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LIZ CHENEY SERVED AS THE UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE for Wyoming’s at-large congressional district from 2017 - 2023. She chaired the House Republican Conference — the third-highest position in the House Republican leadership — from 2019 - 2021, and was vice chair of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol. She was also a member of the House Armed Services Committee, China Task Force, Natural Resources Committee, and the House Committee on Rules. Cheney previously served at the State Department as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, as well as in positions for USAID and the Department of State working in Poland, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine. Prior to this, Cheney practiced law with White & Case LLP and the International Finance Corporation. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado College and a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School.

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Cheney is a specialist in national security and foreign policy. She and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, co-authored the 2015 book “Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America.” Her memoir, “Oath and Honor,” was released in December 2023. In 2021, Cheney was selected for the inaugural Forbes “50 Over 50” list and was included in TIME magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2022, Cheney, along with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, received the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library’s prestigious Profile in Courage Award, with a commendation for her “consistent and courageous voice in defense of democracy.” Cheney was appointed a professor of practice at the University of Virginia Center for Politics in March 2023.

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A LOOK AT CHENEY’S CAREER

FROM WYOMING TO D.C. AND BACK AGAIN (AND AGAIN) MUCH OF LIZ CHENEY’S LIFE has been spent between Casper, Wyoming, where generations of her family have lived since 1852, and Washington, D.C. Throughout her childhood, her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, exposed her to the inner workings of the federal government as he served as chief of staff for President Gerald Ford (1975 - 1977) and as U.S. representative for Wyoming’s at-large district (1979 - 1989), an office she would one day hold. Take a look at highlights from Liz Cheney’s decades-long career serving the people of Wyoming and the nation. 1988

Cheney graduates from Colorado College and begins her career working for the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

2000

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney win the presidential election. Liz Cheney assists their campaign, as well as their successful 2004 reelection campaign.

2008

Cheney joins Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign as a senior foreign policy adviser.

2016

Cheney is elected to Wyoming’s at-large district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

2018

Cheney is reelected to her House seat. On November 14, the Republican membership elects her chair of the House Republican Conference. In this post, she is the third-ranking Republican in the chamber.

JANUARY 12, 2021

After the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Cheney announces she will vote to impeach then-President Donald Trump. She is one of 10 Republicans to vote for his impeachment.

MAY 12, 2021

Cheney is removed from her position as Republican Conference chair by voice vote at a closed-door meeting.

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The Republican National Committee called the events of January 6, 2021, “legitimate political discourse” and overwhelmingly voted to censure Cheney and Representative Adam Kinzinger for taking part in the House investigation of the attack on the Capitol.

AUGUST 16, 2022

Cheney loses her Congressional seat to Harriet Hageman in the Wyoming Republican primary election. In her concession speech, she states, “Our republic relies upon the goodwill of all candidates for office to accept honorably the outcome of elections... This primary election is over, but now the real work begins.”

1996

Cheney receives her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. She begins practicing as an international law attorney at White & Case LLP in Washington, D.C.

2002

Liz Cheney is appointed deputy assistant secretary of state in the Department of State’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (NEA). In 2005, she is promoted to principal deputy assistant secretary.

2013

Cheney launches her campaign for the U.S. Senate in Wyoming, challenging three-term incumbent Republican Mike Enzi. She withdraws her bid six months later due to health issues in her family.

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Cheney is reelected to serve a third term in Congress and a second term as the Republican Conference chair.

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Former President Donald Trump loses the presidential election and makes claims of widespread voter fraud. Cheney issues an official statement urging him to back up these claims with evidence, saying, “If the president cannot prove these claims or demonstrate that they would change the election result, he should fulfill his oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States by respecting the sanctity of our electoral process.”

JULY 1, 2021

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces Cheney will serve on the newly formed House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol. In September, Cheney is named the committee’s vice chair. She is one of only two Republicans on the panel.

JUNE 9, 2022

The January 6 committee holds its first prime-time hearing. Cheney, who features prominently throughout the hearing, states in her opening remarks that “President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack.”

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Positive views of governmental and political institutions are at an all-time low. In 2023, only 16% of Americans said they trust the government to do what is right always or most of the time. This is the lowest measured level of trust in the past 60 years. Sixty-three percent of people express not too much or no confidence at all in the future of the U.S. political system. Experts say that growing distrust coarsens public debate, produces policy gridlock, shrinks capacity for goodwill, and harms personal relationships. An increasing majority of Americans (61%) say that having political conversations with people they disagree with is generally “stressful and frustrating.” Despite this, people all along the political spectrum fear that we are growing further apart, and that we are losing the capacity to find common ground and solve our shared problems. We want to move past polarization, but where do we begin?

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RICHMOND FORUM SPEAKERS 1987

January Ted Koppel February Hodding Carter and Larry Speakes with Paul Duke March General Brent Scowcroft with Diane Sawyer April Charles Kuralt

1988

January Oprah Winfrey February Jeane Kirkpatrick and Vladimir Pozner with Marvin Kalb March George Will April Art Buchwald

1989

January Sam Donaldson February Henry Kissinger with John Chancellor March William Buckley and Charles Rangel April Dr. Carl Sagan

1990

January Paul Duke, Howard Fineman and Charles McDowell February Frank Carlucci, George McGovern, William Proxmire and William Rusher with Bettina Gregory March Mike Wallace April Alistair Cooke

1990–1991

October Chancellor Helmut Schmidt January Admiral William Crowe, General Alexander Haig and Robert McFarlane with Edwin Newman February H. Ross Perot March Art Buchwald and Andy Rooney April Captain James Lovell and Dr. Frank Drake with James Burke

1991–1992

October Barbara Walters January PM Margaret Thatcher February General H. Norman Schwarzkopf with Larry King March Dr. Marc Micozzi and Dr. Victor McKusick with Patricia Cornwell April Mark Russell

1992–1993

October Terry Anderson January Hiroki Kato and T. Boone Pickens February Dr. Joyce Brothers March Dr. Bill Cosby April President Mikhail Gorbachev with Cokie Roberts

1993–1994

November Senator Warren Rudman, Lamar Alexander and Dr. Marvin Cetron with Chris Wallace January Frank Capiello and Michael Holland with Louis Rukeyser February President George H. W. Bush March Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross April Bob Newhart

1994–1995

November General Colin Powell January Walter Cronkite February Dave Barry March Tom Clancy April Jack Kemp and George Mitchell

1995–1996

November PM Brian Mulroney and Ambassador Carla Hills January Neil Armstrong, Eugene Cernan and Dick Rutan with David Hartman February Calvin Trillin March Charles Kuralt April David Gergen, Pierre Salinger, Sheila Tate and Bob Woodward with Ed Bradley

1996–1997

November Carl Reiner with Dick Cavett January Paul Volcker with Ray Brady February Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough March Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber with Sir David Frost April Marcia Clark, Philip K. Howard, Dr. Rodney Smolla and Kym Worthy with Prof. Arthur Miller

1997–1998

November Bill Moyers January Wynton Marsalis February PM Shimon Peres March Mary Tyler Moore April Peter Lynch

1998–1999

November PM John Major January Robert Bennett and Dr. William Bennett with Tim Russert February Harry S. Dent, Jr. and Lou Dobbs March Lily Tomlin April Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean-Michel Cousteau

1999–2000

November Julie Andrews January Todd Brewster and Peter Jennings February John Krubski and Michael Connors with Ray Brady March Archbishop Desmond Tutu April James Carville and Newt Gingrich with Tim Russert

2000–2001

November Senator John Glenn January Tom Brokaw February PM Benjamin Netanyahu March Frank McCourt April Dr. William Kelso

2001–2002

November Hal Holbrook January Rabbi Marc Gellman and Msgr. Thomas Hartman February Dick Clark March Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough April Madeleine Albright and James Baker with Gwen Ifill

2002–2003

November Ken Burns January Rudolph Giuliani February PM Benazir Bhutto and Queen Noor with Gwen Ifill March Louis Freeh April Senator Fred Thompson

2003–2004

November Cal Ripken, Jr. January Robert Shiller and Jeremy Siegel February Candice Bergen March President Mary Robinson April Thomas L. Friedman

2004–2005

November General Tommy Franks January Michael Beschloss and Walter Isaacson February Tim Russert March Dr. Fareed Zakaria April Frank Gehry

2005–2006

November Robert Redford with Pat Mitchell January Sherry Lansing February General Colin Powell (Ret.) March Tom Wolfe April Rick Wagoner

2006–2007

November Burt Rutan January Malcolm Gladwell and Alvin Toffler February B.B. King March Jim Lehrer April Dr. Jared Diamond

2007–2008

November President Vicente Fox January Carly Fiorina February Michael Douglas March Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. April David Brooks

2008–2009

November PM Tony Blair January Reza Aslan and Jon Meacham February Smokey Robinson with Daphne Maxwell Reid March Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long April Marion Nestle and Michael Pollan

2009–2010

November Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson January Greg Mortenson March Steve Forbes April Condoleezza Rice May David Plouffe

2010–2011

November President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf January Laura Bush February Anderson Cooper March Dr. George Church April David Blaine

2014–2015

November Diana Nyad January Garry Trudeau March Ben Bernanke with Paul Solman April Dr. Daniel Levitin and Rosanne Cash May General Keith Alexander and Robert Mueller with John Donvan

2015–2016

November Michael Sandel January Alan Alda February James Balog March PM Julia Gillard April Russell Wilson and Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

2016–2017

November Nate Parker January Doris Kearns Goodwin and Jon Meacham with Steve Inskeep February Krista Tippett March PM Ehud Barak and Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei with Robin Wright April Ron Howard with Linda Holmes

2017–2018

November President Barack Obama January Glenn Close February Peter Diamandis March Ambassador Samantha Power April Joe Scarborough and Newt Gingrich with Mara Liasson

2018–2019

November Captain Scott Kelly January Tina Fey with Linda Holmes February Dr. Sanjay Gupta March Ian Bremmer April Dr. Temple Grandin with John Donvan

2019–2020

November Bob Costas January Dave Isay, Catherine Burns and Brandon Stanton with John Donvan February Peggy Noonan

2020–2021

2011–2012

November José Andrés January Theresa May February Esther Perel March Bryan Stevenson April Vijay Gupta

2012–2013

January Bob Iger with Kara Swisher February Gloria Steinem with Zainab Salbi March Erik Weihenmayer April Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates May Rhiannon Giddens June Michelle Obama

November Dr. Robert Ballard January Robert Gates February Quincy Jones with Tim Reid March Charles Krauthammer and Robert Reich with John Donvan April Sir Ken Robinson and Rafe Esquith November Platon January Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner and Doris Kearns Goodwin with Tim Reid February President Bill Clinton March Captain Mark Kelly and Gabrielle Giffords April Dr. Jane Goodall

2013–2014

November Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and Maajid Nawaz with John Donvan January Dan Buettner February President George W. Bush March PM Gordon Brown April Steve Martin and Martin Short

2022

2022– 2023

November Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster (USA, Ret.) January Maria Ressa February Ella Al-Shamahi March John Lithgow April Dr. Cornel West and Thomas Chatterton Williams

2023– 2024

November Isabel Wilkerson January Joel Sartore February Liz Cheney March Dr. Anthony Fauci April Nina Totenberg and Kimberley Strassel

SPEECH & DEBATE WE ALL GIVE BACK TO OUR COMMUNITY IN DIFFERENT WAYS. Whether you have donated to the Ralph F. Krueger Jr. Memorial Fund or the Richmond Forum Speech & Debate Initiative, or you have dedicated your valuable time to provide feedback to local students at RFSDI tournaments, tonight we thank you for your generosity. Hear from two RFSDI volunteers about why they give back to speech & debate programs.

I love working with students to offer them feedback on their speech & debate events. Debating allows students to think on their feet and expand logic and reasoning skills in a way that will help them through their lives. Whether they are experienced debaters or first-timers, I get to help them hone an essential skill set. Watching students grow throughout the season is amazing to witness! I have never participated in speech & debate before, but I was hooked after my first tournament. I love watching students craft arguments, and how passionate they become when speaking. My favorite category to judge is Lincoln-Douglas debate. It’s always interesting to hear compelling arguments for both sides of relevant issues.

Joanne Simms Joanne is an educator for the Maymont Foundation.

I do not have any prior speech & debate experience. As a corporate leader, I present to groups on a regular basis. This is a skill that has taken me years to get comfortable with and, in hindsight, I wish I had been involved in speech & debate in high school and college to build a foundation. I love the opportunity to give back to our community through this work. In 2022 and 2023, I coached an agile team focused on our engagement and support of HBCUs, which led to an invitation to judge at the HBCU National Speech & Debate Competition. It was such an educational experience. I wanted to stay active and got involved with The Richmond Forum’s high school speech & debate program. The students are all so motivated and talented! It has been an enlightening and humbling experience to work with them. It is an honor to engage and help our future leaders. I am inspired by the students’ passion and have learned a lot through the process.”

Roberta “Bobbi” Hart Bobbi is a senior manager of product innovation at Altria where she also leads Altria’s Women’s Employee Resource Group.

WISH US LUCK! We are getting into playoff season. Please join us in wishing our regional teams luck as they compete at the Virginia High School League competitions and the National Speech & Debate Association 2024 National Qualifiers. We’ll update you about our students’ success!

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AT THE RICHMOND FORUM JANUARY 13, 2024 FOR 17 YEARS, JOEL SARTORE HAS TRAVELED THE WORLD to photograph thousands of species for The Photo Ark, his ambitious initiative to document every animal in human care. In the process, Sartore has been mobbed by a gang of mischievous spider monkeys, nearly lost a finger to a camera-shy hornbill, and even contracted a flesh-eating parasite in pursuit of the perfect shot — all on a mission to make the world care that Earth’s biodiversity is in grave peril. Sartore added Virginia to his list of global destinations on January 13, 2024, to address The Richmond Forum. His engagement, “Boarding the Photo Ark,” captivated the Forum audience with stunning images and humorous anecdotes that brought color and context to his stories from behind the lens. “I tell these stories to try to get people to care,” Sartore said. Since the beginning of his endeavor in 2006, Sartore’s stories and photographs have proven to do just that. Many vulnerable species have been saved from extinction as a result. “We have a lot to celebrate: the Mexican grey wolf, the California condor, the whooping crane, the black-footed ferret, and the Vancouver Island marmot. These animals were all down to fewer than two dozen,” he said. “They’re not completely out of the woods, but they are certainly safe for now.” In 2023, the 15,000th species boarded The Photo Ark. The federally endangered Miami tiger beetle dwells primarily in the Pine Rocklands ecosystem of southern Florida, a portion of which was slated to be demolished to make way for a new water park. The publicity around the Ark’s milestone drew attention to the beetle and its impending demise. Sartore revealed that a few weeks ago, the development plans were scrapped in response to community pressure.

Although Sartore has successfully advocated for the protection of many species, not every story he told had a happy ending. He shared photos of several animals that have been declared extinct in the time since he captured their likeness, including Toughie, the last remaining Rabbs’ fringe-limbed treefrog, who died in 2016. According to Sartore, between 30 and 40% of amphibians could vanish within the next few years if swift action isn’t taken.

ENGAGING, PASSIONATE AND FUNNY. I BELIEVE MR. SARTORE HAS INSPIRED MANY OF US IN THE AUDIENCE TO MAKE OUR OWN POSITIVE MARK ON THE FRAGILE EARTH. - Forum Subscriber The northern white rhinoceros is also close to extinction. Only two remain on the planet – a mother and daughter pair living at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. “What will we do when those go extinct?” Sartore asked. “We’ll write some editorials and we’ll be sad a little bit, but then the Kardashians will do something crazy and that’ll wash that away.” Even in the face of loss, Sartore is “as hopeful as can be that we can turn this around and get people to start caring.” Most of these species can be saved as long as action is taken quickly, he said. Sartore brought the evening to a close by sending the Forum audience back into the world with a call to join him on his mission. “All you’ve got is that dash between the numbers on your tombstone. Don’t you want to do something that makes the world a better place? I know I do. If we had a room this big with this many people who all of a sudden were on fire to save the planet, could we make a dent? You bet we could! Let’s get to work.”

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