Sunday, October 27, 2024
3:00-4:30 PM EDT
Free on Zoom
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Panelists:
Jeffrey Laurenti
Jeffrey Laurenti, is Board Chair of Coalition for Peace Action. A resident of Trenton’s Chambersburg neighborhood and native of New Jersey’s capital city, served as executive director of policy studies at the United Nations Association of the United States (UNA-USA) and as director of foreign policy programs at The Century Foundation. Before entering the U.N. arena, he served as executive director of the New Jersey Senate majority. He has advised Democratic presidential campaigns on international organization issues, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and was his party’s nominee for Congress (NJ-4) in 1986.
Bruce Knotts
Bruce Knotts was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ethiopia, worked for Raytheon in Saudi Arabia (1976-80) and on a World Bank contract in Somalia (1982-4), before he joined the Department of State as a U.S. diplomat in 1984. Bruce had diplomatic assignments in Greece, Zambia, India, Pakistan, Kenya, Sudan, Cote d’Ivoire and The Gambia, where he served as Deputy Chief of Mission. Bruce retired from the Foreign Service in 2007 and began directing the Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office (UU-UNO) in 2008. Bruce founded faith-based advocacy for sexual orientation/gender identity human rights at the United Nations and continues to advocate for the rights of women, indigenous peoples and for sustainable development in moral terms of faith and values. Bruce is co-chair of the NGO Committee on Human Rights at the United Nations, the chair of the NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security, a member of the NGO UN Security Council Working Group, serves on the Board of the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development and he chaired the NGO/DPI Executive Committee (2015-19) which represents 1,400 DPI affiliated NGOs at the United Nations.
Yesenia Rodriguez Pizarro
Yesenia Rodriguez Pizarro is a scholar-activist from the Claremont Colleges with a focus on international relations and global treaties. Her research emphasizes the rights of Indigenous Peoples, particularly in Latin America. She has conducted fieldwork in Ecuador’s Oriente region, exploring the enforcement of Indigenous sovereignty under international frameworks like the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Yesenia is passionate about the role of young leaders in shaping the future of global governance and treaty compliance.
Moderator: Lana Ulrich, Esq.
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