Please join the League of Women Voters of Piedmont on Wednesday, March 30 at 4 p.m. for a fireside chat with Dr. Fiona Hill. She will speak about the current state of American democracy, from both domestic and international points of view, and will address what is likely to happen in Ukraine. Learn what the current situation means for the international security order we have known since the end of the Cold War and what the implications are for our own democracy.
Dr. Fiona Hill is the Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her most recent book, There is Nothing for You Here, draws on her personal journey out of poverty, as well as her unique perspectives as an historian and policy maker, to show how we can return hope to our forgotten places.
From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Hill served as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council. From 2006 to 2009, she served as national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council.
She has researched and published extensively on issues related to Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, regional conflicts, energy, and strategic issues. Coauthor of Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin and The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold, she holds a master’s degree in Soviet studies and a doctorate in history from Harvard University and a master’s in Russian and modern history from St. Andrews University in Scotland.
This event is part of our League’s 2022 Defending Democracy Speaker Series and is co-sponsored by local Leagues in Oakland, CA; Santa Barbara, CA; Solano County, CA; Portland, OR; Gunnison Valley, CO; Pueblo, CO, Pike’s Peak Region, CO; and Collier County, FL.
This talk will be held live on Zoom and YouTube and will include an audience question and answer session. Please visit our website HERE to learn more about the series and register for this event. Once you have registered, you will receive the Zoom link by email. The event is free and open to the public.