate

degree from Brown University (1988). She has taught at

Georgetown University on Anthropology and Development

and has both authored and edited numerous journal and book

publications including two compilations on social movements in

the United States.

Most recently, Diana was celebrated as one of 10 winners of

the first annual Women to Watch award, by Running Start, a

Washington, DC based organization that empowers young

women to be political leaders.

She lives in Arlington, VA with her husband Paul, her son Toby,

and her mother Elaine.

Jocelyn White is a businesswoman/entrepreneur with a

background in strategic communications and government

relations. She was founder of Environmental Issues Management,

Inc. (EIM), an environmental and risk communication consulting

firm.

Jocelyn also has extensive experience in government, having been

appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as Director of

the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. Jocelyn

is a native of Ohio and a graduate of St. Lawrence University.

In addition to serving on the NCoC Board of Directors, Jocelyn

is active in community service with the National Council of

Advisors for The Center for the Study of the Presidency, and

with Molly, her certified pet therapy dog, at the Walter Reed

Army Medical Center.