TLRH |Protests, Polling and the Culture of Democracy

Recorded December 16, 2020. In this episode, Melody Barnes
discusses the developments in the Black Lives Matter movement,
technology and misinformation, vaccine distribution and the 2020 US
election. Melody Barnes is co-director for Policy and Public
Affairs for the Democracy Initiative at the University of Virginia.
She is the Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor of Practice at the
Miller Center of Public Affairs and a Distinguished Fellow at the
School of Law. From 2009 until January 2012, Melody was Assistant
to the President and Director of the White House Domestic Policy
Council. She also served as chief counsel to Senator Edward M.
Kennedy on the US Senate Judiciary Committee. The Rethinking
Democracy Podcast is produced by the Trinity Long Room Hub in
partnership with the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the
Humanities at Columbia University. Find out more about the
Rethinking Democracy Podcast here:
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