The Obama Presidency Inside-Out: A Conversation About Climate - Incite at Columbia University

On May 31, at The Forum, we held “The Obama Presidency Inside-Out: A Conversation About Climate,” which was a discussion about the Obama Presidency Oral History and the first published interviews from the project that are related to his administration's work on climate change and the environment. 

Panelists included: Todd Stern, former United States special envoy for climate change and President Obama's chief climate negotiator from 2009 to 2016; Frances Beinecke, former president of NRDC; Shailagh Murray, executive vice president for public affairs at Columbia University, former senior advisor to President Obama and communications director and deputy chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, and OPOH advisory board member; and Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, environmental historian, and OPOH advisory board member. Ken Mack, historian, Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and OPOH advisory board member, moderated the panel.