Now What? Now that the votes are counted, we’ll convene to discuss the results of the November 2024 election. We’ll conclude the Civic Series with a post-election convening, “The Future of Democracy: Coming Home” in which we’ll spotlight outcomes at the local and state levels. We’ll look at key local ballot measures and the discussion will focus on ways to stay active and engaged closer to home. The panel will touch on the national election and will analyze how congressional races impact legislative control, but we’ll highlight local issues. The event will include a panel discussion and breakout sessions to explore the evolving landscape of democracy and policy impacts.
* Refreshments will be provided.
PANEL
Shane Murphy Goldsmith
President and CEO
Liberty Hill Foundation
Karthick Ramakrishnan
Professor, School of Public Policy
Co-founder/Executive Director, California 100
Director, Center for Social Innovation
Founder/Director, AAPI Data
University of California, Riverside
Derek Steele
Executive Director
Social Justice Learning Institute
MODERATOR
Sara Sadhwani, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of politics at Pomona College and a nonresident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. She also served as a commissioner on the 2020 Citizens Redistricting Commission for the state of California, which successfully redrew district lines for Congress, the state legislature and the board of equalization.
Sadhwani’s research examines voting behavior, elections, voting rights, public opinion, public policy, and interest groups, with an emphasis on the representation of racial, ethnic and immigrant communities, and has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, Politics, Groups and Identities, and Perspectives on Politics.
Her analysis of politics and elections has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, Politico, The Guardian, Vox, The Los Angeles Times, NBC News, The HuffPost and many more. In a voting rights case before the California Supreme Court, Sadhwani coauthored an amicus brief that summarizes empirical research on the benefits of maximizing the voting strength of historically excluded communities.
She earned her doctorate in political science from the University of Southern California. Sadhwani’s dissertation project identified variations in voting behavior between Asian Americans and Latinos and she was the recipient of the Haynes-Lindley Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Sadhwani holds appointments as a senior researcher at AAPI Data, a member of the executive council for the Western Political Science Association, and a faculty fellow at the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy. She was a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West and the recipient of the 2023 Emerging Scholar Award from the American Political Science Association’s Civic Engagment Section.
The Institute's 2024 Civic Series is sponsored by The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
