Upcoming TIC Events

REGISTER FOR OUR 2025 SPEAKER SERIES:

Communicating at a Time of Instability

We’re offering access to key voices in the mis/disinformation and social division realms that can help us navigate the current moment. Talks are free, via Zoom and registration is required for each. Join us!

April 24, noon-1 EST: Joan Blades, co-founder of Living Room Conversations and two iconic U.S.-based social movements: Moveon.org and MomsRising.

Register here

June 26, noon-1 EST: Andy Norman, PhD, author and founder of the Cognitive Immunity Research Collaborative at Carnegie Mellon University.
(registration link to come)

THESE RECENTLY WRAPPED:

  • Speaker series talk with Dave Fleet, Global Head of Digital Crisis at Edelman
    March 27, 2024

  • Public health misinformation: What practitioners can do
    Talk for students at GW’s Milken Institute School of Public Health
    February 24, 2025

  • Navigating a polluted information ecosystem:
    Tips for communicators
    Talk for IABC DC chapter
    February 11, 2025

  • Staying Alert to Misinformation in the Media:
    A Guide for PR Pros
    Panel discussion with Baltimore PR Society
    January 21, 2025

Past talks & workshops

  • What now? Finding facts in a sea of falsehoods

    Village Learning Place, Baltimore

    Thursdays December 5/12/19, 2024

  • Disinformation: What libraries can do

    Talk at Pohick Regional Library, Fairfax County, VA

    November 13, 2024

  • Disinformation: How to recognize it, and respond

    Online via Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at American University

    Thursdays, September 26 through November 14

  • Inaugural (Mis)Information Lab Seminar

    DC Public Library

    October 29, 2024

  • Disinformation: How to recognize and disrupt it

    Wheaton Public Library (Montgomery County Public Library)

    September 23, 30, October 7, 2024

  • Two truths and a lie: Separating facts from fiction

    Cockeysville Library (Baltimore County)

    September 11, 25, October 2, 2024

  • Two truths and a lie: Separating facts from fiction

    Woodlawn Library (Baltimore County Public Library)

    August 13, 20, 27, 2024

  • What is Disinformation, and How Can I Help Stop It?

    Grove Family Library, Chambersburg, PA

    August 15, 29, September 10, 2024

  • IDEAS lessons from previous elections

    Community Conversation with IDEAS Generation

    July 25, 2024

  • Disinformation: How to recognize and disrupt it

    Petworth Neighborhood Library (DC Public Library)

    July 13, 20, 27 2024

  • Disinformation: Educating ourselves

    Palisades Neighborhood Library (DC Public LIbrary)

    July 17, 24, 31 2024

  • Two truths and a lie: Separating facts from fiction

    Perry Hall Library (Baltimore County Public Library)
    July 9, 16, 23 2024

  • Local news access: Challenges & opportunities

    Talk for League of Women Voters, Arlington & Alexandria VA
    June 15, 2024

  • What YOU can do to support free & fair elections in 2024

    Talk at Cleveland Park Library
    June 13, 2024

  • Disinformation: What libraries can do

    Talk for Baltimore County Public Library
    June 6, 2024

  • Media literacy in the disinformation age

    Defense Information School, U.S. Department of Defense
    May 21, 2024

  • Media literacy in the disinformation age

    Heinrich Boell Foundation

    May 7, 2024

  • Mis- and disinformation: How to recognize it, and respond

    League of Women Voters of Diablo Valley, CA

    January 7, 2024

  • Dismantling Disinformation & Misinformation: What libraries can do

    Webinar with Urban Libraries Council
    December 14, 2023

  • Misinformation: What libraries can do

    Talk for DC Public Library

    September 7, 2023

  • Featured speaker: Dialogue, Difference and Democracy webinar series

    Sponsored by National Institute for Civil Discourse and IDEOS
    September 13, 2023

  • Misinformation: How it spreads and how to avoid it

    3-part workshop series at DC’s Cleveland Park library
    LinkedIn summary

    JUNE 8-29, 2023

  • Misinformation & the Workplace: Mitigating the Risks

    Lunch and learn panel featuring Dave Fleet, Edelman; Andy Slaughter, Amazon; and Jillian Youngblood, Civic Genius. Part of National Week of Conversation 2023 LinkedIn summary

    APRIL 21, 2023

  • Misinformation: How we got here and what to do about it

    Lunch and learn for members of PRSA’s National Capital Chapter

    APRIL 4, 2023

  • Misinformation: How we got here and what to do about it

    Lunch and learn for members of IABC’s DC chapter.
    LinkedIn summary

    FEBRUARY 7, 2023

  • Truth in Common PILOT GROUP 3

    4-part workshop series with members of the International Association of Business Communicators from the U.S. and Canada

    SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER 2022

  • Truth in Common info session

    For members of the International Association of Business Communicators

    AUGUST 23, 2022

  • Truth in Common PILOT GROUP 2

    In partnership with the American-German Institute, for participants in their Social Divisions & Questions of Identity Program

    APRIL & JUNE 2022

  • Truth in Common PILOT GROUP 1

    Virtual, with adult residents of the Buffalo, NY area

    MARCH & APRIL 2022

  • Misinformation: An Equity Issue

    Presentation for Global Peacemakers as part of their Multilogues series

    MAY 2021

  • Misinformation: How we got here and what to do about it

    Featured speaker for IABC World Conference

    MAY 2021