Breakfast: Facing challenges to democracy
Wed, Jun 25, 2025, 8:30am
1661 W County Rd B2
Roseville, MN 55113
Professor Kathryn Pearson will be a special guest at the UMRA breakfast in June. This will be an opportunity to hear Professor Pearson’s perspective on President Trumps’s first 100 days, and to engage in discussion about what we, as individual citizens, can do in these challenging times for democracy.
Kathryn Pearson, PhD, is an associate professor of political science in the U’s College of Liberal Arts. She focuses on American politics, including Congress, elections, political parties, and gender bias.
She earned her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley; worked on Capitol Hill as a legislative assistant; was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution; and is a recipient of the Morse-Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education at the U of M.
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