THURSDAY, JULY 26
SPEAKER: SUSAN STRONG, Ph.D.
Founder and Executive Director of The Metaphor Project, www.metaphorproject.org
TOPIC: “Move Our Message: How To Get America’s Ear”
7:15 pm (Dinner option begins at 6:15 pm)
Susan Strong
When you talk about peace, justice, and ecological sustainability, can everyone hear you? The Metaphor Project offers a way to communicate your political messages. Find out how to use language that evokes progressive American values, when you tell your own story!
SUSAN C. STRONG, Ph.D., founded the Metaphor Project in 1997, to assist progressives and liberals in mainstreaming their messages by framing them as part of the ideal American story, the one that reflects our own progressive values. She brings a broad range of experience to her work with the Metaphor Project–from academic to activist.
From 1980 to 1983, she served as a Visiting Lecturer at U.C. Berkeley’s Rhetoric Department, and in the Communications Department of St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA (1982-1985). She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from U.C. Berkeley. Her thesis examined some key examples of Enlightenment political metaphor in narrative; her theoretical orientation at the time was drawn from the New Rhetoric. Since leaving the academic world in 1985, she has continued to do interdisciplinary research in the fields of American Studies, American political rhetoric, communications, metaphor and social change, framing and other topics relevant to the work of The Metaphor Project. Today The Metaphor Project focuses on practical application of the theoretical finding of modern cognitive science, particularly in the work of George Lakoff, Drew Westen, and Jonathan Haidt.
Beginning in 1985, Susan Strong focused more of her day to day work on being an activist leader, non-profit strategist, staff writer, and columnist about issues of peace, environment, and ecological sustainability. She is a former Senior Research Associate at the Center for Economic Conversion (Mountain View) and a former Peace Action National Board member, representing California. She also served as National Peace Action Strategy Co-Chair and was a co-founder of the original Peace Action Peace Economy Campaign. She was a co-founder of The ‘Who’s Counting?’ Project as well.
Her writing has been published on OpEdNews, Alternet, Common Dreams, in The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The Quaker Eco-Bulletin, The Michigan Citizen, Connections, and nationally syndicated by Pacific News Service and The Progressive Media Project, among many other venues. She also blogs on The Daily Kos, where her screen name is SusanCStrong. You can find her on Twitter, and LinkedIn as well.
LOCAL SPEAKER: Susanna Schlendorf,Chief of Staff for Assemblymember Joan Buchanan
Susanna will update us on bills in the Assembly and Joan’s positions on them.
Social Get together 6:15 PM
Dinner 6:45 PM
Program 7:15 PM
Even if you opt to attend just the meeting, please join us at 6:15 pm to talk to socialize and have fun.
Location: Crow Canyon Country Club
711 Silver Lake Drive, Danville, CA 94526
(925) 735-5700
Members & Invited Guests: $25
Non-members: $30 ($25 for dinner and $5 requested donation to help offset program costs)
Presentation only $5 (requested donation)
Please email Jim Donnelly that you are coming by Monday, July 23 (we need a ‘head count’ for the dinner). Thank you for your help.
RSVP: To make certain you have a dinner, please RSVP.
Mail checks, made out to Jim Donnelly, to 373 Century Circle, Danville, CA 94526
Or call him at (925) 570-9289
Susan Strong
SUSAN C. STRONG, Ph.D., founded the Metaphor Project in 1997, to assist progressives and liberals in mainstreaming their messages by framing them as part of the ideal American story, the one that reflects our own progressive values. She brings a broad range of experience to her work with the Metaphor Project–from academic to activist.
From 1980 to 1983, she served as a Visiting Lecturer at U.C. Berkeley’s Rhetoric Department, and in the Communications Department of St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA (1982-1985). She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from U.C. Berkeley. Her thesis examined some key examples of Enlightenment political metaphor in narrative; her theoretical orientation at the time was drawn from the New Rhetoric. Since leaving the academic world in 1985, she has continued to do interdisciplinary research in the fields of American Studies, American political rhetoric, communications, metaphor and social change, framing and other topics relevant to the work of The Metaphor Project. Today The Metaphor Project focuses on practical application of the theoretical finding of modern cognitive science, particularly in the work of George Lakoff, Drew Westen, and Jonathan Haidt.
Beginning in 1985, Susan Strong focused more of her day to day work on being an activist leader, non-profit strategist, staff writer, and columnist about issues of peace, environment, and ecological sustainability. She is a former Senior Research Associate at the Center for Economic Conversion (Mountain View) and a former Peace Action National Board member, representing California. She also served as National Peace Action Strategy Co-Chair and was a co-founder of the original Peace Action Peace Economy Campaign. She was a co-founder of The ‘Who’s Counting?’ Project as well.
Her writing has been published on OpEdNews, Alternet, Common Dreams, in The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The Quaker Eco-Bulletin, The Michigan Citizen, Connections, and nationally syndicated by Pacific News Service and The Progressive Media Project, among many other venues. She also blogs on The Daily Kos, where her screen name is SusanCStrong. You can find her on Twitter, and LinkedIn as well.
LOCAL SPEAKER: Susanna Schlendorf,Chief of Staff for Assemblymember Joan Buchanan
Susanna will update us on bills in the Assembly and Joan’s positions on them.
Social Get together 6:15 PM
Dinner 6:45 PM
Program 7:15 PM
Even if you opt to attend just the meeting, please join us at 6:15 pm to talk to socialize and have fun.
Location: Crow Canyon Country Club
711 Silver Lake Drive, Danville, CA 94526
(925) 735-5700
Members & Invited Guests: $25
Non-members: $30 ($25 for dinner and $5 requested donation to help offset program costs)
Presentation only $5 (requested donation)
Please email Jim Donnelly that you are coming by Monday, July 23 (we need a ‘head count’ for the dinner). Thank you for your help.
RSVP: To make certain you have a dinner, please RSVP.
Mail checks, made out to Jim Donnelly, to 373 Century Circle, Danville, CA 94526
Or call him at (925) 570-9289
Dinner 6:45 PM
Program 7:15 PM
711 Silver Lake Drive, Danville, CA 94526
(925) 735-5700
Non-members: $30 ($25 for dinner and $5 requested donation to help offset program costs)
Presentation only $5 (requested donation)
Mail checks, made out to Jim Donnelly, to 373 Century Circle, Danville, CA 94526
Or call him at (925) 570-9289