Joint Center at Politic365

On Monday, June 19, 2017, Joint Center President Spencer Overton served on a panel on Networking the Future for Social, Economic, and Political Impact at Politic365’s Achieving Equity in the Internet Age forum in Washington, DC.  Other speakers included Rainbow PUSH Public Policy Institute & Media and Telecom Project Executive Director Steve Smith, League of United Latin American Voters Executive Director Brent Wilkes, National Action Network Washington Bureau Executive Director Ebonie Riley, and Hispanic Technology & Telecommunications Partnership Executive Director Rosa Mendoza.  The conversation focused on how to use next-generation networks to create jobs and improve educational outcomes in historically disadvantaged/disenfranchised communities.