Ellie Silverman is an enterprise reporter at the Washington Sun (formerly NOTUS). She previously worked at the Washington Post, where she covered protest movements, political violence and extremism, including the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, the rewriting of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, the anti-vaccine trucker convoy, mass shootings and the mainstreaming of hate.
Ellie can be reached on Signal at elliesilverman.11
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.
