2008 Keyes Seminar DayPresentersDan Wasserman, P’11 and ’12Political Cartoons in an ElectionYear Mr. Wasserman is a politicalcartoonist for the Boston Globe.He is syndicated in 40 papersacross the world and is theauthor of two books, We’ve BeenFramed and Paper Cuts.Paula Johnson Does Your GenderMatter? The first woman in thehistory of Brigham and Women’sHospital to be chosen as chiefmedical resident, Dr. Johnson isa women’s health specialist and apioneer in the treatment and preventionof cardiovascular disease.She conceived of and developedone of the first facilities in thecountry to focus on heart diseasein women.John E. McDonough TenThings Everyone Should Knowabout Health Care PolicyDr. McDonough is the executivedirector of Health Carefor All, Massachusetts’ leadingconsumer health advocacy organization,and a teacher at theHarvard School of Public Health.From 1985 to 1997, he served asa member of the MassachusettsHouse of Representativeswhere he cochaired the JointCommittee on Health Care.Rachad Itani Oil Cube, IceCube: CO2 reductions CEO ofBalderrie Enterprises, Inc., andexecutive partner and CEO ofXenel-Balderrie, Mr. Itani’s companywas the first private CleanDevelopment Mechanism (CDM)in the countries of the MiddleEast. He has also co-authored abill for an emissions reductionsystem based on the UpstreamCarbon Offset model, a betteralternative to the cap-and-tradesystem being considered by theU.S. Senate.Galt Niederhoffer ’93 Film andFiction in 2008: Conflicts andConvergence Ms. Niederhofferis the producer and director ofthe films Prozac Nation (2001)and Grace Is Gone (2006), andauthor of the novel A Taxonomyof Barnacles.Jim Peyser P’10’14 Closing theAchievement Gap: America’sGreatest Social and EconomicChallenge Mr. Peyser is a partnerin NewSchools Venture Fund,which works to transform publiceducation, particularly for lowincomeand minority children inhistorically underserved urbancommunities.Jacqueline Bhabha P’02’06Addressing Trafficking inHumans: The Human RightsDilemma Professor Bhabha isthe Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturerin Law at Harvard Law Schooland the executive director of theHarvard University Committeeon Human Rights Studies. Shewas previously a practicinghuman rights lawyer in Londonand at the European Court ofHuman Rights in Strasbourg.Her writings on issues of migrationand asylum in Europe andthe United States include a coauthoredbook, Women’s Movement:Women Under Immigration,Nationality and Refugee Law.David Stowlow Education Reformand the Rise of Out of School TimeMr. Stowlow is the director ofstrategic development at CitizenSchools, a leading national educationinitiative that uniquelymobilizes hundreds of staff andthousands of adult volunteers tohelp improve student achievementby teaching skill-buildingapprenticeships after school.Kerry Healey P’11’13 MovingBeyond Rhetoric to AuthenticPolitical Change Mrs. Healeyserved as lieutenant governorof the Commonwealth ofMassachusetts from 2003 to2007. She assumed a broadrange of responsibilities in theRomney-Healey administration,including leading the administration’ssuccessful efforts tostrengthen drunken drivingpenalties and establish witnessprotection and gang violence preventionprograms. Mrs. Healeyalso served as a senior advisorfor governor Mitt Romney’spresidential campaign.William Janeway ’81 P’12Combating Climate ChangeMr. Janeway was the recipientof the 2006 Advocate Awardfrom Environmental Advocatesof New York. He is the directorof government relations for TheNature Conservancy.Robert Greene Diversity andRacism in Schools Director ofadmissions at Beacon <strong>Academy</strong>,Mr. Greene helped begin theschool after more than 12 years’experience in private school education,having taught middle andhigh school mathematics at TheFessenden School, The WinsorSchool, and The SteppingstoneFoundation.Dan Rea Politics, Talk Radioand Journalism Mr. Rea is a talkradio host on WBZ 1030 AM.Many of Mr. Rea’s assignmentshave involved political coverage,including all of the presidentialelections from 1976 to 2000.He has traveled to Europe on tenoccasions to cover stories affectingNew Englanders, includingfour trips to West Germanywhere he covered the return ofAmericans who were injuredor held hostage in the MiddleEast. Mr. Rea has won a NewEngland Emmy Award and alsoreceived the 1987 United PressInternational Award for outstandingnews reporting.Theo Spencer ’84 The Work ofthe Natural Resources DefenseCouncil Mr. Spencer is a seniorproject manager with the NaturalResources Defense Councilworking on global climatechange issues. He has extensiveexperience as a journalist, workingpreviously as a reporter withFortune magazine, New YorkNewsday, the Albuquerque Tribuneand the Stamford Advocate. Hehas written numerous freelancearticles for national publicationssuch as the New York Times<strong>Magazine</strong>, New York <strong>Magazine</strong>and Art Forum.Elise Forbes Tripp ’60 IraqWar Soldiers’ Stories Ms. Trippeis a professor at HolyokeCommunity College and theauthor of Surviving Iraq: Soldiers’Stories (2007). She earned herPh.D. from the Johns HopkinsSchool of Advanced InternationalStudies and was an internationalrelations counselor for UNaffairs at the World Bank.Nick Morton ’02 Iraq WarSoldiers’ Stories Mr. Morton isa veteran of Operation IraqiFreedom, serving as a sergeantin the U.S. Army, and a contributorto Elise Forbes Trippe’s book,Surviving Iraq: Soldiers’ Stories(2007).Caroline Sabin ’86 Teach forAmerica Program Ms. Sabin wasa charter member of Teach forAmerica; she taught Englishfor three years at an urban highschool in Pasadena, California.She now teaches English at<strong>Milton</strong> <strong>Academy</strong>.Jesse Robinson ’94 Teach forAmerica Program Ms. Robinsonstarted her teaching careerthrough Teach for America in amiddle school in the Bronx. Shelater taught in charter schools inSan Jose and Boston and is workingto become a principal at anurban school.66 <strong>Milton</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong>
Elected in AprilTwo new trustees join the boardEmma Clippinger ’04 A NewKind of Student Activism: Lessonsin Social Entrepreneurship fromRwanda Ms. Clippinger is thefounder of Gardens for HealthInternational. GHI is partneredwith the Rwandese Network forPeople Living with HIV/AIDS(RRP+). Established in 2003, theRRP+ coordinates the activitiesof Rwanda’s nearly 1,000 communitygroups of HIV+ individuals.GHI works with the RRP+to mobilize associations of HIV+individuals around enhancednutrition through sustainableagriculture training and nutritioneducation.Eli Wolff ’95 Disability in SportsMr. Wolff is the manager ofresearch and advocacy at theCenter for the Study of Sportin Society at NortheasternUniversity and works to supportand enhance student and facultyresearch and advocacy initiativesat local, national and internationallevels. He has encouragedthe application of the scholaractivistmethodology with respectto sport and social issues; hewas also a member of the U.S.National Soccer Team from 1995to 2004, and a member of theU.S. Olympic Team in the 1996and 2004 Paralympic Games.Ian Cheney ’98 King Corn andThe Greening of Southie Aftergraduating from Yale University,Mr. Cheney—along with his bestfriend from college—moved tothe corn fields of Iowa, and withthe help of friendly neighbors,genetically modified seeds, andpowerful herbicides, planted andgrew a bumper crop of America’smost-productive, most-subsidizedgrain. This experience ledto his co-directing the acclaimeddocumentary King Corn. Morerecently, he directed The Greeningof Southie, a documentary aboutthe construction of the first“green” residential building, theMacallan, in South Boston.Robert Radtke ’82 MalariaPrevention at the End of theRoad Dr. Radtke is the presidentof Episcopal Relief andDevelopment (ERD), an organizationthat responds to humansuffering around the world,providing emergency assistanceafter disasters, rebuilding communities,and helping childrenand families climb out of poverty.Arnold Saltzman GP’09Did We Win or Lose the ColdWar? Perspectives from a FormerAmbassador Mr. Saltzman servedthe United States under fivepresidents in a wide range ofpolicy-level diplomatic and economicassignments in EasternEurope, Latin America andwithin the United States. Healso served as a naval officer inWorld War II. He was recentlyawarded the Order of Honorfrom the Republic of Georgiaand has received a PresidentialCommendation for his effortson the International NuclearNonproliferation Treaty.Patrick Cook-Deegan Burma:What You Can Do? Mr. Cook-Deegan was an All-Americanlacrosse player at BrownUniversity and has traveled andcycled through New Zealand,Australia, Southeast Asia andthe Middle East. He founded theCycle for Schools project and isworking with a grassroots advocacyorganization called the U.S.Campaign for Burma, a groupthat promotes freedom, democracy,and human rights in thecountry.Erika Mobley ’86Erika Mobley ’86 was electedas a member of the Board ofTrustees in April 2008. Activein global business developmentat Apple, Inc., Erika recentlymoved back to California fromAustralia, having just completedan international assignmentas senior product marketingmanager, iTunes for Australiaand New Zealand. In her workwith Apple, RealNetworks,Amazon.com and Palm, Erikahas had extensive experiencein legal matters, global businessstrategy and deal-making,international law, global productmarketing, strategic branding,anti-piracy and copyrightlaw enforcement in the musicindustry, from the traditionalthrough the digital era.Erika is a graduate of YaleUniversity and GeorgetownUniversity Law Center. A memberof <strong>Milton</strong>’s Head of SchoolCouncil, Erika has also servedas a class agent and a reunioncommittee member, andhas faithfully attended manySan Francisco <strong>Milton</strong> events.She lives with her husband,Andrew Speight, and theirchildren, Colin and Avery, inBrisbane, California.V-Nee Yeh ’77V-Nee Yeh ’77, one of the firststudents to enroll at <strong>Milton</strong>from Hong Kong, was electedto the Board of Trustees inApril 2008. V-Nee is the founderand director of CheetahInvestment ManagementLimited. Cheetah is a HongKong–based investment advisoryfirm that specializes inabsolute return strategiesand hedge funds. With extensiveexperience in corporatefinance—including roles withthe Lazard Group in London,Hong Kong and New York—V-Nee has held positions onthe Listing Committee of TheStock Exchange of Hong KongLimited and on China’s CSRCListing Committee. Accordingto Cheetah’s Web site, V-Neeis a “pioneer in applying valueinvesting in Asia, having beena co-founder of one of the largestvalue fund managers inHong Kong.”V-Nee is a graduate of WilliamsCollege and ColumbiaUniversity’s School of Law.He is an active volunteer for<strong>Milton</strong>’s admissions effortsin Hong Kong and in 2007established the Yeh FamilyScholarship Fund, whichassists students from GreaterChina. He and his wife, Mira,have one daughter, Nadya.<strong>Milton</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> 67