Real Washington – How Gen Z is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America: John Della Volpe, Director of Polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics

John Della Volpe, Director of Polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics speaks with cohosts Richard Levick of LEVICK and Michael Zeldin of That Said with Michael Zeldin on CommPRO about his new book, Fight: How Gen Z is Channeling their Fear and Passion to Save America. The Washington Post referred to John as one of the world’s leading authorities on global sentiment, opinion and influence especially among young Americans. This is America’s most diverse and educated generation and most of what we think we know about this generation, now coming of age, is wrong. They view global warming, the threats to democracy, opioids, January 6th and more as personal existential threats and are forced to deal with issues of life and death in a way young people haven’t had to since World War II. A third believe a U.S. civil war in their lifetimes is now a possibility. The forward to Fight was written by one of Gen Z’s most visible activists, David Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla