Conference on World Affairs Boulder Colorado
The 66th annual Conference on World Affairs at University of Colorado Boulder opened today and will continue through Friday with over 200 free sessions and over 100 participants from around the world.
Diplomats, journalists, human rights advocates, politicians, musicians, artists, scientists, professors, peacemakers seem to greatly enjoy the discussions with other forum participants, students, and the Boulder community and come back year after year on their own dime. We've had the privilege in the conference's long history to interact with Eleanor Roosevelt, Buckminster Fuller, Ted Turner, Ralph Nader, Joe Biden, Molly Ivins, Roger Ebert and so many hundreds of others bringing their research and life experiences to us.
This year the keynote speaker was HHS Secretary Kathleen Sibelius, her topic was (not Obamacare!) but The Globalization of Health. As the world has changed and shrunk so rapidly and we have learned that human health is the great global connector, we have made great strides in prevention and public health care but we have so far to go in collaboration with our extended world family.
If you would like to watch this inspiring speech (or any other forum during the conference) they are livestreamed at www.colorado.edu/cwa.
