Restoring America's Moral Reputation in Our World
Moderator
Xolela Mangcu is a Visiting Public Scholar and Director of the Centre for Public Engagement at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He also writes a syndicated weekly column for Business Day, and is assistant editor of the Sunday Independent. As a regular political commentator, he has been featured on both local and international broadcasting networks including the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, National Public Radio, BBC, and CNN. For several weeks a year he is the visiting W.E.B. Dubois Scholar at Harvard University.
Mangcu is founder and past executive director of the Steve Biko Foundation and former director of the Division of Social Cohesion, Identity, and Leadership at the Human Sciences Research Council, the main research body in South Africa.
For more information on Mr. Mangcu please visit www.publicconversations.org.
Discussion Leaders
Peter W. Galbraith Galbraith is the son of Kitty and John Kenneth Galbraith, the founding Chair of Global Citizens Circle's International Advisory Board. Following in his father's footsteps, Peter Galbraith is a former United States diplomat, having served as the first U.S. Ambassador to Croatia where he was actively involved in the Croatia and Bosnia peace processes. Through his diplomatic interventions, he facilitated the flow of humanitarian assistance to Bosnia.
He later served as United Nations Director for Political, Constitutional and Electoral Affairs for the U.N. Transitional Administration in East Timor. In his role there, he designed the territory's first interim government and the process to write East Timor's permanent constitution.
Among his more recent accomplishments, Peter Galbraith authored the critically-acclaimed book, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End, published in 2006, and is currently the Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and a principal at the Windham Resources Group LLC.
Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, based at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, where she was the founding executive director [1998-2002]. Her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction, and the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Prize for the best book in U.S. foreign policy.
Power's New Yorker article on the horrors in Darfur, Sudan, won the 2005 National Magazine Award for best reporting. In 2007, Power became a foreign policy columnist at Time magazine. From 1993 to 1996 she covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for the U.S. News and World Report, the Boston Globe, and The Economist.
A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, she moved to the United States from Ireland at the age of nine. She spent 2005 to 2006 working in the office of Senator Barack Obama. Her most recent work, a political biography of UN's Sergio Vieira de Mello, will be published by Penguin Press in February 2008.
Moderator
Callie Crosseley has a long history of participation in Global Citizens Circle, the most recent of which was as moderator of our 30th anniversary celebration discussion. (Callie graciously accepted the role of moderator for our program when Xolela Mangcu had a last minute unavoidable conflict and could not make it to the U.S.)
Callie Crossley is a woman for all media - commentator, public speaker, writer, broadcast journalist, and filmmaker. She serves as a fill in host and commentator for the NPR radio program Tell Me More with Michel Martin and is a frequent commentator for other national radio programs including On the Media and NPR News and Notes. Callie can also be seen on national television programs including CNN's Reliable Sources, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She is, however, best known to Bostonians for her weekly television commentary on WGBH-TV's ten year old media criticism program, Beat the Press, which examines local and national media coverage.
When not working as a commentator, public speaker and moderator, Callie serves as Program Manager for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard directing the speakers' program for the current class of Nieman Fellows.
Co-Sponsors
Global Citizens Circle depends on sponsorships for programming. We thank Pax World Management Corp., Southern New Hampshire University and the Omni Parker House Hotel for their support of this program.