{"id":265,"date":"2023-01-17T16:29:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T00:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-political-future\/?page_id=265"},"modified":"2026-09-18T12:43:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:43:58","slug":"kamy-akhavan-managing-director","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-political-future\/about-the-center\/staff\/kamy-akhavan-managing-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamy Akhavan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Kamy Akhavan, former CEO of ProCon.org<\/a>, the nation’s leading source of nonpartisan research on controversial issues, now serves as Managing Director of the Center for the Political Future (CPF) at the University of Southern California. Kamy oversees the operations of all CPF components including the Unruh Institute of Politics<\/strong><\/a>, Fellows Program<\/strong><\/a>, the USC Dornsife Poll<\/strong><\/a>, and community and global engagement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kamy writes and speaks on numerous topics including the origins of and solutions to political polarization, improving interpersonal communication, the awesome power of debate, nonprofit leadership, digital marketing, civics education, and how to teach controversial issues. In addition to those topics, Kamy is a moderator, panelist, and keynote speaker on elections and current political events, as well as hot topics from marijuana legalization to gun control and from the death penalty to physician-assisted suicide.<\/span><\/p>\n

With more than 20 years of experience in bridging divides at national levels, Kamy\u2019s work has served more than 300 million people, including students at more than 13,000 schools in all 50 states and 100 countries. He has been published and interviewed in textbooks, magazines, television, radio, newspapers, and websites including Reuters, Associated Press, Fox News, ABC, Washington Post, NPR, CNN, and CBS.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kamy has taught in the USC Distinguished Leaders Program<\/a> and<\/span> several other USC classes including:<\/span><\/p>\n