Information about upcoming American Forum

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AMERICAN FORUM ON OBAMA, MEDIA AND YOUNG PEOPLE, ONE YEAR LATER
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 6:30 TO 8 P.M.,
KATZEN ARTS CENTER


Dear Colleagues:

We have a terrific group of panelists for our Oct. 13th American Forum on Obama, media and young people, one year later. Young people played an important role in voting and organizing for Obama through innovative media in 2008. In this American Forum we'll talk about how 18-to-24-year-olds view Obama and the issues facing the country, from the economy to health care--
and the role of social networking and media in reaching them.

The Forum will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 13th, in the Abramson Recital Hall in the Katzen Arts Center, across the street near Ward Circle on Mass Ave.
Please tell your students they need to be there at 6:30 p.m. We will tape the program for WAMU from 7 to 8 p.m. for broadcast later that night,
and the doors will close before then. We have also invited other media coverage, including C-SPAN. This is a great topic and a great showcase for our students--so please
encourage them to attend. Thanks, as always, for your support. .

Student Questions --Also--Please encourage your students to get to the mikes and ask questions--AND to submit questions beforehand.
The email address for that is americanforum@american.edu.

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Our panelists are:

• David Gregory, journalist and moderator of NBC's Meet the Press
• David Corn, Washington Bureau Chief for Mother Jones magazine and columnist for PoliticsDaily.com
• Jose Antonio Vargas, technology and innovations editor for Huffington Post
• Erin McPike, reporter for Congress Daily
• David Winston, Republican strategist and President of the Winston Group