Public Information has the pleasure of inviting you to a multifaceted program targeted on coaching and creating the following era of tech coverage consultants and public curiosity advocates that displays the variety of voices and experiences in our society.
Please be a part of us for our month-to-month Profession Breakfast Collection. This occasion is designed particularly for college kids and up to date graduates of shade, providing insights into tech coverage and public curiosity careers, and offering a platform for people from underrepresented backgrounds. This time you’ll have the chance to have an amazing dialog with Amanda Beckham.
Amanda Beckham (she/her) executes Free Press’ technique for partaking lawmakers in D.C. to advance coverage that achieves our core targets of selling equitable entry to expertise, saving Internet Neutrality, and guaranteeing that media and expertise are instruments of democracy and never oppression. Empowerment and accountability drive Amanda’s method to authorities advocacy. She believes in empowering our communities, companion organizations, and authorities allies to develop coverage options to points corresponding to closing the digital divide, combating on-line disinformation, and ending dangerous surveillance practices. She additionally believes that inside our motion, we should maintain ourselves and others accountable to our mission, communities, and commitments.
Amanda involves Free Press having spent three years with Deliberate Parenthood Empire State Acts advocating on the state stage for insurance policies that take away limitations to healthcare entry and defend the correct to bodily autonomy. She earned her B.A. from the College of Michigan, majoring in political science with a minor in German. Outdoors of labor, she is keen about meals — each experimenting with new recipes and visiting new eating places — journey and movie.
Be a part of us on the Gathering Spot on April 11 at 8.30 AM to listen to extra.
This can be a non-public occasion. Nevertheless, if somebody who can be keen on attending, please e mail michele@publicknowledge.org
