About
Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions will host a webinar on the complex and deadly intersection of white supremacy, political violence, guns and the Second Amendment. Panelists will touch upon the events and the aftermath of the insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6 2021, U.S. trends in the justification of political violence and promising solutions to end this cycle of racism and hatred.
Speakers
- Tim Carey is a Law & Policy Advisor at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions. He has written on topics including the legal and public health ramifications of firearms in public spaces, the impact of increased firearms carrying on our democracy, and the constitutionality of firearm regulations. He also drafts, analyzes, advocates for, and implements equitable gun violence prevention policy on the federal and state levels. He received his JD from Emory University School of Law and his BA in Philosophy and Psychology from St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
- Liliana Mason is the Johns Hopkins SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor of Political Science. She is author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity (University of Chicago Press). Liliana received her PhD in political psychology from Stony Brook University and her BA in politics from Princeton University. Her research primarily focuses on partisan identity, partisan bias, social sorting, and American social polarization.
- Darrell Miller is the Melvin G. Shimm Professor of Law at Duke University. He writes and teaches in the areas of civil rights, constitutional law, civil procedure, state and local government law, and legal history. He is also the author of The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Darrell graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. In addition to his law degree, Miller holds degrees from Oxford University, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar, and from Anderson University.
- Rep. Jamie Raskin has served as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017. Rep. Raskin currently serves as a member of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. he has been vocal on all efforts to preserve American democracy. Congressman Raskin is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Moderator
Keshia Pollack Porter, PhD, MPH, is the chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management and Bloomberg Centennial Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
