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
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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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More photos and event recording to come!