International Freedom Center
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The International Freedom Center "is envisioned as an integral part of the living memorial to September 11 at the World Trade Center site. It shares the mission of the World Trade Center Memorial to ensure that "the lives remembered, the deeds recognized, and the spirit reawakened be eternal beacons, which reaffirm respect for life, strengthen our resolve to preserve freedom, and inspire an end to hatred, ignorance, and intolerance."" [1]
- Richard J. Tofel - President & Chief Operating Officer
- Erica Goudy - Vice President, Development
- Debra J. Weinstein - Project Manager
Contents
Directors
- Tom A. Bernstein - Co-founder and Chairman - Co-founder and President of Chelsea Piers
- Paula Grant Berry - Vice-Chair, Member of the Board, World Trade Center Memorial Foundation
- Sara J. Bloomfield - Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
- Stephen B. Heintz - Secretary, President of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
- Natan Sharansky - Former Soviet dissident and political prisoner
- Anne-Marie Slaughter - Bert G. Kerstetter '66 Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University
- Richard Norton Smith - Historian and Biographer, Executive Director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois
- Daniel R. Tishman - Treasurer, Chairman and CEO of Tishman Construction Corporation - President of Tishman Realty and Construction Company
- Fareed Zakaria - Editor of Newsweek International
Planning Committee
- Cora Cahan - Founder, The Joyce Theater - President, The New 42nd Street
- Susan Freedman - President, Public Art Fund
- Elliot Gerson - Executive Vice President, Seminars and Public Programs, The Aspen Institute
- Tom Healy - President, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
- Matthew T. Higgins - Vice President of the New York Jets
- Robert Hughes - President, New Visions for Public Schools
- Cristyne L. Nicholas - President and CEO of NYC & Company
- Richard Plepler - Executive Vice-President of HBO
- Robert Speyer - Senior Managing Director, Tishman Speyer Properties
- Max Stier - President and CEO of Partnership for Public Service
- Tom Tierney - Chairman & Founder, Bridgespan Group
- Jennifer Windsor - Executive Director of Freedom House
- Robert D. Yaro - President of Regional Plan Association
Scholars and Advisors
International Perspective
- Timothy Garton Ash - Director of the European Studies Centre at St. Antony's College, Oxford.
- Jagdish N. Bhagwati - University Professor of Economics, Columbia University
- Louis Bickford - Director, Alliances & Capacity Development at the International Center for Transitional Justice.
- Alex Boraine - Founder and President of the International Center for Transitional Justice.
- Nicholas Gage - Investigative reporter and former Athens bureau chief for The New York Times
- Saad Eddin Ibrahim - Professor, American University in Cairo and Chairman of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies
- Juan Mendez - President of the International Center for Transitional Justice.
- Martin Palous - Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States
- Orlando Patterson - John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University
- Richard Pipes - Baird Professor of History, Emeritus, Harvard University
- Michael Posner - Executive Director of Human Rights First (the new name of Lawyers Committee for Human Rights)
- Ambassador Hector Timerman - Consul of Argentina in New York
- Xu Wenli - Visiting senior fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute of International Studies, and exiled founder of the Chinese Democratic Party
National Perspective
- Rebecca Adamson - Founder and President of First Nations Development Institute, and founder of First Peoples Worldwide
- Anthony Appiah - University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, and Professor in the University Center for Human Values
- Jean Harvey Baker - Professor of History at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland
- David Herbert Donald - Charles Warren Professor of History, Emeritus at Harvard University
- David Hackett Fischer - Professor at Brandeis University and author of "Liberty & Freedom"
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, and Chair of the African and African-American Studies Departments
- Nathan Glazer - Professor of Education and Social Structure, Emeritus at Harvard University
- Walter Isaacson - CEO of the Aspen Institute and author of "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life" (2003)
- Kenneth Jackson - President of the New-York Historical Society and the Jacques Barzun Professor of History and Social Sciences at Columbia University
- Bob Kerrey - President of New School University in New York City
- Thomas Kessner - Professor of History at The City University of New York
- Pauline Maier - William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History at MIT
- John Raisian - Director and Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution
- Anthony Romero - Executive Director of the ACLU
- John Edward Sexton - President of New York University
- Theodore Sorensen - Policy adviser, legal counsel, and speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy
- Margot Stern Strom - President and Executive Director, Facing History and Ourselves
Museum Perspective
- Ruth Abram - Director of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City and Founder of the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience
- Daniel P. Jordan - President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation
- Louise Mirrer - President and CEO of the New-York Historical Society
- Edwin Rigaud - President of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
- Richard Stengel - President and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia
- Joe Torsella - former President and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia
- Robert C. Wilburn - President and CEO of the Gettysburg National Battlefield Museum Foundation
Service Advisory Board
- John Bridgeland - Founder and President of Civic Enterprises, Chair
- Admiral Charles S. Abbot - President & CEO of the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society
- Diana Aviv - President & CEO, Independent Sector
- James Basker - President, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- Ben Binswanger - Senior Vice President, The Case Foundation
- Sheila Burke - Deputy Secretary & COO of the Smithsonian Institution
- Kathy Bushkin - Executive Vice President & COO, United Nations Foundation
- Jean Case - President & CEO, The Case Foundation
- Raymond G. Chambers - Chairman, Amelior Foundation; Board, America's Promise
- Susan Cooper - National Archives and Records Administration
- Steven A. Culbertson - President & CEO, Youth Service America
- John J. DiIulio - Professor of Politics, Religion & Civil Society, U. Penn
- Gary R. Edson - Former Deputy National Security Advisor and the Former Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs
- David Eisner - CEO, Corporation for National and Community Service
- Susan Ellis - President, Energize, Inc.
- Eric Federing - Board of Directors, National Conference on Citizenship
- Elliot Gerson - Executive Vice President of Seminars and Public Programs, Aspen Institute
- George H. Gilliam - Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia
- Stephen Goldsmith - Professor, Harvard University
- John S. Gomperts - CEO, Experience Corps
- Robert Goodwin - CEO, Points of Light Foundation
- Scott Heiferman - Co-Founder & CEO, Meetup
- Eugene Hickok - Former Deputy Secretary of Education, U.S. Department of Education
- Elizabeth Hollander - Executive Director, Campus Compact
- Walter Isaacson - President & CEO, Aspen Institute
- Sarah Kass - Co-Founder, City On A Hill Charter School
- Alan Khazei - CEO & Co-Founder, City Year
- Carie Lemack - Co-Founder of Families of September 11
- Kirsten Lodal - CEO & Co-Founder, National Student Partnerships
- Carolyn Lukensmeyer - President & Founder, America Speaks
- John Maounis - Chief of Staff for NE Regional Director, National Park Service
- Karen Morison - Senior Vice President, Civic Enterprises
- Robert L. Nardelli - Chairman, President & CEO of Home Depot
- Michelle Nunn - President & CEO, Hands On Network
- Stephen B. Powell - Senior Managing Director, Bear Stearns
- Robert Putnam - Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
- Cokie B. Roberts - Chief Congressional Analyst, ABC news
- Ian Rowe - Vice President, MTV
- Max Stier - President, Partnership for Public Service
- Susan Stroud - Executive Director, Innovations in Civic Participation, Global Service Institute
- Joe Trippi - CEO, Trippi & Associates
- Gaddi Vasquez - Director, Peace Corps
- Ken Weber - President, Network for Good
- Harris Wofford - former U.S. Senator, Special Assistant to President Kennedy, Co-Founder of the Peace Corps
- Ariel Zwang - Executive Director, New York Cares
Family Advisory Board
- Paula Grant Berry - Wife of David Berry & Vice chair of the International Freedom Center
- Christopher Burke - Brother of Thomas Burke & Founder and President of Tuesday's Children
- Don Goodrich - Father of Peter Goodrich & Partner in the law firm of Donovan & O'Connor
- Carie Lemack - Daughter of Judy Larocque & Co-Founder of Families of September 11th
- Susan Magazine - Wife of Jay Magazine & Executive director of New Yorkers for Children
- Thomas Roger - Father of Jean Roger & Vice-president of Gilbane Company
- Marilynn Rosenthal - Mother of Joshua Rosenthal & Professor at Michigan University
- Nikki Stern - Wife of James Potorti & Executive director of Families of September 11th
- Eugene Steuerle - Husband of Norma Lang Steuerle & Founder of Our Voices Together and senior fellow at Urban Institute
- Robin Theurkauf - Wife of Thomas Theurkauf & Lecturer at Yale University