Featured Speakers

Panel 1 – National Environment Heading into the Midterms

Moderator: David Becker

David Becker
Executive Director & Founder, CEIR
Bob Bauer
Co-Chair, EOLDN; Former White House Counsel, Obama Administration
Ben Ginsberg
Co-Chair, EOLDN; Counsel, George W. Bush Campaign
Linda So
Journalist, Reuters
Pam Fessler
Journalist, National Public Radio (ret.)



Panel 2 – Election Administration

Moderator: David Becker

David Becker
Executive Director & Founder, CEIR
Jocelyn Benson
Secretary of State of Michigan
Leigh Chapman
Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Al Schmidt
President & CEO, Committee of Seventy; Former City Commissioner of Philadelphia
Wayne Thorley
Former Nevada Elections Director
Matt Masterson
Former Senior Cybersecurity Advisor, Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency



Fireside Chat 1 – Current State of American Democracy

Moderator: Major Garrett

Major Garrett
CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent
Judge Thomas B. Griffith
Former Federal Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Judge J. Michael Luttig
Former Federal Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit



Fireside Chat 2 – Defending Democracy in the State of Georgia

Moderator: Fredreka Schouten

Fredreka Schouten
National Political Writer, CNN Politics
Brad Raffensperger
Secretary of State of Georgia
Gabriel Sterling
Chief Operating Officer, Office of the Georgia Secretary of State