On behalf of our podcast network, The Democracy Group, we invite you to join us for our first ever live podcast recording in Washington D.C. Foreign policy expert and fellow podcaster Ben Rhodes will be in conversation with network members Kamy Akhavan of Let’s Find Common Ground, Michael Baranowski of The Politics Guys, and Stephanie Gerber Wilson of Freedom Over Fascism about America’s place on the world stage and how the health of American democracy impacts other democracies around the world.

We’ll also discuss how podcasting can shape messaging and narrative in a fractured media environment. A reception with food and drink will be held at 6:00 p.m., followed by the live recording at 7:00 p.m.

Ben Rhodes is a writer, political commentator, and national security analyst. From 2009–2017, Ben served as a speechwriter and deputy national security advisor to President Obama. He is the author of The New York Times bestsellers After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made, and The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House. He is currently co-host of Pod Save the World. His work has also been published in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Foreign Affairs.