The Pacific Council is hosting a virtual new member orientation on July 29th at 5 pm PT to welcome our recently elected members from the Spring 2025 cohort. This is an opportunity to connect with fellow new members, hear directly from longstanding members about their experiences at the Pacific Council, and meet Interim President & CEO, Dr. Jerrold D. Green, and Pacific Council staff. 

This event is a wonderful opportunity to hear how current members engage with the Pacific Council and hear how their unique Pacific Council experiences have made an impact in their personal and/or professional lives.

All newly elected members and longstanding Pacific Council members are welcome to attend! We hope you will join us to make new connections within the Pacific Council, share why you joined membership, and let us know what you are passionate about participating in for the upcoming year!

If you have any questions, please email membership@pacificcouncil.org, and one of our staff members will be in touch shortly.

Guest Speaker

Lila Green joined the Pacific Council as a part of the inaugural group of Amplify Fellows in 2022. She continues to be a supporter and advocate for future fellows and members. 
Her company, The Particle Accelerator (TPA), is a "neo think tank" and consultancy that brings together artistic thinkers with leadership in national security to find solutions to the most complicated problems agencies and governmental organizations face. Her most recent work via TPA has been teaching counter-radicalization for teens in the Vancouver School District. 
Aside from her fellowship with the Pacific Council, Lila was an International Affairs Fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations in 2024-25.  She is beginning her PhD in Political Science this upcoming September at Simon Fraser University, focusing on youth counter radicalization. She holds an MA from the Middlebury Institute for International Studies and a BFA from DePaul University.  

Guest Speaker

Chris Lawson recently launched Olkhon Consulting, a Los Angeles-based firm that offers bespoke creative services to leading artists and organizations across the entertainment industry.  Chris built his unique specialty over the course of nearly 24 years as an agent/executive at Creative Artists Agency, the world’s leading talent representation firm.  There, he built a unique and highly regarded department that provided CAA’s clients with connecting points and specialized resources necessary to increase the relevance, authenticity, and commercial prospects of their projects across the media landscape.  Chris has also worked extensively as a liaison between both private and public sector professionals and organizations that operate outside of the entertainment sphere, but who are regularly depicted on screens big and small (military; medicine; politics & government; the intelligence community; etc.)

Examples of these inter-disciplinary collaborations include work with the C.I.A., F.B.I., United Nations, Department Of Homeland Security, U.S. Secret Service, Library of Congress, N.A.S.A., National Archives, and the National Academy of Sciences, among many others. He began his career at CAA in 1999 – and in keeping with industry lore, he did so in the dark trenches of the agency mailroom.

Guest Speaker

Ashley Tabaddor is a distinguished legal expert in immigration and administrative law with extensive executive leadership experience. She served as a senior Biden-Harris appointee as Chief Counsel at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where she played a key role in shaping national immigration policy. Previously, she served as an Immigration Judge for over 15 years and was elected President of the National Association of Immigration Judges, where she was a leading voice on judicial independence and immigration law reform. Her career also includes service as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ), and an attorney advisor for the Immigration Court. Judge Tabaddor has been widely recognized for her contributions to the legal profession. Her accolades include multiple judicial excellence awards from a broad range of affinity bar associations, as well as, the "Government Lawyer of the Year" award from the Federal Bar Association. She has taught as an adjunct professor at law schools, including UCLA School of Law, and is currently serving as a Distinguished Visiting Jurist at Southwestern Law School.
A respected advocate for justice, equity, and the rule of law, she continues to shape legal and policy discussions through her teaching, writing, and consulting. Judge Tabaddor earned her B.A., cum laude, from UCLA and her J.D. from UC College of the Law, San Francisco.