Speakers for this event

• Brian Corr

  Brian Corr

  Brian Corr is a senior government and nonprofit professional with more than 30 years of experience in community relations and organizing, nonprofit management, development and fundraising, technology and information services, design, and online communications and constituent management. For the past three decades, he has lent his expertise to peace and social justice issues in the Boston and Greater Cambridge community.

• Peter Levine

  Peter Levine

  Peter Levine is the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs in Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life. He also has appointments in the Tufts Philosophy Department, Political Science Department, and the Tufts Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. He was the founding deputy director (2001-2006) and then the second director (2006-2015) of Tisch College’s CIRCLE, The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. In addition, Levine co-leads the Civic Studies major, teaches the Summer Institute of Civic Studies, and organizes the annual Frontiers of Democracy conference. Levine is the author of We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: The Promise of Civic Renewal in America (Oxford University Press, 2013), five other scholarly books on philosophy and politics, and a novel.

• Rachael V. Cobb Ph.D.

  Rachael V. Cobb Ph.D.

  Rachael v. Cobb, ph.d. is Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at Suffolk University. Cobb specializes in U.S. elections, election administration, electoral politics, civic engagement, and political participation.
  In 2006, Professor Cobb received a grant from the United States Election Assistance Commission to establish the University Pollworkers Project, a nonpartisan program designed to recruit college students as poll workers as a response to reports of an estimated shortage of 500,000 poll workers nationwide. Since 2006, more than 500 students from the Greater Boston area have received training and worked as poll workers.