Interviews
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Voices ~ Tomorrow's Leaders · Today's Issues interviews people who lead by example representing all walks of life - people who are authorities in domestic and international affairs, journalism, the fine arts, music, dance, sports, etc.
These experts understand the importance of nurturing the "leaders of tomorrow,'"exciting young people about their future. Every person counts in making the world we share a better place to live.
Policy Makers / Policy Wonks
John Altenburg (Head of Tribunals Guantanamo Bay)
Charlotte Beers (former Under Secretary Public Diplomacy)
Senator Joseph Biden
Richard Blumenthal (Attorney General, Conn.)
Senator Bill Bradley
Governor George W. Bush (during the 2000 campaign)
First Lady Laura Bush
Gordon Chang
General Ramsey Clark
Senator Hillary Clinton
Mark Corallo (Director Public Affairs, Justice Department)
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro
Senator Elizabeth Dole (running for President 2000)
Dr. Jane Goodall
Professor Noah Feldman
Senator Russ Feingold
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Dr. Saad el Fishawy (Egypt/Middle East)
Arun Gandhi - great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi
Rajmohan Gandhi - great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi
Tushar Gandhi - great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi
Robert Harding (Deputy Mayor NY, under Mayor Rudy Guiliani)
John Kamm (Dui Hau Foundation)
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
Robert Kennedy Jr.
Senator John Kerry
John Koskinen (Chairman President Council on Y2K Conversion)
Senator Joseph Lieberman
Deron Lovaas (National Resource Defense Council)
Chief Oren R. Lyons (Chief of the Six Iroquois Nations)
Dr. Wangari Maathai - Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
John MacArthur (Director U.N. Millennium Project)
Senator John McCain
Dr. James Maryanski (FDA Chairman Biotechnology)
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Myra Oliver (Executive Director for the International Institute of Connecticut on Immigration)
Colin Powell (Secretary of State)
Michael Powell, Chairman Federal Communications Commission
Joe Reeder (former Under Secretary Army)
David Rothkopf (former Secretary of Commerce)
Dr. William Schulz (Director Amnesty International)
General Norman Schwarzkoph
Dr. Gene Sharp (Founder, Albert Einstein Institute)
Betsi Shays (The Peace Corps)
Congressman Christopher Shays
Senator Olympia Snowe
Foreign Minister (England) Jack Straw
Dr. David Thatcher (former Surgeon General)
Governor Jesse Ventura (Minnesota)
Ambassador Edward Walker (on the Middle East)
Governor Lowell Weicker
General Anthony Zinni
His Excellency Reza Pahlavy
Dr. Daniel Philpott
Journalists / MEDIA
Christiane Amanpour (CNN)
Chris Bevilacqua (CSTV)
Frank Deford (Sports Illustrated)
Nicholas Kristof, (columnist, New York Times)
Thomas Friedman (columnist New York Times)
Dr. Sanjay Gupta (CNN)
David Halberstam
Sean Hannity (Fox News)
Daniel Henninger (Wall Street Journal)
Seymour Hersh (New Yorker magazine and author)
Peter King (Sports Illustrated)
Chris Matthews (Hardball)
John Norris (MTV)
Soledad O’Brien (NBC Weekend Today)
SuChin Pak (MTV)
Mariane Pearl (wife Daniel Pearl)
Tom Ricks (Washington Post)
Matt Roush (TV GUIDE)
Tim Russert (Meet the Press)
Joe Scarborough (MSNBC)
BJ Schecter (Sports Illustrated)
Metta Spencer, Editor Peace magazine
Saira Shah ('Beneath the Veil')
Colonel William Smullen (State Department/Maxwell School, Syracuse)
Helen Thomas, White House correspondent
Garrick Utley (veteran newsman)
Brian Williams
Gideon Yago (MTV)
Paula Zahn (CNN)
Terrorist Experts / Analysts
Dr. Jeffrey Bale (Center for Non Proliferation)
Peter Bergen (CNN)
Dr. Ashton Carter (Harvard)
Steve Coll (causes of 9/11)
Bruce Hoffman, Sr. (VP Rand Corporation)
Educators
Mia Bloom, educator/author
Professor Alan Dershowitz
Dr. Karen King (Harvard Divinity)
Professor Michael Mandelbaum (Johns Hopkins)
Sheik Dhaou Meskine
Dean Joseph Nye (Kennedy School of Government)
Dr. Judea Pearl (father Daniel Pearl)
Dr. Seth Sanders (University of Maryland)
Dean Robert Sterns (Yale School of Architecture)
Professor Abigail Thernstrom (Harvard)
Professor Tu Weiming (Harvard Divinity)
Professor Miroslav Volf (Yale Divinity School)
Patrick Callan, President National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
Sports
Laila Ali (boxer)
Bruce Arena (US Men’s National Team Coach/Soccer)
Tiki Barber (NY Giants running back)
Anthony Beck (NY Jets tight end)
James Blake (pro tennis)
Herman Edwards, Coach, NY Jets
Theo Epstein (Boston Red Sox)
Julie Foudy (US Women’s Soccer team)
Gary Gait (lacrosse legend)
Jeff Van Gundy (NY Knicks)
Alan Houston (NY Knicks)
Stuart Jackson
Dhani Jones (Defense, NY Giants)
Delvin Joyce (NY Giants Defense)
Phil Knight (CEO Nike)
Johann Koss (Founder Right To Play)
Danny Lazano (sports agent)
Stephon Marbury (NJ Nets)
Jack O’Callahan (1980 Hockey Olympics)
Chad Pennington (quarterback NY Jets)
Mike Piazza
Rod Raymond
Frank Robinson (Commissioner for On Field Operations MLB)
The Rock (Dwayne Johnson)
Andy Roddick (Pro-Tennis)
Michael Schumacher (race car driver)
Monica Seles (pro-tennis)
Bud Selig, Commissioner MLB
Osi Umenyiora (NY Giants Defense)
Wesley Walker (Jets wide receiver)
Charlie Ward (NY Knicks)
Kurt Warner, quarterback, NY Giants
Tyree Washington (2004 Olympics)
Charles Way (Management NY Giants)
Jason Williams (Duke)
David Wright (New York Mets' third baseman)
Katherine Switzer
John Kelley
Authors
Lady Clare Asquith (author Shadowplay)
Peter Benchley (Jaws)
Meg Cabot (Teen Books)
Michele Ceros
Gordon Chang
Kerry Kennedy Cuomo (Speak Truth to Power)
Dr. Avery Faigenbaum (Steroids in Sports)
Professor Richard Florida (The Creative Class) - Author/Educator
Dr. Dorothy Height (Civil Rights in the U.S.)
Dr. Mark Hyman (Ultra-Metabolism/and Health)
Dr. Bernard Lewis (Middle East Expert)
Dr. Darrin McMahon
Mende Nazer (The Sudan)
Hank Nuwer (on hazing)
Samantha Powers (on Genocide)
Peter Smith (Commencement)
Graham Stedman (finding your passion)
Bruce Sterling (Science Fiction)
Lance Williams (Game of Shadows)
Elie Wisel (Hatred)
Time Wise (disparities in education/inner city blacks)
Robert Zubrin (Mars Society)
Zarqa Nawaz
Noah Charney
Dan Koeppel
Comedians
Andrew Alexander (Second City)
Chevy Chase (Saturday Night Live)
Dane Cook
Darrell Hammond (Saturday Night Live)
David Javerbaum (The Daily Show)
Azhar Usman (Allah Made Me Funny)
Fine Arts
Regina Baumhauer (artist)
David Collins (artist)
Angel Correla (American Ballet Theater principle dancer)
Lisa Davis (artist)
Sally Egbert (artist)
Cynthia Gregory (prima ballerina American Ballet Theater)
Chad Hammes, producer, Berliner Film Company
Judith Jamieson (Alvin Ailey)
Rip Kastaris (artist/Olympics)
Barbara Kruger (artist)
Nikki Lee (artist)
Reiner Leist (artist)
Vann Nath (artist politics of Cambodia)
Clifford Ross (artist)
Jonathan Santlofer (artist)
Danny Ulbricht (dancer, New York City Ballet)
Nick Ruocco, Director Education, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Noah Charney
Fine Musicians
Leif Ove Andsnes, world renowned pianist
Samir Basim Ousis, youngest member, Iraqi Symphony
Other Organizations
Shenna Bellows ACLU (Patriot Act)
Gerald Bourke (World Food Program)
Gasper Caperton (College Board)
Red Cavaney (President American Petroleum Institute)
Roy Peter Clark (Poynter Institute for Media Studies)
Dana Dajani, Princess Basma Youth Resources Center
Robert Defray (President National Shooting Sports Foundation)
Dean Kamen (FIRST - for science)
Dr. James Goodrich, Brain Surgeon, Montefiore Medical Center
Wanjira Maathai, Green Belt Movement
Dr. Paul Marshall (Senior Fellow,Center for Religious Freedom, Freedom House)
Judy McGrath (President, MTV)
Petra Nemcova, The Happy Heart Foundation
Laura Petrecca (Deputy Bureau Chief Ad Age)
Gene Poteat (scientific officer)
Mark Serreze, scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center
Geneva Williams (President, Detroit United Way)
Susan Yolen (VP, Public Affairs, Planned Parenthood, Conn.)
Dr. Eric Sachs, Monsanto
Dr. Jeffrey Smith, Consumer Activist
Religion
Arun Gandhi
Rajmohan Gandhi
Dr. Marc Gopin (Director Conflict Resolution, George Mason University)
Douglas Johnston
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf
Producers
Michael Bass (Senior Executive Producer, CBS Morning)
Brad Daymond/Alex Greggs (producers N’Sync)
Gary Himelfarb (Tribute to Bob Dylan and Bob Marley)
Ron Howard
Petra Nemcova
Anthony Zucker (CSI)
Christopher Cain (Screenwriter)
Fashion
Emme (model)
Gina Kelly, Seventeen
Anna Malova (former Miss Russia)
Behind the scenes at Polo Jeans
Sarah Miekle, Teen Vogue
Pop Musicians
Ataris
Blackfire (Native American Band with a message in their music)
Dakota
Howie Day
Destiny’s Child Michelle Williams
Dispatch
Willa Ford
Jack Johnson
Sherry Kondor
L’il Bow Wow
Christina Milian
Maktub
John Mayer
John Ondrasik (Five For Fighting)
Wade Robson
Polyphonic Spree
Zhang Wei and Zhang Ran (DJ Mickey Shang) from China
Bob Sinclar
Actors/Talent
Lombardo Boyar
Rob Brown
Dan Byrd
Carson Daly
Mia Farrow
Tad Hilgenbrinck
Erica Hubbard
Sarah Jones (award winning actress)
Ed Lover
Brian Tee
Piggy Thomas
Vanessa Williams
