Townhall Meeting on “The China Issue in the 2008 Presidential and Congressional Campaigns”
with Norman J. Ornstein and
“China’s Environmental Challenges and the Country’s Growing Environmental Movement”
by Daniela Salaverry
Location:
Jundt Hall, Room 110, Gonzaga University
Date:
4/17/2008
Starts:
4:00 PM
Ends:
6:00 PM
Cost:
Free
Description:
The program will open with a webcast from Washington, DC featuring noted political analyst Norm Ornstein discussing how China will figure as an issue in the 2008 presidential and congressional elections. National Committee president Steve Orlins will moderate this 45-minute portion of the program, comprised of a 15-minute talk and a half hour for Mr. Ornstein to respond to questions emailed in from audience members throughout the country.
Following the national webcast, Daniela Salaverry will speak in Jundt Hall. Daniela Salaverry is Pacific Environment’s China Program Co-Director and has a unique background in both China and the Environment. Daniela spear-heads the organization's China Program with the overall objective to provide capacity building support to China’s grassroots environmental groups. Daniela has been traveling to China for over a decade, which includes studying Chinese in Harbin, conducting geological research on the Tibetan Plateau, and traveling the Silk-Road as a course instructor for Where There Be Dragons. Prior to joining Pacific Environment, Daniela worked in development and communications at The Nature Conservancy, promoting conservation and community involvement in local land protection initiatives. She attended Middlebury College, where she studied Geology, Environmental Studies and Chinese. Daniela has traveled extensively in China and East Asia, and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He also serves as an election analyst for CBS News and writes a weekly column called "Congress Inside Out" for Roll Call newspaper. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and other major publications, and regularly appears on television programs like The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, and Charlie Rose.
He serves as senior counselor to the Continuity of Government Commission, working to ensure that our institutions of government can be maintained in the event of a terrorist attack on Washington; his efforts in this area are recounted in a profile of him in the June 2003 Atlantic Monthly. His campaign finance working group of scholars and practitioners helped shape the major law, known as McCain/Feingold, that reformed the campaign financing system. Legal Times referred to him as "a principal drafter of the law" and his role in its design and enactment was profiled in the February 2004 issue of Washington Lawyer. He is also co-directing a multi-year effort, called the Transition to Governing Project, to create a better climate for governing in the era of the permanent campaign.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the Campaign Legal Center and of the Board of Trustees of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. He was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. His many books include The Permanent Campaign and Its Future; Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy, both with Thomas E. Mann; and Debt and Taxes: How America Got Into Its Budget Mess and What to Do About It, with John H. Makin. The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and What Can Be Done about It, co-authored by Thomas E. Mann, is published by Oxford University Press.
CHINA Town Hall is a national day of programming on China involving 40 cities throughout the United States.
THE PROGRAM IS SPONSORED BY THE WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF SPOKANE, THE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY AND THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON US.-CHINA RELATIONS.
