About Santa Fe World Affairs Forum

Arvid has extensive experience in nuclear export controls, nuclear proliferation intelligence, electronic instrumentation design, and clinical medical physics. Arvid spent thirty one years at Los Alamos National Laboratory as project engineer, group leader, and program manager. His career included over 100 foreign trips for the US government on nuclear issues, especially international nuclear export control.

Sue’s international experience began as an American Field Service Student to France in 1960. In 1963 she became secretary to the Administrator of Tenefly, New Jersey and the Tenefly Planning Board and later secretary to a Vice President at Thomas J Lipton. She then became involved with the Waldorf Schools, where she began teaching while her children attended nursery school through 12th grade making many international connections through this global movement. She regularly hosted international exchange students (her own children were exchange students in Germany which led to family travels throughout Europe.) She then studied Biographical Counseling in England and worked in a British clinic while doing a counseling practicum in England. Summer 2000, she participated in “Hands in Peace,” a second track citizen based peace initiative in Greece for children from countries experiencing major social conflict, including Israelis and Palestinians. The initiative brought these children together in Olympia, mixing them with children from other countries, teaching them the original Olympic sports as well as providing activities in art, dance, music, crafts and culminating in Delphi in Olympics based athletic competitions. Through her Waldorf experience, Sue had the opportunity to travel and visit families in other countries which broadened her understanding of today’s world. In 1991 she graduated from nursing school and pursued a career in nursing until moving to Santa Fe 4 years ago.

Jane graduated fromThe American College of Greece in Athens, Greece. She was a Peace Corps Volunteer and Peace Corps staff in Nepal, the Solomon Islands, and Kiribati. She earned a Ph.D. from Colorado State University in community college leadership. She taught mostly integrated humanities in community colleges in Colorado and served as a dean for 12 years. She has also participated in three short-term Fulbrights in Paraguay, Germany, and Thailand. Most recently, Jane directed a program for first generation, low income students at Santa Fe Community College.

Joined the Foreign Service in 1995, recently leading a Provincial Reconstruction Team of 40 subject matter experts and advising a U.S. Army general in Baghdad Province. In Washington he served as Andean Counterdrug Initiative Coordinator, overseeing counternarcotics programs totaling over $700 million. A native of Massachusetts, Mr Hawkins previously headed an educational publishing company and managed training units for multinational corporations. He graduated from Harvard College and holds an MA from Yale and an MS from Rensselaer.

Ambassador Vicki Huddleston, is an American diplomat with lengthy expertise in foreign, defense, and development policy. She was a senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense and led American diplomatic missions in Mali, Madagascar, Cuba and Ethiopia. In Haiti she was Chief of Party for a USAID Value Chain project. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and as a Congressional Fellow worked on the staff of former Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM).

Vicki’s opinion pieces on Cuba, Mali, and Ethiopia have appeared in The New York Times, The LA Times, The Miami Herald, and The Washington Post. She is the author of Our Woman in Havana and co-author of Learning to Salsa – New Steps in Cuban Relations.