Enough Project Participates in White House Event ‘Honoring the Pledge of Never Again’

Enough Project Communications Director Jonathan Hutson and Senior Enough Advisor Omer Ismail will participate in panel discussions during the White House event, "Honoring the Pledge of Never Again."

This event is following President Obama's remarks at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum commemorating the Holocaust and discussing how the United States is honoring the pledge of “never again” by developing a comprehensive strategy to prevent and respond to mass atrocities.

The White House event will offer an in-depth look at the strategy President Obama and his Administration are working to put in place so that the United States is able to engage early, proactively and decisively in the face of mass atrocities.

Watch the event via video streaming live.

Moderator: Samantha Power, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights at the National Security Council

Panel Discussion: “Never Again”

Moderator: Mike Abramowitz, Director, US Holocaust Memorial Museum Genocide Prevention Program, with panelists:

• Monique Beadle, Advocacy Director, Falling Whistles
• Stacy Burdett, Director of Government and National Affairs, Anti-Defamation League
• Omer Ismail, Enough Advisor, The Enough Project
• Daniel Solomon, Student Director, STAND

Panel Discussion: Modern Tools for an Ongoing Challenge

Moderator: Alec Ross, Senior Advisor for Innovation, U.S. Department of State, with panelists:

• Sam Gregory, Program Director, WITNESS
• Jon Hutson, Satellite Sentinel Project
• Benjamin Keesey, CEO, Invisible Children
• Don Steinberg, Deputy Administrator, USAID

Panel Discussion: Sudan and South Sudan, and the LRA: What More Can Be Done?

Moderator: Samantha Power, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, with panelists:

• Grant Harris, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council
• Princeton Lyman, U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan

Closing Remarks by Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications