Opening Blessing:

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• Opening Blessing by Hawaiian Cultural Practitioner, Kumu Hula Puna Dawson

 

​Dialogue Participants:​

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Belarusian Women
 

• Svetlana Alexievich, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, author of Chernobyl Prayer (Featured Speaker)

• Tatsiana Tsiuryna, Director of Alexievich Club, Journalist, Feminist 

 

Russian Women

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• Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Journalist, Feminist, Director, Moscow PEN

• Elena Chernenko, Special Correspondent, Kommersant, focused on Cyber Diplomacy, non-proliferation and arms control, Member, Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (SVOP) and PIR-Center Council 

• Irina Gordeeva, Russian University for Humanities and Leibntz-ZentrumFur Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam

• Eva Merkacheva, Investigative journalist, Member of Human Rights Council of Russia

• Olga Zdravomyslova, Executive Director, International Foundation for Socio-economic and Political Studies (Gorbachev-Foundation), Vice President, Raisa Gorbacheva Club, Editorial Board Member, Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. (Featured Speaker)

• Natalia Zhurina, Research and Education Officer, Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean 

 

American Women:

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• Emma Claire Foley, Program Associate, Global Zero

• Cynthia Lazaroff, Founder, Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy and Board Member, American Committee for US-Russia Accord  (Moderator)

• Mary Olson, Founder, Gender + Radiation Impact Project  (Featured Speaker)

• Colette Shulman, Journalist & Public Speaker on the Soviet Union & Russia since 1956, Member, Council on Foreign Relations, Member, Advisory Commission for Europe and Central Asia, Human Rights Watch

• Jessica Sleight, Program Director, Global Zero

• Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editorial Director and Publisher, The Nation magazine, Board Member, American Committee for US-Russia Accord (Featured Speaker)