Ben Popp
Researcher, Center on Extremism, Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
2023
Ben is a researcher for the Center on Extremism at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), specializing in far-right extremism and white supremacy. He graduated from the M.A. Program in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, where his thesis examined the intersection between extremism, conspiracy theories, and political violence.
At the Summit
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
