Course Description

Course Facilitators: Bunny Mitchell and Peg Maloney

Part 2 of this two-part series.   Each week, the course will feature a different expert including university professors and industry experts.   Topics will include money in politics; election forecasting; political ethics; the impact of media and social media; racism, strategic behavior of politicians and legislators and more.

These professionals will challenge us to consider our current political environment with fact-based research and analysis.  We will confront these critical election and political issues from different professional perspectives each week.

June 4      Bernard Farga, PhD               Emory                                       Racial & Ethnic Politics & Political Behavior

June 11    David Schweidel, PhD            Emory                                      Social Media Intelligence, Analytics & Elections

June 18    Ben Taylor, Professor             Kennesaw University             Political Advocacy 

June 25   Adrienne Jones, PhD              Morehouse College                Racism in Elections