About the Hosts

Aaron Brown

Aaron Brown is the inaugural Walter Cronkite Professor of Journalism. Each semester he teaches a seminar on turning points in television news history, a subject in which he is well versed. From the Vietnam protests and Watergate in the 1970s to the beginning of the Iraq War, he has, quite literally, been there.

Brown is best remembered for his reporting of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center for CNN. On the air a half-hour after the first attack and broadcasting from a rooftop in lower Manhattan, Brown’s coverage has been called courageous, calming and insightful. For that coverage, he won the coveted Edward R. Murrow Award. In addition to the Murrow Award, Brown also won three Emmys, a DuPont, two New York Film Society World medals and a George Foster Peabody Award.

 

Frank Sesno

Frank Sesno is Director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University. He is chief executive of Face the Facts USA, a new nonpartisan, multi-platform content hub and civic engagement initiative dedicated to elevating the tone of national debate with provocative facts found at facethefactsusa.org. Sesno's diverse career spans over 30 years, including 21 years at CNN where Sesno served as White House correspondent, anchor, and Washington Bureau Chief. As a professor of journalism ethics, documentary genre, and issues of fairness in media, he teaches how the media affects the creation of public policy. Sesno holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Middlebury College and serves on the Washington Advisory Board of the Posse Foundation, on the Board of Trustees of the Potomac School in McLean, VA, and on the Educational Advisory Board of CINE 2009.

About the Guests

FIX AMERICA: THE Healthcare DILEMMA
 
David Himmelstein, MD

Professor, CUNY
Founder, Physician’s for National Health Program

 
Yanira Cruz

MPH National Hispanic Council on Aging

 
Sara Rosenbaum

George Washington University

 
James Kirkland, MD

Mayo Clinic’s Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging

 
John Erickson

Founder, Erickson Living

 
Gregg Bloche, MD, JD

Georgetown Law

 
Chad Boult, MD, MPH, MBA

Director, Healthcare Systems Improvement Program
?Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)

 
Ardis Dee Hoven, MD

President-elect, AMA

 
David Reuben, MD

UCLA Medical Center

 
Fix America: The Future of Retirement
 
Nevin Adams
Nevin Adams

Co-Director
Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) 
Center for Research on Retirement Income

 
Chris Farrell
Chris Farrell

Economics Editor
Marketplace Money

 
Mary Beth Franklin
Mary Beth Franklin

Senior Editor
Kiplinger’s Finance

 
Karen Friedman
Karen Friedman

EVP & Policy Director
The Pension Rights Center

 
Teresa Ghilarducci
Teresa Ghilarducci

Labor Economist
Retirement Research Foundation
?The New School

 
Brian Tate
Brian C. Tate

Vice President
The Financial Services Roundtable

 
Fix America: Education
 
John C. Erickson - Founder of Erickson Living
John C. Erickson

Founder of Erickson Living
Executive Chairman of RLTV

 
Tom Daschle - Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Senator Tom Daschle

Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Senior Policy Advisor, DLA Piper

 
David Andrews, Ph.D.
David Andrews, Ph.D.

Dean, Johns Hopkins University
School of Education

 
Dorothy Strickland
Dorothy Strickland

Samuel DeWitt Proctor Chair in Education, Emerita
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

 
Robert Berry III, Ph.D

Assoc. Professor, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia
Board Member, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

 
Helen Quinn, Ph.D

Physicist
Professor Emerita Stanford University

 
Fix America: The People Have Spoken
 
Jane Harman - Former Congresswoman (D) CA
Jane Harman

Former Congresswoman (D) CA

 
Mara Liasson
Mara Liasson

NPR Correspondent & Fox News

 
Nia Malika Henderson
Nia Malika Henderson

Washington Post

 
Mark Kennedy
Mark Kennedy

Former Congressman (R)

 
Mark Zandi
Mark Zandi

Co-founder Moody's Economy.com

 
Fix America: Ending Senior Hunger
 
Jim Weill, President

Food & Research Action Center (FRAC)

 
Enid Borden

President, National Foundation to End Senior Hunger
Former President & CEO of Meals & Wheels

 
Dr. Lisa Palowski

GMU Chair Dept Nutrition Studies
National Alliance of Women Against Senior Hunger (NAWASH)

 
Dr. Nadine R Sahyoun

UMD Associate Professor, Nutrition Epidemiology
Graduate Director for Food Science & Nutrition

 
Dan Pruett

President and CEO of Meals on Wheels and More, Austin, TX

 
Fix America: Debt & The Deficit
 
Alan K. Simpson

Mr. Simpson is a retired U.S. Senator from Wyoming having served from 1979­-1997. He was a visiting lecturer at Harvard University and the University of Wyoming. He was a member of the Iraq Study Group, and a member of the Commission on Presidential Debates. He is presently serving as Co­-Chairman with Erskine Bowles on the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. He holds a BS in Law, a Juris Doctorate and several honorary doctorate degrees.

 
Jared Bernstein

Mr. Bernstein joined the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in May 2011 as a Senior Fellow. From 2009 to 2011, Bernstein was the Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, executive director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, and a member of President Obama's economic team. Between 1995 and 1996, he held the post of deputy chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. Bernstein has authored and coauthored numerous books for both popular and academic audiences and published extensively in various venues, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, and Research in Economics and Statistics. Bernstein holds a PhD in Social Welfare from Columbia University.

 

 

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