Join the Sorensen Center and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) for a conversation between whistleblower Edward Snowden, who is living in exile in Russia, and his European lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck, 2020 Sorensen Center Scholar-in-Residence. The discussion will focus on civil liberties and the right to privacy as authoritarianism rises and surveillance and emergency laws proliferate.

Kaleck, Founder, General Secretary, and Legal Director of ECCHR, is a human rights attorney at the forefront of the legal fight to hold powerful individuals, corporations, and governments around the world accountable for human rights abuses. His most recent book is Law Versus Power: Our Global Fight for Human Rights. Snowden, a systems engineer by training, served as an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency, and worked as a contractor for the National Security Agency. He serves as president of the board of directors of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. His 2019 autobiography, Permanent Record, describes his decision to leak evidence of the U.S. government’s surveillance programs. A young readers edition of his book will be published in 2021.

The Sorensen Center’s “Critical Voices: From Local to Global” speaker series features extraordinary leaders from around the world discussing groundbreaking issues.