Kaia Los Huertos graduated from San Diego State University in 2015 with a B.A. in Sociology. She is a Voices for Children Court Appointed Special Advocate, and is committed to increasing civil rights for all communities.
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T.J. O’Hara is joined by Brian Baird, former Democratic U.S. representative and co-founder of Washington Independents. The two discuss the partisanship and dysfunction in state legislatures and Congress, the Centrist Project and its approach, as well as the principles and goals of the organization he co-founded with
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This week, T.J. O’Hara is joined by Lenny Mendonca on the IVN podcast, A Civil Assessment. Lenny Mendonca is a Senior Partner Emeritus from the Washington D.C. and San Francisco offices of McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm. He is a Lecturer at the Stanford
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Stephen Erickson joins host T.J. O'Hara on this week's podcast to discuss his latest book, "What Would Madison Do? The Political Journey Progressives and Conservatives Must Make Together." The two delve into key issues raised in the book, the parallels between the challenges
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T.J. O’Hara is joined by Verna Williams, Interim Dean and Nippert Professor of Law at University of Cincinnati College of Law. Verna published a Law Review article titled “Guns, Sex, and Race: The Second Amendment Through a Feminist Lens,” where she explores the racial and gender history of
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T.J. is joined by two prominent election reform attorneys: Lawrence Lessig with Equal Citizens and Chad Peace with the Independent Voter Project. They discuss their latest reform lawsuits and projects, breaking down each case into its ‘elevator pitch’. Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and
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At the League of Women Voters of San Diego September "Sips & Civility" event at the San Diego Central Library, Snopes' Managing Editor, Brooke Binkowski kicked off the discussion on how to fight fake news. https://twitter.com/LWVNCSD/status/867193115857174529 Binkowski began her career in journalism
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Daniel Norland joins host, T.J. O’Hara, on this week’s episode. Dan is best known locally as a history teacher at a San Diego school, and nationally as the editor of Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantanamo, the story of two Algerians detained for seven years
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President Trump recently urged support for tax reform as a benefit to the middle class at the Andeaver oil refinery in Bismarck, ND. However, he didn't reveal specific details of the plan, instead, reiterating his prior ideas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxkdB80TivA President Trump has promised
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T.J. O’Hara is joined by author and attorney Jeff Rasley. Jeff performed a small Facebook experiment concerning civility. The two discuss this experiment, the post-election conversations that take place on social media, “silos of the like-minded,” and more. “If you just depend on the hearsay of social media,
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This week on A Civil Assessment we meet the award-winning election journalist Lulu Friesdat. T.J. and Lulu discuss her history reporting on elections, her documentary “Holler Back” about voters who did not vote in 2004, the annual tech conference DEF CON where hackers broke into election machines in under
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Host T.J. O'Hara is joined by Nick Troiano, executive director of The Centrist Project. T.J and Troiano discuss the latest endeavors of The Centrist Project, including projects in support of independent candidates across the nation, how independents could change the US’s health care discussion, what
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IVN podcast host T.J. O’Hara is joined by David Walker. Walker served as the seventh U.S. Comptroller General for the Clinton and Bush administrations, as well as the head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). Walker is currently running for governor of Connecticut. He and