“How can you vote for that candidate?: Understanding America’s Voters” with Farai Chideya, FiveThirtyEight Blogger

JOINT EVENT WITH THE POYNTER FELLOWSHIP IN JOURNALISM AND THE ISPS POLICY LAB

Join us for a conversation between Eitan Hersh, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University, and guest journalist Farai Chideya as they discuss voting behavior in the United States. Farai Chideya is a reporter, political and cultural analyst, and educator. Over the years she has worked in print, television, radio, and digital media; covered every Presidential election since 1996; and traveled to 26 countries and 48 states to report, learn, and explore.

Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, she is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. A 1990 graduate of Harvard University, she was also a spring 2012 fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics. She frequently appears on public radio and cable television, speaking about race, politics, and culture.

Chideya is currently a columnist on citizen and consumer issues in the digital age for TheIntercept.com. She previously hosted NPR’s News and Notes; was a reporter for ABC News; a political analyst for CNN; a host for the Oxygen Network; and a reporter for Newsweek magazine. She and the teams she has worked with have won awards including a National Education Reporting Award, a North Star News Prize, and a special award from the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association for coverage of AIDS. Earlier in her career she worked for Newsweek, MTV News, CNN, and ABC News.

The public event will be followed by a small student discussion and Q&A with Farai Chideya from 4:00-5:00pm. Students can RSVP to katherine.mccabe@yale.edu to participate.