Discussion Leader

Jahnavi is a senior at Harvard College and President and Founder of New Voters, a 501(c)3 dedicated to making the youth voice heard in politics. At New Voters, she leads 50 high school and college student team members and has registered 80,000 students to vote across 300+ high school chapters. At college, Jahnavi is pursuing a major in Government on the Public Policy track and a minor in Music. 

Discussion Leader

Robert is an American psychiatrist and author whose subject is the holocaust, mass violence, and renewal in the 20th and 21st centuries. He has written twenty-four books and edited eight others.  He is a leading public intellectual and lifelong defender of democracy, antinuclear activist and a founding member of the Nobel Prize winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. 

Moderator

Katherine is author of the novels Snow Island, Evening Ferry, and Island Light, a New England trilogy, and the memoir The Penny Poet of Portsmouth. With Ilya Kaminsky, she is the co-editor of A God in the House: Poets Talk About Faith. She teaches in the Mountainview MFA Program in Writing at SNHU and lives in Portsmouth. She is chair of the NH steering committee of Writers for Democratic Action.