Author David Daley discusses his recently published book about efforts to undo gerrymandering with Princeton University professor Sam Wang. A Labyrinth and Library Livestream Event
The book charts a rising political movement to undo the damage to democracy done by gerrymandering. Daley chronicles Pennsylvania’s dramatic defeat of a gerrymander using the research of ingenious mathematicians. He also reports on the Michigan millennial who launched a statewide redistricting revolution with a Facebook post. He tells the stories of activist groups that paved the way for 2018’s historic blue wave and won crucial battles for voting rights in Florida, Maine, Utah and nationwide. In an age of polarization, "Unrigged" offers a portrait of a nation transformed by a new civic awakening, and provides a blueprint for what must be done to keep American democracy afloat.
Daley's journalism has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Slate, the Washington Post and New York magazine. The bestselling author of "Ratf**ked," he is a senior fellow at FairVote, and the former editor of Salon.
Wang is professor of molecular biology and neuroscience at Princeton University. He is co-founder of the Princeton Election Consortium blog and of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, as well as the author of the best-selling "Welcome to Your Brain" and "Welcome to Your Child’s Brain."
This event is presented through a partnership with Labyrinth Books and the Woodrow Wilson School.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Lectures & Panels | Civic Life | Author Talks |
