Wednesday | October 15 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 ET
WEBINAR: Your VOTE, Their MILLION$ Big Money and the 2025 New York City Mayoral Election
The New York City Mayoral Race may be the most high-profile in the entire country this November. Millions of dollars have already been raised from individual billionaires and real estate interests white independent expenditures from corporations will likely be in the tens of millions of dollars.
How is all this campaign cash affecting the elections? Are the voices of people without big money being heard by the candidates? What do the major political campaign investors want in return?
Speakers:
Moderator: Kylie Madhav is a seasoned human rights defender with two decades of experience advocating in solidarity with immigrant, asylum-seeking and queer communities in the United States, the Dominican Republic and India. She is currently leading Black community engagement initiatives across New York State and, in conjunction with Equality New York, has built a program to defend the rights of transgender, intersex and non-binary New Yorkers to procure accurate federally-recognized identification.
Kylie began her career as an interpreter for francophone asylum seekers and since then has worked with governments and institutions in the US and abroad to build civil rights frameworks that address the material concerns of often marginalized minority groups. She holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management as well as an MSW and BA in Linguistics and Law & Society from New York University. She is fluent in French, English, Spanish and Haitian Kreyòl and enjoys delving into the extensive literary canon of her fifth language: Tamil. She currently resides in New York City with her husband.
Meghnad Bose is an award-winning investigative journalist with over ten years of experience as a reporter and editor. He currently teaches journalism and heads the MA program in Open Source Investigative Reporting at the University of Memphis. In addition, he continues to work on his own reporting projects. Prior to joining the University of Memphis, Bose was based in New York, as a reporter and Delacorte Fellow at Columbia Journalism Review, and as an independent journalist reporting for publications such as The Intercept, Drop Site News, Documented, Hyperallergic, Votebeat, New York Focus and more. Bose is an alum of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
Prior to moving to the US, Bose worked as a reporter and editor in India, where his investigations tracked down discrepancies in a government-run COVID relief fund, exposed the modus operandi of organized anti-Muslim lynch mobs, and uncovered the tampering of marks of millions of high school students. He is a two-time recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award, considered India’s top journalism honor, and a five-time winner of the South Asian Digital Media Award conferred by the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).
Greg Coleridge is Co-Director of Move to Amend. He previously worked for more than three decades with the American Friends Service Committee in Ohio where he educated, advocated and organized on a range of justice, peace, environmental and democracy issues -- including helping coordinate Move to Amend activities in the Buckeye state. He is the author of The Depth of Change: Selected Writings and Remarks on Social Change (2022), Citizens over Corporations: A Brief History of Democracy in Ohio and Challenges to Freedom in the Future (2003), writer of the documentary CorpOrNation: The Story of Citizens and Corporations in Ohio (2003), and contributed several articles to the anthology Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy - A Book of History and Strategy (2001). He currently maintains and distributes via email a weekly REAL Democracy History Calendar and Monetary History Calendar.
Greg is a Board Member of the Alliance for Just Money (AFJM). He previously served an elected term on the national governing board of Common Cause and was a Principal with the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD).
Every candidate for Mayor has been invited to speak during the program on the issue of the influence of big money on the election.
There will be time for audience questions and comments!
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