Let’s Get Engaged: Strategies of Civic Engagement for the 2024 Elections
Another election year is here and, with it, all the anxiety of wondering how things will turn out in the end. It’s easy to feel helpless about the outcome, but one way to turn anxiety into empowerment is to become engaged with the political process. This OLLI @Berkeley Town Hall panel discussion will offer constructive strategies for how to engage with politics in ways that allow us to feel both helpful and hopeful. Come learn how to shed apathy and despair for empowerment and empathy. Facilitated by Berkeley professor Darren Zook.
About the Panelists
Thomas Oliphant is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and Washington columnist for The Boston Globe. A regular commentator on PBS NewsHour, he is the author of four books, including The Road to Camelot.
Robert Brandon is the President & CEO of the Fair Elections Center, a national, nonpartisan voting rights and election reform organization whose mission is to use litigation and advocacy to remove barriers to registration and voting.
Shannon Thomas, a UC Berkeley alumnus, is the Founder and Principal at Just Media LLC, a community conflict resolution, crisis communications, and transformative justice agency. She served as the speechwriter for Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez during her first congressional run in 2018.
Susan Driscoll is a longtime OLLI member who has spearheaded and participated in a number of "get out the vote" initiatives.
[livestreamed + recorded • for members only]