Foreign Policy for America's 2022 Leadership Summit

Foreign Policy for America was thrilled to bring together our leadership from across the country to participate in our Leadership Summit.

SUNDAY, JUNE 12TH

5:30PM – National Finance Committee Dinner

• Senator Mark Warner, Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

• Michèle Flournoy, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

7:30PM – Welcome Reception

• Special Guest

MONDAY, JUNE 13TH

8:30AM – National Finance Committee Breakfast

• Ambassador Tod Sedgwick, Member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Development Committee, Foreign Policy for America

• Kristina Biyad, Outreach Director, Foreign Policy for America

8:30AM – NextGen Leadership Briefing

• David E. White, Jr., Special Assistant to the President for National Security Agency Personnel

• Claudia Chavez, Special Assistant to the President for Candidate Recruitment

9:00AM – General Registration Begins

9:30AM – Welcome

• Andrew Albertson, Executive Director Foreign Policy for America

9:45AM – Keynote Remarks

• Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins, PhD, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security

10:30AM – Panel: Revitalizing the Toolkit

• Representative Sara Jacobs, Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and House Armed Services Committee

• David Livingston, Senior Advisor to the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate

• Brittany Brown, Director of USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives

• Sasha Baker, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

• Ben Weingrod, Senior Policy Director, Foreign Policy for America (moderator)

11:45AM – Breakout Sessions

Lobbying

• Geo Saba, Chief of Staff, Rep. Ro Khanna

• Greg Adams, Legislative Director, Rep. Barbara Lee

• Ben Weingrod, Senior Director for Policy, Foreign Policy for America

Letters to the Editor and Op-Eds

• Chanda Daniels, Communications Director, Rep. Lauren Underwood

• Akshai Vikram, Nuclear Policy Advisor, Foreign Policy for America

• Kindred Motes, Managing Director, KMSG

12:30PM – Networking Lunch

1:45PM – Panel: Winning with our Values

• Representative Colin Allred, Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee

• Representative Jason Crow, Member of the House Armed Services Committee and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

• Representative Susan Wild, Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee

• Representative Tom Malinowski, Vice Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee

• Lionel C. Johnson, Board Chair, Foreign Policy for America (moderator)

3:00PM – Breakout Sessions

Fundraising

• Rachel Berger, Former Finance Director, Shaheen for Senate

• Hannah Katz, Outreach Associate, Foreign Policy for America

Canvassing and Phone Banks

• Jed Ober, Chief of Staff, Rep. Susan Wild

• Akshai Vikram, Nuclear Policy Advisor, Foreign Policy for America

Organizing

• Kristina Biyad, Outreach Director, Foreign Policy for America

• Andrew Albertson, Executive Director, Foreign Policy for America

3:45PM – Panel: Leading with our Values

• Nazanin Ash, Chief Executive Officer, Welcome.US

• Ricardo Herrero, Executive Director, Cuba Study Group

• Tom Hart, President, The ONE Campaign

• Amira Maaty, Senior Director for MENA Programs, National Endowment for Democracy

• Cindy Huang, Former Director of Office of Refugee Resettlement, Department of Health and Human Services (moderator)

7:30PM – Closing Reception and Awards Ceremony

• NextGen Member of the Year Award: Natalia Cote-Muñoz

• Community Leadership Award: Co-Founders of The Leadership Council for Women in National Security (LCWINS) Tamara Cofman Wittes,

  Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, Ambassador Julianne Smith, Rosa Brooks, Ambassador Nina Hachigian, Heather Hurlburt

• Congressional Leadership Award: Senator Chris Murphy