No Kings and More – Carrying Forward the Spirit of Revolution
Carlos Eduardo Espina, Leah Greenberg, & Ezra Levin
moderated by Margaret Hoover
Monday, July 7, 7-8:30pm ET at Guild Hall
Presented by Guild Hall & The Common Good
Series programmed by Ellen Chesler and Patricia Duff
Eight million people. 3,300 protests. The largest mass demonstrations in modern American history. So who’s organizing this new wave of civic action — and where is it headed next?
Indivisible co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin join influential digital organizer and immigrant rights advocate Carlos Eduardo Espina for a timely conversation on the new machinery of activism: from “No Kings” rallies and grassroots mobilization to the power of social media, political pressure campaigns, and the fight over democracy itself.
Moderated by CNN’s Margaret Hoover and host of Firing Line, our panel will explore civic responsibility, collective action, and how democratic ideals continue to evolve in a divided country.
About Our Speakers
Carlos Eduardo Espina is a 27-year-old nonprofit director, activist, and content creator who works to uplift the immigrant community through social media content, community organizing, and charitable causes. Carlos was born to a Uruguayan father and a Mexican mother and grew up in College Station, TX. Since he was a teenager, Carlos has been involved in community work. In 2017, Carlos founded his first nonprofit, Football for the Future which provided free soccer and educational camps for hundreds of low-income kids in central Texas until 2020. In 2019, Carlos founded his second nonprofit, the Detained Refugee Solidarity Fund, to morally and economically support migrants and refugees detained in ICE detention centers throughout the United States.
Currently, he has over 23 million followers on social media, where he posts bilingual videos informing and uplifting the Latino community in the United States. Carlos is the most followed Latino activist in the United States. Beyond making content, Carlos now spends most of his time leading the nonprofit organization "The Espina Project" and his community center in Houston, Texas.
Leah Greenberg is a co-founder and co-Executive Director of Indivisible. Prior to founding the Indivisible Project, Leah served as Policy Director for the Tom Perriello for Governor of Virginia campaign. She has managed human trafficking grants and programs as an Investments Manager for Humanity United, served as an Advisor to the State Department’s Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, and worked on Capitol Hill for Congressman Tom Perriello (D-VA).
Along with her co-founder and spouse Ezra Levin, Leah has been featured as one of TIME 100’s Most Influential People of 2019, included on GQ’s 50 Most Powerful People in Trump’s Washington, and ranked #2 on the Politico 50 list of top thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics. She is the co-author of We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump, published by Simon & Schuster’s One Signal Publishers in 2019.
Margaret Hoover is the host of PBS’ “Firing Line with Margaret Hoover,” a public affairs, multi-platform program that engages in long-form interviews and a rigorous exchange of ideas with the guiding principle that civil discourse is a civic responsibility.
Hoover has served in The White House under President George W. Bush, in the Department of Homeland Security, on Capitol Hill and on two presidential campaigns. She is the President of American Unity Fund, a political organization focused on achieving full freedom and equality for LGBT Americans. A bestselling author, her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, The Daily Beast, CNN.com and FoxNews.com.
Hoover serves on the boards of Stanford University's Hoover Institution, the Hoover Presidential Foundation, the Belgian American Educational Foundation, The Markle Foundation, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Ezra Levin is the co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible. Prior to founding Indivisible, Ezra served as Associate Director of Federal Policy for Prosperity Now, a national anti-poverty nonprofit. Previously, he was the Deputy Policy Director for Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Field Director for Doggett’s 2010 reelection campaign, and an AmeriCorps VISTA in the Homeless Services Division of the San Jose Housing Department.
Along with his co-founder and spouse Leah Greenberg, Ezra has been featured as one of TIME 100’s Most Influential People of 2019, included on GQ’s 50 Most Powerful People in Trump’s Washington, and ranked #2 on the Politico 50 list of top thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics. He has appeared as a commentator on and/or been interviewed by MSNBC, CNN, NPR, Pod Save America, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Politico, TIME Magazine, the New Yorker, the Nation, Slate, and Rolling Stone, among others. He is the co-author of We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump, published by Simon & Schuster’s One Signal Publishers in 2019.