June 3 – Ami Fields-Meyer and Julia Angwin with Patt Morrison
Courage in the Age of Fear
Ami Fields-Meyer
Ami Fields-Meyer is a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation and a former senior policy advisor at the White House, where he led U.S. policy initiatives related to civil rights, consumer protection and technology policy. He has served as a strategist to national civil rights organizations, political candidates and high-profile public officials from Los Angeles City Hall to the West Wing. Fields-Meyer’s writing on issues of democracy and public policy has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy and other outlets. A former speechwriter, he is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Julia Angwin
Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist, a bestselling author, a New York Times contributing opinion writer and founding director of the Independent Media + Audience Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. She is a winner and two time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. Her forthcoming book, “On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear,” with co-author Ami Fields-Meyer, will be published by Harper Collins in June 2026.
Patt Morrison
Patt Morrison has a share of two Pulitzer Prizes as a longtime Los Angeles Times writer and columnist. As a public television and radio broadcaster, she has won six Emmys and a dozen Golden Mike awards. Her first book, “Rio LA,” about the Los Angeles River, was a bestseller. Her most recent book is, “Don’t Stop the Presses! Truth, Justice, and the American Newspaper.”