RVDW October 2025 Meeting: Author Timothy Heaphy

We’re pleased to welcome author and attorney Timothy Heaphy as our guest speaker at our RVDW October 2025 meeting. Our meeting falls just 10 days before Virginia’s November 4th general election. Heaphy’s insights and his discussion of his 2024 Harbingers: What January 6 and Charlottesville Reveal About Rising Threats to American Democracy will certainly inform our understanding of the current state of American democracy. (Pre-order links below.)

About Our Speaker
Timothy Heaphy
Chief Investigative Counsel of the House of Representatives Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. He also oversaw the independent investigation into the August 12, 2017 riot in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is currently partner at Willkie, Farr & Gallagher LLP and previously served as the Obama-appointed US Attorney for the Western District of Virginia. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his family. (Source: Penguin Random House)

Heaphy offers sought-after expertise on the intersection of our legal system with democracy, business, and society. (Source: Speaker: Tim Heaphy | Leading Authorities Speakers)

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Thank you to Rainy Day Reads, local Roanoke bookseller and an RVDW 2025 sponsor, for coordinating these orders for us.

From the publisher: As the lead investigator into both the 2017 racist riot in Charlottesville and the January 6 insurrection, Tim Heaphy has a unique perspective on the cynicism and anger that also fueled Trump’s return to the Presidency. All 3 events, both the violent protests and the peaceful and lawful decisions made at the ballot box in November of 2024, reflect an increasing lack of trust in institutions among a growing number of Americans.

In his page-turning book, Heaphy shares what he saw and came to understand about what those events say about the state of American democracy. He examines how and why they took place with the hope that understanding the contexts of these events will be a crucial and helpful step toward avoiding similar episodes of political violence in the years ahead.

Readers will travel alongside Heaphy as he organized his team and structured the massive investigations they were about to undertake, as he interacts with politicians and members of law enforcement, interviews planners, perpetrators, and bystanders, gathers and sorts evidence, and compels and records testimony in order to create a record for today as well as future generations. (Source: Penguin Random House)

We look forward to seeing everyone at Montano’s, 3733 Franklin Rd SW. Our program begins at 12:00 noon followed by a brief business meeting. If ordering lunch, please arrive between 11:15 and 11:45 to place your order. While an RSVP is not required, we appreciate you taking time to help us get a head count for our meeting.