Voting Rights Under Threat
What Bard is doing about it and what you can do about it
Join us for a conversation preceded by an excerpt of the film "A Poll to Call Our Own" about Bard's quarter century fight over voting rights.
Wendy Weiser is Vice President for Democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School, a nonpartisan think tank and public interest law center. She oversees the center's work on voting rights and elections, redistricting and representation, federal reform, abuse of power, and the courts. She is also the parent of a Bard first-year student.
Sierra Ford '26 is a Bard senior, the co-head of ElectioneBard, a student-led group committed to voting rights, and the Speaker of the student body who interned last summer at the Carter Center in her native Atlanta.
Jonathan Becker is a professor of political studies, Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Director of Bard's Center for Civic Engagement. He is co-editor of the soon-to be released book Youth Voting Rights: Civil Rights, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, and the Fight for American Democracy on College Campuses
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