About Peter King Congressman Peter King – a Republican – is serving his twelfth term in the U.S. House of Representatives – last reelected with 68.5% of the vote – – the highest margin of any Congressional candidate on Long Island.  Congressman King is a leading authority on terrorism and cyber security.  Congressman King is a member of the Homeland […]

About Mike Brown Professor Mike Brown is Professor of Planetary Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology and has been on the faculty there since 1996. He specializes in the discovery and study of bodies at the edge of the solar system. Among his numerous scientific accomplishments, he is best known for his discovery of Eris, the most massive object found […]

About Mike Rogers Mike Rogers is a former member of Congress representing Michigan’s Eighth Congressional District, officer in the U.S. Army, and FBI special agent.  In the U.S. House of Representatives, he chaired the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and was a member of the Energy and Commerce panel. As chairman of HPSCI, he authorized and oversaw a […]

About Edward Klein Edward Klein is a well-known editor – writer and public speaker with a distinguished career in American journalism.  After serving an apprenticeship as a copy boy for the New York Daily News – he went on to earn a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism – he joined Newsweek – where he became foreign […]

About John Prato Ambassador John Prato, Canada recently returned to the banking industry and now serves as the Deputy Chairman of one of the largest banks in the United States. Up until July of 2016, he has been the Consul General of Canada in New York since March 2011.  Canada and New York share 17 international crossings and 450 border […]

About John Cornyn United States Senator John Cornyn, is the Republican Senator from Texas. As a lawyer, Senator Cornyn first served as Bexar County district court judge 1984-1990 the Texas supreme court 1990-1997 and Texas state attorney general 1999-2002.  He was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 2002; subsequently appointed to the remainder of the term left […]

About Mark Shaw Mark Shaw For more than fifty years, the exhaustive 18-month investigation of the JFK assassination by What’s My Line? television star and revered investigative reporter Dorothy Kilgallen has been buried due to a cover-up by those threatened with a tell-all book she was writing for Random House. When the famed journalist, called by the New York Post, […]

About Kirsten Gillibrand Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D) was first sworn in as United States Senator from New York in January 2009. After winning a special election in 2010 to serve out the remainder of Secretary Clinton’s term in the Senate, Kirsten was elected to her first full six-year term in 2012 with a New York statewide record 72 percent of […]

About Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, is one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Over the past forty years, he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice. On August 9, 2000, President […]

About Barney Frank Congressman Barney Frank is a former Congressman and board member of the New York-based Signature Bank. He previously served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013. As a member of the Democratic Party, he served as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee (2007–2011) and was a leading co-sponsor of […]

About Jeffrey “Jefe” Parrish Jeffrey “Jefe” Parrish, Vice President for Conservation, Wildlife Conservation Network where he is responsible for supporting, growing and strengthening a network of the most innovative conservation heroes saving wildlife around the world. He has a particular focus on identifying the most urgent and innovative projects that can reverse the elephant crisis, and raising the funding and […]

About Niger Innis Niger Innis is the national spokesperson for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) – MSNBC commentator – and political consultant. His father – Roy Innis – up until his recent passing was the National Director of CORE since 1968. The young Innis was born in Harlem – New York. Innis is active in community and social organizations – […]

About Patrick Theros Ambassador Patrick Theros was a career Foreign Service Officer from 1963 to 1999. Key positions he held in the Foreign Service include Ambassador to the State of Qatar – 1995–1998; Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism – responsible for the coordination of all U.S. Government counter-terrorism activities outside the United States – 1993–1995; Political Advisor to the Commander in Chief […]

About Carolyn Maloney Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney is a member of Congress in New York’s 12th congressional district. – the eastern half of Manhattan and portions of Queens. A Democratic – she worked as a teacher and an administrator for the New York City Board of Education. The Congresswoman was the driving for to extend the provisions of the Zadroga Act – […]