Upcoming TIC Events

REGISTER FOR OUR 2025 SPEAKER SERIES:

Communicating at a Time of Instability

We’re offering access to key voices in the mis/disinformation and social division realms that can help us navigate the current moment. Talks are free, via Zoom and registration is required for each. Join us!

March 27, noon-1 EST: Dave Fleet, Global Head of Digital Crisis at Edelman. will share why Edelman stood up a Counter Disinformation Unit in 2024, how false narratives are affecting brands around the world and what they're doing about it. Bring your questions as we dive into the realities of information manipulation in 2025. 
Register here

April 24, noon-1 EST: Joan Blades, co-founder of Living Room Conversations and two iconic U.S.-based social movements: Moveon.org and MomsRising.
Register here

June 26, noon-1 EST: Andy Norman, PhD, author and founder of the Cognitive Immunity Research Collaborative at Carnegie Mellon University.
(registration link to come)

THESE RECENTLY WRAPPED:

Public health misinformation: What practitioners can do

Talk for students at GW’s Milken Institute School of Public Health
February 24, 2025

Navigating a polluted information ecosystem:
Tips for communicators

Talk for IABC DC chapter
February 11, 2025

Staying Alert to Misinformation in the Media:
A Guide for PR Pros

Panel discussion with Baltimore PR Society
January 21, 2025

Past talks & workshops

  • What now? Finding facts in a sea of falsehoods

    Village Learning Place, Baltimore

    Thursdays December 5/12/19, 12:30-2

  • Disinformation: What libraries can do

    Talk at Pohick Regional Library, Fairfax County, VA

    November 13, 2024

  • Disinformation: How to recognize it, and respond

    Online via Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at American University

    Thursdays, September 26 through November 14

  • Inaugural (Mis)Information Lab Seminar

    DC Public Library

    October 29, 2024

  • Disinformation: How to recognize and disrupt it

    Wheaton Public Library (Montgomery County Public Library)

    September 23, 30, October 7, 2024

  • Two truths and a lie: Separating facts from fiction

    Cockeysville Library (Baltimore County)

    September 11, 25, October 2, 2024

  • Two truths and a lie: Separating facts from fiction

    Woodlawn Library (Baltimore County Public Library)

    August 13, 20, 27, 2024

  • What is Disinformation, and How Can I Help Stop It?

    Grove Family Library, Chambersburg, PA

    August 15, 29, September 10, 2024

  • IDEAS lessons from previous elections

    Community Conversation with IDEAS Generation

    July 25, 2024

  • Disinformation: How to recognize and disrupt it

    Petworth Neighborhood Library (DC Public Library)

    July 13, 20, 27 2024

  • Disinformation: Educating ourselves

    Palisades Neighborhood Library (DC Public LIbrary)

    July 17, 24, 31 2024

  • Two truths and a lie: Separating facts from fiction

    Perry Hall Library (Baltimore County Public Library)
    July 9, 16, 23 2024

  • Local news access: Challenges & opportunities

    Talk for League of Women Voters, Arlington & Alexandria VA
    June 15, 2024

  • What YOU can do to support free & fair elections in 2024

    Talk at Cleveland Park Library
    June 13, 2024

  • Disinformation: What libraries can do

    Talk for Baltimore County Public Library
    June 6, 2024

  • Media literacy in the disinformation age

    Defense Information School, U.S. Department of Defense
    May 21, 2024

  • Media literacy in the disinformation age

    Heinrich Boell Foundation

    May 7, 2024

  • Mis- and disinformation: How to recognize it, and respond

    League of Women Voters of Diablo Valley, CA

    January 7, 2024

  • Dismantling Disinformation & Misinformation: What libraries can do

    Webinar with Urban Libraries Council
    December 14, 2023

  • Misinformation: What libraries can do

    Talk for DC Public Library

    September 7, 2023

  • Featured speaker: Dialogue, Difference and Democracy webinar series

    Sponsored by National Institute for Civil Discourse and IDEOS
    September 13, 2023

  • Misinformation: How it spreads and how to avoid it

    3-part workshop series at DC’s Cleveland Park library
    LinkedIn summary

    JUNE 8-29, 2023

  • Misinformation & the Workplace: Mitigating the Risks

    Lunch and learn panel featuring Dave Fleet, Edelman; Andy Slaughter, Amazon; and Jillian Youngblood, Civic Genius. Part of National Week of Conversation 2023 LinkedIn summary

    APRIL 21, 2023

  • Misinformation: How we got here and what to do about it

    Lunch and learn for members of PRSA’s National Capital Chapter

    APRIL 4, 2023

  • Misinformation: How we got here and what to do about it

    Lunch and learn for members of IABC’s DC chapter.
    LinkedIn summary

    FEBRUARY 7, 2023

  • Truth in Common PILOT GROUP 3

    4-part workshop series with members of the International Association of Business Communicators from the U.S. and Canada

    SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER 2022

  • Truth in Common info session

    For members of the International Association of Business Communicators

    AUGUST 23, 2022

  • Truth in Common PILOT GROUP 2

    In partnership with the American-German Institute, for participants in their Social Divisions & Questions of Identity Program

    APRIL & JUNE 2022

  • Truth in Common PILOT GROUP 1

    Virtual, with adult residents of the Buffalo, NY area

    MARCH & APRIL 2022

  • Misinformation: An Equity Issue

    Presentation for Global Peacemakers as part of their Multilogues series

    MAY 2021

  • Misinformation: How we got here and what to do about it

    Featured speaker for IABC World Conference

    MAY 2021