Yordanos Eyoel
Cognoscenti contributor
Yordanos Eyoel is the Founder and CEO of Keseb, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization committed to advancing inclusive and resilient democracies. She is a Civil Society Fellow of the ADL and Aspen Institute and the 2020 recipient of the City of Boston’s Spark Impact Award for Activism and Issue Advocacy.
Recently published
American democracy is fragile, not exceptional
If lessons can be imported and exported to dismantle democracy, they can also be used to save it, writes Yordanos Eyoel.
Extremism is our new normal
For those of us who immigrated to the U.S. after surviving war, violent coups and state-sponsored political violence, the insurgency was a vicious reminder that no place is immune from...
We Can't Wait Until November To Fix Our Democracy. Here's What You Can Do Now
In a recent poll, half of young voters named systemic racism and discrimination -- a persistent driver of civic distrust -- as their top issue, writes Yordanos Eyoel.