Amphitheater Lecture Speakers - Post-Journal

Chautauqua 2012Amphitheater Lecture SpeakersMonday, July 2Andrew KohutAndrew Kohut is the president of the Pew Research Center,where he also acts as director of thePew Research Center for the People &the Press and the Pew Global AttitudesProject. A frequent op-edessayist for The New York Timesand former columnist for theColumbia Journalism Review, heserves as a press commentator onthe meaning and interpretation ofopinion poll results, includingwork for NPR and the “PBS NewsHour”as a public opinion analyst.Previously, Kohut served as directorof the Times Mirror Center and presidentof the Gallup Organization, the American Association ofPublic Opinion Research and the National Council on PublicPolls. The founding director of surveys for the Times MirrorCenter, Kohut also founded Princeton Survey ResearchAssociates and has been a member of the Market ResearchCouncil and the Council on Foreign Relations. Kohut has coauthoredfour books, including, most recently, AmericaAgainst the World and The Diminishing Divide: Religion’sChanging Role in American Politics. Kohut graduated fromSeton Hall University and studied graduate sociology at Rutgers.Tuesday, July 3Whit AyresDonna BrazileWhit Ayres is the president of Ayres, McHenry, & AssociatesInc., a national public opinion and public affairs researchfirm located in Alexandria, Va., with clients including U.S.Senators Marco Rubio, Lamar Alexander, Bob Corker andLindsey Graham, and the National Rifle Association, the BoyPAGE 20FROM PAGE 19Mosher’s Carpeting, Inc.Sales & Expert Installation30 Years Experience“Specializing In All Your Flooring Needs”Carpet • Laminates • Vinyl • Fiber FloorCeramic Tile • HardwoodLVT Tile • Commercial TileCork Flooring • VCT TileWe Bring Samples to Your Home (If needed)~ Free Estimates ~8631 E. Main St., Clymer, NY 14724Scouts of America, America’s Health Insurance Plans, and thePharmaceutical Care Management Association.He is also chairman of the AmericanAssociation of Political Consultantsand co-founder, with formerRepublican National CommitteeChairman Ed Gillespie, of ResurgentRepublic.Ayres is a guest periodically onFox News, CNN and NPR. Hiscomments and analyses appear inThe Wall Street Journal, The NewYork Times, The Washington Post,The Los Angeles Times, USA Today,and numerous regional newspapers. Previously,Ayres served as senior executive assistant for Budgetand Policy to Governor Carroll Campbell in South Carolina.He has also served as a tenured member of the political sciencefaculty at the University of South Carolina.Donna Brazile is the managing director of Brazile & AssociatesLLC, a general consulting, grassroots advocacy, andtraining firm based in Washington, D.C. A veteran Democraticpolitical strategist, she is vice chair of Voter Registrationand Participation at the DemocraticNational Committee, and former chairof the DNC’s Voting Rights Institute.A New Orleans native, Brazilehas worked on every presidentialcampaign from 1976 through2000, when she served as campaignmanager for former VicePresident Al Gore, becoming thefirst African-American woman tomanage a presidential campaign. Sheis the author of the best-selling memoirCooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots inAmerican Politics, an adjunct professor atGeorgetown University, a syndicated newspaper columnist forUnited Media, a columnist for Ms. Magazine and O Magazine,and an on-air contributor to CNN, NPR and ABC, whereshe regularly appears on “This Week.”Thursday, July 5Ralph J. CicerconeRalph J. Cicerone is president of the National Academy ofSciences and chair of the National Research Council. Hisresearch in atmospheric chemistry, climate change and energyhas involved him in shaping science and environmental policynationally and internationally. Prior to his election as Academypresident, Cicerone was chancellor of University of California,Irvine, where he served previously as dean of theSchool of Physical Sciences and founding chair of the Departmentof Earth System Science. He earned a degree in electricalengineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyand master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Illinois.(716) 355-2711 SEE PAGE 22