EVENTS

Date:	Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Time:	12:00 PM -- 2:00 PM
Location:	Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

Marvin Olasky is the editor-in-chief of the national news magazine World, provost of the King's College, and a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written thirteen books of history and cultural analysis, including Compassionate Conservatism (Simon and Schuster, 2000), The American Leadership Tradition (Free Press, 1999), The Religions Next Door (B&H Publishing Group, 2004), and The Tragedy of American Compassion (Regnery Gateway, 1992). Mr. Olasky has also coauthored seven more books (including the recent Monkey Business), written seven monographs, and served as general editor of the Turning Point Christian Worldview series from Crossway Books.

Henry Olsen is a vice president and director of the National Research Initiative (NRI) at AEI. He disseminates and publicizes the Institute’s work to the academic community; works with AEI’s visiting, adjunct, and NRI research fellows; commissions and supervises NRI projects; and oversees the production of NRI publications. Mr. Olsen was previously vice president for programs at the Manhattan Institute and a judicial clerk to the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Danny J. Boggs.

James W. Skillen is the president of the Center for Public Justice (CPJ). He assumed the role of executive director at CPJ in 1981, a position he held until becoming president in 2000. Mr. Skillen edits CPJ’s biweekly Capital Commentary and occasional Root & Branch, and he edited the quarterly Public Justice Report until its final issue in 2007. His books include With or Against the World? America’s Role Among the Nations (Rowman & Littlefield and CPJ, 2005), In Pursuit of Justice: Christian-Democratic Explorations (Rowman & Littlefield and CPJ, 2004), and A Covenant to Keep: Meditations on the Biblical Theme of Justice (CRC Publications and CPJ, 2000).