105: Gen Z: America’s Savior with John Della Volpe
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🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by John Della Volpe (Author and Director of Polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics) to discuss who Gen Z is, the historical events that have shaped them, and how they are…despite older Americans' efforts to label them as overly sensitive, lazy, and entitled…rising to the unprecedented challenges of their time to take control of their country and our future. Be sure to pick up John’s new book, Fight: How Gen Z is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America, at your favorite book retailer.
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| 0:43.7 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host Reed Gailan. Today I'm joined by John |
| 0:49.2 | Deleville, director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy Schools Institute of Politics, |
| 0:53.6 | where he's led the institute's polling initiatives on understanding American youth since the year 2000. |
| 0:58.8 | The Washington Post has referred to him as one of the world's leading authorities on global |
| 1:02.9 | sentiment, opinion, and influence, especially among youth and in the age of digital and social media. |
| 1:08.8 | John appears regularly on MSNBC's Morning Joe and his research is often sourced by national media |
| 1:14.2 | outlets in the United States and abroad, including the daily show with Trevor Noah. He is also the |
| 1:19.0 | founder and CEO of SocialSphere, a public opinion research firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 1:24.5 | John recently released his new book, Fight, How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to |
| 1:29.5 | Save America, which is available wherever fine books are sold. John, welcome to the show. |
| 1:34.3 | Thanks so much for having me. I'm so excited. All right, so John, let me just start. |
| 1:39.0 | Like every other Gen Xer, now firmly entrenched in middle age, I see Gen Z and I sort of go, like, |
| 1:49.4 | sort of like Napoleon Dynamite, right? So before we even get into the book, give us a sense of |
| 1:55.8 | who is Gen Z today? Well, you're a good company. I'm a Gen Xer. I like to think I've kind of |
| 2:02.1 | embedded myself in this generation, 21 years, working on a college campus, studying them through |
| 2:08.2 | pulling and focus groups, coaching, having three of my own. It's one of the most fascinating |
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