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Learn how to teach civics to children, a curriculum is all but missing from schools.

Our guest speaker  is Dr. Lindsey Cormack, author of How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It's Up to You to Do It). You may have heard her on "American Public Square". She's originally from Kansas!


Lindsey Cormack is an associate professor of Political Science and Director of the Diplomacy Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. Her first book, Congress and U.S. Veterans: From the Gl Bill to the VA Crisis investigates the differences between legislative efforts and lip service paid to veterans by members of the US Congress. Her second book, How to Raise a Citizen & Why it's Up to You to Do It, aims to reinvigorate multigenerational political discussion and governmental know-how after examining the somewhat dire state of civic education in the United States. She earned her PhD in Government from New York University and is raising a daughter on the Upper East Side. She currently serves as the Secretary for Community Board 8 in Manhattan.

9:30 - Social time.  Meeting begins at 10:00.