Hello, everyone. Can you hear me okay . Okay, im trying not to be in the view but by the end of this we will be behind the curtain. Welcome to kate dawsons book events. My name isto becca oliver and im the director of the writers of texas and we are the largest Literary Arts Organization in texas and we support writers and one of the things we love to dor is have the opportunity to talk to published authors about ther most recent book but also to dig in a little more than i think we get to as often as we would like to add book events which has a craft talk. Talk more aboutut what craft wet into creating the book and especially for the book were talking about today, american sherlock, there are so many interesting things that kate can share that would be applicable to any writer that happens to be here. Who here is a writer . Who here writes but did not raise their hand . Yes, there are always a few of you. [laughter] we will make sure we get to conversation about craft as well. I just
[applause] hello everyone. By the this we will be behind the curtain. [laughter] welcome to the book event i am the executive director of the Writers League of texas the Largest Organization in texas helping writers of every stage of their career love the opportunity to talk to public authors about their most recent books and dig in a little bit more than we get to as often as we would like so we are learning more about what went into creating the book especially the books were talking about today there are so many interesting things that would be applicable to any writers. Who here writes but did not raise your hand . [laughter] we will make sure we get to that conversation as well. But i want to say quickly thank you we are so lucky to be here in austin with literary communities and i hope you will enjoy the conversation to bring your book up to be signed the best way to support writers is to buy their books. Yes. Finally i want to read her bio she will beat a little from the book an
Helping writers of every stage of their career love the opportunity to talk to public authors about their most recent books and dig in a little bit more than we get to as often as we would like so we are learning more about what went into creating the book especially the books were talking about today there are so many interesting things that would be applicable to any writers. Who here writes but did not raise your hand . [laughter] we will make sure we get to that conversation as well. But i want to say quickly thank you we are so lucky to be here in austin with literary communities and i hope you will enjoy the conversation to bring your book up to be signed the best way to support writers is to buy their books. Yes. Finally i want to read her bio she will beat a little from the book and then we will dig into our conversation. A seasoned documentary producer whose work has appeared in the New York Times pbs news and abc news radio fox news, pbs news hour and nightline just a few. Yo
Technology law and policy. Okay everybody, time to be seated. So our next panel as you can see, this is the only flight you will see for the whole panel because youre breaking free of powerpoint area theme of this panel is Voter Suppression and voter turnout and in particular, the roles that Network Technologies play in Voter Suppression and voter turn out from a variety of different perspectives. Another way to think of it is pulling back the curtain of it and getting into the technological underbelly of some of the things that the prior panel discuss. Once again, we have a fantastic panel of experts from multiple perspectives, backgrounds and disciplines and im not going to repeat everything thats in the program. But just briefly, to my immediate left here is Karen Bonfield who is a senior policy analyst in the Economic Security and Opportunity Initiative right here at georgetown law and our center on poverty and inequality and she comes from a Public Policy background. We have been
How can increase or decrease better turnout, and look at the best way to educate local journalist covering issue, it is an hour and a half. Okay everybody it is time to take your seats please. So our next panel, this is the whole side you will see for the next panel so the theme of this panel is Voter Suppression and voter turnout and in particular the roles that Network Information technologies play in Voter Suppression and voter turnout from a variety of different perspectives so another way to think of it is maybe as peeling back the curtain a bit and getting into the technological underbelly of some of the things that the prior panel discussed. Once again we have a fantastic panel of experts from multiple perspectives backgrounds and disciplines and im not gonna repeat everything thats in the program but just briefly. To my immediate left is kara here is a senior policy analyst in the Economic Security initiative that georgetown law and our center of poverty and inequality she come