Barbara Arnwine to Lecture on the State of Democracy and Voting in a Post-Shelby Era
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On Wednesday, November 19, Barbara Arnwine, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, will give a public lecture, “The State of Democracy and Voting in a Post Shelby Era,” which will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus. The talk is part of Lectures on Public Policy, an annual series at the Institute that addresses issues of broad import relevant to contemporary politics, social conditions and scientific matters.
Arnwine is known for her contributions on critical justice issues including the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Acts of 1991 and the 2006 reauthorization of provisions of the Voting Rights Act. She is a champion of civil rights and racial justice issues nationally and internationally in the areas of housing and lending, community development, employment, voting, education and environmental justice. Arnwine’s work also includes women’s rights, immigrant rights, judicial diversity, criminal justice reform, racial profiling, health care disparities and LBGTQ rights.
Arnwine received her Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law in 1976 after graduating from Scripps College in 1973. She has received numerous national, regional and local awards, including the National Bar Association’s Vince Monroe Townsend, Jr., Legends Award (2014) and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights’ Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award (2013). Arnwine is board vice chair of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and serves on the board of directors of MomsRising and Independent Sector. She is an honorary board member of Welcome.us and is also a member of the American Bar Association’s Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities. She is a well-known leader of Election Protection, the nation’s largest nonpartisan voter protection coalition, launched in 2004 to assist historically disenfranchised persons to exercise the fundamental right to vote.
This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information on other lectures at the Institute, visit http://www.ias.edu/news/public-events. Past Lectures on Public Policy may be viewed online at https://www.ias.edu/video/public-policy-lectures.
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