The Electoral College Committee of the League of Women Voters of Deerfield/Lincolnshire is delighted to welcome journalist Ari Berman.

Mr. Berman will speak about his new book Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It. Attendees are encouraged to read the book ahead of the meeting so we can follow Berman's remarks with discussion and make the meeting a a "democracy book club."

About the Speaker

Ari Berman is the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones and a reporting fellow at Type Media Center. He’s the author of the new book Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It, published in April by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, as well as Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America (finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction) and Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post and The Atlantic, and he is a frequent commentator on MSNBC and NPR. He's won the Sidney Hillman Foundation Prize for Magazine Journalism and an Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media. He lives in New Paltz, New York.