Center for Civic Engagement Presents
The Center for Civic Engagement presents a talk with
Yael Bromberg
"Voting Rights & Democracy: The Bard Case and the Fight for the Future."
Friday, September 30, 2022
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The talk will explore current challenges related to voting rights, including jurisprudence regarding the 26th Amendment (which lowered the voting age to 18), voting on college campuses, including the litigation at Bard, and issue of non-citizen voters.2:30 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Attorneys, Michael Donofrio and Douglas Mishkin, who helped shape Bard’s legal case with regard to voting rights on campus, will join Yael for the Q&A portion of the talk.
In addition to Yael Bromberg’s work with AGF, she serves as a Lecturer at Rutgers Law School, where she teaches Election Law & the Political Process, and is a Visiting Associate with the Eagleton Institute of Politics. She currently works with the Harvard Kennedy School's William Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice on a youth voting rights project, and serves on the advisory council for American Promise, an organization dedicated to ending big money in our political system. She previously worked in the Washington, D.C. headquarters of Common Cause, and taught and supervised litigation in Georgetown University Law Center’s Civil Rights Clinic and Voting Rights Institute.
For more information, call 845-443-3030, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Campus Center, Multipurpose Room