EP #110 - 8.21.2020 The Democratic Convention and the Pandemic

Today, a discussion of the Democratic national Convention and COVID-19 with Adderson Francois and Samantha Montano.

Professor Aderson Francois is the director of the Civil Rights Voting Rights Institute at Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, Professor Francois directed the Civil Rights Clinic at Howard University School of Law, where he also taught Constitutional Law, Federal Civil Rights, and Supreme Court Jurisprudence. Professor Francois received his J.D. from New York University School and clerked for the late Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In 2008, the Transition Team of President Barack Obama appointed Professor Francois Lead Agency Reviewer for the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

Samantha Montano has a doctorate in emergency management from North Dakota State University. She is currently an assistant professor of emergency management at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. She writes a free monthly disaster newsletter that you can sign up for on her website: http://disaster-ology.com. Her forthcoming book about disasters and climate change will be published by Park Row Books next summer.