BCA Presents Tweed Roosevelt, Conservation and the Badlands
Saturday, October 7th, 2023, 2 pm to 4:30 pm.
Russell Reid Auditorium at the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum.
Tweed Roosevelt will speak at 3 pm, followed by a Q&A moderated by former North Dakota Tourism Director Jim Fuglie, with a reception to follow.
Tweed Roosevelt
Tweed Roosevelt, great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, is Chairman of The Theodore Roosevelt Institute at Long Island University and a LIU University Professor. He is Past President of the Theodore Roosevelt Association with which he has been involved for over a quarter of a century, serving as Trustee, as a member of the Executive Committee and as President.
After graduation from Harvard, Mr. Roosevelt served for two years as a VISTA volunteer in Harlem, Bedford Stuyvesant, and the Lower East Side of New York City and went on to NYC’s Human Resources Administration. He subsequently earned his MBA and then taught for two years at Columbia University. A long career in management consulting and finance culminated in his becoming Chairman of Roosevelt China Investments, which, among other businesses, owns and operates the House of Roosevelt on Shanghai’s Bund.
Over the years, Mr. Roosevelt has done much to further the memory and ideals of Theodore Roosevelt. He has lectured and taught about TR at numerous institutions and schools around the world, including Harvard, Long Island University, Marshall, and Santa Clara Universities. He has also lectured on a wide range of other subjects, including conservation and the environment, hunting, politics, literature, history, mathematics, Japanese-American relations, and exploration, and has retraced many of TR’s adventures in the American West, Africa, and the Amazon. He has appeared on numerous television documentaries and radio programs and was awarded the prestigious Telly Award for his public service announcement on Presidential log cabins.
He has published numerous articles about TR and related topics in journals and other publications including a medical journal, The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. For the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, a professional refereed publication, he has published 22 articles. He has also published on other subjects, for example, two articles in the highly respected Baker Street Journal.
He has been visiting North Dakota for many years enjoying his time hunting, fishing, hiking and riding in the Bad Lands, and visiting with his many friends.
Mr. Roosevelt has two children and one granddaughter and lives on Martha’s Vineyard and in Boston.