It has been my great privilege to have served the Healthy Democracy organization over the past 4 ½ years alongside some of the most dedicated staff and volunteer board members one could imagine. First and foremost, my thanks goes to each of them for making this work possible and impactful, and equally importantly, for making […]
“The Hope and Promise of Our Democracy”: Robin Says Goodbye Read More »
I wanted to take a moment this month, in this extraordinary time in our country, to do a simple check in with our fellow democracy advocates. One of the things that the current health crisis in the United States has done is to remind us that we are all in this together, just as we
Democracy as Community: Pandemic Edition Read More »
Into the Central Oregon barn walked students with purple hair, red Chuck Taylor high tops, and silver nose rings. They were gay and straight, male and female; each of them young, and all of them environmental studies majors from Lewis and Clark College in Portland.
Greeting them were farmers in Oregon State baseball caps and ranchers with silver hair beneath cowboy hats, and small timber operators with the scars to prove it. Some were young, but most were less young, and all had lived their lives and were making their living on the soil of the small Crook County community of Powell Butte.
This is What Democracy Looks Like: Notes from Conversations in a Crook County Barn Read More »
Executive Director Robin Teater reviews our accomplishments in 2017 and looks ahead to the new year.
2017: A Year in Review Read More »
Robin Teater writes a goodbye to our beloved program director, Jessie Conover.
To Have Without Holding: A Farewell Message Read More »
