CONFERENCES & EVENTS

Bridging America's Divisions

December 9, 2021
7:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m. ET
WEBINAR

Joan Blades, John Gable, Pearce Godwin, and Mónica Guzmán joined Timothy Noah for a discussion on how their organizations are working in different ways to build bridges of understanding. This event was organized by the Network for Responsible Public Policy.

SPEAKERS

JOAN BLADES is a co-founder of LivingRoomConversations.org, an open-source effort to build respectful caring connections across ideological, cultural, and party lines while embracing our core shared values. She is also a co-founder of MomsRising.org and MoveOn.org.

MÓNICA GUZMÁN is director of digital and storytelling at Braver Angels, the nation’s largest cross-partisan grassroots organization working to depolarize America; host of live interview series at Crosscut; and cofounder of the award-winning Seattle newsletter The Evergrey.

JOHN GABLE is co-founder and CEO of AllSides.com and AllSidesForSchools.org. AllSides provides balanced news, media bias ratings, and opportunities for civil conversation across divides to help people better understand the world — and each other. Using technology, patented systems and a diverse team, AllSides curates perspectives across the political spectrum to provide more balanced coverage of today’s news and issues.

PEARCE GODWIN is the founder of Listen First Project and the #ListenFirst Coalition of 350+ organizations bringing Americans together across differences. He catalyzes the movement to heal America by building relationships and bridging divides, transforming division and contempt into connection and understanding.

MODERATOR

TIMOTHY NOAH is a staff writer for the New Republic and maintains the Substack newsletter Backbencher.

EVENT CO-SPONSORS

Network for Responsible Public Policy
The Academy of Political Science
The Puffin Foundation
The News Literacy Project
Women for Progress