Assuming Democracy: Adam Says Hello
After too many years working in the advertising industry as a Creative Director, one day I came to the liberating...
After too many years working in the advertising industry as a Creative Director, one day I came to the liberating...
It has been my great privilege to have served the Healthy Democracy organization over the past 4 ½ years alongside...
Over the summer, Healthy Democracy was grateful to welcome Annabelle LaRosa as our 2020 Nevins Fellow. The Nevins Fellowship, through...
For Immediate Release August 12, 2020 Media Contact: Robin Teater, Executive Director Ph: 503-841-6865; Email: robin@healthydemocracy.org WHAT: Oregon Citizen...
For Immediate Release June 30, 2020 Media Contact: Robin Teater, Executive Director Ph: 503-381-1196; Email: robin@healthydemocracy.org PORTLAND, Ore. –...
Everyone is talking about online engagement these days. Yes, those are eight different links to eight different articles, all from one quick dive into social media this morning....
Healthy Democracy’s good friend and former Board member, John Frohnmayer, shares his thoughts on what we are learning from the...
I wanted to take a moment this month, in this extraordinary time in our country, to do a simple check...
In early-March 2020, HD's Linn Davis observed France's national Citizens' Convention on Climate. He reports on the potential influence of the Convention, and suggests questions for deliberative practitioners to consider.
It’s a pretty cold time of year to surf real waves in the North Atlantic, so it’s a good thing...
The Oregon legislature just started their short session on February 1. Senator Arnie Roblan, who sponsored the bill that put...
For a few weeks in September, we had the pleasure of hosting a visiting undergraduate student, Jillian Gilburne, who is...
Farres Alkhaiyer joined Healthy Democracy in August as a fellow with the 2019-2020 Community Solutions Program, a prestigious fellowship program run...
On September 21 at Concordia University, Healthy Democracy hosted the 3rd, and final, component of the 2019 Community Oregon program,...
On Saturday, September 14, at the C Bar C Ranch in Powell Butte, Oregon, Citizen University, Healthy Democracy, Oregon Humanities,...
Monday, August 12 marked Farres Alkhaiyer’s first day with Healthy Democracy. Farres joins Healthy Democracy as a fellow in the 2019-2020...
Five thousand randomly selected Milwaukie households were mailed a letter this week, giving individuals in those households a chance to...
John Frohnmayer was the keynote speaker at the Healthy Democracy 10th Anniversary Celebration on April 8, 2019. Enjoy his words...
The Portland metro area is hosting its first-ever Citizens’ Initiative Review (CIR), facilitated by Healthy Democracy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit based...
The Portland metro area is hosting its first-ever Citizens’ Initiative Review (CIR), facilitated by Healthy Democracy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit based...
Got This Letter in Your Mail? You’ve won the democracy lottery! If you received the letter, you have a chance...
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.
Executive Director Robin Teater reviews our accomplishments in 2017 and looks ahead to the new year.
HD's summer 2017 Nevins Fellow, Andy Puthenpurayil, argues that one often-distorted category of ballot measures – those dealing with 'three strikes' laws and other criminal justice matters – could particularly benefit from the clarity of a CIR-style review.
Program Director Jessie Conover writes a few goodbyes on her leaving Healthy Democracy and the world of deliberative democracy.