Program Details

The Right to Vote and the Constitution

Instructor
Astead W. Herndon
FPL11092

Course Description

Herndon’s presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with FAU political science professor, Kevin Wagner, Ph.D. and FAU communications professor, Ilene Prusher, MA.

The lecture and panel discussion are part of FAU’s Constitution Day Celebration and are sponsored by FAU’s Departments of Political Science and School of Communication and Multimedia Studies; FAU’s Division of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, the FAU Diversity Platform and the League of Women Voters of Palm Beach County. 

About the Instructor

  • Astead Herndon is a national politics reporter for the New York Times and a political analyst for CNN. He was an integral part of the Times political coverage in the 2018 midterm elections and the 2020 presidential election. Before joining the New York Times in 2018, Herndon held several reporter positions at the Boston Globe, including as a national politics reporter in the Globe’s Washington office, covering the Trump White House. Herndon is from the Chicago suburbs and graduated from Marquette University. In 2020, he was named to Forbes Magazine’s 30 under 30 media list.