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Ethiopia State and Administration
By itypeusa | February 12, 2021
State and administration
Ethiopia was formed in its present-day external borders (except Eritrea) by Emperor Menelik II at the end of the 19th century. In 1907 the first ministries were established at court in the new capital Addis Ababa. The ministers for justice, warfare, home affairs, trade and foreign affairs, finance and agriculture, public works and post operated voluntarily and had only a few employees.
In 1930, Emperor Haile Selassie I continued the establishment of an imperial administration with new ministries.
During the military dictatorship, the legal framework for civil service remained largely the same. What changed was the structure of the government. New ministries, commissions, agencies and local administrative units were created. The management positions were filled with military personnel down to the lowest administrative level. In this sense one can speak of a military administration.
The enforcement of the absolute claim to power and the control of the population as the main goals of all ministries and offices run like a red thread through the administrative and constitutional history of the country.
After the victory of the liberation fronts over the military dictatorship, a transitional constitution was passed in 1991. In the following years a constitutional commission drew up a draft constitution, which was passed on December 8, 1994 by a constituent assembly with 538 members. After a referendum, the current constitution came into force in August 1995. Since then, Ethiopia has been a federal parliamentary republic.
Ethiopia is a federal state, there is a federal government and state governments.
The president, who is elected by parliament, has predominantly representative tasks. Due to its protocol-based, but not political, role, it may not belong to any party. His term of office is six years.
With the election of the experienced diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde as president, a woman has been the head of state of Ethiopia for the first time since October 2018 .
The head of government is the prime minister, who is usually the representative of the largest parliamentary group. He appoints the members of the Council of Ministers. The incumbent was Meles Zenawi from 1995 to August 2012. After his death, his previous deputy Hailemariam Desalegn took over the official business. After Hailemariam's resignation, Dr. Abiy Ahmed Ali sworn in as the new Prime Minister in April 2018.
The parliament consists of two chambers: the Federal House (House of Federation or Yefederation Mekir Bet) and the House of Peoples' Representatives or Parlama.
The members of the Bundestag are elected both directly and indirectly through state councils in the regional states. According to the constitution, every ethnic group must be represented by at least one member in the Federal Palace. For every million people or part thereof, the ethnic groups are entitled to another seat in the Federal Palace.
The members of the House of Representatives are directly elected by the people for 5 years. The highest judicial authority in Ethiopia is the Supreme Court, which has its seat in Addis Ababa. There is also the Constitutional Council, which monitors compliance with the Federal Constitution.
The tasks of the federal government are limited and laid down in the constitution. The states are free in their organizational form and decide on their own affairs. Each state can decide for itself how it organizes itself.
The official language at the federal level is Amharic. The federal states determine their official language themselves.
Ethnic federalism
Administrative division of Ethiopia
Ethiopia is one of only four federal states on the African continent. There are nine states and two city-states. Almost all federal states are decentralized and divided into zones (administrative districts), woredas (districts) and kebeles (municipalities). Other forms of organization are available. Organizational sovereignty lies with the federal states.
The division into federal states largely follows ethnic settlement areas, which is why the Ethiopian model of federalism is known as ethnic federalism. In the constitution, passed in 1991, statements about the diversity of "nations", "nationalities" and "peoples" and their rights can be found in several places. Articles 39, 46 and 47 are the clearest foundations of ethnic federalism. In Article 39 it becomes clear that a strong autonomy of the individual ethnic groups is assumed. They have the right to self-determination, up to and including independence- The latter, however, only under certain conditions. In addition, this article guarantees the right to speak one's own language, maintain one's own traditions and preserve one's own history. Furthermore, there is a right to its own government in the territory inhabited by the ethnic group and a right to appropriate representation of the respective group at state and federal level. Articles 46 and 47 of the Ethiopian Constitution stipulate that the Federal Republic of Ethiopia is a federal state and which states are part of the federation. The definition of federal states along ethnic lines is made clear in Article 46, sentence 2: "… States shall be structured on the basis of settlement patterns, language, identity and consent of the people."
Flags of the federal states
According to extrareference, Ethiopia is a country located in Eastern Africa. The Ethiopian model of federalism is not without controversy. While advocates emphasize liberation from the centralized government and the rights associated with it, such as the use of one's own language at the state level, critics point out that conflicts can only arise through the politicization of ethnic groups and differences.
The House of Federation already mentioned above is a unique institution of national representation worldwide. Among other things, it is responsible for interpreting the constitution, comparable to the function of the German Federal Constitutional Court. Furthermore, it has the constitutional task of counteracting and mediating a violent resolution of conflicts among various groups in Ethiopia.
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## Welcome

Chicago Works For You is a citywide dashboard with ward-by-ward views of service delivery in Chicago. Here's a look at what you get:

#### Home

The [homepage](/) is a citywide map with a daily summary of all service requests submitted, by service type and ward.

Dark lines under and up-arrows next to a request type means there were more requests of that type on that date than average. The longer the line, the higher above average. Highest above average is highlighted on the map as default.

Click any service request type to see the raw numbers and averages. The legend in the lake shows you the number ranges for each type in each ward. Click any service type to see those numbers for any day.

Go back and forth in time, it will show numbers for that service request, updating the web address so that you can share any view via Twitter, Facebook, or email.

For advanced users who like to hack URLs, you can type in any date you want, going back to January 1, 2008, the first day for which we have data from the City.

#### Services

Choose any service request type from the Services menu to see weekly views of service delivery by ward.

The bars show all requests opened in each ward, displayed by the day of the week it was opened. Hover over any bar to see exact numbers of opened requests. The check mark is how many requests of that type were closed in each ward.

Click any day to see that service type on a map.

Move backward and forward in time to see the weeks go by.

Each service has details on the work it takes to close requests. Again, you can share any view and click links to view raw data or submit requests of this type.

#### Wards

Choose any ward to see the week in review-- all open and closed requests. You can choose any request or view all of them at the same time.

The Time-to-close ranking shows the average time from open to close, per request, in context with all other wards.

The Days with the most requests is a raw count for each service type for this ward, going back to January 1, 2008.

The alderman name links to their ward website, and the Chicago start links to their contact information on the City website. See also Facebook account, Twitter stream, and legislative history (as compiled by Councilmatic) links.

#### Photos

See the last 500 photos submits with service requests. You can sort by service request and see raw counts. Clicking any image takes you to the detail page on the City's Service Tracker website to see details and current status.

#### Annotations

All of the data, maps, and charts on this site are just mute representations of a 14-type portion of the services delivered by the city for the city. We use our Tumblr blog to make observations and solicit yours.

## Data

#### Where does the data that drives this site come from?

This data comes directly from the City of Chicago's [Open311 API](http://dev.cityofchicago.org/docs/api). Chicago's Open311 API can be used to both view 311 request data as well as enter new requests directly into the system.

#### Why is this data available?

In 2012, the City of Chicago became a [Code for America](http://codeforamerica.org/2012-partners/chicago/) partner city. A team of four technologists worked to build an [Open311](http://open311.org/) system for Chicago that would help residents track what was happening with their service requests. Through a grant from [Smart Chicago](http://smartchicagocollaborative.org) the team built Chicago [Service Tracker](http://servicetracker.cityofchicago.org/) which shows each step the city takes to resolve a 311 request. This also enabled all the 311 data to be accessible on the city's data portal.

#### Can I use your data?

Yes! You may access and use the results of our calculations. There is an open API available as well as raw database snapshots. Consult the [Chicago Works For You API documentation](https://github.com/smartchicago/chicagoworksforyou/blob/development/doc/API.md) for details on how to query the API and use the results. For definitive Chicago 311 data, you should access the [Open311 API](http://dev.cityofchicago.org/docs/api) directly or download [311-related datasets from the City of Chicago Data Portal](https://data.cityofchicago.org/browse?category=Service+Requests).

» Download the latest database snapshot (approx. 230MB, [pg_dump](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/app-pgdump.html) format)

## Open311

311 is a national standard for requesting city services. While, 911 is for emergencies, 311 system is designed to handle all other calls. 311 is the systems that manages all city services. When a resident makes a request for a city service, this request is entered into the system and given a tracking number.

#### Submit a request to the city

Requests can be made by phone, the city's [website](http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/311/supp_info/request_service.html) or through any app that utilizes the city's [Open311 API](http://dev.cityofchicago.org/docs/api).

## Smart Chicago Collaborative

The [Smart Chicago Collaborative](http://smartchicagocollaborative.org) is a civic organization devoted to using technology to make lives better in Chicago. We were formed to address the challenge of the lack of broadband Internet access for all Chicagoans. More broadly, we work to apply the transformative power of technology to solve problems for the people of Chicago.

We are a startup that was founded in part by our municipal government and nurtured by some of its most venerable institutions. Our founding partners are the [City of Chicago](http://cityofchicago.org), the [John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation](http://macfound.org), and The [Chicago Community Trust](http://cct.org). As a funding collaborative, we help bring together municipal, philanthropic, and corporate investments in civic innovation.

We have a host of current [projects](http://smartchicagoapps.org) and partnerships, and we are actively seeking to connect ideas and resources in all areas of philanthropy in Chicago.

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Rep. Peter King: Why Did Mueller Hide Collusion Truth For So Long?
Posted by: admin in Freedom News, Politics May 6, 2019	0 5,552 Views
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has tentatively agreed to testify before Congress on May 15, giving Democrats yet another chance to grandstand in front of the American public and pretend as though they didn't lie to the voters for two straight years.
But if Mueller is going to sit there and answer questions, we have one that we'd like Republicans to ask: Since you almost certainly knew that our president did not conspire with the Russians long before you wrapped up your investigation…why didn't you come out and say anything? Wouldn't that have been a valuable piece of information for us to have?
Rep. Peter King (R-NY), in an interview with a New York radio show, had the same question.
"It couldn't have taken Bob Mueller that long to find out," he said. "The reports we get are that they knew a year ago there was no collusion. Well, didn't he have an obligation to tell the president of the United States that? To let the world know?"
King insisted that having this poisonous accusation hanging over the White House hurt President Trump and hindered his ability to negotiate internationally.
"The president has gone off to negotiate with Kim Jong Un. He is involved, obviously, in very sensitive negotiations all the time in the Middle East," King said. "To have this cloud hanging over him, with foreign leaders that may think, 'Hey, he may be indicted for treason. He may be charged with conspiring with the enemy.'"
The congressman said that Mueller owed a debt to both the president and the country, and that by hiding his collusion findings for as long as he did, he hurt both.
"I think that the Mueller people had an obligation to tell the president. To tell the country. To tell the world, that there was no collusion whatsoever as soon as they found out there was none," he said. "You're talking about, whether you like him or not, he is the leader of the country. The leader of the Free World. And they let this hang over him for at least a year. It was wrong not to make it known."
But of course, that was the whole point. As the kids like to say, it was a feature, not a bug. Mueller's whole job was to keep this cloud looming over Trump so that Democrats could go out there on TV and pretend as though he might be a secret Russian spy. Once Mueller officially concluded that this was utter nonsense, they could no longer do that. Why take that ammunition away in the fall of 2017 when you can string it out past the midterms?
King is assuming that Mueller and his Merry Band of Angry Democrats had pure motivations. We just don't see how that's possible.
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Pentagon planning to test long-banned missiles after INF pullout: RFE/RL
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko earlier said Ukraine was no more bound by any restrictions regarding the missile range after Russia's withdrawal from the INF Treaty.
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The Pentagon plans this summer to test a ground-launched cruise missile of the type that has been banned for three decades by Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), U.S. news agencies are reporting.
"We're going to test a ground-launched cruise missile in August," a senior defense official, who declined to be named, was quoted by Reuters as saying on March 13, according to RFE/RL.
Pentagon officials spoke to a small group of reporters on the condition that they would not be identified.
The United States on February 2 launched the six-month process of leaving the INF Treaty, after Washington and NATO repeatedly accused Moscow of violating the accord by developing the 9M729 cruise missile, also known as the SSC-8.
Russia, which denies the accusation, said it was also withdrawing from the INF Treaty, which banned both countries from developing, producing, and deploying ground-launched cruise or ballistic missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers.
When he announced that the United States would pull out of the INF treaty, Trump said the military would "move forward" with developing a military response to Russia's alleged violations.
The U.S. cruise missile to be tested in August will have a range of 1,000 kilometers, Reuters quoted a Pentagon official as saying.
If the test proves successful, the missile could be deployed in about 18 months, the official said.
The same official said the Pentagon was also tentatively planning in November to test an intermediate-range ballistic missile.
Read alsoMFA: Ukraine reserves the right to develop missile weapons after Russia withdraws from INF Treaty
The Associated Press quoted an official as saying the second ballistic missile would have a range of 3,000 to 4,000 kilometers. It would not be ready for deployment for at least five years.
The defense officials told reporters that allies in Europe and Asia have not yet been consulted about the planned missile tests or if they would be deployed on their territory.
One official said the intermediate-range ballistic missile could be deployed on Guam, a U.S. territory close enough to China or Russia to be considered a threat.
As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said Ukraine is not bound by any restrictions regarding the missile range after Russia's withdrawal from the INF Treaty.
"I want to remind you that Ukraine has a great rocket science background, and in fact we remembered about it five years ago. You have already heard about the results of the tests we have held, but we adhered to certain restrictions imposed on us by the INF Treaty," the president said.
According to Poroshenko, Russia has consistently destroyed this treaty by creating new threats to European security.
The INF Treaty was signed in 1987 by then-U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. It bans the production, testing and deployment of land-based cruise and ballistic missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500km.
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The main action of illustrating the crime happens on another level, for example, the past or a fictional story (even if the crime happens in the "present" frame of the overall story).
The crime is not resolved in the other level of the story, regardless of where it occurs.
An action must be taken in the "present" for the crime to be resolved–the truth brought to light, the crime solved/resolved, or even hiding the crime entirely.
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Americans spend a lot of time at work. While there's no place like home for the holidays, it is nice to bring the cozy, festive environment into the workplace. Adding a touch of seasonal color brightens the overall mood of employees and worksite visitors, according to the McKeown Clinic. However, having the right displays in place that don't overwhelm workers and trample on safety is key.
Each year, some people go to great lengths to show off their holiday spirit. The proof is in the hospital records for slicing fingers with scissors, tripping over power cords and face planting, or enduring a shock from being naughty and overloading the power supply, to name a few, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Putting up and taking down decorations are the top causes of holiday-related injuries with lacerations being the most common type of injury, CPSC reports. Since 2009, the number of injuries related to holiday decorations at work or home has increased at a rate of one thousand per year, with 15,000 in 2012.
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Ortvínovice (dříve též Urtinovice) jsou osada, součást obce Zvíkov v okrese České Budějovice. Od Zvíkova leží zhruba jeden kilometr směrem na západ. Jejich osud byl svázán se sousední vesnicí Vztuhy se kterou sdílely své majitele. První dochovaná zmínka o těchto obcích pochází z roku 1367. Ortvínovice byly zničeny v roce 1619 během stavovského povstání, zbyl jen hospodářský dvůr, který byl začleněn do třeboňského panství Schwarzenbergů. Ti o něj přišli během pozemkové reformy v roce 1919. V osmdesátých letech 20. století byl původní barokní dvůr byl zbořen a nahrazen novým. Kromě hospodářského dvoru a několika domů dnes v Ortvínovicích stojí také obora a deset památkově chráněných dubů.

Historie

Počátky
Kunáš ze Vztuh je zmíněn roku 1374 jako první majitel vztužské vsi s tvrzí a sousedních Ortvínovic, které byly součástí vztužského panství. Zkraje 15. století stálo v Ortvínovicích 13 selských stavení, v sousedních Vztuhách dalších pět. Ondřej Puklice, který se na vztužské panství přiženil, se stal v roce 1438 českobudějovickým konšelem a později dokonce starostou. V období vlády Jiřího z Poděbrad byla městská rada svržena a Ondřej Puklice byl zabit. Po dočasném oddělení Ortvínovic a Vztuh se ke konci 16. století opět spojily do jednoho panství, když se obou vsí ujal Daniel Matyáš ze Sudetu. Ten v okolí Ortvínovic a Vztuh založil postupně soustavu deseti rybníků, pravděpodobně po vzoru nedaleké rožmberské rybniční soustavy, která byla v tehdejších dobách dokončována Jakubem Krčínem. Roku 1589 byl Daniel Matyáš povýšen do rytířského stavu. Byl luteránem a po své smrti byl proto pohřben v rudolfovském luteránském kostele. Významný byl pak také Danielův synovec Jan Matyáš ze Sudetu, který mezi lety 1611-1617 působil jako profesor práv na pražské universitě.

Třicetiletá válka
Zcela zničující byla pro Ortvínovice třicetiletá válka. V letech 1618–1619 proti sobě stály císařská armáda v Budějovicích a stavovská armáda v Rudolfově, docházelo k dlouhodobému plenění a rabování okolí. Když se Zikmund Matyáš ze Sudetu, syn Daniela Matyáše, vrátil na své panství, nenašel na něm jediného živého člověka. Roku 1630 prodal Ortvínovice i Vztuhy císařskému gubernátoru Janovi z Eckendorfu, pánovi třeboňského panství. O osmnáct let později měli ortvínovický dvůr stáj pro 60 kusů dobytka, stodolu i zahradu. Třicetiletá válka ale zuřila dál a ještě v srpnu 1648 vpadlo do Ortvínovic asi 500 jezdců švédské armády a zrekvírovali část dobytka.

Schwarzenbergové
Po válce, v roce 1660, získal třeboňské panství za zásluhy Jan Adolf I. ze Schwarzenberka. Rod Schwarzenberků byl majitelem Ortvínovic dalších dvě a půl století. Tragická událost se odehrála v roce 1724, kdy celý ortvínovický dvůr vyhořel do základů. K požáru došlo zrovna v neděli, kdy většina obyvatel odešla na mši do Lišova. Lidé, kteří na dvoře zbyli, dokázali jen zachránit dobytek. Na místě vyhořelého dvora byl pak postaven dvůr nový, barokní, a to podle projektu vídeňského architekta Antona Erharda Martinelliho.

Po první světové válce
Po pozemskové reformě roku 1919 Schwarzenbergové o Ortvínovice přišli a o čtyři roky později je koupil bankovní ředitel František Bělohlávek. Už v roce 1926 ho ale prodal pardubickému lékaři Jindřichu Koláři. Jindřich Kolář byl však pouze majitelem, dvůr pronajímal Janu Lintnerovi, který do Ortvínovic přišel z Novosedel nad Nežárkou. V té době na ortvínovickém dvoře chovali 133 kusů hovězího dobytka, 5 párů koní a 5 vepřů. Bylo zde zaměstnáno 17 stálých zaměstnanců a na sezónní práce bývalo najímáno pár desítek sezónních pracovníků, z nichž mnozí přicházeli ze Slovenska. Jan Lintner měl byt i kancelář zařízenou starým nábytkem z bývalého schwarzenberského zámku Libějovice. Roku 1928 byla ves oficiálně přejmenována na Ortvínovice z původního názvu Urtinovice. Rok nato byl pořízen první traktor, který nahradil tažné koně a voly. Po druhé světové válce se ortvínovický dvůr dostal pod správu Státních statků Třeboň, později přešel pod Státní statek Rožnov. V roce 1976 byl dvůr převeden pod JZD Zvíkov, které zde v osmdesátých letech zbouralo staré barokní budovy dvora a nahradilo je novými.

Památné duby
V Ortvínovicích se nachází celkem 10 památkou chráněných dubů. Ten nejstarší z nich zde stojí už přes 300 let a obvod jeho kmene je kolem pěti a půl metru. Šest z nich pak dohromady tvoří alej na hrázi jednoho z ortvínovických rybníků.

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Osady v okrese České Budějovice
Zvíkov (okres České Budějovice)
Sídla v Českobudějovické pánvi

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import com.nilhcem.droidconae.data.app.model.Room;
import com.nilhcem.droidconae.data.database.model.Session;
import com.nilhcem.droidconae.data.database.model.Speaker;
import com.squareup.moshi.JsonAdapter;
import com.squareup.moshi.Moshi;
import com.squareup.moshi.Types;

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Vice Chair and President, Microsoft Corporation
Co-Founder & Board Chair
Brad Smith is the president of Microsoft, where he leads a team of more than 1,400 business, legal and corporate affairs professionals in 56 countries. He serves as the company's chief legal officer and leads work on a wide range of issues involving the intersection between technology and society, including cybersecurity, privacy, ethics and artificial intelligence, human rights, immigration, philanthropy and environmental sustainability. Described by the New York Times as "a de facto ambassador for the technology industry at large," Smith has testified numerous times before the US Congress and other governments on key policy issues. Smith joined Microsoft in 1993, first spending three years in Paris leading the legal and corporate affairs team in Europe. In 2002, he was named Microsoft's general counsel and spent the following decade leading work to resolve the company's antitrust controversies with governments around the world and companies across the tech sector. This past decade, Smith has spearheaded the company's work to advance privacy protection for Microsoft customers and the rights of DREAMers and other immigrants, including bringing five lawsuits against the US government on these issues. Prior to joining Microsoft, Smith was an associate and then partner at the law firm of Covington and Burling, where he is still remembered as the first attorney in the long history of the firm to insist (in 1986) on having a personal computer on his desk as a condition for accepting a job offer. In addition to his work at Microsoft, Smith is active in several civic organizations and in the broader technology industry. He has served on the Netflix board of directors since 2015 and chairs the board of directors of both Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship program. Smith grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, where Green Bay was the big city next door. He attended Princeton University, where he met his wife, Kathy (also a lawyer). He earned his J.D. from Columbia University Law School and studied international law and economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. He can be followed on Twitter @bradsmi and LinkedIn at bradsmi.
Pamela Passman
Chair of Corporate and New York Managing Director, APCO Worldwide
Board Vice Chair
Pamela Passman is Chair, Corporate and Managing Director of APCO Worldwide's New York office. She works with clients on organizational purpose and impact, managing risk in global operations and the intersection of technology and policy. Ms. Passman is the former President of the Center for Responsible Enterprise and Trade (CREATe.org) and Vice Chair of the Ethisphere Institute, distinct entities that promote leading practices and provide solutions to manage governance, compliance and risks for companies and their global value chains. It was during her time at the Microsoft Corporation that Ms. Passman helped found KIND. She was the Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Global Corporate and Regulatory Affairs, and led Microsoft's regulatory compliance work across a range of issues related to cloud computing, and its global government relations and public policy work. Ms. Passman also had leadership responsibility for Microsoft's philanthropic programs and its cross-company global corporate citizenship efforts. Ms. Passman first joined Microsoft in 1996 and until 2002 led the Legal and Corporate Affairs organization in Asia, based in Tokyo, with a focus on Japan, Korea, and the People's Republic of China. Prior to joining Microsoft, she practiced law with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. and Nagashima & Ohno in Tokyo, Japan. Ms. Passman is a senior associate (non-resident) of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) with the Political Economy Program and Human Rights Initiative. She serves on the Board of Kinaxis Inc., a Toronto-listed SAAS supply chain management company. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on its Nominating and Governance Committee. Ms. Passman is a graduate of Lafayette College, where she serves on its board of trustees, and the University of Virginia School of Law.
Robert Cundall
Board Treasurer & Chair, Finance Committee
Robert Cundall serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Prior to joining Lincoln Center in 2016, he held the positions of Managing Director at the Museum of Arts and Design, and Chief Operating Officer at the Seattle Art Museum. He previously held finance and operations positions with Mobil Corporation, and served as Vice President of Worldwide Operations for the Business Software Alliance, a leading technology trade association. Mr. Cundall was also Chief Financial Officer for the 1993 Presidential Inaugural Committee, and Treasurer of the 1997 Presidential Inaugural Committee. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Sonia Nazario
Author, Enrique's Journey, and Contributing Opinion Writer, The New York Times
Board Secretary
Sonia Nazario has spent more than 20 years reporting and writing about social issues, most recently as a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She has won numerous national journalism and book awards tackling some of this country's most intractable issues: hunger, drug addiction and immigration. In 2003, her story of a Honduran boy's struggle to find his mother in the U.S., entitled "Enrique's Journey," won more than a dozen awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, the George Polk Award for International Reporting, the Grand Prize of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the National Assn. of Hispanic Journalists Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award for Overall Excellence. Expanded into a book, Enrique's Journey became a national bestseller, won three book awards, and became required reading for incoming freshman at 71 colleges and scores of high schools across the U.S. In 1998, Nazario was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for a series on children of drug addicted parents. And in 1994, she won a George Polk Award for Local Reporting for a series about hunger among schoolchildren in California. Nazario, who grew up in Kansas and in Argentina, has been named among the most influential Latinos by Hispanic Business Magazine and a "trendsetter" by Hispanic Magazine. In 2012 Columbia Journalism Review named Nazario among "40 women who changed the media business in the past 40 years." She is now at work on her second book.
Maya Ajmera
President and CEO, Society for Science and Publisher, Science News
Chair, Compensation and Benefits Committee
Maya Ajmera is the President and CEO of Society for Science and Publisher of its magazine, Science News. The Society is best known for its award-winning journalism, world-class science competitions, and its suite of outreach and equity programs. Maya founded the Global Fund for Children (GFC), a nonprofit organization that invests in innovative, community-based organizations working with some of the world's most vulnerable children and youth. Under her 18 years of leadership, GFC grew from a vision into one of the largest networks of grassroots organizations working on behalf of vulnerable children. Maya served as the inaugural Social Entrepreneur in Residence for Duke University and Visiting Professor for the Practice of Public Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke. She was a Visiting Scholar and Professorial Lecturer at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and continues to serve as an adjunct there. Maya is also an award-winning children's book author of more than 20 titles with more than 5 million readers worldwide. Maya holds an A.B. from Bryn Mawr College and a M.P.P. from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.
Ronald Schechter
Retired Partner and Senior Counsel, Arnold & Porter, LLP
Chair, Audit Committee
Ronald Schechter is a Retired Partner and Senior Counsel at Arnold & Porter, a DC-based international law firm. He has served on the firm's Policy, Compensation, Ethics, and Pro Bono Committees. Ron has a career-long commitment to pro bono work. He has represented numerous individuals in political asylum, VAWA, and other immigration cases and has litigated several cases challenging government policies regarding immigrants rights. Ron also serves on the Board of Directors of The Welders, a DC-based playwrights collective.
Rafael Borrás
President and CEO, Homeland Security & Defense Business Council
Chair, Nominations and Governance Committee
The Honorable Rafael Borrás is currently the President/CEO of the Homeland Security and Defense Business Council, leading an association of industry leading firms supporting the homeland security sector of the federal government. Most recently, he was an executive with A.T. Kearney (2014 – 2020), leading domestic security transformation, efforts predominantly in the Middle East. Mr. Borrás was appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate to serve as the Under Secretary for Management at the Department of Homeland Security. He was also appointed by the President to serve as Acting Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of DHS in September, 2013. Prior to his appointment with DHS, Mr. Borrás served as a Vice President and corporate officer with URS Corporation, a global engineering services firm from 2000 – 2010, responsible for multiple P&L groups and major public and private infrastructure projects throughout the U.S. Prior to joining URS, Mr. Borrás served in senior executive positions with multiple federal agencies and local governments. He is also a Fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration. He received the lifetime distinguished service award from the Homeland Security and Defense Business Council for his transformation success at DHS.
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