Charlie Baker, NCAA president, former governor of Massachusetts, and co-author of Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done. Barbara Kellerman, fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership.
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Sharron Wilkins Conrad, professor of history at Tarrant County College and Senior Fellow at Southern Methodist University’s Center for Presidential History. Kellie Carter Jackson, professor of African Studies at Wellesley College.
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Heather Cox Richardson, professor of history at Boston College and author of Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. Tom Nichols, staff writer at The Atlantic.
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Emmanuel Akyeampong is the Ellen Gurney Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, as well as the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies. He joined the History faculty at Harvard upon receiving his Ph.D. in African History from the University of Virginia in 1993. He received his master's degree at Wake Forest University in North Carolina in 1989, where he concentrated on English labor history, and his bachelor's degree in History and Religions from the University of Ghana at Legon in 1984. Scott Taylor is Dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies and Professor of International Relations. Dr. Taylor’s research and teaching interests lie in the areas of African politics and political economy, with a particular emphasis on business-state relations, private sector development, governance, and political and economic reform. He is the author of Politics in Southern Africa: Transition and Transformation (Lynne Rienner, 2011)(with Gretchen Bauer); Culture and Customs of Zambia (Greenwood Press, 2006); Business and the State in Southern Africa: The Politics of Economic Reform (Lynne Rienner, 2007); and Globalization and the Cultures of Business in Africa: From Patrimonialism to Profit (Indiana University Press, 2012), as well as of articles in numerous political science and area studies journals.
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Robert Costa, chief election and campaign correspondent for CBS News. David Gergen, senior political analyst at CNN and a White House adviser to four presidents.
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David Paleologos, Director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center and Latoyia Edwards, Emmy award-winning anchor on NBC10 Boston and NECN.
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About the Participants DR. JOAN DONOVAN is a leading public scholar and disinformation researcher, specializing in media manipulation, political movements, critical internet studies, and online extremism. She is the Research Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and the Director of the Technology and Social Change project (TaSC). Through TaSC, Dr. Donovan explores how media manipulation is a means to control public conversation, derail democracy, and disrupt society. She is the co-author of Meme Wars, and she has appeared on The Problem with John Stewart on Apple+. MATTHEW WILDING is the Director of Interpretation & Education at Revolutionary Spaces, and curator of the upcoming exhibit "Impassioned Destruction: Politics, Vandalism & The Boston Tea Party" at the Old State House.
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Ambassador Jorge Heine
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Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he teaches constitutional law in both Yale College and Yale Law School. Featuring: Felicia Ellsworth, Mark Perry, and Edwina Clark
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For Wanjiku "Wawa" Gatheru, caring about the environment started early. While farming with her mom and grandmother as a child, the conversations would often turn to saving the earth. The first-generation American of Kenyan descent became even more invested when taking an environmental science class in high school, when she learned that social justice and climate issues were deeply intertwined. Everything suddenly became personal. “It was in this call I learned that the environment had everything to do with me,” she says.
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