Picture this: you’re a Chinese-speaking immigrant in the United States, trying to figure out how to vote, whether your status puts you at risk, or simply what’s true in a chaotic election season. Instead of reliable answers, you scroll through social media and see warnings that immigrants are being arrested at polling places, that your name might be on a voter roll without your consent, and that the government is secretly tracking anyone who dares to participate. That’s the reality for many Chinese-speaking voters this election cycle, according to community advocates who track disinformation targeting their communities. And it’s not…

Elizabeth Bennion holds a title that sounds formal—Chancellor’s Professor of political science at Indiana University South Bend—but her work is anything but stuck in an ivory tower. She is the kind of scholar who believes that politics is not something to study from a distance, but something to practice, teach, and improve. At Indiana University South Bend, she teaches courses in American politics and directs community engagement, which means she spends as much time connecting students with the real world of governance as she does lecturing about it. Her expertise spans campaigns, elections, voter turnout, political behavior, civic engagement, and…