Convergence Center For Policy Resolution

AGENDA

All times in ET

12:00 – 12:20 | Lunch

12:20 – 12:30 | Welcome & Opening Remarks

Manu Meel, CEO of BridgeUSA and Convergence Board Member

12:30 – 12:40 | Connecting Question

12:40 – 1:05 | State of Convergence

Mariah Levison, CEO and President of Convergence

1:05 – 2:00 | Fireside Chat on State of Elections

Ashley Quarcoo, Executive Director of Election Trust Initiative
Mariah Levison, CEO and President of Convergence

2:00 – 2:15 | Break

2:15 – 3:20 | How Convergence Drives Impact

Alison Acosta Winters, most recently Senior Policy Fellow at Americans for Prosperity and the Charles Koch Foundation
Howard Gleckman, Senior Fellow at The Urban Institute
Aparna Mathur, Senior Research Manager in Economics at Amazon
Marc Porter Magee, CEO and Founder of 50CAN
Rob Fersh, Convergence Founder and First CEO (moderator)

3:20 – 4:10 | United Through Uncertainty: Wisdom from Leaders Across the Aisle

Stuart Butler, scholar in residence in Economic Studies at Brookings Institution
Derek Kilmer, former six-term U.S. Representative for Washington’s Sixth District and current Senior Vice President of U.S. Program and Policy for The Rockefeller Foundation 
Manu Meel, CEO of BridgeUSA (moderator)

4:10 – 4:45 | Tabletop Reflections on the Moment

4:45 – 5:00 | Reflections & Wrap Up

5:00 – 6:00 | Reception

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Please contact Convergence Executive Vice President, Beth Miller at [email protected] with additional questions about this form!

LEARN MORE ABOUT CONVERGENCE

From Conflict to Convergence, a groundbreaking new book by Convergence leaders Rob Fersh and Mariah Levison, was available for purchase at the event by Kramers.

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