[Hac-announce] Forum at Yale Law School

[Thomas Platt]

I just became aware of this. - Tom



An exciting forum at Yale Law School, free and open to the public....

Howard Dean and Katrina vanden Heuvel Discuss “What’s Left for the Left”

New Haven, Conn.— Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont and past  
chair of the Democratic National Committee, and Katrina vanden  
Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation magazine, will discuss the  
future of progressive politics in the United States on Wednesday,  
April 20 at Yale.

Titled “What’s Left for the Left: Rebuilding Progressive Politics,”  
the forum will be moderated by Yale Professor Jacob Hacker, co-author  
with Paul Pierson of “Winner-Take-All Politics” and widely credited  
as the “architect” of the public option of health care policy. Also  
participating in the conversation will be Yale College junior Daniel  
Hornung, president of the Yale chapter of the progressive  
undergraduate organization The Roosevelt Institute.

The free discussion will take place in the Levinson Auditorium of  
Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, at 4 p.m. Seating is first-come,  
first-served. A question-and-answer period will follow the  
discussion. The event is sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship program  
at Yale.

Dean is former chair of the Democratic National Committee,  
presidential candidate, six-term governor of Vermont and physician.  
He currently works as an independent consultant focusing on health  
care, early childhood development, alternative energy and the  
expansion of grassroots politics around the world. Dean serves as a  
CNBC contributor and is the founder of Democracy for America. Dean  
left his full-time medical practice in 1982 when he was elected state  
representative in Vermont. He served for 12 years as governor and  
left in 2003 to run for president. His campaign notably pioneered  
innovative fundraising strategies using the Internet. As DNC chair,  
Dean created and implemented the “50 State Strategy,” for which he is  
credited with helping Democrats make historic gains in 2006 and 2008.

Vanden Heuvel is a frequent commentator on American and international  
politics on ABC, MSNBC, CNN and PBS. Her articles have appeared in  
The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times,  
Foreign Policy magazine and The Boston Globe. She is the editor of  
“Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System  
and How We Can Recover" (2009); and co-editor of “Taking Back America  
— And Taking Down The Radical Right” (2004). She writes a weekly web  
column for The Washington Post. Her blog "Editor’s Cut" appears at  
thenation.com. Among the many organizations that have recognized her  
for public service are The Association for American-Russian Women,  
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, The Asian American  
Legal Defense and Education Fund, and The New York Civil Liberties  
Union. She received the 2010 Exceptional Woman in Publishing Award.

The Poynter Fellowship plays a unique role in the educational life of  
Yale University. Nelson Poynter (Yale, M.A. 1927) established the  
program to enable Yale to bring to its campus distinguished  
reporters, editors and others who have made important contributions  
to the media. By sponsoring symposia and conferences on issues of  
broad public concern and by bringing to the university some of the  
most outstanding journalists from the United States and abroad, the  
Poynter Fellowship has helped Yale students and faculty gain special  
insight into the media and its role in contemporary culture. Among  
the distinguished Poynter Fellows who have visited the Yale campus in  
recent years are Tom Brokaw, Ira Glass, Soledad O’Brien, and Brent  
Staples.