You Can Run for Office. Yes, You! Just Ask RI Sen. Meghan Kallman!
Added 2024-08-12 09:50:43 +0000 UTCOA1059
This week we welcome Rhode Island state senator Meghan Kallman for a conversation about the power of state lawmaking and ordinary people in elected office.
Meghan is a professor of sociology at UMass Boston whose work in both the theory and practice of how people organize led her to a parallel career in politics. As the Democratic Presidential ticket coalesces around a woman and (for the first time since 1980!) a non-lawyer, we discuss the unique challenges which women still face in US politics at every level as well as what it is like for someone with no legal training or no political experience to run for and hold elected office.
Also: How can state and local governments make progressive change even when the federal government can't or won't act? What is it like for someone with no legal training to write laws? And why is Rhode Island the last state in the Union to take an entire day off to celebrate the US victory over Japan?
The Conceivable Future, Meghan Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli (2024)
“Sousaphone vs the KKK,” Christian Science Monitor (7/23/15)
Comments
Meghan, you're awesome!!! I loved the discussion of music+activism. My favorite part of Casablanca is when Victor Laszlo strikes up the band with "La Marseillaise".
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2024-08-13 17:56:09 +0000 UTCI really enjoyed this interview. I agree with the concept that you shouldn’t need to be a lawyer to be a politician. My father was on both House and Senate Judiciary committees without a law degree. I believe his viewpoints as a non lawyer brought a valuable perspective to those committees.
Austin Flake
2024-08-12 12:33:12 +0000 UTC
