Healthy Democracy partnered with Engaged Public and The Civic Canopy to pilot a Citizens Initiative Review process at the state level in Colorado in 2014. A citizen panel of 20 Colorado voters – chosen at random from the voting population of Colorado and balanced to fairly reflect the state’s voting population – evaluated Proposition 105, which dealt with the labeling of GMO foods.
The clip below features 2014 Colorado CIR citizen panelists Bill Wright and Ben Hamilton and Brenda Morrison of Engaged Public discussing Prop 105 and the CIR process. (From the October 17, 2014 episode of Colorado State of Mind on Rocky Mountain PBS.)
Exciting development from our friends across the pond @SortitionNow: a new int'l network for lottery-deliberation advocates of all stripes – individuals and groups. (And they've conveniently made the timing of the launch event Western Hemisphere–friendly!) Free and open to all. twitter.com/SortitionNow/s…
Thrilled to participate in our first meeting as a member of the OECD Innovative Citizen Participation Network -- and to present on the Oregon Citizen Assembly on COVID! @ClaudiaChwalisz@ICesnulaityte@OECDgov
Honored to be part of a landmark new @OECD report on lottery-selected deliberative democracy. Significantly, Chapter 5 proposes some of the first int'l principles for these types of democratic institutions. We contributed to them and couldn't agree more with how they turned out. twitter.com/ClaudiaChwalis…
After too many years working in the advertising industry as a Creative Director, one day I came to the liberating conclusion that I no longer wanted to sell people things they didn’t need. This reluctant admission was instantly followed by a life-changing question: what if I take the skills I have for selling people stuff + Read More
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 + Read More
Over the summer, Healthy Democracy was grateful to welcome Annabelle LaRosa as our 2020 Nevins Fellow. The Nevins Fellowship, through the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, provides students with the opportunity to complete internships at organizations that bring people together to solve common problems. From June through August, Annabelle lent her perspective and + Read More