Live Podcast Recording: "Campaign Season on Both Sides of the Atlantic"

About the Speakers

• Nadine Lindner Speaker

  Nadine Lindner has been a Correspondent in the Berlin studio of "Deutschlandradio" since early 2016 and is responsible, among other things, for covering the AfD and transport policy. Before that, she was a Correspondent in the Free State of Saxony for two and a half years and followed the rise of Pegida there. She studied Political Science, Journalism, and African Studies in Leipzig and discovered her enthusiasm for radio there at the training station "mephisto 97.6." After graduating from university, she worked as a freelance journalist for "MDR sputnik" and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as well as Deutschlandradio.
  
  Born 1980 in a small town close to Frankfurt/Main, studying Political Science in Leipzig/Saxony. Later she did her journalistic training at Deutschlandradio, a nationwide public radio station. In 2013, Ms. Lindner moved back to Saxony as a regional correspondent for Deutschlandradio, where she covered the early days of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the anti-asylum movement Pegida. Since 2016, she has worked at the capital studio of Deutschlandradio in Berlin, where she is responsible for covering the AfD in the German parliament. Nadine Lindner received the prize of the Bundespressekonferenz, the association of capital studio journalists, for her reporting about the AfD and Eastern Germany in 2024.

• Liz Goodwin Speaker

  Liz Goodwin is a national political reporter for The Washington Post, writing about the forces and people remaking American politics. She previously covered the Senate. Goodwin joined The Post from The Boston Globe, where she covered national politics since 2018, most recently serving as Washington bureau chief. Before joining the Globe in 2018, Ms. Goodwin wrote about national politics and national affairs for Yahoo News, covering Congress, the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns, immigration, and criminal justice, among other topics. Earlier in her career, she worked at the Daily Beast.
  
  As a reporter, Ms. Goodwin is known for capturing the human side of politics — writing revealing profiles of candidates and examining the complex decision-making of voters in absorbing narratives. She has written from the U.S.-Mexico border about the Trump administration's family separation policy and from Britain on former president Donald Trump's influence on nationalists in that country and has reported from the campaign trail over three presidential elections.

• Dr. Steven E. Sokol Moderator

  Steven E. Sokol has been the President and CEO of the American Council on Germany since 2015. Previously, he served as President and CEO of the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh and prior to that he was the Vice President and Director of Programs at the American Council on Germany. Prior to this, Dr. Sokol served as the Deputy Director of the Aspen Institute Berlin, was the Head of the Project Management Department at the Bonn International Center for Conversion GmbH (BICC), and a Program Officer in the Berlin office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Earlier in his career, he also was a Program Manager at the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) and was a paralegal at Fulbright & Jaworski.
   
  He holds a Doctorate in Law and Policy from Northeastern University as well as an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins University’s Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. He has also studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg and as a Fulbright Scholar at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Dr. Sokol serves on several non-profit boards and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was awarded a Bundesverdienstkreuz (Order of Merit) for his work to strengthen German-American relations.