one of our panelists, mickey edwards, was not able to be with us. we will channel mickey the best we can. i wanted to introduce the panelists here and frame up the issue. we will begin a conversation on the theme of imagining or reimagining citizenship and we want to allot a good chunk of time for conversation here throughout the room, and i really emphasize that. if you have questions, conversation is very much in the spirit of what we are talking about. let me introduce, sequentially, to my immediate left is heather smith, dear friend and collaborator who is the president of rock the vote. many of you know rock the vote began over 20 years ago in affiliation with mtv, and works today to mobilize young people of the millennial generation not only to vote, but to engage in civic activity across the board and become more cynically aware -- civically aware and educated. we will talk a lot more about what rock the vote does. only in this context, to heather poss left -- -- heather's left [laughter] our friend mark meckler. he is one of the founders of t

one of our panelists, mickey edwards, was not able to be with us. we will channel mickey the best we can. wanted to introduce the panelists here and frame up the issue. we will begin a conversation on the theme of imagining or reimagining citizenship and we want to allot a good chunk of time for conversation here throughout the room, and i really emphasize that. qu -- q andan. if you have questions, conversation is very much in the spirit of what we are talking about. let me introduce, sequentially, to my immediate left is heather smith, dear friend and collaborator who is the president of rock the vote. many of you know rock the vote began over 20 years ago in affiliation with mtv, and works today to mobilize young people of the millennial generation not only to vote, but to engage in ivic activity across the board and become more civically aware and educated. we will talk a lot more about what rock the vote does. only in this context, to heather our friend s left, mark meckler. he is one of the founders of the tea party patriots. he left the tea pa