A daylong symposium on April 6 at the University of Chicago will examine military and veterans issues and will feature veterans activist and TV host Jon Stewart, award-winning journalist Bob Woodward and more.
The event springs from a white paper written by David Chrisinger, executive director of the Writing Workshop at the Harris School of Public Policy, and two students, Ellie Vorhaben, MPP’22, and Graham Harwood, Class of 2023. Chrisinger and the students analyzed the results of a survey of Americans with connections to the U.S. military, which resulted in the white paper that has attracted attention from the national security establishment.
The War Horse Symposium will be hosted by Harris Public Policy and The War Horse News, an award-winning non-profit newsroom, and will be held at the Logan Center for the Arts. It will explore themes from the white paper, including how military “news deserts” threaten national security, what it will take to bridge the troubling military-civilian divide and the potential for good that lies at the intersection of solutions-based journalism and public policy.
The event, which includes keynotes, fireside chats, panel discussions and student-only sessions, also will feature U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, Medal of Honor recipient and retired Army Captain Florent Groberg, veteran and U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michéle Flournoy.
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