Momentum Speaker Directory
 
Speaker Title Plenary Year

Mimi Chakarova

Sex Slavery from the Inside

Photographer and activist Chakarova puts a face on global sex trafficking through "The Price of Sex," a project done in collaboration with the Center for Investigative Reporting.

Conflict 2009

Joseph Cirincione

Current Trends in U.S. Nuclear Policy

From the threat of planetary devastation to the collapse of the Bush Doctrine, from the tenuous nonproliferation movement the obstacles to disarmament, the head of the Ploughshares Fund delineates current trends and shows progressives how to organize for a safe, sane nuclear policy.

Conflict 2009

Harry Edwards

The Fire This Time

Sports recapitulates and reflects society. Dr. Edwards traces the arc of race, sports, and society through the struggles of the civil rights movement, the deterioration of black communities, and crises of crime and violence, highlighting the need for renewed activism, from the bottom up.

Conflict 2009

Sahar Shafqat

Achieving Peace in Pakistan

The associate professor from St. Mary's College on the roots of the conflict in Pakistan, the effects of U.S. involvement before and after 9/11, and why the currently lawyers' movement in Pakistan gives us cause for hope and change in the region.

Conflict 2009