There has never been a more consequential time to be informed about the policy decisions that are being made in Washington than now, the beginning of the new Executive Branch's administration. Knowledge is power.
LWV Chicago is launching the Emerging Threats to Democracy working group to capitalize on our robust network of policy experts to keep tabs on what the current administration is working on and building a plan to ensure we have actionable ways to protect our democracy here in Chicago.
Please join us on Thursday, February 13 at 6:00 pm to learn about how we plan to address these emerging threats. Register to join us via Zoom.
If you have any questions prior to the meeting, please reach out to league@lwvchicago.org.
A resource for our work together is the preface to Sharon Welch's forthcoming book, After Empire: An Ethic of Reckonings, Reparations and Risk (revised edition). The book was first published in 2004, and the revised edition is scheduled for publication in the fall of 2025. Read the preface.
Sharon D. Welch joined the League of Women Voters in 2017 and works on criminal justice reform with the Illinois and Cook County Leagues. Her term with the Board of the Cook County League of Women Voters ended in May 2020. She served on the LWV Chicago Board from 2020–2023 as Events Director. She has served on the Chicago Board as Community Oversight of Public Safety (COPS) Director since January 2024.
Welch has held faculty and administrative positions at Harvard Divinity School, the University of Missouri-Columbia and Meadville Lombard Theological School (Unitarian Universalist, Chicago). She is the author of six books, the most recent being After the Protests Are Heard: Enacting Civic Engagement and Social Transformation (NYU Press, 2019).