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With Yal Eisenstat (Future of Democracy Fellow, Berggruen Institute).
Wed, Aug 11, 2021 @ 03:00 PM   FREE   Venue, To Be Announced
 
     
 
 
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Join author Ben Rhodes to discuss his latest book, After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made, with Yal Eisenstat
About this event
Why is democracy so threatened in America & around the world? And what can we do about it? Join Ben Rhodes, former White House aide & close confidant to President Barack Obama-and the author of The World as It Is-as he discusses his findings from his travels around the globe in a deeply personal, beautifully observed quest for answers.

About Ben Rhodes:

Ben Rhodes is a writer, political commentator, & national security analyst. He is currently a contributor for NBC News & MSNBC; co-host of Pod Save the World; a senior advisor to former President Barack Obama; & chair of National Security Action, which he co-founded with Jake Sullivan in 2018. From 2009-2017, Ben served as a Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama. In that capacity, he participated in all of President Obama's key decisions, & oversaw the President's national security communications, speechwriting, & public diplomacy. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made, & The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House. His work has also been published in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, & Foreign Affairs. A native New Yorker, Ben has a B.A. from Rice University & an M.F.A from New York University.

About Yal Eisenstat:

Yal is a Future of Democracy Fellow at Berggruen Institute & a Researcher-in-Residence at Betalab, working at the intersection of tech, democracy, & policy. She focuses on what the public square & open, democratic debate look like in the digital world & how we can change the current incentives to reconcile social media's dominance of these public spaces with democratic principles. She strives to bridge the divide between government & tech, to help foster a healthier information ecosystem.

She has spent 20 years working around the globe on democracy & security issues as a CIA officer, a White House advisor, the Global Head of Elections Integrity Operations for political advertising at Facebook, a diplomat, & the head of a global risk firm. As a Visiting Fellow at Cornell Tech's Digital Life Initiative, she focused on technology's effects on discourse & democracy & taught a multi-university course on Tech, Media & Democracy.

NOTE: Betaworks Studios requires all in-person visitors to be vaccinated, & therefore mask use at Betaworks Studios is optional. To attend this event you will be required to show proof of full vaccination to enter the Club.

Two ways that you can show proof:

Show us your official vaccine card (photo of card NOT accepted) with at least 2 weeks having passed since the date of the last required dose (1 dose for J&J/AstraZeneca, 2 for Pfizer/Moderna)
Present your NY State Excelsior Pass with an active Vaccination pass
 
 
 
 
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