The Round Table: A YVote Podcast

At today's Round Table, Julianna, Maggie, and Riya speak with Declan Rexer and  Harjap Singh, recent alumni of the School for Ethics and Global Leadership, a semester program to provide intellectually motivated high school juniors who represent the diversity of the United States with the best possible opportunity to shape themselves into ethical leaders who create positive change in our world.  Goodness knows we need this! Follow Declan's ongoing work at Teen Policy Magazine. Thanks for listening!

At this week's Round Table, Olivia, Sara, and Jade speak with Joel Breakstone, Director of the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) about how to educate young people--and all people--to be critically literate, savvy consumers and media in order to be informed, engaged citizen contributors to our communities. Non-Spoiler Alert: we all need to read like fact checkers now...

Check out SHEG's (free!) Reading Like a Historian and Civic Online Reasoning collections.  The COR curriculum provides resources to evaluate online information--it's not enough to just be smart! Thank you for joining us.

High school senior Alexandra Madaras talks about her experiences as a young person working in politics in Ohio.

At today's Round Table,  Olivia Becker, Julianna Davis, Riya Mehta, and Maggie Yu speak with Alexandra Madaras, editor in chief of the Next Generation Politics blog, about her recent article Not Voting is Not Caring and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves and engage in deep conversation about youth political participation, social media, civic education, and lots, lots more. Thank you for joining us!

Jarrell Daniels, from Columbia University's Center for Justice, responds to this question posed by podcaster Sara Chough as part of our Putting More Justice in Criminal Justice episode.

At this week's Round Table, Ryan Arranz, Olivia Becker, Maggie Yu, and Jade Tyra interview three of the co-founders of the Purple Project for Democracy--Rebecca Winthrop, Roberto Orci, and Sterling Speirn-- as part of our ongoing series on cross-partisanship. Thank you for joining us!

At this week's roundtable, Julianna, Olivia, Riya, and Sara launch a series exploring International Human Rights--what are they, why do they matter, and how are they playing out in the U.S. and around the world today. Today, they're joined by Sam Moyn, Professor of History at Yale University and Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School, and renowned expert on international law and human rights. Thanks for joining us!