Who We Are

Contributors to The Stratevist Journal

Senator Alice Palmer – Former IL State Senator; Associate Dean of Students and Director of African American Student Affairs, Northwestern University; Retired Research Associate Professor, U of IL.

Dr. Bobby W. Austin – President of Neighborhoods Associates Corporation. Author of “Repairing the Breach”.

David Robinson – Author, journalist, strategic activist, solution seeker, mentor, student, teacher, film nerd, father, and son, Director of External Affairs at Manufacturing Renaissance.

JP Kraal – Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in Washington DC; Scribbler; Blogger (and administrator).

Edward “Buzz” Palmer – Former Chair of the Chicago Sister Cities Committee in Mayor Harold Washington’s administration, member of the US Senator Paul Simon’s Africa Advisory Committee, and Founder of the Afro-American Patrolman’s League.

Ce Cole Dillon – Founder Student Loan 411 LLC, Expert, Higher Education Planning and Finance.

James M. Flagg – Senior Aide Education & Economic Development US Senator Paul Simon, Executive Assistant & Executive Director Infrastructure Sub-cabinet Harold Washington Mayor City Of Chicago, Aviation & Infrastructure Consultant Solaria Khan Aviation Pacific Rim, China, NYC, Mathematician.

Leon E. Bates – Urban Historian of the late 19th and early 20th century, whose research focuses on issues of education, health care, labor, government, violence, police violence, and the intersection of race in the United States.

Leon holds a Master of Arts degree in Pan African Studies from the University of Louisville. He lives in Indianapolis with his wife and family, where he remains politically and socially engaged. Until 2007, when the U.S. economy failed and crushed the construction industry, he owned and operated a commercial and industrial electrical contracting firm.

Richard Rubenstein – University Professor at the Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter School of Peace and Conflict Resolution of George Mason University. A graduate of Harvard College, Oxford University, and Harvard Law School, he is the author of nine books on analyzing and resolving violent social conflicts His most recent book is Resolving Structural Conflicts: How Violent Systems Can Be Transformed (Routledge Press, 2017), and his co-edited book, Peace After the Pandemic: Conflict Resolution in a Time of Crisis will be published by Routledge this winter.