The Fight for American Democracy: Student Voting, Civil Rights and the Promise of the 26th Amendment

Tuesday, January 13, 2026 at 7:00 PMEastern Standard Time UTC -05:00

The Carter Center, Cecil B. Day Chapel
453 John Lewis Freedom Parkway Northeast
Atlanta, GA 30307
United States

January 13th
7:00 pm
Cecil B. Day Chapel
Carter Center
453 John Lewis Freedom Parkway NE
Atlanta, GA 30307

You are invited to engage in a reading and discussion about the new book Youth Voting Rights: Civil Rights, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, and the Fight for American Democracy on College Campuses. This event will feature a panel, including the book co-editors Jonathan Becker (vice president for academic affairs and professor of Political Studies at Bard College) and Yael Bromberg (26th Amendment litigator and visiting professor at American University Washington College of Law); Jelani Favors (United Negro College Fund vice president and senior director of the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute), Lisa Bratton, (associate professor of History at Tuskegee University) and Erin Cannan (vice president for Civic Engagement at Bard College), who all contributed book chapters.

The event will be moderated by Sierra Ford ’26, Atlanta Posse Scholar, Bard College student body president, head of Election@Bard and Carter Center United States Elections Democracy Intern.

Sponsored by The Carter Center and the Bard College Center for Civic Engagement.

Open to the public (registration is necessary).

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Bard community members are invited to join panelists and friends for an after-party reception at The Albert, 918 Austin Ave NE, a local landmark establishment owned by Bardian Tia Landau ’84. Refreshments courtesy of the Bard Center for Civic Engagement.

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