Unconventional: Understanding the Democrats’ Extraordinary Summer

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The dizzying recent course of events in American politics has left many people asking: how did things get to this point, and what happens next? JHU professor of political science Daniel Schlozman, an expert on party politics, is joined by Caroline Grey ’06, 2023 JHU Public Service Award recipient, to discuss this summer’s election cycle – in particular the unprecedented developments in the Democratic Party – and where things will go from here to the Democratic National Convention and the election.

About the Speakers:

Daniel Schlozman
Joseph and Bertha Bernstein Associate Professor of Political Science

Daniel Schlozman is Joseph and Bertha Bernstein Associate Professor of Political Science. He studies political parties, American political development, social movements, and political history. He has written two books, both published by Princeton University Press: The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics (2024), coauthored with Sam Rosenfeld; and When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History  (2015). He is now working on a book about the relationship between financialization and center-left parties in the US and the UK since the 1970s.

Caroline Grey
Recipient, 2023 Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Public Service Award

Caroline Grey (she/her), A&S ’06, serves as Chief of Staff to the U.S Department of Energy’s Undersecretary for Infrastructure helping to implement $100B of clean energy infrastructure awards granted as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act. Prior to joining DOE, she played integral roles in three winning Presidential campaigns, including as a States Director on Biden for President, leading internal polling as a Director on the Analytics team of the 2012 re-election campaign Obama for America, and beginning her career as an organizer for Senator Obama during the 2007 Iowa caucus. She has deep experience scaling organizations from 3 to 5,000, never straying from impact or joy. Grey co-founded Civis Analytics in 2013, a data science and technology firm that empowers organizations to engage the people they care about most. In 2023, Caroline was a recipient of the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association’s Public Service Award.