Breaking Down Policies: Endangering Education & the Environment

Have you heard about Project 2025, Agenda 47 and the threat they pose to our democracy? Are you curious to learn more and discover why experts are so

concerned? Join us for our "Breaking Down Policies" event series to explore the dangers of these plans and how they would impact you and your loved ones. This is the second event in the series where we, along with our wonderful speakers, will focus on the harmful policy changes outlined for public education and the environment. We will dive into the various protections and funding that Project 2025 and Agenda 47 aim to strip away from these vital public services and the detrimental effects it will cause.

Democracy, education, and our environment depend on each other to survive. For democracy to thrive we need a healthy environment and a robust education system - you can't have one without the others.

Co-sponsored by the Granite State Interfaith Action Fund and the Manchester NAACP.

This is a HYBRID event. To attend in person please RSVP below. To attend via zoom please register here.

Andru Volinsky, Esq., is an instructor of Strategy & Practice of Public Policy in the Master in Public Policy program at the

Carsey School of Public Policy. Andru has a long and distinguished legal career that has blended public policy and litigation as a lawyer in private practice. He began his career teaching law school and defending death penalty cases in the South. He defended capital cases in Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, and before the U.S. Supreme Court in Gray v. Mississippi. After moving to New Hampshire, he became the lead lawyer in the Claremont School Funding cases that established the constitutional right to a public education and overturned New Hampshire’s funding scheme as unconstitutional. Andru was elected to serve two terms on the NH Executive Council and unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2020. Andru was NH counsel to Bernie Sanders in 2016 and has sat on the boards of Rights and Democracy, the Manchester Community Health Center, and the NH branch of the ACLU where he was also legal counsel.

Rob Werner is the New Hampshire State Director for the League of Conservation Voters, a national advocacy organization that works to turn environmental values into national, state, and local priorities. Rob formerly served as the National Field Director of Americans for Campaign Reform. Rob is a graduate of Northfield Mount Hermon School and the University of Vermont. He earned a Masters of Business Administration from Suffolk University as well as two certificates from the Harvard Kennedy School, Senior Managers in State and Local Government and Climate Change and Energy Policy. Rob served on the Concord City Council, chairing the Energy and Environment Advisory Committee.