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Thursday, May 16, 2024
1:00 to 3:00 PM ET
In this session, we will examine the erosion of trust in institutions and explore strategies for rebuilding public confidence and accountability. Speakers will discuss the role of government, media, and civil society in restoring trust, fostering transparency, and promoting democratic resilience.
AGENDA
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm: Introduction and overview of the topic by Sherida German, Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, Edelman
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm: Panel discussion moderated by Sam Andrey, Managing Director, the Dais, with guest speakers
2:30 pm - 2:50 pm: Peer discussions in breakout rooms
2:50 pm - 3:00 pm: Concluding remarks and feedback
2024 Edelman Trust Barometer_Canada Report_Final.pdfEdelman trust deck
Edelman trust deck
Sherida's Contact Details:
Email: Sherida.German@edelman.com
Pre-session reading materials
Pre-session reading materials
Make your favourite hot drink, find a quiet corner, and read through these materials ahead of the session.
Report: Young Adult Perspectives on Trust in Government, Partnership for Public Service
Article: What Happens When Americans Don't Trust Institutions?, FiveThirtyEight
Article: There's a Toxic Brew of Mistrust, NPR
Report: Survey of Online Harms in Canada, the Dais (focus on pgs. 9-11)
Report: 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer, Edelman
Video: Do You Have Confidence in Public Institutions?, News Nation
Video: Restoring Trust in American Institutions with Yuval Levin, Bill of Rights Institute
Moderator: Sam Andrey
Moderator: Sam Andrey
Sam (he/him) has led public policy development throughout his career in government, non-profit advocacy and academia. As Managing Director of the Dais, Sam is responsible for coordinating its policy, leadership development and operations teams. He also teaches public policy and leadership at Toronto Metropolitan University and George Brown College.
Before joining TMU as the Leadership Lab’s Director of Policy and Research, Sam held a number of roles advancing equity in education. He was the Chief of Staff and Director of Policy to Ontario’s Minister of Education, the policy manager for the Ontario Student Assistance Program, and the Executive Director of the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance.
Sam serves on the board of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada and chairs its research and professional practices committee. He has an Executive Certificate in Public Leadership from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a BSc from the University of Waterloo. Sam grew up in Waterloo and now lives in Toronto with his partner and dog.
PANELISTS
PANELISTS
Evan Smith
Evan Smith
Evan Smith (he/him) is a senior advisor at Emerson Collective, working closely with journalists and funders around the country to support the local news ecosystem. He’s also a professor of practice at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches a course on the politics and issues of the election season. He previously spent more than thirteen years at The Texas Tribune, which he co-founded and led as CEO, and nearly eighteen years at Texas Monthly, including nine years as editor in chief and a year as president. Evan is the host of “Overheard with Evan Smith,” a weekly half-hour interview program that airs on PBS stations from coast to coast. He serves on the boards of St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, the Austin Film Society, and the LBJ Foundation. A native of New York, he's a graduate of Hamilton College, which awarded him an honorary degree in 2023, and Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, which inducted him into its Hall of Achievement in 2006.
Evan's Contact Details:
Email: esmith@texastribune.org
Ximena Bustillo
Ximena Bustillo
Ximena Bustillo (she/her) is a multi-platform reporter at NPR covering politics out of the White House and Congress on air and in print. She is NPR's lead reporter covering Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York.
Before joining NPR, she was an award-winning food and agriculture policy reporter and newsletter author at POLITICO covering immigration, climate, labor, supply chain and equity issues.
Bustillo got her start in journalism at the Idaho Statesman where she helped spearhead the state's Spanish-language coronavirus news coverage through articles and public web forums.
She is a graduate of Boise State University.
Ximena' s Contact Details:
Email: xbustillo@npr.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ximena-bustillo
X: @ximena_bustillo
Instagram: @ximena.bustillo
Michael MacKenzie
Michael MacKenzie
Michael K. MacKenzie (he/him) is Professor of Political Studies and the inaugural Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership at Vancouver Island University. He is working with four other Jarislowsky Chairs in Trust and Political Leadership at universities in Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta. The long-term goal of this network is to develop educational programming and training for future leaders. MacKenzie holds a PhD in political science from the University of British Columbia (2013), a master’s in political science and social statistics from McGill University (2006), and a bachelor of arts in politics from the University of Winnipeg (2004). In 2006-07 he worked as a policy analyst and facilitator with the Ontario Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform. He was a Democracy Fellow and post-doctoral researcher at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School (2013-15) before joining the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh as an Assistant Professor and later an Associate Professor (2015-23). He is the author of Future Publics (Oxford University Press, 2021), co-editor of Democracy and the Future (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), and the author of numerous other scholarly publications.
Michael's Contact Details:
Email: michael.mackenzie@viu.ca
Nadzeya Shutava
Nadzeya Shutava
Nadzeya Shutava (she/her) is a researcher living and working in Washington DC. She is a research manager at the Partnership for Public Service – a nonprofit nonpartisan organization that is building a better government and a stronger democracy in the U.S. Nadzeya has been researching public trust in government for the past three years. She also manages design and delivery of a data literacy training for government leaders. Nadzeya holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences with a focus on political science, ethnography and social anthropology from the University of Tsukuba in Japan.
Nadzeya's Contact Details:
Honourable mentions
Honourable mentions
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