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Dear Friends,
We have two terrific events on tap in April with long time policy innovators, and our monthly showing of With Dems. All events are free and open to all. Feel free to invite friends and colleagues – the more the merrier!
Friday, April 1st 1pm ET - DOE's Jigar Shah on Financing the Energy Transition - Please join us for a what promises to be an interesting and timely talk with Jigar Shah, Director of the Loans Program Office of the United States Department of Energy. Jigar will be discussing how DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) supports building a bridge to bankability for scale up of innovative technologies. Jigar will also discuss the uniquely American approach to commercialization and the role that markets can play in meeting the President’s energy transition and climate goals. Finally, he’ll touch upon on how DOE and the private sector can work together to best leverage tools to unlock trillion dollars in the energy sector.
Jigar is an old friend, and considered by many to a true visionary in this space. We are pleased to help bring more awareness of this vital work to the NDN community, as Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has made the race to decarbonize is more important than ever. Our discussion will take place this Friday at 1pm ET via Zoom. RSVP here. It is free and open to all.
Friday, April 8th 1230pm –With Democrats Things Get Better – Join us for our monthly showing of our signature presentation, With Democrats Things Get Better. It’s a 30-minute data filled journey through American politics since the Cold War ended and a new political age began. And what the data shows, not surprisingly, is that during this period when Democrats were in power the US had strong, sustained job and GDP growth, booming stock markets, rising incomes and wages; and when Republicans have come to power, we’ve had 3 consecutive recessions, two very severe, and debilitating deficits. The fundamental contrast between Democratic growth and progress versus GOP recession and decline that emerges from the presentation is very stark, and critical to understanding where we are in American politics today. You can sign up for the 1230 pm ET Zoom-based presentation here.
To prep for the presentation, you can learn more about the big arguments behind With Dems here and check out our recent work on selling the Biden Boom here. Perhaps the most remarkable stat from the deck – of the 43 million jobs created in the US since 1989, 41 million – 95% - have been created with Democrats in the White House.
Tuesday, April 19th 1pm ET – Tomicah Tilleman on Web3 - We are excited to be hosting a discussion about a very timely and important topic - the public policy implications of the rapid advances of Web3, blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. Joining us to break it all down is a trailblazing thought leader in this space, Tomicah Tillemann. Our live, indepth talk will take place on Tuesday, April 19th at 1pm ET via Zoom. RSVP here. It is free and open to all.
More on Tomicah - Tomicah Tillemann is the Global Chief Policy Officer at Katie Haun's new firm. Previously, Tomicah was a partner and Global Head of Policy for the crypto team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he builds public policy architecture to support the next generation of the internet. Tomicah served as Senior Advisor to two secretaries of state, leading a team of experts that built 20 major initiatives in 55 countries. He joined the State Department in 2009 as Hillary Clinton's speechwriter and spent four years on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee working with Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and John Kerry.
Tomicah also served as the Executive Director of the Digital Impact and Governance Initiative at New America, where he led programs to address social impact, finance, and governance challenges worldwide. He authored extensive research on how to harness frontier technologies to strengthen democratic institutions, and launched successful efforts to use decentralized platforms to combat public corruption, increase government efficiency, and promote private sector accountability. He helped deploy the world's first decentralized land registry and managed development of open source technology platforms for city, state, and federal agencies in the U.S.
Tomicah is a co-holder of four patents. He received his B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University and holds a Ph.D. with distinction from the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
- The NDN Team
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