Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University 

Moderator:

Elizabeth Harman
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values

Panelists:     

Peter Georgescu ’61
Chairman Emeritus, Young & Rubicam

Timothy P. Jackson ’76
Visiting Professor of Religion, Princeton University

Tracy Higgins ’86
Professor of Law, Fordham School of Law; Faculty Director, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice

Nadia Ben-Youssef ’06
Advocacy Director, Center for Constitutional Rights

MODERATOR

Elizabeth Harman
Elizabeth Harman is a moral philosopher who writes about the ethics of abortion, moral status, procreative ethics, what we owe to animals, moral responsibility, moral ignorance, moral uncertainty, moral epistemology and morality above and beyond what morality requires. She is a co-editor of “Norton Introduction to Philosophy.” In 2024, she gave the Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics at Oxford University on “Love and Abortion.” Her current book project is titled “When to Be a Hero.” Harman is dedicated to mentoring early-career scholars. As director of Early-Career Research at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values, she provides career development and placement support to the Center’s graduate student prize fellows and postdoctoral fellows. Since 2014, she has been co-founder and co-director of the Athena in Action Networking and Mentoring Workshops for Graduate Student Women in Philosophy, which have reached more than 250 graduate students. She has been teaching at Princeton since 2006.

PANELISTS

Peter Georgescu ’61
Peter Georgescu was the first chairman of Young & Rubicam (Y&R) born outside of the United States and previously served as the advertising agency’s CEO from 1994 until 2000. His career spanned some 40 years in the United States and abroad. He was instrumental in developing and fostering the integrated communications strategy that shaped the course of Y&R’s progress and became the standard for industry thinking. After retiring from Y&R, Georgescu served on the boards of seven public companies, including Levi Strauss & Co. and International Flavors & Fragrances. Additionally, he continues to serve as vice chair emeritus of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where he contributes to four key committees. Today, Georgescu is a writer/activist focused on the socioeconomic crisis facing most Americans, contributing to Forbes and authoring his own Substack newsletter, Saving the American Dream. 

Timothy P. Jackson ’76
Timothy P. Jackson is the Bishop Mack B. and Rose Stokes Professor of Theological Ethics, Emeritus, at Emory University. Jackson has held teaching posts at Rhodes College, Yale University, Stanford University, the University of Notre Dame and Princeton. He has been a visiting fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry, the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton and the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Jackson received his B.A. in philosophy from Princeton and his Ph.D. in philosophy and religious studies from Yale. He is the author of “Love Disconsoled” (1999), “The Priority of Love” (2003) and “Mordecai Would Not Bow Down: Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Christian Supersessionism” (2021). Jackson received Emory’s 2020 Crystal Apple Teaching Award for “Excellence in Professional School Education.”

Tracy Higgins ’86
Tracy Higgins is faculty member at the Fordham School of Law where she teaches constitutional law and international human rights. She is founder and faculty director of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, which supports human rights scholarship, advocacy and training. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of law, both domestic and international, and problems of structural inequality along race and gender lines. Her human rights work has focused on gender equality within traditional legal systems, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Higgins studied economics at Princeton and then attended Harvard Law School. She is a member of the board of PEN America, where she is executive vice president, the Global Justice Center, African People and Wildlife, the Harwood Museum of Art, Free + Fair Litigation Group and the advisory board of Princeton’s Mpala Research Centre.

Nadia Ben-Youssef ’06
Nadia Ben-Youssef is a human rights lawyer with extensive experience developing creative advocacy strategies at the state, federal and international level to influence decision-makers and shift power to people impacted by systems of oppression. At the Center for Constitutional Rights, she works with social movements and communities under threat in the U.S. and globally. Central to Ben-Youssef’s lifework is a commitment to the liberation of Palestine, and she is a proud co-founder of the Adalah Justice Project. Ben-Youssef is a member of the New York State Bar and serves on the boards of Adalah Justice Project, the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, and Multitude Films. Together with her family, she is currently documenting the life and vision of her grandfather Salah Ben Youssef, a revolutionary and freedom fighter in Tunisia’s independence movement who was assassinated in 1961.