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Bridging the Political Divide," the inaugural conference of the Center on Communication Leadership at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, opens today in Los Angeles with a major speech by New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg at a dinner hosted by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at Getty House, the official residence of the Mayor of Los Angeles.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will deliver the conference's keynote address on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 in the Ray Kurtzman Theater at the new headquarters of Creative Artists Agency in Century City.

Other confirmed speakers include Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, former Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, former governor Gray Davis, former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan, philanthropists Lauren Bon and Sherry Lansing, producer Kevin Wall, political strategist Matthew Dowd, Governor Schwarzenegger's chief of staff Susan Kennedy, and journalists Margaret Carlson, Jay Carney, Michael Kinsley, Lawrence O'Donnell, Juan Williams and Judy Woodruff.

"We want to highlight leaders from both parties who have succeeded in getting things done by building consensus around some of the nation's toughest problems," said Geoffrey Cowan, dean of the USC Annenberg School and director of the school's Center on Communication Leadership.

Located in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California, the USC Annenberg School for Communication (annenberg.usc.edu) is among the nation's leading institutions devoted to the study of journalism and communication, and their impact on politics, culture and society.

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