Discussion | Who Sets the National Agenda?

Who sets the national agenda? Is it the press? A tweeting president? Social movements like Black Lives Matter or No DAPL? The powerful speeches of past leaders? The academy?

Join Joy-Ann Reid and E.J. Dionne, co-editors of We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama, recently published by Bloomsbury Press, in conversation with Vanessa Wruble, alumni and member of the national organizing committee of the Women's March on Washington on who sets the national agenda and how to move forward during controversial times. Moderated by Natalia Mehlman-Petrzela, Assistant Professor of History..







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Tuesday, March 14, 2017 from 6:00 PM