Julia Angwin & Ami Fields-Meyer present On Courage

P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome Julia Angwin & Ami Fields-Meyer to celebrate and discuss their book On Courage; How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear.

Julia and Ami will be in conversation with Barton Gellman, and will be signing books after the talk.

Doors open at 6:30pm with the talk starting closer to 7:00pm. Come early and grab a drink from the !

Tickets and books are available both on eventbrite and at the door.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist, a bestselling author, a New York Times contributing Opinion writer and founding director of the Independent Media + Audience Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. She is the founder of two nonprofit newsrooms – Proof News and The Markup – that investigate the impacts of technology. She is a winner and two time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance (Times Books, 2014) and Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America (Random House, March 2009).

Ami Fields-Meyer is a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation and a former senior policy advisor at the White House, where he led U.S. policy initiatives related to civil rights, consumer protection, and technology policy. He has served as a strategist to national civil rights organizations, political candidates, and high-profile public officials from Los Angeles City Hall to the West Wing. Fields-Meyer’s writing on issues of democracy and public policy has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy and other outlets. A former speechwriter, he is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR:
Barton Gellman is Senior Advisor at the Brennan Center for Justice, where he works to promote democracy and the rule of law. A longtime journalist, he is the author most recently of and the bestselling . Gellman has also held positions as senior fellow at The Century Foundation, Lecturer at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs and visiting research collaborator at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy.

Housekeeping notes:

• This is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating.
• Doors open at 6:30pm, with the talk starting around 7:00pm.
• Books will be available for purchase at the event.
• Cost of a book bundle ticket reflects the total cost of the feature event book (MSRP plus tax). Each book bundle ticket guarantees ticket holders one (1) copy of the feature event book.
• The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books signed at P&T Knitwear events must be purchased from P&T Knitwear.
• If you would like a signed copy and cannot attend the event, we're happy to take your pre-order. We ship most places!