Values Advocacy Council and FREE NOW FOUNDATION welcome you to:
Naomi Wolf, Brian O’Shea, Alix Mayer, and Denise Young.
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The End of America? Naomi Wolf has conducted authoritative research on the 20th century’s worst dictatorships which helped her foresee today’s climate in detail, predicting the rise of militarized policing, the suppression of dissent in America, the growth of the surveillance society, attacks on whistleblowers, and the erosion of the rule of law. She has documented the parallel steps the United States has taken to the countries in her research. In a stunning indictment, she cuts across political parties and ideologies and speaks directly to those among us who are concerned about the ever-tightening noose being placed around our liberties.
In this conversation, Wolf lays out her case for saving American democracy. She compels audiences to face the way our free America is under assault and warns with straight-to-fellow-citizens urgency that we have little time to lose if our children are to live in real freedom.
BIO
One of the world’s most influential feminists, Dr. Naomi Wolf doesn’t just comment on the world’s most pervasive problems, she aims to solve them. Dr. Wolf is a bestselling author, columnist, and professor; she is a graduate of Yale University and received a doctorate from Oxford. She is co-founder and CEO of DailyClout.io, a successful civic tech company. A charismatic personality with a passion for activism, Dr. Wolf continues to question establishment views on gender, foreign policy, economics, and journalism. In her speeches and seminars, she exposes the real threats to liberty and democracy and provides audiences with effective tools to empower citizens and promote engagement.
Since the publication of her landmark, international bestseller, The Beauty Myth, which The New York Times called “one of the most important books of the 20th century,” Dr. Wolf’s other seven bestsellers have been translated worldwide: The End of America, which won the 2008 Nautilus Silver Award for social change and activism and Give Me Liberty: A Handbook For American Revolutionaries, which predicted the current crisis in authoritarianism and presented effective tools for citizens to promote civic engagement.
Dr. Wolf trains thought leaders of tomorrow, teaching public presentations to Rhodes Scholars and co-leading at Stony Brook University, that gives professors the skills to become public intellectuals. A Rhodes scholar herself and an advisor to the Clinton re-election campaign and to Vice President Al Gore, Dr. Wolf has written for every major news outlet in the US and many globally: she had four opinion columns, including in The Guardian and the Sunday Times of London. She lives with her husband, private detective Brian O’Shea, in the Hudson Valley.