Emily Stingle
Developing and Using Critical Comprehension, American University
2022
Emily Stingle is the project manager for Invent2Prevent’s Spring 2022 winning team, DUCC (Developing & Using Critical Comprehension), from American University. Invent2Prevent is a semester long competition that challenges college students to design a tool, product or initiative that prevents targeted violence and terrorism. The competition is sponsored by EdVenture Partners, the McCain Institute, and the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships. DUCC provides digital literacy tools to educators of 1st-6th grade students, including parent and teacher guides, lesson plans, and an animated video to teach students about online misinformation and its consequences. Emily is currently a student at AU studying Justice & Law and Sociology and a research assistant at PERIL, the Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab, where she continues to expand DUCC’s digital literacy resources and outreach.
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.
