Arena Stage Announces Dialogue Starters For Arena Forum CIVIL DIALOGUES

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater will host three community conversations as a part of the launch of Arena Forum: Civil Dialogues on March 26, April 23 and May 29, 2018. The conversations seek to provide an opportunity for members of the Washington, D.C. community to engage in civil discourse about social and political issues.

Each Arena Forum will have a group of prominent Dialogue Starters. The first dialogue on March 26 explores the thesis that surveillance is excessive and privacy is endangered by both the government and by private corporations. The Dialogue Starters include Matthew Olsen, Harvard Law School and former General Counsel for the National Security Agency?; Jeffrey Rosen?, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center and former legal editor the New Republic; Gabe Rottman, Washington director of the Reporters Committee's Technology and Press Freedom Project and former Legislative Counsel and Policy Advisor at the American Civil Liberties Union; Peter Swire, Professor of Law and Ethics at the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business and former White House coordinator; and Frank Torres, Senior Director of Consumer Affairs for the Microsoft Corporation.

For the second Arena Forum on April 23, which will explore what we owe other people, Dialogue Starters include Wai Wai Nu, a leader of the Rohingya people, joining the Arena Forum from Myanmar; John Bellinger III, Council on Foreign Relations and Arnold & Porter LLP and former Legal Advisor for the U.S. Department of State under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Esther Brimmer, Executive Director and CEO of NAFSA and former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs; Elisa Massimino, President and CEO of Human Rights First; and Christopher Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies of the Cato Institute.

Dialogue Starters for the third Arena Forum on May 29, focusing on exploring the future of race relations in America, will be announced at a later date.

Registration for the event is required; no admission fee. For more information and to register, visit: www.arenastage.org/forum

Arena Forum: Civil Dialogues seeks to provide an opportunity for members of the Washington, D.C community to engage in civil discourse about social and political issues, and will demonstrate-with the goal-that people of diverse viewpoints can have fruitful dialogues with one another. Each Arena Forum will be moderated by Amitai Etzioni, a University Professor at The George Washington University and author.

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