ADAO 13th Annual International Asbestos Awareness and Prevention Conference
“Where Knowledge and Action Unite”
April 7 – 9, 2017
Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel
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Posted on February 8, 2017
The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) is proud to present a new weekly series “Meet the Speakers, Honorees, and Leadership,” which will highlight esteemed participants of our highly anticipated 13th Annual International Asbestos Awareness & Prevention Conference! The ADAO conference, which will take place on April 7-9, 2017 in Washington, DC, combines nearly 40 expert opinions, victims’ stories, and new technological advancements from across the globe into one united voice raising awareness about asbestos. ADAO is the only U.S. nonprofit that organizes annual conferences dedicated solely to preventing asbestos exposure and eliminating asbestos-caused diseases. Register Here Today!
This week, we are honored to introduce our 2017 Keynote Speakers, David McCumber and Jordan Zevon.
2017 ADAO Conference Keynote Speakers:
Saturday: David McCumber, award-winning investigative journalist and editor of The Montana Standard
Sunday: Jordan Zevon, ADAO’s National Spokesperson, a teacher, singer, and songwriter.
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David McCumber is the editor of The Montana Standard. Previously, he was Washington Bureau Chief for Hearst Newspapers, and has led newsrooms large and small over a career spanning nearly 50 years. He was managing editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for the last nine years of that newspaper’s print existence, during which the paper won several national awards for investigative and narrative journalism. McCumber is the author of three nonfiction books: “X-Rated: The Mitchell Brothers (Simon & Schuster), made into a film starring Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez; Playing off the Rail: A Pool Hustler’s Journey (Random House); and The Cowboy Way: Seasons of a Montana Ranch (Avon). He is the co-author, with investigative reporter Andrew Schneider, of the book “An Air that Kills: How the Asbestos Poisoning of Libby, Montana Uncovered a National Scandal” (Putnam), based on a story Schneider broke while working with McCumber at the Seattle P-I. During his time at the San Francisco Examiner, where he was Sunday editor, city editor and an assistant managing editor, he edited Hunter S. Thompson’s weekly column for about three years. He subsequently served as the editor of two of Thompson’s books. He was the founding editor and publisher of the magazine Big Sky Journal. McCumber was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for a series of stories he directed and helped to write on a defense-industry scandal in Tucson, Arizona.
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Jordan Zevon ADAO’s tremendous National Spokesperson is a teacher, singer, and songwriter. Jordan was executive producer for his father, Warren Zevon’s, final album The Wind. He also co-produced Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon, which features an all-star cast of singers and musicians. Jordan recently released his own EP entitled Jordan Zevon which is available from CDBaby.com. Jordan’s immeasurable commitment to asbestos victims and concerned citizens has provided a united voice that will continue to help ensure that their rights are fairly represented and protected, while raising public awareness about the dangers of asbestos exposure and often deadly asbestos related diseases.
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Check back next week for the second installment of “Speakers, Honorees, and Leadership,” featuring our 2017 conference honorees.
In unity,
Linda