Dr. Darren R. Weissman, a Chicagoland native, is an internationally renowned holistic physician, speaker, educator, developer of The LifeLine Technique®, and best-selling author of The Power of Infinite Love & Gratitude and Awakening to the Secret Code of Your Mind, as well as a children’s book, The Daily Lessons of  Infinite Love & Gratitude.  A contributing author of Dr. Masaru Emoto's best-selling book, The Healing Power of Water, Dr. Weissman has been featured in the films Beyond Belief and The Truth.  His new book, The Heart of the Matter,  A Simple Guide to Discovering Gifts in Strange Wrapping Paper  was  released on September 2, 2013.

A practitioner of holistic medicine for nearly two decades, Dr. Weissman opened the Infinite Love & Gratitude Wellness Center in Northbrook, Illinois in 1999.  A popular speaker, he regularly participates in Hay House I Can Do It! and Celebrate Your Life events, and provides keynote presentations and workshops at health and wellness conferences throughout the world.  His weekly Hay House radio show, The Heart of the Matter, can be heard every Thursday at 11:00am CST.
 
Dr. Weissman earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Human Biology at University of Kansas and his Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine from the National College of Chiropractic. His post-graduate studies include Applied Kinesiology (AK), Total Body Modification (TBM), Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET), Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Neuro-Modulation Technique (NMT), Chinese Energetic Medicine, Natural Healing, and intensive holistic training in acupuncture and The Five Element Theory, Ayurveda and the chakras, shamanism, homeopathy, magnet therapy, and other forms of energy medicine at the Kalubowila Hospital in Colombo, SriLanka.

The LifeLine Technique® awakens individuals to the true meaning of symptoms, stress, and disease that represent emotional patterns of reaction within the subconscious mind. This dynamic yet practical system bridges ancient healing arts and modern ways of guiding the mind, body, and spirit into wholeness.  Using a conscious intention, the practitioner harmonizes the subconscious reactive patterns of emotion, facilitating the body’s natural ability to heal, regenerate, and become whole again.

Through the power of Infinite Love & Gratitude, The LifeLine Technique® is awakening the consciousness of humanity to living with purpose and meaning, regardless of life circumstances.  Since 2002, Dr. Weissman has taught The LifeLine Technique®  Certification Training Program to participants from all backgrounds, and there are currently more than 300 Certified LifeLine Practitioners in twelve countries throughout the world.

Beginning in September of 2011 Michael began a year-long personal transformation that included a diagnosis of prostate cancer, radical prostatectomy, follow up intensive radiation treatments and full blown impotence. He considers his resulting impotence to be one of the biggest blessings in his life.  It is because of his impotence that he and his partner discovered an entirely new approach to experiencing levels of emotional and physical intimacy that far exceeds anything either experienced prior to when things were working “correctly”.

It is his personal mission in life to serve other couples who struggle with emotional and physical intimacy due to ED, impotence or simply because they have lost their “spark” and use his communications skills to share what he has learned worldwide. Prior to this phase of his life, Michael was a highly regarded international speaker and author about technology. His media experience includes keynotes, radio and TV interviews, videos, articles for national publications and voice overs.

Together with Bill & Hillary Clinton, Pope Francis and a select few among journalists throughout the world, Sarah Kendzior was named by Foreign Policy Magazine as one of the “the 100 people you should be following on Twitter to make sense of global events”. In October 2013, St. Louis Magazineprofiled Ms. Kendzior as one of 15 inspirational people under 35 in St. Louis. Frequently in the media, Sarah has appeared on the BBC World Service, CBC, HuffPost Live, and Al-Jazeerah for whom she is an op-ed columnist. Among Ms. Kendzior's specialties are the authoritarian states of Central Asia and the former Soviet Union. The work of this prodigious writer is indispensable for a thorough understanding of what is happening behind the scenes of our world.

James A. Miller, Jr., PhD is a public education advocate, activist, professor, teacher and independent scholar. For most of his life, he has been involved in and with public education, either as a student, university professor, researcher, substitute teacher and full-time classroom teacher K-12.       

Dr. Miller has held Professorships in Sociology/African-American Studies at Wayne State University, the University of Detroit, California State University at Northridge and Los Angeles, and the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), and has been a Senior Research Associate at the National Institute of Education (NIE) in Washington, DC – focusing on creating a five year national research program on the social and cultural foundation of education.

Currently, Dr. James Miller is a radio talk show host on BBS Radio with his new show “The War on Public Education” starting Sunday, February 23, 2014 at 2:00pm PST on Station 1. The format of the show focuses on the corporate war on public education and the rising public resistance movement to the war. His email is jamfilm@yahoo.com and he invites people to write him and express their thoughts.

Kristina has a degree in metaphysical counseling from the University of Sedona and an extensive life-long practice as a psychic, medium, intuitive life coach and teacher. Her clients include a number of her peers including other psychics, mediums, healers and lightworkers as she is truly a teacher of teachers. She is known by many as the "angel coach" for her unique connection to the angelic realm. She is quickly able to zero in on core issues and life-long defeating patterns. In addition to her private practice, Kristina provides education and inspiration as a radio show host. She can be found daily on the prestigious 12listen site.

McKay Christensen, PhD is the president of a billion dollar global consumer products company and adjunct professor at the Marriott School of Management. McKay speaks to audiences around the globe about his groundbreaking research on how adults learn and find happiness. He is also the co-author of a brand new bookOpen Your Eyes: 10 Uncommon Lessons to Discover a Happier Life. McKay a heartfelt passion for helping others reach their full potential. He and his wife, Jennifer, are the parents of five children.

Sixteen-year-old Jake Olsonhas been battling cancer for as long as he can remember. His years-long battle with retinoblastoma took away his eyesight, but it has only increased his drive and passion for life. Jake has inspired tens of thousands of people through is public appearances and speaking engagements. He is also the co-author of a brand new book Open Your Eyes: 10 Uncommon Lessons to Discover a Happier Life. Jake’s Out of Sight Faith Foundation provides support and resources for blind children.

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Mike Ferreri is the sports director of KOMO 4 News and can be seen on the air on weekdays at 6 and 11 p.m. A Connecticut native, Mike left his beloved Red Sox behind and went to the University of Iowa where he became a Hawkeye and embraced Big 10 Sports.

After graduating from Iowa in 1993, Mike embarked on a sports odyssey: he was the sports director at WAAV radio in Wilmington, North Carolina for three years. While in North Carolina he hosted a nationally-syndicated NASCAR show for three years then moved on to WHBQ Fox TV in Memphis in 1996 where he was the weekend anchor for six months before being promoted to sports director.

He left Memphis in 2000 for Seattle ready to get away from the heat and enjoy all the Northwest has to offer.

When not covering the Seahawks, Sonics, Mariners or Washington Huskies, Mike spends time on his bike or in a kayak. Mostly, though, he plays indoor basketball in his house with his bride and two young kids.

Kenny Mayne

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Los Angeles SportsCenter Anchor; The Mayne Event; Kenny Mayne’s Wider World of Sports

Kenny Mayne, who joined ESPN in May 1994, was named a Los Angeles-based SportsCenter anchor in August 2013.

In his work as an anchor and reporter, Mayne has become well known for his offbeat style, dry humor, and unique sayings (“thanks for having electricity”) and home run calls (“I am amused by the simplicity of this game!”).  Although he stands out in the studio – his most prominent roles have been on SportsCenter, ESPN2’s motorsports show, RPM 2Night and hosting both seasons of the sports trivia game show 2-Minute Drill – it truly shines in features, often humorous and currently his primary vehicle as a commentator at ESPN.  In his “The Mayne Event” segments on Sunday NFL Countdown – ranging from the fourth grader who wore a Brett Favre jersey for 600 days to the “real reason”  quarterbacks lick their fingers to making nachos with Martha Stewart for the Super Bowl XL pre-game show – his creativity and deadpan delivery distinguish his work.

From 2008 – 2011, he produced and starred in an original scripted series on ESPN.com titled Mayne Street.   Mayne played himself in a fictionalized version of life at the center of sports television.  In 2011, he shifted gears and debuted Kenny Mayne’s Wider World of Sports on ESPN.com.  Inspired by the iconic Wide World of Sports on ABC in days gone by, it takes a look at unusual sports from exotic and distant locales around the world.

For many years until 2011, Mayne also hosted ESPN’s horse racing coverage, a life-long passion, for which he was honored in 2006 with the Old Hilltop Award for excellence in covering thoroughbred racing from the Maryland Horse Breeders Association.

Mayne joined ESPN as an ESPN2 SportSmash anchor, providing five-minute score and news reports every half-hour, and as a feature reporter for SportsNight.  Beginning in September 1995, he served as the original host of ESPN2’s weekend auto racing news and highlights programs, Sunday morning’s RPM 2Day and RPM 2Night on Saturday and Sunday.  He also occasionally anchored SportsCenter until assuming that role fulltime in August 1997.

Prior to joining ESPN, Mayne had served as a freelance reporter and field producer for the network from 1990-1994.  “During that time,” Mayne says, “I only pursued one full-time television job.  ESPN.  I had the ESPN 800-number and called all the time with story ideas.  I guess they finally decided it was less expensive to hire me than to keep paying for my phone calls.”

Television, however, wasn’t always his primary form of employment.  He had worked at local stations from 1982-1990, but as recently as 1994, Mayne worked in sales for MCI.  Before that his career even included a stint assembling garbage cans.  “I had worked as a garbageman inSeattleduring college,” Mayne recalls, “and when I left local television in 1990, I called my old boss but the industry had passed me by.  They had switched to one-person trucks, so I took a position assembling the garbage cans.”

Mayne began his television career at KLVX-TV (a PBS affiliate) in Las Vegas, Nev., as a reporter in 1982.  He worked for KSTW-TV in the Tacoma/Seattle market from 1982-89, serving as a production assistant (1982-83), news writer (1983-86) and weekend sports anchor and weekday news reporter (1986-89).  As an anchor, Mayne was known for his offbeat style which included his “Dog Days of Summer Score Dog” segment, in which he used his dog to help give baseball scores.

A native of Kent, Wa., Mayne was born September 1, 1959.  He attended Wenatchee Valley Community College (Wenatchee, Wa.), where he was an honorable mention junior college All-American quarterback in 1978.  He was graduated from Universityof Nevada-Las Vegasin 1982 with a bachelor of arts degree in broadcasting.  While at UNLV, Mayne played football for two years and later signed as a free agent with the Seattle Seahawks (1982).  In 2006, he competed on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars.

Dr. Pataraick Arbore is the Founder and Director of the Center for Elderly Suicide Prevention and Grief Related Services at Institute on Aging.

Dr. Arbore conducts workshops and presents lectures locally and nationally on aging related subjects including elderly suicide prevention, hoarding, substance abuse, compassion fatigue, communication, depression, traumatic loss, and many others. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on a variety of topics, including a chapter he co-authored entitled “Suffering and the Caring Professional” in When Professionals Weep: Emotional and Countertransference Responses in End-of-Life Care (2006). He is also a Senior Lecturer in the Human Services Division at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA. Patrick has also been a part-time Lecturer in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley.

Here is how Lisa Campion would describe her work.

I have been a professional psychic for over 20 years, and use a combination of intuition, energy healing and therapeutic techniques to help you understand yourself at deeper and deeper levels. My background includes training in Psychosynthesis and Systems Centered Therapy (a mindfulness technique), Full Spectrum Healing, Reiki, and other vibrational healing techniques.

I think my greatest gift as a healer is to really see people at the soul level. Spending an hour talking to your soul can be a wonderful gift to yourself! I will spend a lot of the session talking to you about what is great about you, helping you connect to your soul and your life’s purpose. And of course talk to you about whatever issues are on your mind. I am above all else practical (for a psychic!) and my hope is that you leave your session with some useful ideas and tools to help you shift your life.

Layne Dalfen, Gestalt Counselor, and dream analyst is a published author, who founded The Dream Interpretation Center in Montreal in 1997. Layne's focus is introducing the general public to the value of decoding our dreams. She does this by teaching easy to grasp ideas about how to uncover the solutions to our current issues that appear in our dreams every night.

She has appeared on over 100 radio shows across America, including CJAD in her hometown, Montreal. She has been featured on numerous TV networks including NBC, ABC, FOX, CTV and CITY TV. Layne has been on The Board of Directors of The International Association for the Study of Dreams. She lectures for the Counseling students at Concordia University and has written articles for magazines. She is also well known at Canyon Ranch Spas in the United States and Rancho La Puerta Spa in Mexico.

Anthony  has experienced and worked on higher levels of consciousness for the past 12 years in connection with a group called "The Council Of Twelve". Anthony's experience is one of a growing number of celebrated cases,  like that of Zev Kolman the Israeli energy healer,  where unusual abilities developed following "higher dimensional" contact.  Anthony's transformation has been described as follows.

"After spending his life building a profession as a master tailor,  his whole world took a stunning turn when he was contacted by the inter-dimensional group often referred to as the Council of Twelve. It’s not the stuff of science fiction, honest. As we are Soul Beings that inhabit a human body, our souls know quite well that we share this Universe with many life forms and expressions.

As humanity makes (the ongoing) shift in  consciousness toward realizing its proper  and balanced place within the Universe commonwealth, these encounters with ‘alien’ beings will become common place. In fact, they happen so often already that as we open our minds and hearts – shift our consciousness – we will create space for others to come forward and share their experience without fear of reproach or worse as has all too often been the case for the past millennia here on planet Earth.

Anthony, however, is one of those Beings who can take it (rejection from the mainstream)  and he really doesn’t care what you think. The generosity of his heart can be felt in the blades of truth he imparts and if he wants us to get just one thing, it is that we are Sovereign Beings, not slaves. Our addiction to this world and its presumed comforts are quickly coming to an end and there is a new beginning unfolding at the same time. His lifelong empathic sensitivity has been enhanced in his recent transformation and consequent spiritual integration.

Contact at info@seeren.me

Sheldon Ginsberg is the author of Evolution’s Hero, a self-help novel designed to help individuals heal themselves and the Collective Unconscious. He is also a Stress Healing Practitioner, healer and CEO of Institute of Energy Based Health. 

For over 14 years, Sheldon has been providing DeStress Therapy™, a service that restores, reboots and revitalizes one’s body and mind. He has provided this service to 5-star resorts and country clubs such as Miami Beach Canyon Ranch, Zoetry’s Parisio de la Bonita 5-star resorts in Cancun, Thunderbird, Tradition, Ironwood and Trilogy in Palm Desert. 

Sheldon has worked with people with spinal cord injuries, patients recovering from strokes, clients with frozen shoulders, multiple sclerosis, emotional anxiety, cancer survivors, children with multiple handicaps and more. 

Sheldon has appeared on San Antonio’s Daytime at 9, Telemundo in Florida and Blog Talk radio, NewsTalk 920 and Savvy Divorced Chicks Radio Show. He has worked with such celebrities as Woody Johnson, philanthropist and owner of the Jets, Joan Severance, actress and supermodel and Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr. previous CEO of Seagrams and Warner Music Group as well as vice-chairman of Vivendi Universal. He has lectured to guests at Canyon Ranch Miami Beach and at Zoetry’s Parisio de la Bonita. His articles have appeared in Dare Online Magazine and other health websites.

JACK ANDRAKA is a Maryland high school sophomore who at age 15 invented an inexpensive and sensitive dipstick-like sensor for the rapid and early detection of pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancers. After a close family friend died of pancreatic cancer, Jack (then a ninth grader) became interested in finding a better early-detection diagnostic test. He learned that the lack of a rapid, low-cost early screening method contributed to the poor survival rate among individuals with pancreatic cancer. After thinking further about the problem, he came up with a plan and a budget to put his ideas in motion.

He contacted about 200 research professionals at Johns Hopkins University and the National Institutes of Health about his plan. He got 199 rejection letters and then finally got an acceptance from Dr. Anirban Maitra, Professor of Pathology, Oncology and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who became his mentor. It was at Dr. Maitra’s lab where Jack developed his test.

The diagnostic method he developed is more than 90 percent accurate in detecting the presence of pancreatic cancer's biomarker protein called mesothelin, and earned him the grand prize $75,000 Gordon E. Moore Award – named for Intel’s co-founder – after competing with 1,500 other young scientists from 70 countries. He also won other prizes in smaller individual categories for a total award of $100,500, which he will use towards college. He has formed a company and has applied for both national and international patents.

Since then Jack has won the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Youth Award and has spoken at the Clinton Global Initiative, FutureMed,Chicago Ideas Week, Singularity U, TEDx MidAtlantic, TEDx Redmond, TEDx Orange Coast, TED New York Talent Search, TED Salon London and soon at TED @Long Beach . He has been featured in several documentaries including Morgan Spurlock’s Sundance Film Festival entry “ You don’t know Jack”, Linda Peters’ award winning film “Just Jack” as well on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, CNN, BBC, Fox, Rede Record de Televisão and many radio, newspaper and magazine articles around the world

Jack is a member of the National Junior Wildwater Kayak team, a Life Scout and has won numerous awards in national and international math competitions.

Together with physicists Eric Allin Cornell  and Carl Wieman, Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle won the Nobel Prize in Physics for demonstrating the Bose-Eisenstein Condensate. He is Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Dr. Ketterle is from Heidelberg, Germany, and earned his Ph.D in experimental molecular spectroscopy at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics.

In 1990 he joined the group of  Dr. David E. Pritchard at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE).

Appointed in 1993 to the MIT physics faculty,  Dr. Ketterle became the John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics at MIT in 1998.

Dr. Ketterle serves on the Board of Trustees of the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE), and participates in the Distinguished Lecture Series of CEE's flagship program for high school students, the Research Science Institute (RSI), which Dr. Ketterle's own son Jonas attended in 2003.

A passionate athlete, Dr. Ketterle is also a runner featured in the December 2009 issue of Runner's World's "I'm a Runner". Dr. Ketterle spoke of taking his running shoes to Stockholm when he received the Nobel Prize and happily running in the early dusk

Julian Lampert's hallmark is Versatility; between the music of Gibbons, Bach, Beethoven, and Rachmaninoff, to his own compositions within latin, jazz, gospel and classical genres, Julian covers over 400 years of musical styles. 

Born into a musical family in Moscow, he immigrated with his family to the U.S. as a young child. Julian studied piano, harmony and counterpoint with his mother, Dr. Elyena Miremonde, a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory. At eight, he gave his first recital––an all-Tchaikovsky program. Four years later, he made his concerto debut under conductor Victor Rosenbaum and The Cambridge Concerto Players. This brought him to the attention of Richard Probst, at that time Director of Concerts & Artists at Steinway, and later Vice-President of Harold Shaw Concerts. Under Richard Probst’s auspices, Mr. Lampert would make many appearances in the United States, Europe and Russia. He has been coached by some of the world’s most distinguished artists, as Schura Cherkassky, Dorothy Taubman and Eliza Hansen who selected him for a Master-Course in Hamburg, Germany, in 1986 and ’87.

At 16, his recital at the St. Paul Trois-Chateaux Film Festival was broadcast by French Television. A year later, Mr. Lampert appeared on Radio France Internationale’s contemporary music series with Valery Afanassiev. In 1989, Mr. Lampert participated in the Marlboro Music Festival where he was coached by Rudolf Serkin and Richard Goode. He was the youngest artist at the Scotia Music Festival in 1991, directed that year by Pierre Boulez. At Amherst College, he worked with Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Lewis Spratlan and jazz conductor/author, Andrew Jaffe. Mr. Lampert was harpsichordist and pianist for Amherst Collegium Musicum and the Bach Festival directed by Blanche Moyse. He appeared at the Hall of the Kosciuszko Foundation in two festivals of Chopin directed by David Dubal.

After meeting with Fred Rogers—creator of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood—who attended Mr. Lampert’s debut in Pittsburgh in 1999, Julian was inspired to write music for young people. He wrote many pieces and songs for music & arts workshops presented at The Miremonde Arts Center, founded by Mr. Lampert’s mother, Elyena Miremonde (please see www.miremondearts.org). He has twice served as jury-member of the Nicholas Flagello Young Pianists Competition of New York and has coached young composers in the Songcatchers Program in New York.

Since 1999, Mr. Lampert has been engaged as composer by figure-skating legends Ludmila & Oleg Protopopov, two-time Olympic gold medalists. They danced to his music in several televised productions, including their historic return to Russia in 2005 for the first time since their defection. In 1996, he was honored by the Scriabin Society of Moscow by being selected to inaugurate a festival of Scriabin’s music for the 125’th anniversary of his birth.

In 2006, Mr. Lampert made his debut with the Westchester Chamber Orchestra under Barry Charles Hoffman, performing Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto. Since 2007, The First Lady of St. Martin, Josianne Fleming, has presented Julian in series of recitals presented by the Rotary Club of Guadeloupe.

As Artistic Director of The Miremonde Arts Concert Series, Mr. Lampert has presented a remarkably diverse range of music, from the Baroque and Classical to Jazz and Latin genres. At Miremonde Arts, he has collaborated with Stefan Hoskuldsson—Metropolitan Opera Principal Flutist, The Kopelman String Quartet, Grammy-winning duo Eddy Davis & Conal Fowkes, and R&B vocalist Clayton Bryant, among others.

This year will see the release of two albums: "In Between", featuring originals within jazz, latin and gospel music, and "Lampert in Concert", presenting music by Haydn, Beethoven, Prokofiev, and Scriabin.

JOEL D. ANASTASI is the author of THE SECOND COMING: THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL PROCLAIMS A NEW AGE. The book is based on interviews conducted over several years with the Archangel Gabriel through trance channel Robert Baker.

Joel has adapted Michael's teachings to create a powerful new self-study program called, LIFE MASTERY: CREATING YOUR LIFE AND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT. He recently published with channel Jessie Keener THE ASCENSION HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO YOUR ECSTATIC UNION WITH GOD based on channeled messages from the combined energies of Mary the Mother of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, his spouse.

Joel has been a news reporter, magazine editor, VP at a major financial organization and a management consultant working with a wide range of organizations from Fortune 500 companies to small non-profits. He holds a BS degree in Economics from Syracuse University and an MS degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. 


YOUSEF MUNAYYER is a Palestinian American writer and political analyst based in Washington, DC. Munayyer was born in Lod (Lydda or Al-Lyd), Israel. He is currently the Executive Director of the The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development and its educational program, the Palestine Center. Previously, Munayyer was a policy analyst with the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. He holds both US and Israeli citizenship.

EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
Munayyer received a BA in Political Science and History from the University of Massachusetts- Amherst. He also received a 5 College Degree in International Relations from Mt. Holyoke College in 2005. During his time at the University of Massachusetts he served as an editorial editor for the Massachusetts Daily Collegian.

His MA is from the University of Maryland in Government and Politics and he is currently completing a PhD at the same institution. His research interests included political repression and ethnic cleansing.

AMERCIAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE (ADC)
Beginning in 2004, Munayyer worked at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee for five years in various capacities. Upon his departure from the ADC in September 2009, the ADC issued a statement expressing its “heartfelt gratitude and appreciation” to him “for his years of exceptional service to ADC and to the Arab-American community.” ADC President Mary Rose Oakar said, “Yousef has been with ADC for 5 years, first as an intern in the Communications Department. He then industriously worked as a full time employee as a Finance Manager, Communications Director and Policy Analyst.

THE JERUSALEM FUND
Munayyer has been Executive Director of the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development and its educational program, the Palestine Center since September 24, 2009. Established in 1977 “to provide humanitarian relief to the Palestinian people, educate the American public, and showcase Palestinian and Arab culture,” the Jerusalem Fund is a non-profit organization that is based in Washington, D.C., and registered as a 501(c). Its operational expenses are paid for by investment income, and its humanitarian activities are paid for by private donations.

It consists of the Palestine Center, an educational program that holds policy briefings, lecture series, conferences, and symposia, issues scholarly publications, and houses an extensive research library; the Humanitarian Link program, which provides grants to hospitals, orphanages, clinics, schools, universities, and civil-society organizations in Palestinian territories and refugee camps; and The Gallery, which displays exhibits about Palestinian and Arab culture, and hosts an annual art competition, a summer film series, musical performances, and art workshops.

The Jerusalem Fund accepts donations in the form of appreciated stock, real estate, and other devices that can help donors avoid capital gains taxes and/or permit them to make tax deductions. In 2011, the Jerusalem Fund received $436,056 in contributions and grants for the fiscal year, $105,930 in program revenue and $62,038 in investment income.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
He is a frequent contributor to major metropolitan newspapers on the question of Palestine, civil and human rights, and US policy in the Middle East. His writings (see below) have appeared in the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, the Miami Herald and many others. He is a regular contributor to Politico.com and has appeared on numerous national and international television and radio programs to discuss the Middle East and Palestine. He has spoken on a number of policy panels and is often invited to speak on the Middle East and
Israel/Palestine at Universities and Colleges.  He is fluent in Arabic and English.