Aspen is a place for leaders to lift their sights above the possessions which possess them. To confront their own nature as human beings, to regain control over their own humanity by becoming more self-aware, more self-correcting, and hence more self-fulfilling.

Walter P. Paepcke, Aspen Institute Co-Founder
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Distinguished Panel

Founder and Convener

Meryl J. Chertoff,

Executive Director, Justice & Society Program

Co-Chairs

Madeleine K. Albright

, former U.S. Secretary of State; Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group David R. Gergen, Professor of Public Service and Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School

Panelists

Martin Budd

, Co-Chair, National Outreach and Interfaith Committee, Anti-Defamation League John J. DeGioia, President, Georgetown University Maria M. Ebrahimji, former Executive Editorial Producer, CNN; Co-Editor, “I Speak for Myself: American Women on Being Muslim” Wayne Firestone, former President, Genesis Prize Foundation; former President, Hillel Reverend Robert M. Franklin, President Emeritus, Morehouse College; former Director of the Religion Program, Chautauqua Michael J. Gerson, Senior Advisor, ONE; Visiting Fellow, Center for Public Justice Heidi Hadsell, President, Hartford Seminary Alec Hill, President, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship USA S.A. Ibrahim, CEO, Radian Group; Founder, Ibrahim Leadership and Dialogue Project Greg Jao, Senior Assistant to the President, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship USA Michael Leiter, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; former Director, National Counterterrorism Center David Little, Research Fellow, Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs; retired Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict, Harvard Divinity School Brie Loskota, Executive Director, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California Imam Mohamed Magid, Executive Director, All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS); former President, Islamic Society of North America Richard J. Mouw, Professor of Faith and Public Life and President Emeritus, Fuller Theological Seminary  Neil Nicoll, former President and CEO, YMCA of the USA Eboo Patel, Founder and President, Interfaith Youth Core Judith J. Pickens, retired Senior Vice President of Program & Youth Development Services, Boys & Girls Clubs of America Reverend Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, Senior Vice President and Editor of Voices, Auburn Seminary; former Senior Religion Editor, The Huffington Post Nadia Roumani, Co-Founder and Director, American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute Rabbi David Saperstein, Senior Research Fellow, Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs; Director Emeritus, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism Manjit Singh, Co-Founder and Chairman, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund Jim Wallis, President, Sojourners Rob Wilson-Black, CEO, Sojourners