The Midterm Elections: What’s at Stake for America’s Future?
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Join us for a conversation on the high-stakes midterms, where 45,000+ races and control of Congress meet a polarized electorate. Panelists discuss the major issues shaping the election, voter priorities, and the national conversation. The session also explores the growing role of emerging technologies in democracy, including how AI is shaping information trust, public discourse, and policy debates from jobs to the environment, and what this means for the future of American democracy. Speakers: Lily Adams ’09 is a managing director at Orchestra, former assistant secretary for public affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and communications manager for treasury secretary Janet Yellen and then-Senator Kamala Harris. Joe Conason ’75, journalist, author, and political commentator, founder and editor-in-chief of The National Memo Amber Spry, assistant professor of African and African American Studies
