Experts on Iran nuclear deal, Eric Garner, NASA, non-violent drug offenders, and HIV
This week, we feature experts on the landmark deal on the Iran nuclear program, New York City's settlement with Eric Garner's family, NASA's New Horizon Spacecraft's mission to Pluto, Obama's release of non-violent drug offenders, and the success in meeting the goal of treating 15 million HIV patients.
Trial Lawyer, former prosecutor and Assistant Attorney General for MD Member, Supreme Court Bar
Legalspeaks.com
For interviews on Eric Garner and $5.9M settlement.
Following New York City's settlement for $5.9 million with Eric Garner's family, we FEATURE Debbie Hines. She is a Washington, D.C. based trial attorney and a former Maryland prosecutor, who is an expert in criminal law, high profile criminal cases, gun laws, death penalty cases and voting laws. Debbie frequently appears in the media as a legal commentator and guest host addressing high profile legal cases and various legal issues on C-SPAN, the Michael Eric Dyson show, the CBS, NBC, Fox 5 News, and ABC Washington, DC TV affiliates, CBC-Canadian, RT America TV, Pacifica and Sirius XM radio. Her other media experiences include Huffington Post, Politic365, the Women’s Media Center, NPR, CNN, the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun and Baltimore Afro American.
For interviews on NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft mission to Pluto.
To discuss NASA's New Horizon Spacecraft mission to Pluto, we FEATURE Dr. Jane Rigby, who is an Astrophysicist at NASA. She has four years of experience at NASA and is the principal investigator on multiple scientific programs using the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Herschel Space Telescope. Her media experience includes Nature, Science, TEDx, Physics World and Astrobetter.
For interviews on Obama's release of non-violent drug offenders.
After Obama commuted the sentences of 46 non-violent drug offenders and became the first president to visit a federal prison, we FEATURE Deborah Jiang Stein. She is the author of Women Behind Bars collected interviews, and the memoir, Prison Baby, a national speaker and consultant, and founder of The unPrison Project, a nonprofit working to empower and inspire incarcerated women and girls with life skills and mentoring. Her media experiences include MPR, Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, and American Public Radio.
Former US Assistant Surgeon General; First Deputy Asst. Secretary for Women's Health; Director, Health Innovations Lab
New America
For interviews on HIV goal to treat 15M.
According to the United Nations Aid agency, the goal to get HIV treatment to 15 million people by the end of 2015 has already been met. To comment, we FEATURE Susan Blumenthal, M.D., a Senior Fellow in Health Policy at the New America Foundation. She also serves as a Senior Policy and Medical Advisor at amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research and is Chair of the Global Health Program at the Meridian International Center where her work focuses on a broad range of public health and science issues facing the nation and world. Formerly, she served as U.S. Assistant Surgeon General, Senior Global Health Advisor and the first Deputy Assistant Secretary of Women’s Health in the US Department of Health and Human Services and was a White House Advisor on Health. Her media experience includes PBS, Huffington Post, S News and World Report, Elle, and PBS.
To discuss the implications of the Iran nuclear deal that was agreed on Tuesday by six world powers, we SPOTLIGHT Barbara Slavin, a regular commentator on US foreign policy and Iran. She is the author of Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the US and the Twisted Path to Confrontation, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center and Washington correspondent for Al-Monitor.com, a website devoted to news from and about the Middle East. Her media experience includes The Washington Times, USA TODAY, The Economist, the New York Times.
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