Name: Megan Ming Francis
Start: 2025-01-15T18:30:00-08:00
End: 2025-01-15T18:30:00-08:00
Location: The Wyncote NW Forum

Megan Ming Francis

Autopsy of an Election — What We Lost, What We Won, and How to Fight for the Future

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Date:: Wednesday, January 15
Time:: 6:30 pm PST
Cost:: Pay What You Will

Venue

: The Wyncote NW Forum
: 1119 8th Ave (Entrance off Seneca St.)
Seattle, 98101 United States + Google Map

Organizer

: University of Washington Office of Public Lectures
Phone: (206) 543-5900
Email: lectures@uw.edu
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Rentals

The environment surrounding the Harris and Trump campaigns revealed that we are living in an anxious and confusing time in politics. The past year of political upheaval has thrust into the spotlight long-simmering debates about the vulnerable nature of democracy, the perils of money, and the malleability of the rule of law. How should we make sense of this last presidential election? Is political violence increasing? Who are the winners and losers? Ahead of the presidential inauguration, Professor Francis will reflect on the lessons of the 2024 election and will point to possibilities to reimagine a more just future.

Dr. Megan Ming Francis is the Delsman Associate Professor of Political Science and an Associate Professor of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington. She specializes in the study of American politics, with broad interests in Black political activism, constitutional law, critical philanthropy, and the post-civil war South and is the author of the award-winning book, Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State.

Dr. Francis was a former research fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute at the NAACP-LDF and serves on the Board at the Marguerite Casey Foundation. She is a proud alumnus of Seattle Public Schools, Rice University in Houston, and Princeton University where she received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics.