Speeches

Ethnic Conflicts Course Presentation NYU Tuesday, June 9, 2015 “I am pleased and honored to be here tonight to speak about Rwanda.  I confess that I never dreamed about connecting with Rwanda, and had little knowledge about its history including

From New London to Kigali:  A Brief Report on a Sixty-year Journey Connecticut College Reunion May 29, 2015 “I’ve come to believe that Connecticut College played a uniquely important role in making me who I am today. Not that I

Before I turn to my daunting task of introducing this session on what we might call public conversation let me note that only Ron Gross, the contemporary incarnation of Socrates, would dare to hold this rather raucous though illuminating event

I am pleased to be back at the Kiwanis Club to talk about Interdependence. Interdependence Day is officially September 12—a date deliberately chosen as the day after 9/11—the date indelibly carved into our hearts and minds as the dread day

It is humbling enough for a Jewish woman of a somewhat secular civic disposition to come to preach to an Episcopal congregation on any Sunday of any year.   But on this Sunday, the tenth anniversary of what I sometimes call

Dear Rotary Members, It is a special pleasure and privilege to speak to you today as I for one am in favor of preaching to the converted. At times we forget that even the most dedicated among us need to be

It is a privilege and a daunting privilege at that, to speak in this Lenten series. I try not to be a preacher, but I don’t always succeed. Today, perhaps, I’ll try to be a preacher. That might not succeed

I feel privileged to speak to you today on civic engagement. I am particularly pleased that this critically important topic is the focus of your capstone course in communications. In my view, if there is one thing that should be

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