Americans' Role in Addressing Global Problems at a Local Level
The Future We Want, The World We Need • Educational, 26-Aug-2020
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Wednesday, August 26, 2020.
Rachel Bowen Pittman on bringing people together around a common vision to improve the future.
"We need to add more pressure to the officials, those who we elected, to make these changes."
Pittman is Executive Director of the United Nations Association of the United States of America where she guides the UNA-USA’s strategic work and key partnerships, oversees membership expansion, and spearheads important advocacy initiatives to help the United States advance the far-reaching goals of the United Nations.
This program is made possible by "Program Sponsor" Erie Insurance, the Arnold and Jill Bellowe Lectureship, and the Kathryn Sisson Phillips Memorial Lectureship Fund.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.
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