Primary Season: How Super Tuesday and Critical State Primaries Elevate Policy Choices
Our third workshop of this Election 2020 special series was held as primaries, caucuses, and debates for the 2020 election cycle were fully underway, with multiple candidates voicing a spectrum of policy positions.
As voters began to coalesce around issues and candidates, foremost nonprofit policy experts were jointed by leading nonprofit policy practitioners to explore how primaries served as pressure tests for these issues as well as educational and advocacy opportunities for the nonprofit sector.
This event also featured a discussion how nonprofits can drive conversations, take advantage of an engaged public, and elevate long standing and emerging issues that affect the common good.
Welcome
- Cindy M. Lott, Esq., Academic Director and Faculty, Nonprofit Management Program
Moderators
- Sue Santa, Election Series Co-Developer and part-time lecturer, M.S. Nonprofit Management, School of Professional Studies, Columbia University | Vice President Public Policy & Advocacy at Girl Scouts of the USA
- Sandra Swirski, Election Series Co-Developer, M.S. Nonprofit Management, School of Professional Studies, Columbia University | Partner and Co-founder, Urban Swirski & Associates
Guest Speakers
Seyron Foo
Vice President, Public Policy and Government Relations,
Southern California Grantmakers
Andrea Gately Bottner
Senior Advisor,
Independent Women’s Forum
David M. Stone
Part-time Lecturer, M.S. Nonprofit Management, School of Professional Studies, Columbia University | Senior Advisor on Strategic Initiatives to Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger