The Fight for American Democracy
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Cecil B. Day Chapel, Carter Center
Student Voting, Civil Rights and the Promise of the 26th Amendment
You are invited to engage in a reading and discussion about the new book Youth Voting Rights: Civil Rights, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, and the Fight for American Democracy on College Campuses. This event will feature a panel, including the book co-editors Jonathan Becker (vice president for academic affairs and professor of Political Studies at Bard College) and Yael Bromberg (26th Amendment litigator and visiting professor at American University Washington College of Law); Jelani Favors (United Negro College Fund vice president and senior director of the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute), Lisa Bratton, (associate professor of History at Tuskegee University) and Erin Cannan (vice president for Civic Engagement at Bard College), who all contributed book chapters.
The event will be moderated by Sierra Ford ’26, Atlanta Posse Scholar, Bard College student body president, head of Election@Bard and Carter Center United States Elections Democracy Intern.
Sponsored by The Carter Center and the Bard College Center for Civic Engagement.
Open to the public (registration is required).
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected]