Let’s Talk America

Maribeth Goodman, Host, Let's Talk America, Founder, The Goodman Group, Inc.

Ron Gross, Co-Host, Lower Manhattan Salon, Host Socrates Cafe on Long Island, Let's Talk America, Co-Chair, University Seminar on Innovation

Mary McKinley, Executive Director, Let's Talk America

Susan Partnow, Partner Coordinator, Let's Talk America, Founder, Partnow Communications

Vicki Robin, Executive Director, The New Road Map Foundation, Founder, Let's Talk America

Leif Utne, Associate Editor, Utne Magazine, Co-coordinator, Let's Talk America

Public Conversations Project

Laura Chasin, Executive Director, Public Conversations Project

Robert Stains, Program Director, Public Conversations Project

The BothAnd Radio Initiative

Mark Sommer, Founder and Executive Director, Mainstream Media Project, Co-creator, BothAnd

William Ury, Director, Harvard Global Negotiation Project

Joshua Weiss, Associate Director, Harvard Global Negotiation Project

Search for Common Ground USA

Tom Dunne, Senior Project Manager, Search for Common Ground - USA

Rob Fersh, Executive Director, Search for Common Ground - USA

Chip Hauss, Senior Associate, Search for Common Ground - USA

Mary Jacksteit, Project Director - Collaboration DC, Search for Common Ground - USA

Americans for an Informed Democracy

Josh Goldstein, Director of Campus Affairs, Project Namuwongo Zone B, Vice President of Membership, Americans for Informed Democracy

Seth Green, Executive Director, Americans for Informed Democracy, Director, Red, White and Blue Coming Together

Individuals: Authors, Politicians, Practitioners, Smaller Projects

Samuel Abrams, Co-Author, Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, Research Fellow, Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences; Hoover Institution, Harvard University and Stanford University

Tom Atlee, President, Co-Intelligence Institute

Bob Barr, U. S. House of Representatives , 7th District of Georgia , 21st Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy, American Conservative Union

A. Lawrence Chickering, Founder and President, Educate Girls Globally, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution

Lorelei Kelly, Senior Associate and Project Director, Security for a New Century, The Stimson Center, Author, PolicyMatters: Educating Congress on Peace and Security

Steven Kull, Director - Program on International Policy Attitudes, University of Maryland

Joseph McCormick, Co-Founder, Democracy in America Project

Laura Murphy, Director of Washington, DC Office, American Civil Liberties Union

Jim Rough, Originator, Dynamic Facilitation, Co-Founder, Center for Wise Democracy

Harris Sokoloff, Executive Director, Center for School Study Councils, University of Pennsylvania

Najeeba Syeed-Miller, Executive Director, Western Justice Center Foundation

Ruth Yellow Hawk, Co-Director, Indigenous Issues Forums , Co-Vice President, Center for Restorative Justice

Donna Zajonc, Author, The Politics of Hope: A New Era of Political Collaboration, Speaker, Seminar Leader, Political Coach

Additional guests

Tony Trupiano, Host, The Tony Trupiano Show, Media Trainer, Effective Media Training