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Disconnected: How the Broadband Gap Holds Rural America Back

Kathryn de Wit

Date & Time: October 12, 2026, 5:30 pm–6:45 pm

Location: 62 Willard Building

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Kathryn de Wit, director of the Broadband Access Initiative for the Pew Charitable Trusts will join Penn State faculty members Christopher Ali and Sascha Meinrath as three of the nation's leading broadband researchers discuss what the data shows about rural Pennsylvania and rural America — and which state and federal interventions deserve priority as historic broadband funding is allocated. The event is free and open to the public.

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