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Danielle Allen: Teaching Empowerment, Leading Change
I want to give a warm welcome to Danielle Allen. Danielle's work to improve the world for the youth has taken her from intructing college classes to the helm of a $6 billion foundation, writing as a national opinion columnist, democracy, reform, civic education, and most recently running for governer of Massachusetts. She made history as the first black woman to ever run for statewide office in the state. As well as being the 2020 winner of the library of congress Kluge prize, recieved for her internationally recognized scholarship and political theory and her commitment to improving democratic practice and civics education. The Kluge prize recognizes scholarly achievement in the disciplines not covered by the Nobel prize.
Danielle Allen studies classics, democratic theory, politiceal soceology, and the history of political thought. A professor at Harvard, she directs the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics. She has published widely on justice, government, and ctitizenship both in ancient Athens and modern America. She is the lead investigator for Harvards democratic knowledge project striving to strengthen democracies.
Welcome Danielle Allen!
Learn more about Danielle:
Team America The Indivisible
Danielle Allen: Harvard U
Edmond & Lily Safra: Center For Ethics
Danielle's TED Talk
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equity (video)
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equity (book)
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