The Civil Civility: Having Conversations in Our Communities public fora series hosted by The Northern Plains Ethics Institute is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 29 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Reimers Room at the McGovern Alumni Center.
Rebecca Binstock, executive director of the North Dakota Ethics Commission, will present "Building the Relationship: Will We Trust Government Again?”
The presentation will focus on the decline in citizens’ confidence in government as research demonstrates social, political and economic developments since the 1960s have fundamentally affected our ability to trust government.
Binstock has served as the executive director of the North Dakota Ethics Commission since September 2022. She graduated from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2006, with a bachelor’s in biology, society and environment. She then continued her education, earning a master’s in education, teaching, and learning from Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota, in 2009.
Binstock taught biology, chemistry and physics at Aberdeen Central High School in Aberdeen from 2007 to 2009. She then attended the University of North Dakota School of Law and graduated magna cum laude in 2012.
Binstock began her legal career as an associate with Zuger Kirmis & Smith, focusing on insurance defense and litigation. In 2013, she accepted a term law clerk position with the Honorable Judge Daniel Hovland with the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota. She transitioned to serve as the pro se law clerk for the District Court in 2014 and continued to serve in that role until commencing her service with the Ethics Commission.
Binstock also has been an adjunct professor at the University of Mary and is owner of Simple Sugar LLC, a local cotton candy company.
The presentation will also be available online on Zoom:
https://ndsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvdOGurTIjHtw-4N25qRYz8iDkzltVsNx2
Meeting ID: 972 3863 9948
Passcode: 925562
Questions or comments can be sent to Dennis Cooley at dennis.cooley@ndsu.edu or ndsu.npei@ndsu.edu.
