Why I love the First Amendment

I met Patty Rhule, VP of Content Innovation at the Freedom Forum, outside an elementary school in Lancaster, PA, on election day when we were helping to protect one of our most sacred rights in a democracy: the right to vote. Turns out, Patty was also an advocate for another one of my favorite rights, the First Amendment right to free speech. She asked me to share some tips with her on how to get through Thanksgiving dinner on the Freedom Forum blog and then we met again on the Freedom Forum’s program First Five Now to talk about why the First Amendment is important to the conversations I’ve been organizing to bridge divides and depolarize our country.