Subject: Complimentary Invitation to the Washington IDEAS Forum, 30 Sept-1 Oct
From: "Steve Clemons" <[email-masked]>
To: "undisclosed-recipients:"
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:46:29 -0400

I would like to invite you to be my *complimentary guest* at the
upcoming *Washington
IDEAS Forum* in Washington, DC running from *30 September- 1 October*.
This is a ticketed event, and thus registration is required -- but you will
be on my personal complimentary list.

If you would like to attend, more information including the venue details
follows at the link.  Please email your NAME, AFFILIATION (if any) and
TITLE, and contact phone and email address to [email-masked]*
<[email-masked]>.  *Do NOT register online* as it will prompt you
to pay our normal ticket price.

Washington IDEAS Forum link:
*http://www.theatlantic.com/live/events/washington-ideas-forum/2015/
<http://www.theatlantic.com/live/events/washington-ideas-forum/2015/>*

Confirmed speakers follow below.

*ALSO, if you are able to accept my invitation, please let me know so that
I can look for you.*

All best,

Steve

*Steve Clemons*
*Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic*

*Follow me on Twitter @SCClemons*

*Confirmed Speakers include:*

   - *Colin Powell*, Former Secretary of State
   - *Madeleine Albright*, Former Secretary of State; Chair, Albright
   Stonebridge Group
   - *Mitt Romney*, Fmr. Republican Presidential Candidate & Fmr. Governor,
   Massachusetts
   - *Senator John McCain*, United States Senator (R-AZ)
   - *Al Gore*, Chairman, Climate Reality Project, Former Vice President of
   the United States
   - *Senator Bob Corker, *Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
   - *Loretta Lynch, *Attorney General of the United States
   - *Senator Cory Booker*, United States Senator (D-NJ)
   - *Julian Castro*, United States Secretary of Housing and Urban
   Development
   - *Arne Duncan,* United States Secretary of Education
   - *Chris Matthews*, Host of “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” MSNBC
   - *Jeff Weiner*, Chief Executive Officer, LinkedIn
   - *Penny Pritzker*, United States Secretary of Commerce
   - *Opal Tometi*, co-founder, #BlackLivesMatter
   - *Ben Rhodes*, Deputy National Security Adviser, The White House
   - *David Rubenstein*, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, The
   Carlyle Group
   - *Arati Prabhakar*, Director, DARP*A*
   - *Senator Tom Cotton,* United States Senator (R-AR)
   - *Senator Claire McCaskill*, United States Senator (D-MO)
   - *Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers*, Member (R-WA) and Chair of the House
   Republican Conference, United States House of Representatives
   - *Ed Markey*, United States Senator (D-MA)
   -
*Rev. John Jenkins, President, Notre Dame *
   - *David Miliband*, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee;
   Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, United Kingdom
   - *Lonnie Bunch*, Director, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African
   American History and Culture
   - *Martine Rothblatt*, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, United
   Therapeutics; Founder, SiriusXM
   - *Jonathan Bush*, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, athenahealth
   - *Gov. Lincoln Chafee*, Presidential Candidate, Former Governor of
   Rhode Island
   - *Francis Collins*, Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
   - *Senator Mark Warner*, United States Senator (D-VA)
   - *Anthony Fauci*, Director of the National Institute for Allergy and
   Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health
   - *Bran Ferren*, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Applied Minds
   - *Mick Ebeling*, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Not Impossible
   Labs
   - *Vanessa Kerry*, Co-Founder and CEO, Seed Global Health
   - *Stanley Nelson*, Director, “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the
   Revolution
   - *Theo Padnos*, Journalist and Former Jabhat al-Nusra Hostage with
   mother*Nancy* *Curtis* and cousin *Amy Rosen*
   - *Anne-Marie Slaughter*, President and CEO, New America Foundation
   - *Laura D’Andrea Tyson*, Former Chair, White House Council of Economic
   Advisers; Professor of Business Administration and Economics, Haas School
   of Business at the University of California, Berkeley
   - *Glynn Washington*, Host of “Snap Judgment,” NPR
   - *Jim Webb*, Fmr. United States Senator (D-VA)
   - *Lawrence Wright*, Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Author, *The Looming
   Tower: Al-Qaeda* and *The Road to 9/11