October 21 – Kenneth Wollack with Patt Morrison
Why Do Democracies Backslide and Is There a Way Back? Lessons From the Front Lines of the Global Struggle for Democracy.
Kenneth Wollack
Kenneth Wollack is Vice Chair and former Chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy and a member of the George W. Bush Institute’s Advisory Council. Mr. Wollack served as co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates for the presidential and vice-presidential debates during the lead up to the 2020 election.
For more than 25 years, he served as president of the National Democratic Institute (NDI), a nongovernmental organization dedicated to advancing democracy worldwide. Before joining NDI, Mr. Wollack co-edited the Middle East Policy Survey, a Washington-based newsletter. He also wrote regularly on foreign affairs for the Los Angeles Times.
From 1973 to 1980, he served as legislative director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Mr. Wollack served on the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion, and was a member of the advisory committee for the U.S. Agency for International Development and a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He also co-chaired the Ronald Reagan Institute’s bi-partisan Working Group on advancing freedom and promoting democracy in the 21st century and served as a senior fellow at UCLA’s School for Public Affairs.
Patt Morrison
Patt Morrison has a share of two Pulitzer Prizes as a longtime Los Angeles Times writer and columnist. As a public television and radio broadcaster, she has won six Emmys and a dozen Golden Mike awards. Her first book, “Rio LA,” about the Los Angeles River, was a bestseller. Her most recent book is, “Don’t Stop the Presses! Truth, Justice, and the American Newspaper.”