Moderator: Alexi Cohan, Program Moderator Alexi Cohan is a digital producer for GBH News specializing in politics, digital video, and special projects. She also reports stories for GBH News' website and radio, and is the lead producer on Politics IRL, a video series centering Gen Z voters. Before coming to GBH, Alexi was a reporter at The Boston Herald covering health and education. Alexi is a graduate of Hofstra University, where she studied journalism and Spanish. Alexi is from East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and currently lives in the Boston area.
Old South Meeting House
Filmmaker Arthur Musah and Moderator Thato Mwosa
Suffolk University, Poetry Center
Lt. Col. Thomas Kenney
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Richard Seymour, a writer and broadcaster from Northern Ireland, has been watching the disturbing political developments in Europe and elsewhere; his latest book, Disaster Nationalism, analyzes the roots, influencers and threats that this global shift poses. Sasha Abramsky, political journalist and writing lecturer at UC Davis, is a correspondent for The Nation magazine. Michelle Lynn Kahn is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Richmond, specializing in the history of far-right extremism, racism, and migration.
Virtual
Dr. Nevada Winrow
New England Aquarium
Author Judith Rosen
Suffolk University - Sargent Hall
Foley & Lardner LLP
Author Ragini Shah in conversation with Shannon Gleeson, Edmund Ezra Day Professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Brooks School of Public Policy.
Suffolk University - Sargent Hall
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Leslie Reid, Chief of Investment Programs; Massachusetts Housing Investment Corp.; Kelly Viera, director of Investigations and Outreach, Housing Discrimination Testing Program, Suffolk University Law School; Daniel Weidknecht, director, Roxbury, and Leonard Egerton, owner, Frugal Bookstore. The Rev. Willie Bodrick II, J.D., Senior Pastor at Twelfth Baptist Church and President/CEO of The American City Coalition, TACC will serve as the afternoon’s moderator.
Roxbury Branch, Boston Public Library
Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, infectious disease specialist and global health physician, who advises the W.H.O on emerging diseases and Crawford Kilian, science and health reporter, who has blogged about H5N1 avian flu and other potential hazards to global health since 2005.
Virtual
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