Politics Program, La Voz, Center for Civic Engagement, and Election@Bard Present
Hispanics and the Elections
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
A record 27.3 million Hispanics are eligible to vote in 2016, and almost 12 million of them are millennials. Will they actually turn out and vote in record numbers as well? How are local organizers seizing the ever-polarizing elections to compel Latinos to vote? What can we learn from history and Latinos' civic and political participation? 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Come to a panel discussion, moderated by managing editor of La Voz Mariel Fiori, to hear it from community activists and Bard faculty, including:
Professor Jonathan Becker, Vice President for Academic Affairs; Director of Bard Center for Civic Engagement; Associate Professor of Political Studies
Laura García, Racial Justice Program Manager for YWCA Orange County and founder of Dreamers with No Borders
Sandra Oxford, President of the Sullivan County Branch of the NAACP and member of the NYS Working Families Party Committee
For more information, call 845-758-7378, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Campus Center, Multipurpose Room