After the Protest: Exploring Your Role in An Emergent Authoritarian State

For this briefing and discussion, we invite members to invite senior-level peers in the focus sectors — business, public safety, faith, philanthropy, and civic. (The RSVP form includes space to share their names. Thanks!)

Join Bull Run Center members for a briefing and discussion about the likely impacts of authoritarian policies on stability, security, and freedom of expression. We’ll focus on the potential leadership roles for members of the business community, public safety, faith, philanthropy, and other civic sector leaders, and will structure a conversation that uses historic precedents to help us consider and share ideas about our potential roles. 

This conversation will include Scot Nakagawa, the co-founder and co-director of 22nd Century Initiative, a national strategy and action center that is building a movement to resist authoritarianism and preserve the possibility of a more democratic future. Scott is a past Open Society Foundations fellow, and Senior Fellow on Nationalism, Authoritarianism, and Race with Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation. He is a writer whose essays on authoritarianism and resistance can be found online in The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook on Substack.