BENNINGTON — Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, international human rights activist Rebecca Tinsley, and Bennington College President Elizabeth Coleman will kick off the opening celebration of Bennington’s new Center for the Advancement of Public Action at 2:05 p.m. today in the CAPA Circle (in front of the main entrance), with remarks on the Center’s importance and role in fostering an informed and responsible global citizenship.
Following the opening remarks, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the CAPA Labs, two concurrent sessions will bring experts and nonexperts into dialogue about two of the most pressing issues of our time — governing and health. Part roundtable and part town hall meeting, the session on governing will take place in the CAPA Symposium and will be moderated by Coleman.
Panelists will include:
- Jim Douglas, 80th Governor of Vermont, 2003-2011
- Robert Hartwell, Vermont State Senator
- Richard Sears, Vermont State Senator, 1994-2006
- Brian Campion, Vermont State Representative
- Jack McMullen, strategic consultant, Navy veteran, and 2004 Republican nominee for the United States Senate from Vermont
- Steve Lakis, President of the State Legislative Leaders Foundation
Nigel Jacob, Co-chair of Boston’s Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and inaugural CAPA Fellow - Mansour Farhang, former Iranian ambassador to the U.N. and international relations faculty member
- Rotimi Suberu, leading Nigerian political scientist and social science faculty member
- Rebecca Tinsley, journalist, author, and international human rights activist
- James Geary ’85, professional aphorist, author, journalist, former editor of the European edition of Time Magazine, and current Editor of Ode Magazine
The weekend-long opening celebration will be both the unveiling of CAPA’s beautiful new center designed by the architectural team of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, as well as an introduction to the people and programs that are shaping the initiative’s aims to fuse thought and action around the most pressing issues of our time.
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