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SUMMARY:Norm Eisen\, Special Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee on Impeachment
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URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/norm-eisen-special-counsel-to-the-house-judiciary-committee-on-impeachment/
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SUMMARY:Tent Talk: Civic Influencers
DESCRIPTION:Maxim Thorne\, CEO of Civic Influencers\, and Rohan Preston\, Theater Critic at the Star Tribune will join on on Tuesday\, June 6th at 12pm ET. Civic Influencers gives young voters on-the-ground data and winning strategies on campuses and in communities  to boost civic power and impact elections. \nRead Thorne’s latest Washington Post Op-Ed article here on the Right’s effort to silence young voters. \nABOUT OUR SPEAKERS: \n“I know what it is like to feel the entire continuum of being young\, marginalized and disenfranchised to becoming whole\, empowered and American. Now more than ever\, we need to reimagine\, protect and strengthen the pillars of our democracy. We have to turbocharge and make real an intersectional and holistic democracy movement building on the centrality of the rich diversity of youth. Every innovation and tried and true is on the table\, be it texting\, digital organizing\, short films\, dorm storming\, student panels\, marches and more.” – Maxim Thorne \nMaxim Thorne earned a B.A. (cum laude honors) in Economics and Political Science from Yale College and a J.D. from the Yale Law School. Maxim has served as the Managing Director of The Andrew Goodman Foundation\, Senior Vice President and Chief Communications and Development Officer of NAACP\, the Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Human Rights Campaign and HRC Foundation and the Executive Director of NJ Head Start Association. As a dedicated leader and advocate\, Maxim has served on the Board of Directors of many organizations as well\, including the founding Board of Yale Black Alumni Association\, Chaired the 40th Anniversary of the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale\, Honorary Co-Chair of the 50th Anniversary of the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale\, the Board of Governors of Yale University\, Executive Committee of the Yale Law School\, GLAAD\, the North Star Fund\, Amistad Research Center\, Barnert Hospital Foundation and Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan New Jersey. He also serves on the Yale Alumni Task Force on Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion (DEI). \nRohan Preston has been lead theater critic at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis since 1998\, helping to shape the ecology of one of the nation’s most dynamic arts meccas but one that also is ground zero for the nation’s post-George Floyd racial reckoning. He has interviewed and written on Arthur Miller\, August Wilson\, Edward Albee\, Tony Kushner\, Suzan-Lori Parks and a host of other luminary arts leaders. He led a Star Tribune team that won an Emmy for a documentary on the historic 2008 elections and has twice served on the Pulitzer jury for drama. Mr. Preston previously wrote for the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times. Also a poet\, playwright and composer\, he was reared in New York and educated at Yale.
URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/tent-talk-civic-influencers/
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SUMMARY:Spotlight Speakers: Billy Ray\, Gretchen Barton and Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA)\, moderated by Sanjyot P. Dunung
DESCRIPTION:Academy Award-Nominated Screenwriter\, Billy Ray and Public Opinion Researcher\, Gretchen Barton and Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) & moderated by Author Sanjyot P. Dunung will discuss how voters feel about the state of the nation and how to message across the political divide. \nABOUT OUR SPEAKERS: \nBilly Ray wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Captain Phillips\, for which he won the WGA award.  He also wrote\, directed\, and executive-produced Showtime’s “The Comey Rule\,” which had the biggest debut of any limited series in that network’s history. Ray’s films as writer\, co-writer\, or writer-director include “The Hunger Games\,” “Richard Jewell\,” “Shattered Glass\,” and “Breach.” He serves on the boards of Common Defense and Big Sunday. He believes in democracy\, justice\, and the Dodgers. \nGretchen Barton is the founder of Worthy Strategy Group\, LLC\, and former Research Director at Future Majority. She is a deep-listening researcher and strategist who has designed and led research initiatives in the political and policy space across America on poverty\, the youth vote\, global nuclear weapons disarmament\, immigration\, gender in America\, what Americans need in their next President\, how Americans know what’s true\, what the Democratic and Republican party brands mean and more. She’s worked on presidential to mayoral campaigns and is currently leading an initiative called What it Will Take\, laying the narrative groundwork for the first female president\, and advising on History Wars\, a Johns Hopkins research initiative looking to unpack a way to bring Americans together around a shared future\, if not a shared history. \nSusan Wild (D-PA) is in her third term as a member of the United States House of Representatives in the heart of the Lehigh Valley and is the first woman to represent the Valley in Congress. From September 2022 to January 2023\, she was chair of the House Ethics Committee and continues to sit on the committee as ranking member. She also co-chairs the New Democrat Coalition Climate Change Task Force and is vice chair of both the Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus and the Subcommittee on Africa\, Global Health\, Global Human rights and International Organizations. \nSanjyot P. Dunung is an author and serial entrepreneur with expertise on the intersection of culture\, business\, global affairs\, technology\, and education. \nShe has written sixteen international business books and textbooks; has appeared on a range of global media; and\, speaks at conferences addressing international business\, global cultures and entrepreneurship. Her first novel\, Maddie & Sayara\, explores the diverging paths of young girls around the world. Sanjyot is actively engaged in a number of public-private initiatives advocating for secular\, capitalist\, democratic values globally. She currently serves on the Board of Truman Center for National Policy\, Advisory Board of the Thunderbird School of Global Management and the Board of the National Small Business Association. Sanjyot has received several awards\, including the 2021 Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Award and the 2021 AmChamRepresent Business Transformation Award: Women in Business.
URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/spotlight-speakers-billy-ray-and-gretchen-barton/
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SUMMARY:Spotlight Speaker: Professor Larry Diamond with Anne Wedner
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, June 21st at 7pm ET\, Professor Larry Diamond\, Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford University\, specializing in democracy studies\, Author\, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution\, will join us. Anne Wedner\, Commissioner\, US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy will moderate the conversation. They will discuss the 12 steps to autocracy. \nABOUT OUR SPEAKER:  \nLarry Diamond is the William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution\, the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI)\, and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He is also professor by courtesy of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford. He leads the Hoover Institution’s programs on China’s Global Sharp Power and on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region.  At FSI\, he leads the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy\, based at the Center on Democracy\, Development and the Rule of Law\, which he directed for more than six years.  He also co-leads with (Eileen Donahoe) the Global Digital Policy Incubator\, based at FSI’s Cyber Policy Center. He is the founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy and also serves as senior consultant at the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy. His research focuses on democratic trends and conditions around the world and on policies and reforms to defend and advance democracy. His latest edited book (with Orville Schell)\, China’s Influence and American Interests (Hoover Press\, 2019)\, urges a posture of constructive vigilance toward China’s global projection of “sharp power\,” which it sees as a rising threat to democratic norms and institutions. He offers a massive open online course (MOOC) on Comparative Democratic Development through the edX platform and is now writing a textbook to accompany it. \nDiamond’s book\, Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage\, Chinese Ambition\, and American Complacency\, analyzes the challenges confronting liberal democracy in the United States and around the world at this potential “hinge in history\,” and offers an agenda for strengthening and defending democracy at home and abroad. A paperback edition with a new preface was released by Penguin in April 2020. His other books include: In Search of Democracy (2016)\, The Spirit of Democracy (2008)\, Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (1999)\,  Promoting Democracy in the 1990s (1995)\, and Class\, Ethnicity\, and Democracy in Nigeria(1989). He has also edited or coedited more than forty books on democratic development around the world\, most recently\, Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years. \nDuring 2002–03\, Diamond served as a consultant to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and was a contributing author of its report\, Foreign Aid in the National Interest. He has also advised and lectured to universities and think tanks around the world\, and to the World Bank\, the United Nations\, the State Department\, and other governmental and nongovernmental agencies dealing with governance and development. During the first three months of 2004\, Diamond served as a senior adviser on governance to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. His 2005 book\, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq\, was one of the first books to critically analyze America’s postwar engagement in Iraq. \nAmong Diamond’s other edited books are Democracy in Decline?; Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World; Will China Democratize?; and Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy\, all edited with Marc F. Plattner; and Politics and Culture in Contemporary Iran\, with Abbas Milani. With Juan J. Linz and Seymour Martin Lipset\, he edited the series\, Democracy in Developing Countries\, which helped to shape a new generation of comparative study of democratic development. \nAnne Wedner (Moderator): \nAnne Terman Wedner has been a leader in grassroots political movements and continues to partner with organizations working toward a more just and inclusive society. She recently left her role as the Donor Engagement Director for Mi Vecino Florida. Since 2011\, Anne has also served as a Commissioner on the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. During the 2020 election cycle\, Anne relocated from Winnetka\, Illinois\, where she was an elected trustee\, to Miami\, Florida in order to develop voter outreach programs within underserved communities.\nPrevious to her political involvement\, she developed strategic marketing and communications programs in the advertising and the financial services industries. In her early career\, Anne represented the United States as a foreign service officer in France and Venezuela.\nAnne continues to invest in organizations working to support democracy and democratic ideas. She is a board member at the USC Center for Public Diplomacy in Los Angeles and a “Cabinet Member” at the Roosevelt Foundation at Harvard’s Adams House. Until recently\, Anne was also a board member at Freedom House and at the University of Chicago Project on Security and Threat. Anne holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a BA from Harvard where she majored in the History and Literature of France.
URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/spotlight-speaker-professor-larry-diamond-with-anne-wedner/
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SUMMARY:Spotlight Speaker: Stephen Vladeck with Dahlia Lithwick
DESCRIPTION:Stephen Vladeck\, Author of The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic will join us on on Wednesday\, June 28th at 7pm ET to discuss the dangers around the U.S. Supreme Court’s  growing use of the shadow docket. The discussion will be moderated by Dahlia Lithwick. \nABOUT OUR SPEAKER: \nStephen I. Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) holds the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law\, and is a nationally recognized expert on the federal courts\, constitutional law\, national security law\, and military justice. \n\nProfessor Vladeck is the author of the New York Times bestseller\, “The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic.” He has argued over a dozen cases before the U.S. Supreme Court\, the Texas Supreme Court\, and various lower federal civilian and military courts; has testified before numerous congressional committees and Executive Branch agencies and commissions and the Texas legislature; has served as an expert witness both in U.S. state and federal courts and in foreign tribunals; and has received numerous awards for his influential and widely cited legal scholarship\, his prolific popular writing\, his teaching\, and his service to the legal profession. \nVladeck is the co-host\, together with Professor Bobby Chesney\, of the popular and award-winning “National Security Law Podcast.” He is CNN’s Supreme Court analyst and a co-author of Aspen Publishers’ leading national security law and counterterrorism law casebooks. And he is editor and author of “One First\,” a popular weekly newsletter about the Supreme Court. \nVladeck joined the Texas faculty in 2016 after 11 years teaching at the University of Miami School of Law and American University Washington College of Law. He is an elected member of the University of Texas Faculty Council (and of the Faculty Council’s Executive Committee); an elected member of the American Law Institute; a Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law; and a senior editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of National Security Law and Policy. He is the Supreme Court Fellow at the Project on Government Oversight’s Constitution Project; a Distinguished Fellow of the National Institute of Military Justice; and a member of the Advisory Committee to the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security\, the American Constitution Society’s Board of Academic Advisors\, and the advisory boards of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the RAND History of U.S. Military Policy. \nA 2004 graduate of Yale Law School\, Vladeck clerked for the Honorable Marsha S. Berzon on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Rosemary Barkett on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. While a law student\, he was Executive Editor of the Yale Law Journal and the Student Director of the Balancing Civil Liberties & National Security Post-9/11 Litigation Project\, and he was awarded the Harlan Fiske Stone Prize for Outstanding Moot Court Oralist and shared the Potter Stewart Prize for Best Team Performance in Moot Court. He earned a B.A. summa cum laude with Highest Distinction in History and Mathematics from Amherst College in 2001—where he wrote his senior thesis on “Leipzig’s Shadow: The War Crimes Trials of the First World War and Their Implications from Nuremberg to the Present\,” and shared the Alfred J. Havighurst Prize as the outstanding senior History major. A native New Yorker and fatalistic Mets fan\, Vladeck lives in central Austin with his wife\, Karen (a Managing Director at Whistler Partners\, and with whom he co-hosts the “In Loco Parent(i)s” podcast)\, their daughters\, Madeleine and Sydney\, and their nine-year-old pug\, Roxanna. \n\n 
URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/spotlight-speaker-stephen-vladeck/
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