Kenneth S. Stern

Kenneth S. Stern is an American defense attorney and an author. He is executive director of the Justus & Karin Rosenberg Foundation. From 1989 to 2014 he was director on antisemitism, hate studies and extremism for the American Jewish Committee. In 2000, Stern was a special advisor to the defense in the David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt trial.

Education

Stern earned his A.B. at Bard College, and his J.D. from Willamette University College of Law.

Career

Stern has testified before US Congress; in 1997 he served as an invited presenter at the White House Conference on Hate Crimes. He analyzed the militia movement, bigotry on campus, hate speech on talk radio and the Internet. He is a frequent guest on national television and talk radio shows, including Face the Nation, Crossfire, Nightline, Dateline, Good Morning America, CBS Evening News, and National Public Radio. His report Militias: A Growing Danger, issued two weeks before the Oklahoma City bombing, predicted such attacks on the US government. And his book about the militias, A Force Upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate (1996) was nominated for the National Book Award.

Kenneth Stern (rugby player)

Kenneth Mitchell Stern (born May 21, 1988) is a Filipino-American rugby union player for the Philippines national rugby union team, nicknamed the "Volcanoes". He had represented the Philippines in both rugby fifteens and sevens. His primary position is wing.

Collegiate career

Originally from Quezon, Stern's family emigrated to Stamford, Connecticut where he attended Fairfield College Preparatory School in nearby Fairfield, CT. He graduated from Boston University in 2010 where he was a member of the rugby team. His collegiate rugby honors included New England Rugby Football Union All-Stars, the Northeast Collegiate All-Stars and the All-American 7s Team.

Stern was also a member of the New England Immortals rugby league select side that beat Canada in 2010.

National team career

Stern made his International debut for the Philippines in the 2009 Asian Five Nations tournament, where the Philippines earned a promotion to Division 2 by beating Iran and Guam. In 2010, he was a member of the Volcano squad who took home the shield, scoring two tries in a 34—12 win over India helping the Philippines to their second promotion in as many years. Stern would continue to play at wing with the Volcanoes in 2011, including a test match against Hong Kong, and again in 2012, helping the Philippines get yet another promotion to the A5N Top 5.