Think Outside the Bomb Conference in Washington, DC:
April 12, 2008
Speakers
Zia Mian is a Physicist in Princeton University’s program on science and global security. He is also the director of the Project on Peace and Security in South Asia. His areas of expertise include reducing the threat posed by nuclear weapons, U.S. nuclear policy and strategy, proliferation, and foreign nuclear programs.
Martin Sherwin is a Professor of History at George Mason University. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for his co-authorship of American Prometheus: The triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a biography of the physicist who led the Manhattan Project.
Jill Parillo is the Deputy Director for Security Programs for Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). Prior to her work at PSR, Parillo worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as a Project Associate for nonproliferation.
Kevin Kamps is a Nuclear Waste Management Specialist for Beyond Nuclear. His work focuses on all aspects of the nuclear fuel chain with particular expertise on government and industry efforts to dump nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Before working at Beyond Nuclear, Kamps worked as a Radioactive Waste Specialist at the Nuclear Information and Resource Service.
Hugh Gusterson is a Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. Among his many research interests are nuclear weapons, militarism, the anthropology of science, and social movements. Gusterson is the author of Nuclear Rites and People of the Bomb.
Shervin Boloorian is the Washington Representative for the Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) Global Security program. Promoting UCS’s non-proliferation, arms-control and nuclear safety priorities on Capitol Hill, he also tracks the Iran nuclear issue and US-Iran policy. Mr. Boloorian served as Legislative Director for the National Iranian American Council prior to joining UCS, and conducted federal policy and finance analysis for several years with a DC-based California policy think-tank.
Jedidjah Devries is Tri-Valley CAREs’ Outreach Director. Before coming to Tri-Valley CAREs, Jedidjah worked at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. At the University of California, Santa Barbara, he was an active member of the statewide Coalition to Demilitarize the University of California, which Tri-Valley CAREs co-founded. Devries’ scope of work includes community outreach, student outreach, nuclear policy analysis and advocacy
Katherine Fuchs is the Organizing and Policy Associate for Peace Action and an MA candidate at UNESCO's Chair for the Philosophy of Peace in Castellon, Spain. Before joining national Peace Action's staff in 2006, Katherine worked as a community organizer with the the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, the Wisconsin Fair Trade Campaign, the Wisconsin Voters' Rights Coalition, the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center, and the League of Pissed Off Voters, among others.
Kalea Matsakis is the 2008 DC Days Coordinator and Webmaster for the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA). She is organizing the alliance’s annual advocacy training event. Prior to working for ANA, Kalea served as Media Network Director at Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety.
Jay Coghlan is the Director for Nuclear Watch of New Mexico. His research interests include reducing the threat posed by nuclear weapons, weapons testing, stockpile stewardship, securing all nuclear materials and the effects and costs of U.S. nuclear policy and strategy. Coghlan served for seven years on the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability’s Board of Directors and received their “Grassroots Advocate of the Year” award in 2003.
Danny Hosein is a Legislative Program Assistant and a Scoville Fellow for nuclear nonproliferation at the Friends Committee on National Legislation. Before coming to FCNL, Danny was a professor’s assistant at Trinity University, where he conducted research on human rights in the Middle East and helped teach a course called “The Individual in World Politics.”
Allison Fisher is an organizer for Public Citizen’s Energy Program. Before joining Public Citizen, Fisher spent two years in Guatemala as a Rural Youth at Risk Peace Corps Volunteer, and got her Master’s Degree from the University of Connecticut. She is currently organizing movements around the relapse of nuclear power.
Christina Cernansky is the Washington Associate for WAND/WILL (Women Action’s for New Directions/Women Legislators’ Lobby). She started her career in social justice and political campaigns when the 2000 election unfolded in her backyard of West Palm Beach, Florida. She currently assists the implementation of all WiLL programs including trainings and field outreach as well as integrating WAND’s lobbying efforts into the WiLL program. She is also acting director for WAND PAC.
Vicente Garcia is the Program Director for the Hope Not Hate and Peace and Security Initiatives at Americans for Informed Democracy (AID). Before coming to AID, Garcia received his Master’s Degree from the University of Kent – Brussels School of International Studies, and worked at the European Union’s Peace Building Liason Office in Brussels. He is especially interested in Conflict Resolution in the Middle East.