Join BigTentUSA on Thursday, August 20, at 5 pm ET for a timely conversation with founder and CEO of The Civics Center, Laura Brill, and moderated by Ben Sheehan, the executive producer and host of the PBS series Civics Made Easy.

Brill will explore The Civics Center’s new national initiative to expand voter registration among high school students and provide younger generations with different resources to broaden their knowledge about voting and democracy.

From amplifying voter accessibility to building stronger civic education and engagement in schools, the discussion will examine how reaching students early can help create lifelong habits of civic participation.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Laura W. Brill is an attorney, former law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and a mother of two young adults. An award-winning advocate with more than two decades of experience working on complex legal issues and advocating for equal voting rights, she launched The Civics Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit, to stop youth voter suppression and tackle the decades-old problem of low youth turnout. Her most recent article is “Getting Youth Engaged in Democracy,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2026.

Ben Sheehan is the creator and host of Civics Made Easy, a new PBS show that explains the fundamentals of American government. He is also the bestselling author of “What Does the Constitution Actually Say?“, an entertaining guide that has been praised by legal scholars, historians, and politicians across the aisle. As a commentator Ben has appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher, Good Morning America, CBS News, PBS Newshour, Amanpour & Co, and more. He also writes the bestselling Substack, Politics Made Easy, and has an active social media presence with more than 250,000 engaged followers.