September 27-29, 2023 | Pittsburgh, PA
2023 Summit Dates Announced!
September 27-29, 2023
Pittsburgh, PA
Global Advisors
Heidi Beirich
Co-Founder, Global Project Against Hate and Extremism
Heidi Beirich is the Co-Founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.
Tore Bjørgo
Director of the Center for Research on Extremism: The Far Right, Hate Crime and Political Violence (C-REX)
Dr. Tore Bjørgo is director of C-REX, a professor at the University of Oslo, and an adjunct professor at the Norwegian Police University College.
Jeff Blattner
Board Chair, HIAS, Special Assistant Attorney General, Colorado Department of Justice, Adjunct Professor, University of Colorado Law School, Senior Fellow, Silicon Flatirons Institute Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship
Jeff Blattner is Board Chair of HIAS, a Jewish humanitarian organization that works in the United States and 16 other countries, providing vital services to refugees and asylum seekers of all faiths.
Jason Blazakis
Professor of Practice and Director of Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS)
Jason Blazakis is a professor at MIIS, where he focuses on threat financing, sanctions, violent extremism, and special operations related research. He is also the Director of MIIS’s Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, where he directs research on domestic terrorism, terrorism finance, recruitment, propaganda, and the use of special operations to counter transnational threats.
William Braniff
Director, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), Professor of the Practice, University of Maryland
William Braniff is the Director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) and a Professor of the Practice at the University of Maryland.
Emma Cardeli
Ph.D, Attending Psychologist & Research Associate, Trauma & Community Resilience Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Instructor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Emma Cardeli, Ph.D. is an Attending Psychologist & Research Associate at the Trauma & Community Resilience Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Instructor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School.
Michael Chertoff
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, The Chertoff Group
On February 15, 2005, Michael Chertoff became the second Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Myrieme Churchill
Executive Director, Parents for Peace
Myrieme Churchill has over 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist, working in variety of settings and with a range of populations in Europe, and the U.S.
Jennifer Ciardelli
Director of the Initiative on the Holocaust and Professional Leadership, United States Holocaust Museum
Jennifer Ciardelli directs the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Initiative on the Holocaust and Professional Leadership (IHPL) which creates educational resources and programs for professionals charged with protecting life and liberty.
Colin Clarke
Policy & Research Director, The Soufan Group
Colin Clarke is the Policy & Research Director at the Soufan Group. Prior to this role, he was an assistant teaching professor in the Institute for Politics and Strategy (IPS) at Carnegie Mellon University.
Gordon Clubb
Lecturer in International Security, University of Leeds
Dr. Gordon Clubb is Associate Professor in Terrorism at the University of Leeds in the UK. His current research uses experimental survey methods to examine how to build community support for terrorist reintegration and for terrorism prevention programmes.
David Danks
Professor of Data Science & Philosophy, University of California, San Diego
David Danks is Professor of Data Science & Philosophy and affiliate faculty in Computer Science & Engineering at University of California, San Diego.
Christie Edwards
Deputy Head, Tolerance and Non-Discrimination, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Christie Edwards is an internationally recognized and published legal expert with over twenty years of experience working on international humanitarian and human rights law, gender, international policy and advocacy, and international community development.
Aaron Flanagan
Team Lead, Intelligence Project, Southern Poverty Law Center
Aaron Flanagan is a team lead in the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center where he oversees research of the white power movement across several ideologies including neo-Nazi, racist skinhead, the Ku Klux Klan, Holocaust denial, hate music and others.
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Founder & CEO, Valens Global
Dr. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is a scholar, author, practitioner, and entrepreneur who is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Valens Global, a private company tackling complex twenty-first century challenges that has twice been named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s E360 list of the top small businesses in the United States.
Seamus Hughes
Deputy Director of the Program on Extremism, George Washington University
Seamus Hughes is an expert on terrorism, homegrown violent extremism, and countering violent extremism (CVE).
Barry Kerzin
Founder & President, Altruism in Medicine Institute; Founder & Chairman, Human Values Institute
Dr. Barry Kerzin is a medical doctor, an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington Tacoma and University of Pittsburgh (pending), an ordained Buddhist monk, and a Visiting Professor at Central University of Tibetan Studies in Varanasi, India, among other academic posts.
Louisa Klingvall
Team Leader, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers Unit C.2 Fundamental Rights Policy
Louisa Klingvall has been a team leader in the Fundamental Rights Unit of the European Commission DG Justice since 2012.
Alexa Koenig
Team Leader, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers Unit C.2 Fundamental Rights Policy
Alexa Koenig, PhD, JD, is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Center (winner of the 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions) and a lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she teaches classes on human rights and international criminal law with a particular focus on the impact of emerging technologies on human rights practice.
Mary McCord
Visiting Professor of Law and Legal Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP), Georgetown University Law Center
Mary McCord is Executive Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) and a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Professor of Education and Sociology, American University
Cynthia Miller-Idriss holds a joint appointment as Professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Education at American University, where she directs the Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL), which is developing empirically-tested, scalable interventions to prevent and interrupt extremist radicalization.
Alice Nderitu
Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations
Alice Wairimu Nderitu of Kenya is the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide. Nderitu is a recognized voice in the field of peacebuilding and violence prevention, having led as mediator and senior adviser in reconciliation processes among communities in Kenya, as well as in other African settings.
Courtney Radsch
Senior U.S. Technology Advisor, ARTICLE 19, Visiting Scholar, Annenberg Center for Media at Risk
Courtney C. Radsch, PhD, is an internationally recognized expert on technology, media and human rights whose perspective is shaped by her experience as a journalist, scholar, and press freedom advocate.
Rajeev Ramchand
Senior Behavioral Scientist, RAND Corporation
Rajeev Ramchand is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation where he co-directs the RAND Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Institute.
Nicholas Rasmussen
Executive Director, Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)
Nicholas Rasmussen is a national security professional with more than 27 years in U.S. government service, Rasmussen held senior counterterrorism posts at the White House and in the U.S. Intelligence Community from 2001 to 2017.
Alyssa Rheingold
Professor, Medical University of South Carolina
Dr. Alyssa Rheingold is a licensed clinical psychologist and Professor at the National Crime Victim’s Research and Treatment Center (NCVC) within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Tom Ridge
Chairman, Ridge Global
Tom Ridge is Chairman of Ridge Global. He provides clients with solutions to cyber security, international security and risk management issues.
Robert Rosenthal
Board Member, Executive Producer, Acting CEO, The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR)
Robert Rosenthal has been a journalist for six decades. He is currently on the boards or an advisor to nonprofits including The Center for Investigative Reporting and the Human Rights Center at Berkeley.
George Selim
Senior Vice President for National Affairs, Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
As Senior Vice President for National Affairs, George Selim leads all external engagement at the federal, state, and local levels as well as community and civic engagement efforts nationally for ADL. The scope of his work also includes national law enforcement outreach and partnerships.
Erroll Southers
Professor of the Practice in National & Homeland Security, University of Southern California
Dr. Erroll G. Southers is a former FBI Special Agent, Professor of the Practice in National and Homeland Security, Director of the Safe Communities Institute, and Director of Homegrown Violent Extremism Studies at the University of Southern California (USC) Sol Price School of Public Policy.
Brette Steele
Director of Prevention and National Security, McCain Institute*
Brette Steele serves as the Director of Prevention and National Security at the McCain Institute for International Leadership.
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