Should every American be allowed to vote -- or required to vote? On April 14 at 6:00 PM ET, the JFK Jr. Forum welcomes E.J. Dionne and Miles Rapoport to discuss how universal participation in our elections is essential to American democracy. Please join us for a timely conversation on civic duty and the active disenfranchisement that has put American democracy in crisis. Christine Chen and Cornell William Brooks will moderate the discussion.
America/New_York publicShould every American be allowed to vote -- or required to vote? On April 14 at 6:00 PM ET, the JFK Jr. Forum welcomes E.J. Dionne and Miles Rapoport to discuss how universal participation in our elections is essential to American democracy. Please join us for a timely conversation on civic duty and the active disenfranchisement that has put American democracy in crisis. Christine Chen and Cornell William Brooks will moderate the discussion.
E.J. Dionne '73 is a distinguished journalist, columnist for The Washington Post, commentator for NPR, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute. Miles Rapoport, a fellow at the Ash Center's Senior Practice Fellowship in American Democracy, was previously president of the democracy reform organization Common Cause, President of the progressive policy think tank Demos, and Connecticut's Secretary of State from 1995 to 1999. Christine Chen, a resident fellow at the IOP for spring 2022, is a co-Founder and Executive Director of Asian Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote), a national, non-partisan organization that works to mobilize AAPI communities in electoral and civic engagement. Cornell William Brooks is a Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations and Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice at the Harvard Kennedy School and former President and CEO of the NAACP.
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