Bring a little dolce vita to Crested Butte with a community potluck inspired by The Italian Summer Kitchen by Cathy Whims and Kate Lewis! Think sun-ripened flavors, fresh herbs, and recipes made for lingering over the last of our long summer evenings. Grab a copy at Townie Books or borrow ours, sign up for a…
Spend a fun day with artist and instructor Beth Zink, exploring the properties of color, and how to use color to achieve a variety of effects in your paintings. It is a hands-on “color 101” approach, with all of us mixing, and testing our own “recipes” in our individual notebooks. We will also create some…
For more than 20 years, Paul Spinks has worn the uniform. As single-officer paramedic, he covers a patch of more than 90,000 square kilometres in Australia’s remote and unforgiving outback. No backup. No quick reinforcements. Just instinct, experience, and the responsibility to make the call when it matters most. Paul walks into homes where panic…
Patrick Jenevein, CEO of Pointe Bello Patrick Jenevein serves as the chief executive at Pointe Bello, an intelligence driven, strategy development firm that provides pioneering open-source intelligence to governmental and commercial bodies on the People’s Republic of China’s economic statecraft activity worldwide. Prior to launching Pointe Bello, he co-founded Tang Energy Group and, partnering with…
Presented by Crested Butte Public Policy Forum Stephen Richer currently serves as CEO and consultant at Republic Affairs, while also contributing as a legal scholar at the Cato Institute and as a lecturer and senior fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School. In addition, Stephen is a contributor…
Presented by Crested Butte Public Policy Forum Stephen Morrison is Senior Vice President and Director of the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he leads one of the leading programs in Washington focused on global health security, pandemic preparedness, and humanitarian health response. His work centers on…
Presented by Crested Butte Public Policy Forum Michael D. Weiss is one of the foremost investigative journalists covering Russian intelligence and hybrid warfare, and editor of The Insider. Co-author of the New York Times bestseller ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, he is currently completing a comprehensive history of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service.…
Presented by Crested Butte Public Policy Forum Sarah Labowitz is a leading expert on disaster response and the intersection of public policy and global supply chains. As a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, she focuses on how governments and international institutions prepare for, respond to, and recover from large-scale crises—from natural…
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prior to returning to Harvard, he taught at Stanford Law School, where he founded the Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals…
Professor Leila Nadya Sadat is the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law at Washington University and visited at Yale Law School from 2021-2024. She served as Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the International Criminal Court Prosecutor from 2013-2023 and is on the registered list of experts for the Moscow Mechanism of the…