Expert Bio

Joseph is a founder of the CPRF, retired diplomat and recently appointed Director of the Program on Healing Historical Memory at the School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, a Commonwealth Center of Excellence, at George Mason University, will be moderator of the panel. He has written and spoken on white America’s moral debt to African Americans, but he is also interested in the tradition of Northern disdain for the South and southerners which long pre-dates the Civil War and seems to be reflected in so-called Red state resentments of Blue state America in the 21st century and in dysfunction in the Congress.