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Defending Democracy Speaker Series | International Perspective

2022
DEFENDING
DEMOCRACY
SERIES

Join the League of Women Voters of Piedmont for a virtual speaker series covering a range of topics related to elections, voters, and the health of our democracy. Register for free to receive a Zoom link.

Dr. Fiona Hill

Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Mar. 30th @ 4pm PST

Can American Democracy Survive? An International Perspective

Please join the League of Women Voters of Piedmont on Wednesday, March 30th, 2022, at 4pm for a fireside chat with Dr. Fiona Hill. She will speak about the current state of American democracy, from both domestic and international points of view.

Since 2016, foreign meddling in US elections has become a cause for concern. If we cannot trust our own institutions, what does that mean for our democracy? What is likely to happen in Ukraine? Is the crisis likely to spill over into other neighboring countries? Learn what the current situation means for the international security order we have known since the end of the Cold War and what the implications are for our own democracy.

When: Wednesday, March 30th at 4pm PST (5pm MT | 6pm CT | 7pm ET)
Where: Online via Zoom. Register for free to receive an email with the Zoom link.

This program will be recorded. You can watch it live or at a later date on our YouTube channel. The second half of the program will be a moderated Q&A session with questions from Zoom participants and YouTube livestream viewers. You will not see the event posted ahead of time on YouTube. It will appear once the program starts at 4pm Pacific Time on March 30th.

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More about our speaker:

Dr. Fiona Hill is the Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her most recent book, There is Nothing for You Here, draws on her personal journey out of poverty, as well as her unique perspectives as a historian and policy maker, to show how we can return hope to our forgotten places.

From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Hill served as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council. From 2006 to 2009, she served as national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council.

She has researched and published extensively on issues related to Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, regional conflicts, energy, and strategic issues. Coauthor of Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin and The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold, she holds a master's degree in Soviet studies and a doctorate in history from Harvard University and a master's in Russian and modern history from St. Andrews University in Scotland.

This series is developed by the League of Women Voters of Piedmont, California and cosponsored by the following Leagues.