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Seminars at Steamboat

Seminars at Steamboat

Seminars at Steamboat was founded in 2003 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that brings experts on a wide range of public policy topics to the Steamboat Springs community in Northwest Colorado. Over the years, Seminars talks have covered the economy, foreign affairs, national security, immigration reform, health care, the media, drugs and sports, the environment, climate change, education, the 9/11 Commission and more.

Seminars at Steamboat talks are always free to the public. The typical format includes a 45- to 50-minute presentation followed by a question and answer session. Video archive of each seminar will be available the following Wednesdays.

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    Zvi Mowshowitz is an author and internet writer who covers the world of AI, including implications for technology, work, people and our future. Much of his work deals with large language models like ChatGPT and its growing list of competitors.
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    Robert Daly’s resume is an eclectic one. He is currently director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., and is recognized internationally as a leading authority on U.S.-China relations.
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    Nancy Reid Gibbs is an author, speaker, presidential historian and commentator on politics and values in the United States.
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    Nathaniel Keohane is president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), an independent, non-partisan, nonprofit organization known nationally and internationally for its effectiveness in bringing stakeholders together to develop innovative, effective and durable climate policies.
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    Craig Fugate is the former administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), during which time he organized recovery efforts for a record eighty-seven disasters in 2011 alone. Before that, as director of the Florida Emergency Management Division, he coordinated the state’s response to Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne (the “Big 4 of ’04”), and Hurricanes Dennis, Katrina and Wilma in 2005.
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    Heather Tanana is highly trained in environmental law and public health, and as a member of the Navajo Nation is dedicated to promoting indigenous rights. She has been asked to contribute to the water chapter for the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), which will analyze the effects of global change on the world’s natural environment, resources and social systems. The assessment, due in 2023, will be submitted to the President and Congress.
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    Matthew Rojansky is one of the country’s pre-eminent Russia scholars. In early 2022 he became President and CEO of the U.S.-Russia Foundation, a private grant-making foundation established to promote the development of the private sector and the rule of law in Russia. Since Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, he has leveraged his deep knowledge base, extensive personal contacts and the foundation’s funding into far-reaching expertise and involvement in the Russia-Ukraine conflict “writ large” – its effects not only on Russia and Ukraine but also on NATO, the European Union and beyond.
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    Wendy Weiser directs the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan think tank and public interest law center that works to revitalize, reform, and defend systems of democracy and justice. Hear her talk for the 2023 Seminars at Steamboat series,"Elections on the Brink: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go to Ensure Fairness and Integrity."
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    Jamie Metzl is one of the world’s leading technology and healthcare futurists and author of the non-fiction bestseller, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity. Hear his talk for the 2023 Seminars at Steamboat lecture series, "R/Evolution: Recasting Life in an Age of Radical Biotechnology."
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    Seminar: The Supreme Court 2022: Institutional Shock and Constitutional Change