Annafi Wahed is the CEO & co-founder of The Flip Side, a platform bridging the gap between liberals & conservatives.
Annafi has professional experience spanning the federal government, non-profit, political, and private sectors. In 2016, she left Ernst & Young to join the Democratic campaign where she saw firsthand how political polarization was exacerbated by our media which inspired her to launch The Flip Side initially as a newsletter that today has over 237,000 subscribers.
Annafi’s op-eds have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Hill, and USA Today. Her public appearances include everything from Fox & Friends and The Young Turks to being a keynote speaker at the Reagan Foundation.
What we cover:
(06:24) Annafi's lightbulb moment
(10:06) The internet is broken
(12:47) Engineering problem vs. human problem
(15:45) Taking individual responsibility
(19:02) Nonpartisan vs. equally partisan
(21:41) Strawmanning vs. steelmanning
(23:06) Politics & identity
(26:00) Reasons for hope
(29:15) The two-party system
(32:47) Policy & education
(35:42) Improving civic education
(41:48) Listening to her audience
(43:17) What each side misses
(46:16) What both sides agree on
(47:50) Revisiting the contact hypothesis
(50:54) The decline of local news
(53:49) Crisis in Bangladesh
(58:18) A note of optimism
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