Farai Chideya, Joan Shorenstein Fellow, senior writer at FiveThirtyEight.  Farai Chideya has covered every election since 1996 for outlets including CNN, NPR, and, in 2016, FiveThirtyEight, where she is a senior writer. Chideya is the author of six books, including Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters, The Color of Our Future and Don’t Believe the Hype: Fighting

We regret that due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been postponed. We will reschedule for Fall 2017. Sarah Lewis is an Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard, an M.Phil from Oxford University, and her Ph.D. from Yale

Sarah Smarsh has reported on socioeconomic class, politics and public policy for The New Yorker and Harper’s online, The Guardian, Guernica, Longreads and many others. Her book In the Red, on the American working poor and her own upbringing in rural Kansas, is forthcoming from Scribner. New essays will appear in Scratch: Writers, Money, and

Bhaskar Sunkara is an American political writer, editor and publisher of Jacobin magazine. The son of immigrants from Trinidad and Tobago, Sunkara described Jacobin as a radical publication, “largely the product of a younger generation not quite as tied to the Cold War paradigms that sustained the old leftist intellectual milieus like Dissent or New

Masha Gessen is a Russian and American journalist, the author of ten books of nonfiction, including the 2012 bestseller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin and, most recently, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (coming from Riverhead in October). She is a contributing opinion writer to The New

A panel discussion with:   Meighan Stone (moderator), Entrepreneurship Fellow, Spring 2017,  Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; President, Malala Fund Debra Cleaver Founder & CEO, Vote.org Leah Greenberg Co-Founder, Indivisible Andrea Hailey Founder, Civic Engagement Fund Amanda Litman Founder, Run for Something Jess Morales Rocketto Digital Community Organizer, OccupyAirports Co-sponsored by the Harvard

Featuring Speakers: Helen Boaden, Spring 2017 Joan Shorenstein Fellow; Director, BBC Radio Ann Marie Lipinski, Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution series is sponsored by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and