Hello Fellow Leaguers
The League of Women Voters of Central New Mexico will hold our December meeting on Thursday, December 10 at 12:15. That start is a little later than usual in order to accommodate our speaker’s schedule. She will be speaking on the delicate state of U.S. democracy and what we can learn from the November election.
Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld advises governments, philanthropists, and activists on how democracies make major social change. She received her BA from Yale University and her Masters and PhD in Philosophy at Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Rachel is a leading expert on how democracies – including the United States – can improve, with a particular focus on countries facing poor leadership, polarized populations, violence, and corruption.
In 2010, Time magazine named Rachel one of the top 40 political leaders under 40 in America. As the founding CEO of the Truman National Security Project, she spent a decade building and leading a national organization head-quartered in Washington, D.C., with a membership of over 80,000 supporters and chapters in most major U.S. cities. Under her leadership, the Truman Project assisted scores of national, state, and local candidates and elected officials, advocated for legislation nationally and in multiple states, and fostered a new generation of military veterans and national security leaders to advance policies that would enhance global security, democracy, and human dignity.
Her writings include the following: Advancing the Rule of Law Abroad: Next Generation Reform (Carnegie, 2012), which was chosen by Foreign Affairs magazine as one of the best foreign policy books of 2012. She has also co-authored Let There Be Light: Electrifying the Developing World with Markets and Distributed Generation (Truman Institute, 2012). She has contributed to the following publications: Relocating the Rule of Law (Hart, 2009), Promoting Democracy and the Rule of Law: Ameri-can and European Strategies (Palgrave, 2009), The Future of Human Rights (Philadelphia UP, 2008), Promoting the Rule of Law: The Problem of Knowledge (Carnegie Endowment, 2006), With All Our Might (Rowen and Littlefield, 2006).
Rachel serves on the boards of various for-profit companies and social sector organizations that align with her passion for issues on the intersections of security, human dignity, and empowerment. From 2011–2014 she served on the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, which advised the Secretary of State quarterly. Rachel lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband, a sculptor, and their two daughters.
This notice is being sent to other leagues in the state and we may have guests at our meeting.
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Topic: LWVCNM
Time: Dec 10, 2020 12:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
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