NATIONAL POVERTY SUMMIT | APRIL 2, 2014 | WASHINGTON, DC

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9:00-9:30 AM Networking Breakfast

9:30-9:45 AM Welcome and Introductory Remarks

Mark Katz, Chairman, ArentFox LLPRev. Larry Snyder, President, Catholic Charities USA

Special Guest: Melissa Rogers, Executive Director, White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships

9:45-10:30 AM Conversation on the Beginnings of the War on Poverty

The Honorable James Clyburn (D-SC-6)Mark Shriver, Senior Vice President Strategic Initiatives, Save the Children

10:30-10:45 AM Break

10:45 AM-12:00 PM Thought Leaders on Poverty: Perspectives from Across the Aisle

The Honorable Richard Hudson (R-NC-8)The Honorable Jim McGovern (D-MA-2) Moderated by Major Garrett, Chief White House Correspondent, CBS News

12:00-1:00 PM Lunch

1:00-2:15 PM Conversation with CEOs: Transforming Society’s Response to Poverty

Susan Dreyfus, President and CEO, Alliance for Children and Families

David Beckmann, President, Bread for the World

Rev. Larry Snyder, President, Catholic Charities USA

Rabbi Steve Gutow, President and CEO, Jewish Council for Public Affairs

Charlotte Haberaecker, President and CEO, Lutheran Services in America

Nan Roman, President and CEO, National Alliance to End Homelessness

David Barringer, CEO, Society of St. Vincent de Paul

Moderated by Gloria Johnson-Cusack, Executive Director, Leadership 18

2:15-2:30 PM Break

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2:30-3:30 PM Innovative Programs and Successful Initiatives

“Pathway of Hope”Major Darryl Leedom, National Human Services Secretary The Salvation Army “Collaborating for Clients” Eileen Hyde, Director of Network Engagement, Collaborating for Clients Jessica Jelinski, Director of Partnerships, Collaborating for Clients Feeding America

“Rapid Re-Housing”Sharon McDonald, Director for Families and Youth National Alliance to End Homelessness “Systemic Change”Sheila Gilbert, National President Society of St. Vincent de Paul

“NOCRA Laboratories”Candy Hill, Executive Vice President, Social Policy and External Affairs Catholic Charities USA

Moderated by Tracy Wareing, Executive Director American Public Human Services Association

3:30 – 4:15 PM Open Forum

Moderated by Michael Gerson, Opinion Writer, The Washington Post

4:15-4:30 PM Closing Remarks

Susan Dreyfus, President and CEO, Alliance for Children and Families

4:30-5:30 PM Networking Cocktail Reception

U.S. Representative James E. ClyburnRepresenting the 6th District of South Carolina

President Barack Obama has said he is, “One of a handful of people who, when they speak, the entire Congress listens.” As Assistant Democratic Leader in the 113th Congress, the number three Democrat in the House, James E. Clyburn is the leadership liaison to the Appropriations Committee and one of the Democratic Caucus’ primary liaisons to the White House. Working with the internal caucuses, he plays a prominent role in messaging and outreach.

His humble beginnings in Sumter South Carolina, as the eldest son of an activist fundamentalist minister and an independent civic minded beautician, grounded him securely in family, faith and public service. He was elected president of his NAACP youth chapter when he was 12 years old, helped organize many civil rights marches and demonstrations as a student leader at South Carolina State College, and even met his wife Emily in jail during one of his incarcerations.

When Clyburn came to Congress in 1993, he was elected co-President of his Freshman class and quickly rose through leadership ranks. He was elected Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1999, and his reputation as a leader and consensus-builder helped him win a difficult three-way race for House Democratic Caucus Vice Chair in 2002. Three years later, he was unanimously elected Chair of the Democratic Caucus. When Democrats regained the House majority in 2006, Congressman Clyburn was elevated by his colleagues to House Majority Whip.

As a national leader he has worked to respond to the needs of America’s diverse communities. He champi-oned rural communities supporting the development of regional water projects, community health centers, and broadband connections. He has supported higher education by leading the charge for increased Pell grants; investing millions in science and math programs and historic preservation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. He has encouraged economic development by securing funding for Empowerment Zones; investing in green technology development such as nuclear, wind, hydrogen and biofuels; and directing 10 percent of Recovery Act funding to communities 20 percent under the poverty level for the past 30 years. Clyburn was instrumental in advancing into law measures to resolve historic discrimination issues, significantly reducing the statutory disparity in cocaine sentencing and compensating African and Native American farmers who suffered racial discrimination under the USDA loan program

Jim and Emily Clyburn have three daughters, Mignon, Jennifer Reed, and Angela Hannibal; two sons-in-law, Walter Reed and Cecil Hannibal; and three grandchildren, Walter A. Clyburn Reed, Sydney Alexis Reed, and Layla Joann Clyburn Hannibal.

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Mark K. ShriverSenior Vice President, Strategic InitiativesSave the Children

Mark K. Shriver is Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Senior Advisor to the CEO at Save the Chil-dren, where he leads a cross-agency effort to motivate and mobilize Americans to make children at home and abroad a national priority. Shriver’s career fighting for social justice in advocacy and service organizations, as well as elected office, has focused on advancing the right of every child to a safe and vibrant childhood.

Shriver joined Save the Children in 2003 as Vice President for U.S. Programs and created the agency’s early childhood development, literacy, and health programs in the United States. Under his leadership, the programs expanded to 220 schools in 17 states, benefitting 165,000 children, including more than 400 children at four Head Start centers. Independent evaluations show that children in the early childhood development program scored well within the normal range for all children, and better than children from other long-standing programs, on a commonly-used vocabulary test. In the literacy program, children improved their reading as much as if they attended an additional five months of school, and the number of children reading at or above grade level more than doubled from the start of the school year to the end.

In 2005, Shriver created Save the Children’s domestic emergencies programs to ensure the safety and wellbe-ing of children before, during, and after disaster strikes. He led a national coalition that convinced Congress to create the National Commission on Children and Disasters and was appointed to the Commission by Senator Harry Reid (D-NV). He was elected chairperson by his fellow commissioners and served in that role for the life of the Commission (2008-2011).

Shriver was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1994 to 2002. He was the first Chair of the Joint Committee on Children, Youth and Families, and was appointed Chair of the Children and Youth Sub-committee of Maryland’s House Ways and Means Committee. He was repeatedly recognized as Outstanding Legislator of the Year by prominent advocacy and civic organizations.

In 1988, Shriver founded the innovative Choice Program, which serves delinquent and at-risk youth through intensive, community-based counseling. He subsequently created The Choice Jobs Program, Inc., a private non-profit that trains, places and supports former Choice clients in jobs, as well as The Choice Middle Schools Program, a model for keeping at-risk middle school children in school.

Shriver has been widely covered and published in the national media, including The New York Times, The Wash-ington Post, Newsweek, Time, The Huffington Post, The Today Show, The Colbert Report, NPR, ABC News, CNN, Morning Joe, Fox & Friends, The Washington Times, The Times-Picayune, The Tennessean, The Shreveport Times, The Detroit News, and The Birmingham News.

Shriver received his B.A. from The College of the Holy Cross in 1986 and a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University in 1993. He has received honorary degrees from Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland, The College of the Holy Cross, and Wheelock College. He resides in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife, Jeanne, and their three children, Molly, Tommy, and Emma.

Shriver’s New York Times and Washington Post best-selling memoir, “A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver,” was published in June 2012 by Henry Holt and received a 2013 Christopher Award.

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U.S. Representative Richard Hudson Representing the 8th District of North Carolina

Richard Hudson was elected in November 2012 to represent North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District. Rich-ard graduated from Myers Park High School in Charlotte and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte while serving as Student Body President.

Prior to being elected to Congress, Richard founded Cabarrus Marketing Group, a small business in Concord, NC, that provides strategic communications consulting and business development services. As a small business owner and operator, Richard understands the challenges confronting business leaders who struggle to remain competitive and successful in an uncertain economy. He is committed to creating jobs at home through policies that give small businesses and entrepreneurs the confidence they need to expand, invest and hire new workers.Richard also has extensive public service experience. He served North Carolina’s 8th District as District Director for Congressman Robin Hayes and led the Congressman’s North Carolina offices for six years. He also served as a Chief of Staff for three different members of Congress, gaining valuable insight into how to shake up the status quo in Washington to provide greater accountability and transparency.

In Congress, Richard is focused on bipartisan solutions for creating jobs, cutting spending, and keeping our homeland secure. He believes Congress must stop the wasteful spending, bailouts, government takeovers and new programs that don’t produce jobs, but leave our children and grandchildren with overwhelming debt.

Richard serves on the House Agriculture Committee, an important seat for the 8th District where agriculture is the #1industry; the Education and Workforce Committee, where he works to reform education, empower the workforce, and grow the economy; and the Homeland Security Committee, where he works to better protect the American people and our nation’s borders. He is the current Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee’s Subcommittee on Transportation Security.

Richard is an avid hunter and outdoorsman. His past volunteer leadership service includes membership on the Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Board of Trustees, Board of Governors of the UNC Charlotte Alumni Association, Board of Managers of the West Cabarrus YMCA and Board of Directors of the Cabarrus Jaycees.

He and his wife, Renee, live in Concord and attend Crossroads Church.

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U.S. Representative Jim McGovernRepresenting the 2nd District of Massachusetts

Since his election in 1996, Congressman Jim McGovern has been widely recognized as a tenacious advocate for his district, a tireless crusader for change, and an unrivaled supporter for social justice and fundamental human rights.

Currently serving his ninth term in Congress, McGovern serves as the second ranking Democrat on the powerful House Rules Committee, which sets the terms for debate and amendments on most legislation; and a member of the House Agriculture Committee. In those roles, McGovern has secured millions of dollars in federal grants and assistance for Massachusetts. McGovern is also co-chair of both the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and the House Hunger Caucus. He also serves as Co-Chair of the Northeast Midwest Congressional Coalition. Over the past 16 years, McGovern has consistently delivered millions of dollars for jobs, vital local and regional projects, small businesses, public safety, regional and mass transportation projects, and affordable housing around Massachusetts.

McGovern has authored important legislation to increase Pell Grant funding to allow more students access to higher education; to provide funds to preserve open space in urban and suburban communities; and to give tax credits to employers who pay the salaries of their employees who are called up to active duty in the Guard and Reserves. A strong proponent of healthcare reform, his legislative efforts included reducing the cost of home health care, giving patients the dignity to be cared for in their own homes with the help of medical professionals.McGovern voted against the initial authorization of force in Iraq in 2002, and has been among the most prom-inent Congressional voices on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. McGovern introduced a bipartisan, bicameral bill calling for a flexible timetable for withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan as a matter of national security and fiscal responsibility.

McGovern has also taken a leadership role in the fight against hunger at home and abroad, successfully ex-panding the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program, which helps alleviate child hunger and poverty by providing nutritious meals to children in schools in the world’s poorest countries.McGovern is one of the leading voices in Congress fighting to overturn Citizens United, and has become one of the main advocates in the fight against corporate personhood.

Before his election to Congress, McGovern spent 14 years working as a senior aide for the late U.S. Represen-tative John Joseph Moakley (D-South Boston), former dean of the Massachusetts delegation and Chairman of the House Rules Committee. In 1989, McGovern was the lead investigator on the Moakley Commission Con-gressional Investigation into the murders of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter in 1989. The investigation ultimately led to a seminal change in U.S. foreign policy towards El Salvador when determined that the Salvadoran military was implicated in the murders. That landmark determination led to future military aid from the U.S. being conditioned on an improved human rights record.

Jim McGovern was born on November 20, 1959, in Worcester, the son of two successful small business owners. His two sisters are elementary school teachers in Worcester’s public school system.

McGovern earned his Bachelor of Arts (‘81) and Masters of Public Administration (‘84) degrees from The Amer-ican University, working his way through college by serving as an aide in the office of U.S. Senator George Mc-Govern (D-SD). He went on to manage Senator McGovern’s 1984 Presidential campaign in Massachusetts, and delivered his nomination speech during the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco.

Jim is married to Lisa Murray McGovern. The McGovern’s have a son, Patrick and a daughter, Molly.

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Major GarrettChief White House Correspondent, CBS News Columnist At-Large National Journal

Major Garrett was named CBS News’ Chief White House Correspondent in November 2012. As Chief White House Correspondent, Garrett reports for all CBS News broadcasts and platforms. He is also a substitute anchor of “Face The Nation.”

While covering the White House for CBS News, Garrett reported extensively on the fiscal cliff negotiations; cov-ered President Obama’s second inauguration; and reported breaking details of Obama’s gun control proposals after the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. Garrett also traveled with President Obama to the Middle East to cover the president’s first foreign trip of his second term in office.

Before joining CBS News as Chief White House Correspondent, Garrett was a fixture during CBS News’ coverage of Campaign 2012 through a partnership with the National Journal, where he was Chief White House Correspon-dent. He co-hosted the network’s coverage of the 2011 South Carolina Republican Primary debate alongside “CBS Evening News” Anchor and Managing Editor Scott Pelley.

Prior to National Journal, Garrett was the Chief White House Correspondent for Fox News. During his eight years at Fox, Garrett also covered two presidential elections, Congress, the war in Iraq and other major stories. Before joining Fox News, Garrett was a White House correspondent for CNN during the administrations of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Previously, he was a senior editor and congressional correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, where he reported on Congress and the impeachment of President Clinton. He was a congres-sional reporter for The Washington Times (1990-95) and the newspaper’s deputy national editor (1995-97). Earlier in his career, Garrett was a reporter for The Houston Post, Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Amarillo Globe-News.

Garrett is the author of three books: “Common Cents,” with former Rep. Tim Penny (D-Minn.), Little, Brown Pub-lisher, 1995; “The 15 Biggest Lies in Politics,” St. Martin’s 1999; “The Enduring Revolution,” Crown Forum 2005.Garrett was graduated in 1984 from the University of Missouri with degrees in journalism and political science. A native of San Diego, Calif., he lives in Washington, D.C.

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David BarringerCEO, Society of St. Vincent de Paul

David Barringer is chief executive officer of the National Council of the U.S. Society of St. Vincent de Paul. He has more than 25 years of experience in both nonprofit and for-profit management that includes operational, development, public policy, fundraising, retail and marketing skills. Prior to joining the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in August 2013, he held positions in healthcare, as well as progressively more responsible positions with Goodwill Industries, a $4 billion membership organization of nearly 200 agencies. He also served as executive director of the COPD Foundation, a $10 million national nonprofit agency that assists individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

A native of Washington, D.C., he has a bachelor of science degree in journalism and public relations, and a mas-ter of science degree in general administration (marketing administration), both from the University of Maryland.

David BeckmannPresident, Bread for the World

World Food Prize laureate David Beckmann is one of the foremost U.S. advocates for hungry and poor people. He has been president of Bread for the World since 1991, leading large-scale and successful campaigns to strengthen U.S. political commitment to overcome hunger and poverty in the country and globally. Beckmann is also president of Bread for the World Institute, which provides policy analysis on hunger and strategies to end it. He founded and serves as president of the Alliance to End Hunger, which engages diverse U.S. institutions—Muslim and Jewish groups, corporations, unions, and universities—in building the political will to end hunger.

Under his leadership, Bread for the World has garnered an impressive record of achievements. Due in part to the persistent, bipartisan advocacy of Bread members, the U.S. government has tripled funding for effective programs to help developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Bread has also helped double funding for U.S. nutrition programs, assisting millions of families in the United States who struggle to feed their children. During the budget controversy that started in 2010, Bread for the World has worked with other faith groups to maintain a circle of protection around programs focused on hungry and poor people in the U.S. and worldwide.

Susan Dreyfus President and CEO, Alliance for Children and Families

Susan N. Dreyfus is president and CEO of the Alliance for Children and Families. Prior to joining the Alliance on Jan. 3, 2012, Dreyfus was secretary for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. She was appointed by Gov. Chris Gregoire in May 2009 and served as a member of the Governor’s Executive Cabinet. She had responsibility for Medicaid, aging and long-term care, child welfare, behavioral health care, juvenile justice, economic assistance, and other human services.

Dreyfus is a member of Leadership 18, a coalition of CEOs from the largest and most respected nonprofit organizations in America. She is an elected member of the Leadership 18 Executive Committee. She also is a member of the American Public Human Services Association, Generations United, National Human Services Assembly, and International Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers Boards of Directors and the ANDRUS Sanctuary Institute Advisory Board.

Dreyfus enjoys reading the biographies of the United States presidents, being with her family—especially her three grandchildren—and she has completed four marathons.

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Rabbi Steve GutowPresident and CEO, Jewish Council for Public Affairs

Steve Gutow, President and CEO of the Jewish Council of Public Affairs has worked in his present position to protect the security of Israel, to move the Jewish community and the US government to end genocide in Darfur, restore civility in public life, fight poverty, and create a sustainable environment. He has been named to the “Forward 50” and Newsweek/Daily Beast list of most influential rabbis three times since 2008.

Since coming to JCPA in 2006, he has focused on enhancing the JCPA’s interfaith relations. Steve has built im-portant associations with the leadership of the National Council of Churches, Catholic Charities and the Islamic Society of North America. He has participated in interfaith missions to Vietnam, Israel, Jordan and Indonesia. This past May, he served as scholar in residence on a trip led by the Baltimore Jewish Council bringing local rabbis, ministers and imams to Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Steve graduated from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and was Rabbi of the Reconstructionist Minyan of St. Louis. Steve served as Adjunct Law Professor at St. Louis University.

Charlotte Haberaecker President and CEO, Lutheran Services in America

Charlotte Haberaecker is the new President and CEO of Lutheran Services in America (LSA) which is comprised of the LCMS, ELCA and a network of more than 300 Lutheran health and social ministry organizations across the country that serve 1 out of every 50 Americans and annually provide more than $18 billion in services. Most recently, Charlotte was the number two executive at Global Impact, a $110 million non-profit organization that provides funding for critical humanitarian needs at home and around the world. While there she led two of the world’s largest fundraising campaigns, raising more than $80 million a year. Previously, she held senior lead-ership positions at Price Waterhouse where she helped strengthen organizations providing children and family services and health care, and Fannie Mae, where she led an industry transformation initiative.

Charlotte is a life-long Lutheran and a member of Hope Lutheran Church in Annandale, Virginia.

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Nan Roman President and CEO, National Alliance to End Homelessness

Nan Roman, President and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, is a leading national voice on the issue of homelessness. The Alliance is a public education, advocacy and capacity-building organization with over 10,000 nonprofit and public sector agencies and corporate partners around the country. Under her leadership, the Alliance has developed a pragmatic plan to end homelessness. To implement this plan, Ms. Roman works closely with members of Congress and the Administration, as well as with cities and states across the nation. She collaborates with Alliance partners to educate the public about the nature of homelessness and successful solutions. She has researched and written on the issue, is frequently interviewed by the press, and regularly speaks at events around the country. Her unique perspective on homelessness and its solutions comes from over thirty years of local and national experience in the areas of poverty and community-based organization.

Ms. Roman received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Illinois. She sits on numerous boards and advisory committees. She lives in Washington, DC.

Rev. Larry SnyderPresident, Catholic Charities USA

Father Larry Snyder is President of Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), the national office of more than 160 local Catholic Charities agencies nationwide that provide help and create hope to more than 10 million people a year, regardless of their religious, social, or economic backgrounds. Since joining CCUSA in 2005, Snyder has been responsible for leading the overall direction of the Catholic Charities movement and the strategic leadership of CCUSA. He oversees CCUSA’s work to reduce poverty in America, encouraging government, business, and academia to raise the issue of poverty in the national conversation.

Snyder is the author of Think and Act Anew: How Poverty in America Affects Us All and What We Can Do About It. The book calls on our nation to commit to supporting innovative approaches to combating poverty and spot-lights effective and efficient programs being run by Catholic Charities agencies across the country.

Snyder earned a bachelor’s degree from Illinois Benedictine College in Lisle, Ill. He also holds a master’s degree of divinity from the Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity and a master’s of public administration from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 2011, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from St. Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania.

Snyder is the Emeritus Chair for Leadership 18 and previously served on the board of the Independent Sector. He is also a trustee of America’s Promise Alliance.

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Gloria Johnson-CusackExecutive Director, Leadership 18

Gloria Johnson-Cusack serves as Executive Director of Leadership 18, an alliance of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) responsible for leading some of the country’s largest and most well respected charities, non-profits and faith-based organizations. As a group, member organizations serve over 87 million people annually and represent $44 billion in total revenue. Johnson-Cusack brings more than 20 years of management, political and strategic communications expertise informed by leadership positions in the private sector, U.S. Congress, national presidential campaigns, municipal and federal government, and the White House.

In the public affairs arena, Johnson-Cusack served as Director of the Office of Congressional Relations at the Peace Corps, Special Assistant to the President in the White House Office of National Service, and Director of Constituent Relations at the Corporation for National Service. She was Chief of Staff for the D.C. Office of the Inspector General and was policy advisor to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and Senator Albert Gore, Jr.Johnson-Cusack holds a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College, Columbia University and a master’s degree in Public Administration from the Key Executive Management Program at American University. She is a founder of the Eli J. Segal Citizen Leadership program at Brandeis University, a member of the federal Presidio Trust’s Advisory Committee focused on creating a National Center for Service and Innovative Leadership, and a board member of the OIC of America which focuses on providing quality education, training, employment, and housing for economically disadvantaged populations.

She is a lay church leader and breast cancer survivor and advocate. She is married with one adult daughter.

Tracy WareingExecutive Director, American Public Human Services Association

Tracy L. Wareing is the Executive Director of American Public Human Services Association (APHSA), a bipartisan, nonprofit membership organization representing the state and local human service agencies through their top-level leadership. APHSA houses nine affiliate organizations, whose members administer program-level and system-support operations in the states. Building on the expertise and experience of the APHSA membership, Wareing is leading the Association’s efforts to drive transformation of the health and human services system to a more sustainable path that is both effective and cost efficient. Wareing was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Children and Families, and is a strong advocate for strengthening public-private partnerships in order to advance the collective impact of both sectors on the human services field.

Wareing has a long history in high-level policy development and public administration. Prior to joining APHSA, Wareing served as a senior adviser to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Before moving to Washington D.C. in 2009, Wareing lived in Arizona and served as Director of the Arizona Department of Economic Security, an integrated human service agency. In that role, she oversaw protective services for children and adults; cash assistance and supplemental nutrition assistance; Medicaid eligibility determinations; work-force and employment supports; unemployment insurance; aging and adult services as well as child care and child support enforcement. Prior to her cabinet appointment, she served as policy adviser for human services under then Arizona Gov. Napolitano and as interim deputy director of the state’s child welfare division. She has also served as the lead counsel in the Arizona Attorney General’s office representing child protective services. Wareing began her career in private practice at the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson, LLP in Phoenix.

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Michael GersonOpinion Writer, The Washington Post

Michael Gerson is a nationally syndicated columnist who appears twice weekly in the Washington Post. He is the author of Heroic Conservatism (HarperOne, 2007) and co-author of City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era (Moody, 2010). Gerson serves as Senior Advisor at ONE, a bipartisan organization dedicated to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable diseases. He is the Hastert Fellow at the J. Dennis Hastert Center for Economics, Government, and Public Policy at Wheaton College in Illinois. He serves on the United States Holo-caust Memorial Council, the Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Committee on Conscience, the Board of Directors of Bread for the World, the Initiative for Global Development Leadership Council, and the Board of Directors of the International Rescue Committee. He is co-Chair of The Poverty Forum and Co-Chair of the Catholic/Evangelical Dialogue with Dr. Ron Sider. From 2006 to 2009, Gerson was the Roger Hertog Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Before joining CFR in 2006, Gerson was a top aide to President George W. Bush as Assistant to the President for Policy and Strategic Planning. He was a key administration advocate for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), the fight against global sex trafficking, and funding for women’s justice and empowerment issues. Prior to that appointment, he served in the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Presidential Speechwriting and Assistant to the President for Speech-writing and Policy Advisor. Gerson joined Bush’s presidential campaign in early 1999 as chief speechwriter and a senior policy adviser.

He was previously a senior editor covering politics at U.S. News and World Report. Gerson was a speechwriter and policy adviser for Jack Kemp and a speechwriter for Bob Dole during the 1996 presidential campaign. He has also served Senator Dan Coats of Indiana as Policy Director. Gerson is a graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois. He grew up in the St. Louis area and now lives with his wife and sons in northern Virginia.

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