CCE Events

Youth Voting Rights Book Virtual Panel

Wednesday, February 25, 2026
2:00 pm EST/GMT-5 
Online Event

This virtual conversation will entail a moderated panel including the editors and some chapter authors of the newly released book Youth Voting Rights: Civil Rights, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, and the Fight for American Democracy on College Campuses. The panelists will be sharing insights into the role of college communities, including four HBCUs, in the fight for suffrage and their contributions to the evolution of the right to vote. 

Panelists Include:
  • Jonathan Becker, vice president for academic affairs, professor of political studies, and director of the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College;
  • Yael Bromberg, Esq., constitutional rights litigator, leading legal scholar of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, and election law professor at American University Washington College of Law;
  • Erin Cannan, Bard College vice president for civic engagement;
  • Jelani Favors, vice president of the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute at the United Negro College Fund;
  • Michael Nojeim, Professor and Program Coordinator of Political Science at Prairie View A&M University
The panel will break down insights into the role of college communities in the fight for suffrage, and their contributions to the evolution of the right to vote based on case studies from Tuskegee University, Prairie View A&M University, North Carolina A&T State University, and Bard College.
Register here 
For more information, call 845-758-6822