Wednesday March 19, 2025

James Ketterer

Senior Fellow—Center for Civic Engagement, Bard College

“Jazz Diplomacy : America’s Conversation with the World”

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Friday March 14 ^th , 6:00pm

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Meet our Members

THAYER, Stella

Co-Owner and Principal
Tampa Bay Downs
Thonotosassa, FL

THOMPSON, Rick

THOMPSON, Rick
Chairman
Thompson Group of Companies
Washington, D.C.

TOOLE, Kem

Senior Trial Attorney
Civil Division – U.S. Department of Justice (Ret.)
Tampa, FL

TORKILSEN, Tim

Director,
Berkeley Preparatory School,
Global Studies Program
Tampa, FL

TOUCHTON, Charlie

Chairman
The Touchton Group
Tampa, FL

TOUCHTON, Tom

Retired Chairman
The Witt-Touchton Company LLC
Tampa, FL

TULLMAN, Robert

CSenior Advisor, New Mountain Capital
Chairman, Pearce Services (A New Mountain Capital Portfolio Company)
Tierra Verde, FL

URETTE, Mike

Chief Executive Officer
Great American Corp.
Tampa, FL

UROFSKY, JoAnn

Associate VP & General Manager
WUSF Public Media
Tampa, FL

VANDYKE, Ruth

Major (Ret.), U.S. Army
Tampa, FL

WARDLE, Nigel

President
Consulting Caribbean LLC
Tampa, FL.

WEEKS, Patricia

International Relations, USF-SP
East Asia Specialist
St. Petersburg, FL

WEIR, Amanda

Principal and CEO
Applied Solutions Consulting LLC
Tampa, FL

WILKES, Richard

Lawyer, Akerman LLP
Tampa, FL

WILLIAMS, Robert V

Attorney
Burr & Forman LLP
Tampa, FL

ZINOBER, Cynthia Gandee

Executive Director (Emerita)
Henry Plant Museum
Tampa, FL

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Program subject to last minute changes

Wednesday April 23, 2025

John J. Sullivan

United States Ambassador to Russia (Ret.)

“Russia’s War Against the West”

List of Tampa Bay CFR Speakers since 1992

ABOUT US

The American Committees on Foreign Relations is a non-partisan, national confederation of city Committees dedicated to dialogue on foreign relations between

local and regional civic leaders in the heartland of America and policy makers, practitioners, and other experts drawn from both U.S. and foreign sources.