The Virginia Council is proud to bring together leading thinkers on timely topics for our Virginia Forums, including Douglas Murray and Andy Ngo. This month, we're excited to bring Dr. Carol Swain to the Richmond area for our Spring Virginia Forum edition! The doors will open at 6 P.M. for general admission tickets. VIP reception ticket holders should arrive at 6 P.M. for the VIP reception.
From high school dropout and teenage mother to highly accomplished university professor and public intellectual, Carol is passionate about equipping others to confidently raise their voices in the public square.
She is an award-winning political scientist, a former professor of political science and professor of law at Vanderbilt University, and a lifetime member of the James Madison Society, an international community of scholars affiliated with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. Before joining Vanderbilt in 1999, Dr. Swain was a tenured associate professor of politics and public policy at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Dr. Swain is the author or editor of eight books. Her first book, Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress (Harvard University Press, 1993, 1995), won the Woodrow Wilson prize for the best book published in the U.S. on government, politics or international affairs in 1994, and was cited twice by U.S. Supreme Court.
