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June 23, 2021

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Frances Townsend, Micah Schwartzman

Homeland Security Advisor Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall discusses the formulation of the recently released, first-ever National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism with former Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend, a member of the Miller Center's Governing Council, and UVA Law professor Micah Schwartzman. This event is part of the "Democracy Dialogues" series produced by the UVA Karsh Institute of Democracy. It is co-sponsored by the Miller Center and the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy at the UVA School of Law and is made possible thanks to the generous support of the George and Judy Marcus Democracy Praxis Fund, Ingrid and David Hang, and UVA Rector James B. Murray Jr.