Ali Weiner

Cognoscenti contributor

Ali Weiner is a joint degree candidate pursuing a Master of Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Master of Business Administration at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She previously worked as a senior strategist at Purpose, mobilizing public engagement towards a variety of progressive causes.

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The U.S. Capitol dome backdrops flags at half-staff in honor of the victims killed in the Las Vegas shooting as the sun rises on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, at the foot of the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

After Las Vegas, Fatalism Is A Poor Excuse To Do Nothing

Citizen mobilization works, Ali Weiner writes. We've seen the evidence: Republicans failed to overturn the Affordable Care Act after constituents made an estimated 200,000 calls to Congress.

Cognoscenti

Oct 5, 2017