Podcasts about gunther peck

Jacob Bachmeier serves in Montana’s House of Representatives. He was just 18 when he was elected. A classmate was his campaign manager. At the time of his election, he was the youngest state lawmaker in the country. Guest host: Gunther Peck of Duke University’s Hart Leadership Program Note: Policy 360 will return to our regular biweekly schedule in September. Music: The Zeppelin by Blue Dot Sessions / Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/

Sari Kaufman is a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida. Her high school was the site of a horrific mass shooting this year. Since the shooting, Kaufman has worked alongside her friends to register thousands of voters. Sari Kaufman was on Duke’s campus to participate in a panel discussion about the challenges to student voting rights. The event was part of a special series run by the Hart Leadership Program called Connect2Politics. The series is exposing students to a new generation of young political leaders. Gunther Peck, director of the Hart Leadership Program, is our guest host.

For the second act of the live show, Professors Deondra Rose and Gunther Peck dive deep into North Carolina’s contentious politics, the impacts of the state’s voting laws and redistricting efforts, and what these deep divides say about national politics. For More on This Topic: Read Peck’s piece, Learning the Right Lessons from Defeat: Organizing a New Democratic Majority in North Carolina Listen to Rose’s interview on North Carolina Public Radio Further Reading: How Conservatives Rewrote North Carolina Election Laws to Discourage Voter Participation, Marion Johnson, NC Justice Center How Colleges in North Carolina- And Beyond- Can Help Students Vote, Laura Elise Bennett, Duke University

Come to the first-ever LIVE taping of the Scholars Strategy Network’s podcast, No Jargon. To celebrate No Jargon’s 100th episode, Avi will be joined by researchers from across the country to talk about America’s divided politics, how we got here, and what comes next. Buy tickets at scholars.org/liveshow. In three acts, Avi and his guests will explore our nation’s politics today, and then zoom in on battleground North Carolina and bright blue Massachusetts. Audience members will have the chance to ask the researchers their own questions. Guests for the show include: Sandy Darity, René Flores, Erin O’Brien, Gunther Peck, Theda Skocpol, and Peter Ubertaccio.

North Carolina's new voter i.d. laws are some of the most restrictive in the country, says Gunther Peck. The new laws could pose problems for people who move frequently, such as students.