For 25 years, Everyday Democracy has coached 600+ communities in building capacity to organize to create equitable and inclusive change through a dialogue-to-change approach, which brings together people from diverse backgrounds and viewpoints to build relationships, talk, learn and create action together. This approach is replicable on a small or large scale, and for low resource communities, communities of color, and other disempowered communities. In this workshop, participants will learn how the approach can be used as a catalyst for community wide action and change around divisive urban issues like poverty, racial equity, police-community relations, food security, early childhood matters, and education reform. Participants will hear stories of real change from communities that have successfully used the approach. Participants will receive free, open source access to Everyday Democracy discussion guides, tools and resources, which can be used to benefit their existing work and communities.
Janée Woods Weber loves people of all kinds, NYC, and getting fired up about fixing our nation’s broken democracy. She hates racism and classism.
