PANELISTS

Doug Bennett received his PhD in Political Science from Yale University after graduating magna cum laude from Haverford College. He has taught Political Science at Temple University, Swarthmore, and Earlham College. Before retiring in 2011, Doug served as president of Earlham College for 14 years.

Niles Schore practiced law for thirty-five years, mostly in Pennsylvania with a brief stint in Georgia where he founded the Elderly Law Project and was staff lawyer for a statewide health law project. In the Pennsylvania Senate he says he was privileged to work for Senator Roxanne Jones and was also the Democratic Counsel and Executive Director for the Public Health & Welfare Committee. Prior to retiring to Maine in 2010, he spent seven years as senior management in the Department of Public Welfare.

Kevin Hart has been a long-time student and observer of the Supreme Court, beginning as an undergraduate political science major at Allegheny College. He taught Health Law for five years in the MPH program at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.  With a law degree from Syracuse University, he is now a retired lawyer, having been admitted to the bars in Pennsylvania, New York, and the U.S. Supreme Court Bar.

Strother Roberts is an Associate Professor of History at Bowdoin College. He is a historian of the environment and economy of early modern North America whose research focuses on the indigenous and Euro-American communities of New England from the age of encounters through the era of the Early Republic.  He is author of Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy: Transforming Nature in Early New England.  He has already participated in a Maine Public program on the upcoming PBS series.

Retired attorney M. Kelly Matzen, Panel Moderator, brings great enthusiasm for Midcoast Senior College and its mission.He has served on MSC’s board for two terms including sitting on the Development and Finance Committees. Kelly continues to take courses at MSC and will moderate this discussion..

LDAD

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MPBN/PBS

The Maine Public Broadcasting Network (abbreviated MPBN and branded as Maine Public) is a network of public television and radio stations located in the U.S. state of Maine. It is operated by the Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation, which holds the licenses for all the PBS and NPR stations licensed in the state. MPBN has studios and offices in Portland, Lewiston and Bangor. MPBN’s television network shows a block of standard PBS programming, as well as many documentaries including nature programs and other science programs. MPBN’s radio network airs news and talk programming from NPR, locally produced news programming, jazz and classical music.