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September 6, 2007

"National Security at a Crossroads" Topic of Upcoming Grinnell Event

GRINNELL, IA - Lorelei Kelly, a Grinnell College graduate and policy director for the Real Security Initiative of The White House Project, will lead a discussion on new ways to think about national security on Sept. 11 at 8 p.m. in the Joe Rosenfield '25 Center, Room 101, on the Grinnell College campus.

Kelly is a national security specialist for the White House Project, a national leadership organization committed to bringing more women into national security decision-making through media, culture and politics. Kelly's background includes bipartisan national security education for Congress, where she continues to advise the Progressive Caucus, and teaching at Stanford University's Center on Conflict and Negotiation.

Kelly will be joined in the "National Security at a Crossroads" discussion by Dana Eyre, a U.S. Army reserve civil affairs officer who served in Bosnia and Kosovo, and Erin Vilardi, national program director of The White House Project. Eyre, who was senior policy advisor to the deputy special representative of the UN Secretary-General in Kosovo, is currently a civilian advisor to the Iraq reconstruction effort.

The Grinnell discussion, which is sponsored by the Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations and Human Rights, is part of the White House Project's Community Conversations initiative to create innovative strategies to address security threats that cannot be solved through the use of military force. The Rosenfield Center is located at 1115 8th Ave. on the Grinnell College campus.