Joanne Myers was director of the Carnegie Council's Public Affairs Programs (formerly Merrill House Programs). She was responsible for planning and organizing more than 50 public programs a year at the Council, many of which have been featured on C-SPAN's Booknotes.
Myers is also a columnist and advisory board member for PassBlue, an independent digital publication that covers the United Nations.
Before joining the Council, she was director of the Consular Corps/Deputy General Counsel at the New York City Commission for the United Nations, Consular Corps and Protocol, where she acted as the liaison between the mayor of New York and the consulates general. Myers holds a JD from Benjamin C. Cardozo School of Law and a BA in international relations from the University of Minnesota.
Featured Work
JAN 17, 2013 • Podcast
A Fragile New Burma
Back from a recent fact-finding trip to Burma, veteran Asia correspondent Barbara Crossette reports on the complex situation there. People have high hopes for more ...
DEC 14, 2012 • Podcast
The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics
In the Cold War, the path to nuclear war always led through Moscow and Washington. In the second nuclear age the triggers to nuclear war ...
DEC 13, 2012 • Podcast
Why Tolerate Religion?
Why do Western democracies single out religion for preferential treatment? For example, why can a Sikh boy carry a dagger to school while other children ...
DEC 12, 2012 • Podcast
Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics, and Religion
"Talibanistan" is the nickname for the embattled territory from Kandahar in Afghanistan to Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas. Two experts explode ...
NOV 30, 2012 • Podcast
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines--and Future
Drawing on over 30 years of experience of reporting on Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Karen Elliott House takes us behind the scenes in this secretive ...
NOV 19, 2012 • Podcast
America in the 21st Century: A View from America
"Why is it that the political system today seems so gridlocked? Why is the issue of brinkmanship in America so incredibly debilitating and so very ...
OCT 27, 2012 • Podcast
Exit the Colonel: The Hidden History of the Libyan Revolution
The real story of the Libyan Revolution began not with the Arab Spring, but in 2003, when anti-Qaddafi sanctions were lifted. Former U.S. diplomat Ethan ...
OCT 23, 2012 • Podcast
Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad
David W. Lesch has traveled to Syria repeatedly since 1989 and met President Bashar al-Assad several times in the mid-2000s. He discusses the conflict in ...
OCT 16, 2012 • Podcast
Public Affairs: America in the 21st Century: A View from Asia
The good, the bad, and the ugly: distinguished Singaporean Kishore Mahbubani politely but firmly tells Americans how Asians see them, and warns, "the world that ...