The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Foundation

Over the last few years, our students have had a chance to meet some
very interesting people through the FDR Foundation! Here's a sampling:


Anna Sevortian, Director Human Rights Watch Russia Fireside Chat: Human Rights in Putin's Russia	Doris Kearns-Goodwin, Historian, Author Lecture: FDR, TR, and Lincoln	Julio Frenk, former Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health; President, University of Miami Panel: Global Health Equity	Laurence Summers, former President of Harvard University Panel: Global Health Equity


Francis Gatare, former chief advisor to the president, CEO of the Rwanda Development Board Fireside Chat: Rwanda and Genocide 20 Years On	David Huebner, former US Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa Lecture: What is Our Story, Anyway — American Narratives in the 21st Century	Bruce Oreck, former US Ambassador to Finland Lecture: Don't Worry. It's Not the End of the World, Just the End of Yours	Michael Ignatieff, former leader of the Liberal Party in Canada, Professor Harvard Kennedy School Fireside Chat: Sovereignty and Intervention


Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia *Fireside Chat: US, Australia and the The Future of the Pacific Rim*	Juliana Jolly, Nieman Fellow, BBC Asia Editor *Fireside Chat: Sexual Violence Across Cultures*	Jean Edward Smith, Presidential Historian Lecture: FDR - A Life Lecture: Eisenhower	Bob Schieffer, Anchor, CBS News Fireside Chat: 50 Years in Washington


Tim Mayopoulos, CEO, Fannie Mae Lecture & Fireside Chat: FDR, Fannie May and the Affordable Housing Crisis	John Rendon, CEO, The Rendon Group Lecture & Fireside Chat: Realpolitik, Strategic Communications & the Projection of US Power	Raiyan Syed, Political Campaign Manager Fireside Chat: Muslim-Jewish Relations in the US: Hard Choices	Laurel Thatcher, Professor Harvard University Fireside Chat: History Next Door —Tangible Things in the FDR Suite


Robin Chase, Founder Zip Car Lecture: How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism	Alexander Bernstein, Musician, Historian Performance: Take Care Of This House — Leonard Bernstein, Music and Hope	Amartya Sen, Harvard Economist, Nobel Laureate Panel: Climate and Social Justice	Julie Wormser, Executive Director, Boston Harbor Association Lecture: The Effect of Climate Change on Boston


David Brooks, NY Times Columnist, Author Panel: What's Worth Saving in Civilization	Mark Plotkin, Ethnobotonist and Explorer Panel: Legacy and Resilience Fireside Chat: Possibilities in Ethnobotony	Geoffrey Ward, PBS Historian and Author Lecture and Fireside Chat: FDR at Harvard	Marcela Davison Aviles, Founder, The Chapultepec Group, FDR Foundation Director of Humanities Programming Fireside Chat: Don't Steal My Sombrero - A Frank Discussion of Race and Culture in 21st Century America


Jim McCarthy, Professor Harvard University Lecture: This is What Climate Change Looks Like	Admiral Linda Fagin, US Coast Guard Lecture: Defending Against the Storm: Response and Resilience	Cynthia Koch, fromer Director of the FDR Presidential Libary and Museum, FDR Foundation Historian in Residence Lecture: The American Story: From Washington to Roosevelt, Reagan and Beyond	Farnaz Fassihi, Wall Street Journal, Nieman Fellow Fireside Chat: Covering Conflict in Today's Middle East: Syria, Iraq, ISIL, & Iran


Maggie Koerth-Baker, Nieman Fellow, NY Times *Fireside Chat: Why Won't They Listen to Me? Science, Anti-science, & Public Decision-making*	Steve Curvood, NPR Host, Living on Earth Lecture: Disbelievers: The Crisis of Faith on Climate Change	Ömür Budak, Consul General to New England from the Republic of Turkey. Fireside Chat: Turkey & America: An Essential & Challenging Relationship	Brent Bruen, former White House Director of Global Engagement, President Global Situation Room Seminar: Global Risk & Crisis Management Strategies


Michael McCormick, Harvard Lecture: Climate Change and the Fall of the Western Roman Empire	Elsie M. Sunderland, Harvard University Assistant Professor Lecture: Muddying the Waters	Albert Cho, Vice President for Strategy and Business Development, Xylem Inc. Workshop: Let's Solve Water: *Alternative Approaches to Addressing the World's Water Challenges*	Alberto J. Mora, former General Counsel of the Navy Fireside Chat: Ending Torture as a Tool of American Foreign Policy