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About the 2020 Washington, DC Interviews

Every two years, juniors and seniors from Mount Madonna School travel to Washington, DC to meet with both political and NGO leaders. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we will be conducting several interviews via video call so that we are still able to speak with inspirational leaders even though we are not able to physically travel to Washington, DC in 2020.

The goals of the “Values in World Thought” program are to develop our capacities of self-awareness and to support an ongoing inquiry into the values that inform our actions and our life purpose. We do this in order strengthen our ability to engage in positive and mutually beneficial relationships with each other and with our communities. It is our intention to support the development of the citizens the world most needs now; those who can respond with creativity and care in these changing and challenging times, and those who can balance their own needs in relationship to the needs of others in the communities of which they are part.

DC 2020 SCHEDULE-

Monday May 4th:
George Shultz – Fmr Secretary of State

Tuesday May 5th:
Ambassador Melanne Verveer – Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace & Security
Susannah Welford – President of Running Start, Founder of WUFPAC

Wednesday May 6th:
Laura Liswood – Secretary General: Council of Women World Leaders
Hardin Lang – Vice President of Refugees International

Thursday May 7th:
Senator Joe Manchin
Alyse Nelson – President of Vital Voices
Congressman Jimmy Panetta

Friday May 8th:
David Yang – Vice President of Applied Conflict Transformation at the US Institute of Peace

A short clip from our Zoom interview with Susannah Wellford, Founder and CEO of Running Start, on May 5th, 2020.

Video: Susannah Wellford, “Diversity in Politics”

Video: Alyse Nelson ‘Shifting Cultural Bias’

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