The NAACP Berkshire County Branch, Indivisible Pittsfield, and Greylock Together will host Harvard professor, author, and democracy advocate Danielle Allen at its May General Meeting on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, at 6:00 PM via Zoom. The event is free and open to the public.
Allen will present “What Comes After No Kings? Five Things We Can Do for Democracy,” exploring the policy innovations needed for a healthy, resilient democracy. As convening chair of the Coalition for Healthy Democracy, Allen calls on all of us to envision what we want our democracy to look like, how it should function, and who it should serve—an approach she describes as “democracy renovation.”
Danielle Allen is a founder of multiple civic organizations including the Civics and History Inquiry Partnership, Educating for American Democracy, and Partners In Democracy. She is the author of Our Declaration and Justice by Means of Democracy, as well as the forthcoming Radical Duke: how one aristocrat-and the American Revolution—transformed Britain. A former columnist for the Washington Post, she now writes for The Renovator.
She is also the convening chair for the Coalition for Healthy Democracy, a ballot committee seeking to put ballot initiatives for an all-party primary and public records transparency on the November 2026 ballot in Massachusetts.
Democracy renovation starts with conversations like this one.
This event is open to the public, so share this with a friend. Those that aren’t branch members, can email us at naacpberkshirecounty@gmail.com to reserve their spot. We hope you’ll join us. We look forward to seeing you there.
