Katrina vanden Heuvel & David C. Speedie
U.S.- Russia Relations Amidst the Invasion of Ukrainer
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
With harsher sanctions than ever, the threat of an end to cooperation on the ISS, and personal attacks between its two leaders, the relationship between the U.S. and Russia is likely at its worst since the fall of the Soviet era. Nevertheless, relations between the world’s biggest nuclear powers are of utmost importance, especially in times of war. What is left of the U.S.-Russian relationship? Should Washington aim for maximal isolation of Moscow or do some channels have to stay open? And under what circumstances can U.S.-Russia relations be rebuilt after the war in Ukraine ends? Join us for an exclusive in-person conversation with Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Editorial Director and Publisher of The Nation, and David C. Speedie, Member of the Board of Directors of the American Committee for U.S.-Russia Accord, on Wednesday, April 20th from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM ET on the topic of “U.S.-Russia Relations Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine.”*
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SPEAKER:
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel is editorial director and publisher of The Nation. She served as editor of the magazine from 1995 to 2019.
She writes a weekly column for The Washington Post.
A frequent commentator on US and international politics for ABC, MSNBC, CNN, and PBS, her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. Vanden Heuvel is also the author of several books, including The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama, and co-author (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev’s Reformers.
Vanden Heuvel has been recognized for her journalism and public service by organizations such as Planned Parenthood, the National Women’s Political Caucus, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Community Change, the Norman Mailer Center, the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill, American Rights at Work, Progressive Congress, and more. During her tenure, The Nation’s journalism has been recognized for excellence by the National Magazine Awards, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Maggie Awards, GLAAD, and the National Association of Black Journalists, among others.
Vanden Heuvel serves on the boards of the Progressive Caucus Center, the Institute for Policy Studies, Type Media Center, the Sidney Hillman Media Foundation, the American Committee for US-Russian Accord, Inequality Media, Brave New Films, the Osborne Association, Research to Prevent Blindness, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, and the Four Freedoms Park Conservancy. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Century Association.
Vanden Heuvel is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, and she lives in New York City.
David C. Speedie
David C. Speedie was Senior Fellow and Director of the Program on U.S. Global Engagement at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York from 2007 to 2017.
Prior to this, he chaired the Program on International Peace and Security at Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1992-2007.
In 2007–2008, Speedie was also a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
David Speedie joined the Corporation as a program officer in the cooperative security program and was appointed program chair in March 1993, a position he held for almost 12 years. In 2004, he was appointed to serve as special advisor to the president and director of the Corporation’s project on Islam.
For three years, Speedie was a professor of English and drama at the University of St. Andrews in his native Scotland. Speedie holds an M.A. in education and an M.Litt. from the University of St. Andrews.
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