Speaker: David Pepper, Lawyer, Writer, Political Activist, Former Elected Official and Adjunct Professor
Please join us via Zoom on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 7-9 pm EDT (UTC-4) for Let’s Talk Series: Saving Democracy in the Short- and Long-Term.
Every presidential cycle, the narrative is the same. This Presidential election is the key to saving democracy. Four years later, the same narrative repeats, but of late, democracy never feels any safer.
David Pepper has written two books explaining the deeper battle against democracy that has been playing out for decades, damaging key safeguards for democracy at levels and in places that are too often overlooked. Once you understand that that is the true front line in the battle for democracy, the need to have a broader and deeper battle to save democracy--beyond even presidential and US Senate elections—becomes paramount. Pepper will walk through that deeper strategy.
David Pepper, Lawyer, Writer, Political Activist, Former Elected Official, Adjunct Professor and Author of Laboratories of Autocracy (St. Helena Press 2021) and Saving Democracy (St. Helena Press 2023), Senior Fellow, Kettering Foundation.
David Pepper is a lawyer, writer, democracy activist, former elected official, and adjunct professor, and served as the Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party between 2015 and 2021.
His recent non-fiction works dissect the attack on democracy taking place in states like Ohio, and guide everyday citizens on steps they can take to lift democracy. Pepper’s book Laboratories of Autocracy (St. Helena Press 2021) has been called “arguably the most important” recent book on American democracy by Salon Magazine, and his follow-up book Saving Democracy: A User’s Manual (2023) has been widely praised and featured on MSNBC, CNN, C-SPAN and other networks.
Born and raised in Cincinnati, David is a fifth-generation Cincinnatian. David earned his B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, and later earned his J.D. from Yale Law School.
David served on Cincinnati City Council from 2001-2005, then on the Hamilton County Commission from 2007-2010, including as its president in 2009-2010. David was the Democratic candidate for Ohio Auditor in 2010 and Ohio Attorney General in 2014. He was elected chair of the Ohio Democratic Party in December 2014. In that role, he was engaged in numerous battles and extensive litigation over voter suppression and election laws in the Buckeye State, as well as reform efforts to enhance voting and end gerrymandering. He championed ballot initiatives that twice garnered 70% of the vote across Ohio, and spearheaded the effort to elect an independent Supreme Court in the state for the first time in a generation.
Before the Event
Although not required to attend this event, we suggest reading Laboratories of Autocracy (St. Helena Press 2021) and Saving Democracy (St. Helena Press 2023) and purchasing it from a black-owned bookstore.
All registered participants will have access to a brief pre-event survey that allows questions to be submitted to our speaker.
During the Event
This is a webinar style event. All registered participants will have the opportunity to submit questions to our speaker. Questions will be screened and asked, given the time allowed.
After the Event
All registered participants will receive a post-event email including a survey and additional resources. A recording of the event will be publicly available on the Dock C. Bracy Center for Human Reconciliation website, in the days following our event.
Please join us via Zoom on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 7-9 pm EDT (UTC-4) for Let’s Talk Series: Saving Democracy in the Short- and Long-Term. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/saving-democracy-in-the-short-and-long-term-tickets-938618913437?aff=website.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Boston 7 pm EDT (UTC-4)
Cincinnati 7 pm EDT (UTC-4)
Salt Lake City 5 pm MDT (UTC-6)
Seattle 4 pm PDT (UTC-7)
Honolulu 1 pm HST (UTC-10)
Corresponding UTC (GMT) 23:00:00
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