Pedro Alonzo is a Boston-based independent curator, currently serving as adjunct curator at Dallas Contemporary. Since 2006 he has specialized in producing exhibitions that transcend the boundaries of museum walls and spill out into the urban landscape. Alonzo began to develop exhibitions designed to engage the public in 2015, starting with a citywide exhibition in Philadelphia titled “Open Source: Engaging Audiences in Public Space,” followed by working with JR to place a gigantic image of a Mexican child named Kikito overlooking the U.S./México border wall in Tecate. Since 2016 Alonzo has worked with The Trustees, Massachusetts’s largest conservation and preservation nonprofit, to launch and curate the organization’s Art & the Landscape initiative, resulting in site-specific commissions created by the artists Sam Durant, Jeppe Hein, Alicja Kwade, and Doug Aitken. He is currently working on Amnesia Atómica, an ongoing project by Pedro Reyes, commissioned by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, centered on reviving and reintroducing the issue of nuclear threat into the public narrative. He is a former N Square Innovators Network fellow.
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To actively engage and work with the creative sector. Today the conversation about the nuclear threat is dominated by experts. We need to work with the creative sector to develop compelling narratives that the general public can get behind.
Maria Rost Rublee, an associate professor of international relations at Monash University in Australia, is passionate about turning conventional wisdom upside down in pursuit of a safer, more equitable world. Her work in nuclear politics argues that norms underlie much of the strategic calculations that inform policymaking, and therefore we must understand nuclear norms if we want to change policy. Her research in international security also extends to the limited ways in which “national security” is constructed. She argues that diversity in international security—both people and ideas—is critical if we want resourceful and innovative policies. Maria created and leads a global effort to understand and improve the state of diversity within the security studies scholarly community. An award-winning author and teacher, she has received major grants from institutions around the world, including the US Institute of Peace, and has published research in top-ranking journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Contemporary Security Policy, Survival, and International Studies Review.
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Using the untapped resources of social psychology to change entrenched patterns of thinking, and helping artists, performers, teachers, politicians, and others use those strategies and techniques; opening up spaces for diverse voices to engage with entrenched patterns of policy regarding nuclear weapons
Mareena Robinson Snowden is a senior engineer in the National Security Analysis Department at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Her current research portfolio includes future nuclear weapon systems, nuclear crisis issues, and new technology for surface warfare. Prior to joining JHU APL, Mareena was a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow with the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where her research focused on nuclear arms control verification and nonproliferation. She has also served as a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Graduate Fellow (NGFP) in the Office of Major Modernization Programs; this office is responsible for the modernization of warhead systems and ensuring access to the strategic materials used in the US stockpile. Mareena holds a PhD in nuclear engineering from MIT, and a BS in physics from Florida A&M University. Her doctoral research, funded by the NNSA Stockpile Stewardship Graduate Fellowship Program, focused on the use of radiation detection in the verification of nuclear arms reduction treaties. She is a former N Square Innovators Network fellow.
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Leveraging an understanding and appreciation for the complexity of nuclear weapons policymaking to help frame discussions and products designed to reduce the risk of nuclear weapons
Louis Salkind currently serves as president of the Bright Horizon Foundation, a nonprofit family foundation. Previously, Louis worked at D. E. Shaw & Co., where he held titles of managing director and vice chairman and also served on the executive committee. He holds a PhD in computer science from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, and an AB in physics from Princeton University.
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Raise awareness of these issues and that they can be solved
aura Dawn Murphy has spent nearly 20 years making high-impact media and leading groundbreaking cultural campaigns, both as founding cultural and creative director of MoveOn.org and as cofounder of the award-winning cultural strategy agency ART NOT WAR. An expert in microtargeting and narrowcasting, her forte is viral content creation, digital organizing, and high-level strategic collaborations between renowned artists and grassroots activists that help not-for-profits garner earned media, bolster public awareness, and spur action for social change. Laura has been named one of the nation’s Top 100 Creatives by Origin Magazine and “The Most Important Person in Politics That You Don’t Know About” by MSNBC, and is featured alongside Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the book 200 Women Who Will Change the Way You See the World. Laura currently serves as creative consultant for Fenton Communications, and sits on the advisory boards of The Climate Emergency Fund, Campaign to Unload, The Climate Mobilization, The Hometown Project, Swayable, Adopt A Kitchen, and The Peace Studio, founded by Maya Soetoro-Ng. She was a 2019 N Square Innovators Network fellow.
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There is a huge messaging hole in this issue space. I want to see the movement utilize cutting-edge marketing and storytelling to shape public opinion on one of the greatest existential threats of our time.
Kate Langrall Folb is director of Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S), the flagship program of the University of Southern California Annenberg School Norman Lear Center, and a veteran of more than 20 years in the entertainment education field. At HH&S, she leads a team of public health and media professionals to connect entertainment content creators with experts in health, medicine, science, safety, and security to ensure accuracy in their depictions; her team also conducts research on the impact of TV storylines on viewers’ knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Previously, Kate served as director of special projects at the Scott Newman Foundation, where she worked with top TV shows and films on portrayals of alcohol and other substance abuse and produced the foundation’s annual public service announcements (PSAs). She was also director of The Media Project, a partnership of Advocates for Youth and the Kaiser Family Foundation, working with entertainment on storylines about HIV/AIDs and other reproductive health topics, and led Nightingale Entertainment, an independent consulting firm producing PSAs and coordinating national media events for a variety of health-related causes. Kate speaks fluent Spanish, holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Denver, and a master’s in education from UCLA.
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Pursue interesting avenues for connecting and integrating celebrity and entertainment with the issue of nuclear threat
