Take Action and Make Real Change with Eitan Hersh

Date: Thursday, January 14, 2021


Where: Virtual! Register online for Zoom link!
Politics-Is-For-Power.jpg

Polit­i­cal sci­en­tist and data ana­lyst Eitan Hersh explores how to take your mild interest in politics and transform it into real, impactful change, even in this upending and controversial political climate. He discusses how the impending inauguration may impact regular people, and how the "spectator sport of politics" needs to be mobilized into action. Eitan's new book, Pol­i­tics Is For Pow­er: How to Move Beyond Polit­i­cal Hob­by­ism Take Action and Make Real Change, is available for purchase through Eight Cousins Bookshop, Bookshop.org, and Amazon.

Eitan Hersh received a PhD from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty in 2011. He served for six years on the fac­ul­ty of Yale Uni­ver­si­ty as an assis­tant pro­fes­sor of polit­i­cal sci­ence and res­i­dent fel­low of the Insti­tu­tion for Social and Pol­i­cy Stud­ies before becom­ing a tenured asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of polit­i­cal sci­ence at Tufts Uni­ver­si­ty. His peer-reviewed arti­cles have been pub­lished in the major polit­i­cal sci­ence jour­nals. Hersh is the author of Hack­ing the Elec­torate and Pol­i­tics Is for Pow­er.

In partnership with the Falmouth Jewish Congregation and Worcester JCC.