Greg Palast has been called the "most important investigative reporter of our time," having broken front-page stories for BBC Television Newsnight, The Guardian, Nation Magazine, and Rolling Stone Magazine. He has led investigations of multi-billion-dollar frauds in the energy and finance industries for governments on three continents, and has written four New York Times bestsellers.

 

His new book, How Trump Stole 2020, will be released on July 14 and will cover the ways the Trump administration and the GOP are disenfranchising Americans in order to win the 2020 election, and what we can do now to ensure our voting rights are upheld.

Quentin Palfrey is co-Director of Global Access in Action, a project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University that conducts action-oriented research on access to medicine. Previously, he served as Executive Director of J-Pal North America, which works to improve the effectiveness of social programs. From 2011 to 2013, he was Senior Advisor for Jobs & Competitiveness in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy.

He will be talking about the unique challenges to the 2020 election posed by the pandemic, on top of the other continuing issues of voter suppression, maladministration and disinformation. He will share what strategies for creating free and fair elections have the greatest chance of success, and the way to overcome obstacles voters face to registering, voting and having those votes counted.