Our Voices, Our Vote: How Women Will Save Democracy in 2024 with Tara Setmayer – Monday, September 30, at UMass

Souorce: UMass College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Members of the local community are invited to attend “Our Voices, Our Vote: How Women Will Save Democracy in 2024” Monday, September 30, from 11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Old Chapel at UMass. This event is part of the campus-wide Democracy in Troubled Times series hosted by the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences with support from the Chancellor, Provost, and many other campus partners.

Tara Setmayer, co-founder of The Seneca Project, a bipartisan superPAC led by women, will be in conversation with Kathy Roberts Forde, professor of journalism, about women’s issues in the 2024 presidential election, including healthcare access, women’s rights, and the preservation of democracy. Setmayer is resident scholar at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and is a regular commentator on MSNBC and other news outlets. She worked for 27 years in political communications with the Republican Party, leaving in November 2020 after Donald Trump refused to accept that Joe Biden had won the presidential election.

“Every time I see Tara Setmayer on MSNBC, she teaches me something new about our complicated political terrain in the U.S., especially in the area of women’s rights and women’s electoral power,” said Forde. “She’s deeply experienced and informed, she’s a captivating speaker, and her long career working in Republican political communication makes her an especially effective advocate for The Seneca Project’s goals. I think Five College students and everyone in the community interested in women’s rights and electoral power will gain something from participating in our conversation.”

An audience Q&A will follow Forde’s conversation with Setmayer.

More information about DTT can be found on the initiative’s website, and a full schedule of events with complete details for each can be found here.