Unfinished Live
Democracy & Voice
November 10, 2020
7:00pm ET
Where do we go from here? What is the democracy of the future?
A week after the U.S. presidential election, we were unsure of what the headlines would say, but we knew we’d be living in a country in need of healing.
We invited the artists and the preachers, the innovators and the academics to remind us: Who is the “we” in ‘we the people?’ What do we owe each other? When can the healing start?
With Unfinished partner, Aspen Ideas, we stitch together live segments, dynamic films and provoking performances to showcase lived experience, creative expression, and real-world candor. Through conversations, exchanges and roundtable discussions, experts join everyday voices on a nuanced exploration of possibility and discovery.

Baratunde Thurston, Host
Writer, Artist, Activist

Krista Tippett
Host and Creator, On Being

Yo-Yo Ma
Cellist

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
Co-Chair, Poor People's Campaign; Architect, Forward Together Moral Monday Movement

Carrie Mae Weems
Artist

Kristen Soltis Anderson
Author, Speaker, Commentator & Co-Founder, Echelon Insights

Eric Liu
CEO & Co-Founder, Citizen University

Arthur Brooks
Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School & Arthur C. Patterson Faculty Fellow at the Harvard Business School

Hank Willis Thomas
Artist & Co-Founder of For Freedoms

David Bornstein
Journalist, Author & Co-Founder, Solutions Journalism Network

Versha Sharma
Managing Editor and Senior Correspondent, NowThis

Alfredo Jaar
Artist, Architect, Photographer & Filmmaker
*photo credits: Hank Willis Thomas headshot by Andrea Blanch; Alfredo Jaar headshot by Jee Eun Esther Jang
Collaborations
Unfinished Live is made in collaboration with the following organizations
Unfinished Live is produced by Empire.