Democracy Now: A Panel Discussion
February 11 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Tuesday, Feb. 11 | 6:30pm – 8:00pm | Old South Meeting House
Humanities Workshop and Revolutionary Spaces invite students to the panel: Democracy Now. It is an opportunity to hear from humanists whose daily work considers and shapes the state of our local and global democracies. Questions the conversation may explore include: What does active citizenship in a democracy look like? How do we prepare ourselves for the challenges that our democracy will face? How do we reform our democracy so that it serves all of its constituents?
The goal is for the panelists to help the audience interpret the current political moment and discover new pathways to citizen leadership. Panelists include Dayna Cunningham, Dean of Tisch College; Noorya Hayat, researcher at CIRCLE; Chawky Frenn, artist and Associate Professor at George Mason University; Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro, CEO and co-founder of the National Trust for Local News; and Sophia Hall, Deputy Litigation Director at Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR). The conversation will be moderated by Simoìn Rios, WBUR reporter.
This event is hosted by WGBH in partnership with Revolutionary Spaces and with support from The Lowell Institute.