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First Lady Jill Biden To Be Featured Speaker At “Unreasonable Conversation” Entertainment Social Impact Event

Biden will take part in the day long gathering of industry activists and other political figures.

The lineup includes Jane Fonda, Cord Jefferson, Yusef Salaam, Charli d’Amelio, Dorian Warren, Maurice Mitchell, Sinead Bovell, Angela Patton, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Chanel Miller, Clark Kimerer, X Mayo, Sage Lenier, Sharon Lavigne, Alaphia Zoyab, Patti Davis, 2023 National Teacher of the Year Rebecka Peterson, Ana Zamora, W. Kamau Bell, Michele Norris, Dr. Jonathan Metzl and Gloria Calderón Kellett. Also, Maria Ressa, the Nobel Prize winning journalist, will speak about the threat of disinformation via generative AI on social media; and Prentice Penny, the showrunner of HBO’s Insecure, who will talk about the emergence of “Black Twitter.” WGA West board member Adam Conover will talk about labor practices and the recent strike; Brown and author Stephanie Land will speak about Land’s works, including Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education; Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) will speak with Baratunde Thurston about the vulnerabilities to democracy at a time when more people across the globe will be exercising the right to vote; and journalist Mónica Guzmán will be joined by her parents, Mexican immigrants who twice voted for Donald Trump, in a conversation moderated by Krista Tippett.

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