Judy Woodruff of PBS Newshour will speak at the event "Depolarization in America: Can North Carolina Be the Epicenter? " on February 4, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. in Keppel Auditorium at Catawba College.

This event will celebrate the Commission on the Future of NC Elections. Since its first meeting in October 2023, the Commission has spent over a year investigating, research, and better understanding the work of administering elections in North Carolina. A cross-partisan, grass-roots group of over sixty North Carolinians sponsored by the Carter Center and Catawba College, the Commission has sought to collect a better understanding and insight into democracy’s fundamental activity: elections.

With a culminating set of findings, the Commission will celebrate its work on February 4, 2025, by hosting a conversation with Judy Woodruff of the PBS Newshour to talk about the role of polarization and depolarization in America, and whether North Carolina, through works such as the Commission, can be the epicenter of depolarization efforts.  

Judy Woodruff serves as senior correspondent and the former anchor and managing editor of the PBS News Hour. She has covered politics and other news for five decades at NBC, CNN and PBS. Her current focus for the News Hour is “America at the Crossroads,” a wide-ranging look at the effect of polarized politics in our nation.

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