SNF Agora Conversations: Election 2020: Race, Polarization, and Life After the Election

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Ashley Quarcoo, an international development practitioner and senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will give a talk entitled "Race, Polarization, and Life After the Election" as part of the SNF Agora Conversations: Election 2020 series.

Polarization, particularly along racial lines, is one of the key factors of our current election cycle. It's also a political tactic and one of the vulnerabilities that has left us open to foreign interference. The country is witnessing a profound racial reckoning, and the November election may put leaders in office who want to unite us around issues of racial justice, but there will be no quick fixes. How do we talk about race, identity, and polarization in a way that doesn't imagine that one election—or one elected leader—can heal all wounds? How do we hold the conversations that bridge divides and put us on a durable pathway forward, together?

Please attend the event by joining the live webcast.