Constitution Day & NEW Civic Engagement Leadership Certificate
11:20am—11:45am - Part 1
- Louise Stanton, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Introductions
- Beau Lancaster, Adjunct Professor, Department of History
- Jennifer Musial, Chair & Faculty, Department of Gender, Africana, and Latina American Studies
- Jeffrey Dessources, Director, Center for Leadership & Engagement
11:45am—12:35pm - Part 2
- Jeffrey Dessources, Director, Center for Leadership & Engagement introduces NEW Civic Engagement Leadership Certificate program
- *Theo Dassin-Co-Founder, Students For Strengthening American Democracy (an initiative of Lawyers Defending American Democracy)
- *Assata Man, Senior Community Organizer, Institute for Social Justice/NJ
- NJCU students: Samantha Jaipersaud & Iris Gonzales, Civic Influencers at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago
*TABLING by these organizations and more to sign up to volunteer
e.g. Be a pollworker-sign up with Power the Polls
e.g. Do postcarding-Students for Voting Justice (SVJ), a campaign of the Center for Common Ground