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They have some civic media/tech topics but will bring you out of the civic tech bubble into the democratic participation bubble ... then we can pop each others bubbles. :-) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Matt Leighninger" <[email protected]> Date: Jun 12, 2015 12:17 PM Subject: Frontiers of Democracy 2015 registration deadline To: <[email protected]> Cc: Register now for the Frontiers of Democracy conference! View this email in your browser <http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=479e3eae65aad94d74fe01dd6&id=18c1be1b77&e=f1cb09488b> Tomorrow is deadline day for Frontiers of Democracy 2015 June 12 is the deadline to register for this year's Frontiers of Democracy conference, which takes place June 25-27 in downtown Boston. 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Featured in *TechCrunch* as one of the “20 Most Innovative People in Democracy”, Tiago's work focuses on the intersection of technology, citizen engagement and governance. - Harry Boyte leads the Center for Democracy and Citizenship at Augsburg College. Boyte has been an architect of a “public work” approach to civic engagement and democracy promotion, a conceptual framework on citizenship that has gained world-wide recognition for its theoretical innovations and its practical effectiveness. - Hahrie Han teaches political science at Wellesley College. Her two most recent books are* How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century* and *Groundbreakers: How Obama’s 2.1 Million Activists Transformed Field Campaigns in America *(co-authored with Elizabeth McKenna) - Diana Hess is Senior Vice President of the Spencer Foundation and Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her most recent book, with Paula McAvoy, is *The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education.* - Caroline Lee teaches sociology at Lafayette College. Her most recent books include *Do-it-Yourself Democracy, *based on her ethnography of the public engagement industry, and *Democratizing Inequalities*, an edited volume with Ed Walker and Mike McQuarrie about the dramatic expansion of democratic practices in an era of stark economic inequalities. - Denise Merrill is Connecticut’s 73rd Secretary of the State. In that capacity, she has focused on modernizing Connecticut’s election process and making voting easier. She also co-chairs the State’s Civic Health Advisory Group, which is responsible for implementing action strategies identified in Connecticut’s 2012 Civic Health Report. She has a longstanding commitment to civic education and expanding democratic participation. - Abhi Nemani is currently the first Chief Data Officer for the City of Los Angeles. Formerly, he helped build, launch, and run the national non-profit, Code for America. - Ajume Wingo teaches philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder. His last book is entitled *Veil Politics in Liberal Democratic States*, and he is collaborating with Michael Kruse on *The Citizen,* a book about how Africans can move beyond where their history has put them and begin to make their own future and secure their own political freedom. - Brenda Wright is Vice President of Legal Strategies at Demos. She has led many progressive legal and policy initiatives on voting rights, campaign finance reform, redistricting, election administration and other democracy and electoral reform issues and is a nationally known expert in these areas. Another diverse and fascinating set of people are leading this year's learning exchange sessions, which are now listed on the* Fro <http://deliberative-democracy.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=479e3eae65aad94d74fe01dd6&id=d1e33e52ae&e=f1cb09488b>**ntiers of Democracy <http://deliberative-democracy.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=479e3eae65aad94d74fe01dd6&id=5cf85ae8ac&e=f1cb09488b>* site. They will take on a wide variety of topics, from civic media to community-police relationships to text messaging to equity in deliberation. Finally, as way to build on the publication of *Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy*, a new book from Tina Nabatchi and Matt Leighninger, we'll be conducting an unusual experiment: conference participants will collectively create a graphic novel that illustrates how civic infrastructure might look, how it could operate, and how it might be built. (We mean "graphic" as in a narrative with pictures; sorry, this isn’t the civic version of *Fifty Shades of Grey*!) Participants will form into teams; each team will be given a set of images - and be invited to contribute new images - that they will annotate and compile into their own "chapter" for the novel. In all these ways, Frontiers will once again be pushing the boundaries of what a conference - and democracy - can be. We hope to see you there! 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