Foreign Affairs Symposium
What now? Analyze, mobilize
Published Feb 16, 2017Nadya Tolokonnikova—artist, social activist, and co-founder of the Russian punk/protest group Pussy Riot—spoke at JHU on Wednesday night as part of the student-run Foreign Affairs Symposium. Her mix of humor, perspective, and understanding that social change is a slow, long process made her talk a refreshing tonic to the contentious and often absolutist present-day American political landscape.