Fred Barbash-Moderator - Good morning everyone. Today at noon we start a new partnership with the New America Foundation, which joins Brookings, Heritage and the Council on Foreign Relations as livechat partners. More are coming soon.
Today we'll chat about the Obama administration's faith-based initiatives. We've not heard a lot about this, amid the debates over healthcare, climate change and all the rest. Here's the opportunity to find out why.
Our guest is Dayo Olopade. Here's a brief bio:
Dayo Olopade is the Washington correspondent for The Root, a Washington Post-owned website devoted to politics and culture from a black perspective. She is also a contributing writer at Double X, another Slate Group site. Previously she worked as a reporter-researcher at The New Republic, where she covered race, religion, energy policy and Chicago politics during Campaign 2008. She graduated with honors from Yale University in 2007, where she studied the evolution and development of print media in Sub-Saharan Africa, and was the editor of the Yale Literary Magazine. She was also awarded the Adrian Van Sinderen Book Collecting Prize, for her collection of writings from the black Atlantic. Her work has appeared in print and online at The Root, The New Republic, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The American Prospect, Transition Magazine, Slate, and The Washington Post.
As a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation, Ms. Olopade will focus on the intersection of race, class and religion in American political life, as well as how modernizing conceptions of each impact the urban space
She'll take questions for 30 minutes starting at noon. For reference see this recent "Faith-based double standards" from the WSJ and this piece from the WaPo-"Obama cautious on faith-based initiatives."
You are invited to submit questions in advance. Please give your name rather than a handle or "guest." Dayo will be with us at noon.
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