During this Batten Hour, Barbara Perry, Director of Presidential Studies at UVA's Miller Center, will discuss Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s legacy and the future of the Supreme Court following Justice Ginsburg’s death last week.

Please join us for a conversation with Joshua Block, staff attorney with the National ACLU's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & HIV Projects.

Please join us for Virtual Batten Hour, featuring Matthew Shapiro, Founder and CEO of 6 Wheels Consulting.
 

Join us for a conversation between Anurima Bhargava, Vice Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and Ian Solomon, dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.

Please join us for Batten Hour, featuring Scott Skinner-Thompson. In his book Privacy at the Margins, Skinner-Thompson highlights why privacy is of acute importance for marginalized groups. He will speak to how examining limited privacy can enrich and enhance our lives at the margins in material ways and more. 

Join us for the first Batten Hour of the year featuring a discussion with Dean Ian Solomon and student community members. More details to come. Join the conversation via Zoom.

Join us for a special Batten Hour featuring yoga with Mandy Connock. Mandy, a UVA alumna class of 2014, is a certified fitness instructor. She discovered her passion for teaching group fitness several years ago and has since taught over 700 classes. When not instructing, Mandy works as a Project Management Consultant and enjoys spending time with her husband and dogs. No previous yoga experience necessary – all are encouraged to attend!

Join us for a special Earth Week Batten hour as we hear from Sara Hughes, author of Repowering Cities. City governments are rapidly becoming society's problem solvers. As Sara Hughes shows, nowhere is this more evident than in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto, where the cities' governments are taking on the challenge of addressing climate change. Tune in as Hughes discusses the policy agendas city governments develop for reducing GHG emissions and the governing strategies they use to implement these agendas.

Join us for Virtual Batten Hour with professional staff member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Heather O’Beirne Kelly, PhD.

Join us for Virtual Batten Hour with Laura Germino, Co-founder of Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW). Germino will be joined by UVA Professor Jennifer Bair and Batten alumna Kathryn Babineau (MPP ’13) for a discussion on protecting the human rights of American farmworkers.