The Blue Ridge Center

Last Blue Ridge event of the year with Insomnia Cookies to celebrate!🍪 How does the gender voting gap affect campaigns, policymaking, and romantic relationships? We can’t wait to end the year off with a bang! 🔗 Add to your calendar with the link in our bio.

(If this flyer looks familiar, this is a rescheduled event from the winter snow.)

Tuesday! Hear advice, stories, and philosophies from a panel of women with various employment and motherhood backgrounds. 🙋‍♀️This workshop will better prepare you for whatever path you choose. 🔗 Register with the link in our bio!

Birth rates around the world are plummeting. 🌎📉 How will we sustain a global economy when populations crash? Why are birth rates today so low, even when many countries have generous pro-family policies? How will we financially support an aging population?

Join the Blue Ridge Center and Econ Club at UVA as we host Catherine Pakaluk, a leading scholar in this field, as she discusses these problems and offers thoughtful solutions.

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Free Mellow Mushroom! How should policymakers govern AI? What’s at stake if they don’t? What ethical constraints should private big tech firms enact concerning AI? 🤖 Steven Kelts researches AI ethics and has advised the Responsible A.I. Institute and directed the nonprofit All Tech Is Human.

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You don’t want to miss this! Attorney Tim Heaphy is joining us to discuss his extraordinary legal career and his new book on how to save our American democracy.

His legal background:
⚖️ Led the House investigation of January 6
⚖️ Former UVA Counsel
⚖️ Authored the report of Charlottesville’s handing of the 2017 Unite the Right rally
⚖️ Founded the Fountain Fund to give low-interest loans to formerly incarcerated people
⚖️ UVA Law lecturer & graduate
⚖️ Former U.S. Attorney
⚖️ Private litigator

Join us in celebrating America’s 250th anniversary with a talk by Mary Kate Cary on Patrick Henry and the American Revolution! 🇺🇸March 23 marks the 251st anniversary of his “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech, so we will have cake 🎂 to commemorate such an important moment in history!

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FREE ROOTS!🥗 Why are young men drawn to extremism online? Is traditional masculinity toxic? Why are they falling behind women, and how can we support boys and young men to thrive? Join Captain Marvin Scott, head of UVA’s Naval ROTC program for a workshop with thoughtful discussion and debate.

This Tuesday! Did you know ~50 million people live in slavery today? Former U.S. Ambassador John Cotton Richmond returns to discuss some of the most pressing issues of our time — human trafficking, modern slavery, and forced labor. All are encouraged to attend, especially those interested in human rights law/advocacy. Dinner provided. (This is the rescheduled date due to snow in January.)

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