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Former White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough featured speaker for NU's 'Transformative Visions'

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Fri, Oct 9th 2020 01:35 pm

Niagara University will present the second in its “Transformative Visions” presidential speaker series at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13. Denis McDonough, former White House chief of staff under President Barack Obama and former White House deputy national security adviser, will present a fireside chat addressing politics, climate change and foreign policy.

The presentations will be accessible to the community through Zoom: www.niagara.edu/speakerseries101320.

Currently senior adviser at the Markle Foundation, McDonough is working to create a skills-based labor market that enables all Americans to succeed in the digital economy. He also serves as senior adviser for technology and global policy for Macro Advisory Partners, a strategic advisory firm that helps to navigate the intersection of global markets, geopolitics and policy, and is executive fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, where he teaches a global policy seminar for graduate and undergraduate students.

McDonough served as the White House chief of staff for Obama, providing strategic advice on domestic policy, national security, and management issues facing the federal government. Prior to that role, McDonough served as assistant to the president and principal deputy national security adviser. He chaired the National Security Council’s deputies committee, leading a multiagency team to address complex national security challenges, including crisis management; as well as policy decisions related to the Iran nuclear negotiations; strategic arms reductions talks with Russia; the U.S. rebalance to Asia; the Afghanistan surge; and the Iraq drawdown.

Upcoming presentations in this series include:

•“Criminal Justice, Policing, and Prisons,” featuring Soffiyah Elijah, executive director of the Alliance of Families of Justice and the first Black woman to serve as executive director of the Correctional Association of New York (7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24).

•“Environmental Justice, Indigenous Resistance,” featuring Dina Gilio-Whitaker, policy director and senior research associate at the Center for World Indigenous Studies, and lecturer of American Indian studies at California State University San Marcos (7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17).

For more information about the series, contact Kevin Hinkley ([email protected]) or David Reilly ([email protected]).

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