Brennan Center for Justice

Please join the Brennan Center for Justice for a conversation

with

Kevin Baker
Journalist and Author

and

Victoria Bassetti
Author of Electoral Dysfunction

Thursday, November 29, 2012
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

at 

The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
161 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue at Spring Street)
12th Floor
New York, New York 10013 

Please RSVP to jafreen.uddin@nyu.edu or by phone at (646) 292-8345 

 Lunch will be served.
Space is limited.

Kevin Baker is a writer and editor based in New York City. He was the chief historical researcher on Harold Evans’ best–selling history, The American Century, published by Knopf in 1999. He wrote the monthly “In the News” column for American Heritage magazine from 1998-2007, and has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Frankfurter Rundschau, Harper’s magazine, Talk, and The Industry Standard, among other publications.

Victoria Bassetti is the author of Electoral Dysfunction: A Survival Manual for American Voters, published this fall by The New Press and described as "delightfully provocative" by Kirkus Reviews. She spent eight years working in Washington, DC, most of them on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she was a chief counsel and staff director for several of its subcommittees. During her time in DC, she helped write the September 11 Victims’ Compensation Fund, bankruptcy reform legislation, and the Economic Espionage Act. She has also worked on several campaigns—from Louisiana to New Hampshire—and on election protection teams.