Elijah E. Cummings Democracy and Freedom Festival 2024

Description

Join the SNF Agora Institute for the fourth annual Elijah E. Cummings Democracy and Freedom Festival—a free event bringing together scholars and practitioners from across the country to join with the Johns Hopkins and Baltimore communities as we grapple with some of the most urgent challenges facing democracy, model civic engagement across divides, and celebrate democratic resilience and opportunity. 

Through this year's theme, civic education, we will explore how and where civics education should occur as well as the innovations being made to strengthen civics in their fields and communities of practice. The festival also includes an interactive art installation by Graham Projects and Rosy Sunshine Galvan and a dinner hosted by The People's Supper.

Program highlights include:

• 1:30–1:50 p.m.: Keynote remarks on the future of civics with Peter McIndoe, founder, Birds Aren't Real
• 2–3 p.m.: Opening Plenary: Where should civics education occur? Guests include moderator Erica L. Green, former education reporter for the New York Times and Baltimore Sun and current New York Times White House correspondent; Ashley Rogers Berner, director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy; Terri Lee Freeman, president of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum; Sarah Godlewski, Secretary of State for Wisconsin; and Frank Langfitt, NPR's Global Democracy correspondent
• 7:30 p.m.: Debate about the role of social media platforms in a democracy, moderated by April Ryan, the longest-serving Black woman in the White House press corps and the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for TheGrio

All programming takes place at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202. Johns Hopkins students can take advantage of a free Lyft pass to and from the museum.

For a full list of events and registration, visit http://bit.ly/democracy-and-freedom-festival.