Experts on Trump & Sadiq Khan, Obama to Hiroshima, Fed Government & NC, Facebook Bias, Extinctions
This week WMC SheSource features experts on London Mayor Sadiq Khan rejecting Trump's offer to make him an 'exception' to a ban on Muslim's entering the USA, President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima, the Department of Justice suing North Carolina, Facebook being accused of liberal bias, and a study that shows 1 in 5 plant species on Earth are facing extinction.
In light of the new Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, rejecting Donald Trump's offer to make him an exception to his ban on Muslims entering the US, we FEATURE Zainab Al-Suwaij. Zainab Al-Suwaij is the co-founder and executive director of the American Islamic Congress, a post-September 11th social activist organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that works to foster tolerance, promote civil society and civil rights, and mobilize a moderate voice in the American Muslim community. Ms. Al-Suwaij’s writings on Iraq, Muslim women, and Islam have appeared in the The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Boston Globe, and The Houston Chronicle, and she has been interviewed on national programming including National Public Radio, CNN, Fox News.
With news that President Obama will be the first US president to visit Hiroshima, we FEATURE Yuki Tatsumi. Yuki Tatsumi is a senior associate of the East Asia program at the Stimson Center. Before joining Stimson, Tatsumi worked as a research associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and as the special assistant for political affairs at the Embassy of Japan in Washington. Tatsumi is a co-author of Global Security Watch: Japan (Praeger, 2010), an author of Japan's National Security Policy Infrastructure: Can Tokyo Meet Washington's Expectations? (Stimson Center, 2008), and an editor/contributing author of The New Nuclear Agenda: Prospects for US-Japan Cooperation (Stimson Center, 2012). Media includes: New York Times, PBS Newshour, Al Jazeera, The Japan Times, Foreign Policy, Television, Print, Radio, Online
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The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against North Carolina's discriminatory bathroom laws, for analysis we FEATURE Amy Epstein Gluck. Amy Epstein Gluck has represented individuals and corporate clients in Virginia and Washington, D.C. for almost 20 years and her current practice focuses extensively on employment law. She advises and represents employees who have been discriminated against on account of their sex, age, disability, or race, including sexual harassment, wrongful termination, and other EEO matters. Amy’s passion has been representing women, often older, disabled, or sexually harassed, who have been discriminated against in their workplaces in violation of federal law. Amy has extensive knowledge of federal laws prohibiting job discrimination including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Equal Pay Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, and Family Medical Leave Act. Media includes: Washington Post, Lexology, Corporate Council
Facebook has been accused of not featuring conservative media in its trending news feature, to discuss, we FEATURE Eve K. Mayer. Ranked by Forbes as the Fifth Most Influential Woman in Social Media, Eve Mayer (@LinkedinQueen) is the CEO of Social Media Delivered, one of the most respected social media companies worldwide serving clients with consulting, training and outsourced social media. Eve is the author of Social Media for the CEO and The Social Media Business Equation. Her groundbreaking work in social media has been featured on American Express Open Forum, CIO.com, Forbes, Social Media Today, Mashable, Huffington Post and many others.
A study has shown that 1 in 5 plant species on Earth are currently facing extinction, for more information we FEATURE Jane Carter Ingram. Jane Carter Ingram is the Director of the Ecosystem Services Program at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), where she works with WCS staff and partners around the world to identify and develop innovative approaches such as Payments for Ecosystem Services that stimulate the sustainable management of biodiversity and ecosystems. She has presented her work in numerous articles, book chapters, reports, and documentaries and is the lead editor of a recently released two volume series on "Integrating Ecology and Poverty Reduction", which Professor Jeffrey Sachs has written are an example of “sustainable development analysis at its best”.
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