Bradley A. Blakeman most recently was the President of Freedom's Watch a right of center conservative advocacy 501 C4. Prior to founding Freedom's Watch, Mr. Blakeman was a member of President George W. Bush's Senior Staff having served from 2001-2004 as Deputy Assistant to the President for Appointments and Scheduling, Vetting and Research, Correspondence and Surrogate Scheduling.
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John Brown is currently Adjunct Professor of Liberal Studies and Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Associate at Georgetown University. For many years a consultant for the Library of Congress's "Open World" exchange program with the Russian Federation, Brown is a member of the Public Diplomacy Council and on Business for Diplomatic Action's Senior Advisory Council. For many years he was a Senior Fellow at the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy.
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David Buckley is a Lecturer for the Semester in Washington Program's International Affairs seminar. David is a Doctoral Candidate in Georgetown University's Government Department, and has a M.A. in Comparative Ethnic Conflict from Queen's University Belfast, where he studied as a Mitchell Scholar from 2004-2005. His research focuses on religion's impact on contemporary international politics, including religion's role in ethnic conflict zones and the relationship between religion and democracy. He serves as a Research Assistant at Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, and previously worked on religion and politics at the Center for American Progress and Faith in Public Life. He holds a B.A. in Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia.
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Professor Greg Havrilak has worked in numerous posts as both lecturer and religious advisor. For nine years he taught ancient, medieval and modern philosophy at the City University of New York and at Nassau College on Long Island. In 1998, he settled in Europe to become the Senior Religious Advisor to NATO AIRNORTH, and to the military attach? at the American Embassy in Paris. When the Kosovo War broke out, he was dispatched to the Balkans to work with Catholic, Islamic and Orthodox leaders and Non-Governmental Agencies in Albania and Kosovo on humanitarian, religious and human rights issues.
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Mark Luckner serves as senior policy advisor on health care, human services, and public safety issues for Governor Martin O'Malley's StateStat program. In this capacity, Mr. Luckner provides policy and legislative advice and serves as the day-to-day liaison in the Governor's office for three cabinet agencies, with annual budgets of $17 billion. Mr. Luckner works with agency leadership to develop a set of core performance measures for the agencies and then holds the agency leadership accountable in meeting the policy goals of the O'Malley administration.
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Sam Potolicchio is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgetown University where he teaches American Politics and Public Affairs and Research Methods for the Semester in Washington Program. At Georgetown, Potolicchio has taught courses on Presidential Rhetoric, Religion and Politics, Constitutional Law, and the United States Political System.
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Alberto Ruisanchez graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University in 1996 with majors in American Government and Spanish Literature. After graduating, he worked for two years as a paralegal in the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. In 2001, Mr. Ruisanchez graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor on the Harvard Law Review and a Heyman Fellow. After clerking for Judge Juan Torruella on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Mr. Ruisanchez was accepted into the Attorney General's Honors Program at the Department of Justice. Since then, he has been working as an attorney in the Civil Rights Division, where he has helped to enforce the Fair Housing Act, the Public Accommodations Act, and the Voting Rights Act, which prohibit discrimination in housing, places of public accommodations, and voting, respectively. Mr. Ruisanchez recently began working in the Disability Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division helping to enforce the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in employment, places of public accommodation, and state and local governments.
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Erika B. Seamon is a Ph.D. in Religious Pluralism candidate at Georgetown University. Her scholarship is primarily focused on the role of religion in American public life, including First Amendment religion clause debates, American civil religion, and religious rhetoric and symbolism in American politics. Currently she is researching the role of gay marriage and interfaith marriage in the religious and secular spheres of American society. Ms. Seamon has written and published on religious liberty, school vouchers, and the role of the media in political debates; she has been quoted in the New York Times and Chicago Tribune. Ms. Seamon has taught and lectured at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Towson University, and Georgetown College. She received her M.A. in Theological and Religious Studies and M.A.L.S. in Social and Public Policy from Georgetown University.
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A political theorist, Brian Smith completed his doctorate in Government at Georgetown in July 2008, and his research and teaching interests focus on the history of political thought and international affairs. In the 2008-9 year, Brian served as the Jack Miller Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. In September 2009, he will begin a tenure track professorship at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Brian's essays have been published or are currently forthcoming in the journals Polity, Society, The Journal of Libertarian Studies, and Perspectives on Political Science; his 2006 Interpretation article on Adam Smith won the 2007 Templeton Enterprise Award for the best article published on the culture of enterprise by a scholar under the age of 40 in the previous year. The recipient of H.B. Earhart, Richard M. Weaver, Humane Studies, Publius, and Andrew W. Mellon fellowships, Brian attended Moorpark College from 1998-2000, earned his B.A. in History with honors from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2002, and in 2005 was awarded the M.A. in Security Studies from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown.
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