Course Description

Instructors: Multiple presenters

Course Facilitators: Bunny Mitchell and Peg Maloney

Part 1 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.

• Dr. Kerwin Swint, author, commentator, and award-winning professor of political science at Kennesaw State University, who has appeared on CNN, Fox News, the BBC, The View, the Wall Street Journal and more.
• Dr. Jefferey Lazarus, Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University whose research focuses on campaign finance.
• Dr. Adam Stone, Associate Professor of Political Science, former Co-Editor-in-Chief of Questions in Politics.
• Dr. Edward Queen, Emory University is an expert on issues related to professional and social ethics, religious and ethnic conflict, and civil society.