Speakers

One of the go-to political analysts of the last three decades, Stu Rothenberg has embodied the rare ability to report on all the political happenings in the nation with unbiased clarity and non-partisan precision. The publication he founded, the Rothenberg Political Report, provided honest, nonpartisan reporting and clear-eyed analysis of American elections and their potential ramifications, looking at U.S. House, Senate, and gubernatorial campaigns, presidential politics, and political developments.

Stu remains one of the nation’s most popular political analysts and handicappers, and he captivates audiences with insightful, often humorous, discussions about election results, the issues facing decision makers on Capitol Hill, and the nature of politics itself. His presentations are as up-to-date as your Twitter feed, and he presents his insider views on hotly debated issues and how the future of politics is being shaped by our nation’s current newsmakers.

A top handicapper of the political horse race, Stu has been a columnist for the Washington Post and Capitol Hill’s Roll Call. His op-eds have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other newspapers. A frequent soundbite, his political expertise has made him a common guest on the network television news circuit, where he has appeared on Meet the Press, TODAY, This Week, Face the Nation, Nightline, and The McLaughlin Group. In 2008, 2010 and 2012, he was a regular contributor to PBS NewsHour, on which he continues to appear. Before that, he served as a CNN political analyst for more than 10 years, which included extensive on-air election night analysis. He has also served as a political analyst for the Voice of America.

More about Stuart Rothenberg: Dr. Rothenberg holds a BA from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and a PhD from the University of Connecticut. He has taught political science at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Stu has been speaking to corporate and association audiences around the country for over two decades, helping people identify and better understand political trends.

Ms. Schaffner has 20+ years as a HACCP specialist Food Safety Consultant in FDA and USDA plants, and teaches FDA certificate programs: Preventive Controls for Human Foods (PCHF), Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP), general HACCP, Seafood HACCP, Better Process Control School, Food Defense (including Intentional Adulteration of Foods and Food Fraud), Microbiology, and food safety classes in the US and abroad. She develops customized training programs for processing plants to implement PCHF, FSVP or HACCP, improve audit scores, meet regulatory demands, and solve food safety and quality problems.

She serves or has served on: FDA’s Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance, CASE Food Science & Safety curriculum development for high schools, NJ Agricultural Education Advisory Council, Executive Board member of the NJ Food Processors Association (and chairs monthly QA Roundtable meetings for the NJFPA), member of the Food Safety Summit Educational Advisory Board, and sits on Advisory Boards for various other colleges and Technical schools. Donna holds TTT certificates for PCHF, FSVP, FSIS and FDA HACCP and Seafood HACCP.