UVA Democracy Biennial: Mobility, equity, and the American dream

Event Details

Session two of the 2021 UVA Democracy Biennial explores how far we have come and how far we have to go for everyone to have a real shot at the American dream. Speakers from different sectors and perspectives discuss the problems of inequity. (This is an edited video.)

Panelists

• Rashad Robinson, president, Color of Change
• Karin Lips, Network of Enlightened Women
   
• Robert Doar, president and Morgridge scholar, American Enterprise Institute
• David Rubenstein, cofounder and co-chairman, The Carlyle Group
• Ai-jen Poo, executive director, National Domestic Workers Alliance
• Margaret Spellings, president & CEO, Texas 2036; George W. Bush secretary of education
• Melody Barnes, director, UVA's Karsh Institute of Democracy; co-director, UVA Democracy Initiative; J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance, the Miller Center (moderator)