“The only place that this is a polarizing issue is the U.S. “We are creating relationships with Republicans and independents, but it’s still going to take a long time,” Watts said. ![]() Moms Demand Action has brought about bipartisan, incremental progress on gun violence prevention, including local measures to curtail open carry in public spaces and successful campaigns to elect candidates supporting common-sense gun laws.īut with 400 million guns circulating, contributing to 100 firearm deaths and over 230 injuries each day - and with a mass shooting having occurred daily thus far in 2021 - the work is far from done. Watch the conversation between Shannon Watts and Sonali Rajan “I sort of built the plane as I flew it,” she said of a movement patterned on Mothers Against Drunk Driving. In talking with Rajan, Watts confided that she launched Moms Demand Action with threadbare knowledge about advocacy work. Kicking off Convocation week at the College, the dialogue between Watts and Sonali Rajan, Associate Professor of Health Education, herself an advocate for evidence-based measures to deter gun violence, was the first of three discussions between TC faculty and 2020 TC Medal of Distinguished Service recipients whose honors were deferred because of the pandemic. Tomorrow evening Carol Dweck, the Lewis & Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University sits down with TC's Nathan Holbert, Assistant Professor of Communication, Media & Learning Technologies Design. Banaji, the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard Universiity, in discussion with TC Professor of Psychology & Education Caryn J. ![]() ![]() The Medalist Conversations will continue tonight (Tuesday, April 27th) with Mahzarin R.
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