One Month After the Election...the Views from Both Sides of the Border

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Toronto Metropolitan University Alumni Relations

Description:

After one of the most contentious and disputed US Presidential elections in history, we are left wondering what the future holds. In this Intersections, Karim Bardeesy, Executive Director of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Leadership Lab, will sit down with experts from both sides of the Canada/US border to explore what’s in store

Moderator:

Karim Bardeesy, Executive Director of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Leadership Lab

Speakers:

Sarada Peri

Sarada Peri is the founder of Peri Communications, where she works with corporate, political and nonprofit leaders and organizations on speeches, op-eds, and message strategy. She was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Speechwriter for President Barack Obama. Prior to joining the White House, she was a Principal at West Wing Writers, a speechwriting and strategy firm. She also was a member of the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Democratic National Convention speechwriting teams. A recovering policy wonk, Sarada previously served as an education and health policy aide to former Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA). Her political writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and New York Magazine. She is a graduate of Tufts University and Harvard Kennedy School.

Mitchell Davidson

Mitchell is the Executive Director of the StrategyCorp Institute of Public Policy and Economy, a new venture of SCI, designed to contribute to thought leadership on important public policy issues in Ontario and Canada. Mitchell brings a unique cross-section of public policy experience and political expertise from his nearly six years at Queen’s Park, culminating as Executive Director of Policy to the Premier of Ontario. In government, Mitchell served as the government’s lead policy architect, including responsibility for the 2019 Budget and 2018 Fall Economic Statement and was the policy lead and co-author for the two most recent Ontario PC Party Platforms – The Plan for the People and The People’s Guarantee. Mitchell was recently named a Global Fellow for the Canada Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies. He is also a Visiting Lecturer for the Master of Public Service Program at the University of Waterloo and a member of the recently completed expert Taskforce for a Resilient Recovery that produced an economic recovery roadmap for the federal government.

Contact for more info:

rsvp@torontomu.ca