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
NOV 29, 2007 • Podcast
Finance as a Tool of National Security: Update on the Effort to Combat Terror Financing
Levitt discusses the behind-the-scenes work that Treasury is doing to cut off funds for terrorism, with particular focus on Iran.
NOV 7, 2007 • Podcast
The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power
Diversity, says Shashi Tharoor, is the very essence and strength of India. Rather than a melting pot, it is more like an Indian "thali," with ...
NOV 5, 2007 • Transcript
Secularism Confronts Islam
What we are witnessing in Europe," says Olivier Roy, "is a transformation from an ethnic minority into a faith community. These people want to be ...
OCT 31, 2007 • Podcast
God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World
Walter Russell Mead wittily explains how the individualistic faiths of Britain and America lent themselves so well to the creation of the modern economic and ...
OCT 17, 2007 • Podcast
Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
Does labor abuse and outright slavery still exist in the United States? Yes, says author and journalist John Bowe, who travels from Florida to U....
OCT 12, 2007 • Podcast
Head and Heart: American Christianities
Garry Wills says that the U.S. separation of church and state both unleashed evangelical feelings and tempered them with reason and rationality. "Putting together ...
OCT 10, 2007 • Podcast
Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
With the advent of global capitalism, consumers have many more choices and investors are doing well. But democracy, charged with caring for all citizens, is ...
OCT 3, 2007 • Transcript
What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism
If we are to address terrorism successfully, we need to make a more rigorous examination of its causes. Many believe that it springs from poverty ...
OCT 2, 2007 • Transcript
Challenges for Change: The Role of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in the Islamic World
The 57-member OIC has embarked on an ambitious 10-year plan, which includes setting up a 10-billion-dollar fund for poverty alleviation and eventually establishing an independent ...
SEP 26, 2007 • Podcast
The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West
Mark Lilla notes that "it's not contemporary Islam that's the exception", but, "we are the exception. We live on the other shore from those who ...