Unsticking Congress: Maya Kornberg

About this episode

Maya Kornberg discusses various strategies to reform Congress and enhance civic engagement.

We discuss the myriad of ways to fix Congress, ranging from campaign finance reform and age limits to town hall meetings and stopping violence against members of Congress. Maya's civic action toolkit recommendations are: 1) Engage with your member of Congress! 2) Share what matters for you and demand your member to take action Maya Kornberg is senior research fellow at NYU Law's Brennan Center for Justice and author of Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress. Let's connect! Follow Future Hindsight on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurehindsightpod/ Discover new ways to #BetheSpark: https://www.futurehindsight.com/spark Follow Mila on X: https://x.com/milaatmos Follow Maya on X: https://x.com/KornbergMaya Read Stuck : https://bookshop.org/shop/futurehindsight Sponsor: Thank you to Shopify! Sign up for a $1/month trial at shopify.com/hopeful . Early episodes for Patreon supporters: https://patreon.com/futurehindsight Credits: Host: Mila Atmos Guests: Maya Kornberg Executive Producer: Zack Travis Executive Editor: Mila Atmos

People in this episode

Host: Mila Atmos

Guest: Maya Kornberg

Topics covered

• Congress reform
• civic engagement
• campaign finance
• political violence
• town hall meetings

Keywords

• Congress
• campaign finance reform
• civic action
• political engagement
• Maya Kornberg

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Organizations: NYU Law's Brennan Center for Justice

Products: Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress

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