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SUMMARY:Racial Injustice And National Security
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Over the past two weeks\, protests have erupted across the United States following the killing by police of George Floyd\, an unarmed black man\, in Minneapolis. Racial injustice has long been an issue for civil rights activists\, but it also has a national security dimension. \nAgainst the backdrop of racial injustice and inequality at home\, join us on Tuesday\, June 9\, at 11:00 am ET for a virtual discussion on “Racial Injustice and National Security” with Bishop Garrison (2017 ACG Young Leader)\, Director of National Security Outreach at Human Rights First\, President and Co-Founder of the Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy\, and former Defense and Homeland Security Official under the Obama Administration. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBishop Garrison\, Jr. is a graduate of United States Military Academy at West Point and an Operation Iraqi Freedom Army veteran. \nHe served in multiple national security positions in the Obama Administration to include Advisor to the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). These efforts included serving as the Executive Director of the Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee as well as a role as Deputy Lead on a TSA Blue Ribbon Panel that reviewed the airline passenger screening system. Following his time in the Administration\, he served as the Deputy Foreign Policy Adviser on the Presidential campaign of Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton. \nAlong with two Bronze Stars\, a Combat Action Badge\, and a Meritorious Service Medal\, his civilian accolades include participation as a member of the Obama Administration’s National Security Leadership Workshop. He is also a graduate of the College of William and Mary Law School as well as the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership’s Political Leaders Program at the University of Virginia. Currently\, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Council for a Livable World\, a non-profit focused on the reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons\, as well as the Northern Virginia Regional Advisory Board of the non-profit Urban Alliance. \nIn 2017\, he served as an American Delegate for the American Council on Germany’s Young Leaders Conference in Munich and Berlin as well as a member of Cultivate the Karass Campfire Cohort III. He is also the recipient of 2017 Taylor Revelry “Citizen Lawyer” Award from the College of William and Mary Law School. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/racial-injustice-and-national-security/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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SUMMARY:Virtual Discussion with Amb. Emily Haber and Amb. John B. Emerson
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG and the Los Angeles World Affairs Council will host a video discussion with German Ambassador to the United States Emily M. Haber and Ambassador John B. Emerson\, Chairman of the ACG and former U.S. Ambassador to Germany. \nThe Ambassadors will be taking questions from livestream participants during our audience Q&A. CLICK HERE to register. \nH.E. Emily Margarethe Haber has been German Ambassador to the United States since June 2018. Prior to her transfer to Washington\, DC\, she served in various leadership functions at the Foreign Office in Berlin. In 2009\, she was appointed Political Director and\, in 2011\, State Secretary\, the first woman to hold either post. Thereafter\, she was deployed to the Federal Ministry of the Interior\, serving as State Secretary in charge of homeland security and migration policy from 2014 until 2018. Emily Haber has many years of experience with Russia and the former Soviet Union and held various posts at the German Embassy in Moscow. \nH.E. John B. Emerson was named Chairman of the American Council on Germany on January 17\, 2018. He is Vice Chairman at Capital Group International. Previously\, he served as United States Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany from August\, 2013 until January 20\, 2017. He served at a particularly challenging time\, and in 2015 Ambassador Emerson was awarded the State Department’s prestigious Sue M. Cobb Award for Exemplary Diplomatic Service\, which is given annually to one non-career Ambassador. He also served on President Obama’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/virtual-discussion-with-amb-emily-haber-and-amb-john-b-emerson/
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