The Hamilton chapter of Democracy Matters will host a program featuring Joan Mandle, the organization's national executive director, on Wednesday, April 18, at 7 p.m. Mandle will present "Dirty Air & Clean Elections: Challenging Corporate Control of Environmental Policy." The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Red Pit in the Kirner Johnson Building.
Democracy Matters is a national non-partisan, non-profit organization that seeks to engage students in the political process by working toward clean money elections. She will speak about the important role of election reform in the ongoing effort to enact effective environmental policy to address issues including global warming, pollution and resource use.
Mandle was an associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Colgate University from 1990 to 2001. Her teaching and her extensive published work explore social change and social movements. Mandle also has taught sociology at Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College and Penn State University. While on leave from Colgate in 1997 and 1998 she was a distinguished visitor at both the Institute for Social Change at the University of California at Berkeley and the Women's Leadership Institute at Mills College. In 2001, Mandle left Colgate to accept her current position.
Democracy Matters is a national non-partisan, non-profit organization that seeks to engage students in the political process by working toward clean money elections. She will speak about the important role of election reform in the ongoing effort to enact effective environmental policy to address issues including global warming, pollution and resource use.
Mandle was an associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Colgate University from 1990 to 2001. Her teaching and her extensive published work explore social change and social movements. Mandle also has taught sociology at Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College and Penn State University. While on leave from Colgate in 1997 and 1998 she was a distinguished visitor at both the Institute for Social Change at the University of California at Berkeley and the Women's Leadership Institute at Mills College. In 2001, Mandle left Colgate to accept her current position.
