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Debilyn Molineaux

Leaders Bridging the Divide

"One of the things that simply spending time with 20-30 people does is it breaks down some of the caricatures that people may have...so you learn that you can disagree with people without being disagreeable."
Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform

"We've wandered into a political region in which partisan conflict has become more intense than in almost any other period in American history. The transpartisan movement is beginning to foster so much communication across the partisan boundaries that the boundaries themselves are beginning to be much more porous."
Al Gore, Former Vice President

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Co-founders

Joseph McCormick, Co-founder, Democracy in America Project
Pat Spino, Co-founder, Democracy in America Project

Co-directors

Ana Micka, President, Citizens for Health
Michael Ostrolenk, Founder, Liberty Coalition

National Steering Committee Co-chairs (Interim)

Mark Gerzon, President, Mediators Foundation; Author, Leading Through Conflict
William Ury, Director, Global Negotiation Project, Harvard Law School; Co-author, Getting to Yes, The Third Side

National Steering Committee Members (Interim)

Bob Barr, Former Congressman, Chairman, Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances
Joan Blades, Co-Founder, MoveOn.org, President, Momsrising.org
Lawry Chickering, Author, Beyond Left and Right, Strategic Foreign Assistance
Roberta Combs, President, Christian Coalition
Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform
Chellie Pingree, President, Common Cause
Rick Shelby, Executive Vice President, American Gas Association
John Steiner, Co-founder, National Commons
Betsy Taylor, Founder and Board Member, Center for a New American Dream

National Advisors -- Participants in the First and Second Conferences on Democracy in America

John Rother, Director of Policy and Strategy, AARP
Joe Goldman, Senior Associate, America Speaks
Maggie Fox, President, America Votes
Shirley Wilcher, Interim Exec. Director, American Assoc. for Affirmative Action
David Keene, Chairman, American Conservative Union
Robert Spanogle, National Adjutant, American Legion
Donna Wiesner, CEO, BrainTrain
Bill Thompson, Former National Field Director, Christian Coalition
Jim Turner, Chairman, Citizens for Health
Dave Keating, Executive Director, Club for Growth
Ginny Sloan, Founder, Constitution Project
Vicki Robin, Co-founder, Conversation CafeCarl Fillichio, Vice President, Council for Excellence in Government
Ethan Leib, Assistant Professor of Law, University of California Hastings, Author, Deliberative Democracy in America
Irma Herrera, Executive Director, Equal Rights Advocates
Tom Beech, President, Fetzer Institute
Barbara Hubbard, Founder, Foundation for Conscious Evolution
Marian Moore, Convener, Lets Talk America
Scott Heiferman, Co-Founder, Meetup.com
Cheryl Graeve, Senior Director, Membership, League of Woman Voters
Ahmed Younis, Director, Muslim Public Affairs Council
Brenda Girton-Mitchell, Assoc. General Secretary, National Council of Churches USA
Susan Partnow, Executive Director, Global Citizens Journey
Gary Aldrich, Founder, Patrick Henry Center
Susan Hackley, Managing Director, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School
Laura Chasin, Co-Founder, Public Conversations Project
Mark Satin, Author, Radical Middle
Michael Toms, Author, Radio Host, Deep Dialogues for Deep Democracy
Robert Fersh, Executive Director, Search for Common Ground USA
Tom Atlee, Author, Tao of Democracy
Julie Ristau, Director, Utne Institute
Leif Utne, Associate Editor, Utne Magazine

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