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10:30am EST

Collaborative Governance: Building People Power Beyond Elections

Friday December 13, 2024 10:30am - 11:20am EST

How do we move past electoral cycles to ensure that real change is felt by the communities who need it most? More so than any particular civic engagement, a burgeoning practice of collaborative governance holds the greatest promise of giving people the power to truly drive meaningful change. Across the country, policymakers, advocates and grassroots leaders are employing collaborative governance to build lasting power and to win justice for their communities. This is the second of a two-part, repeating series in which speakers will share inspiring stories of this new practice at work, giving the audience glimpses of a future political reality they will find irresistible–one in which intersectional problems are met with intersectional responses, and in which the people most impacted by policy have true power in shaping it.

Speakers

Hudson McCormick

SiX Staff Session Lead

Stacey E Shinn

SiX Staff Session Lead

Teresa Melendez

Chief Executive Officer, Tall Tree Indigenous Education Consulting

Teresa Melendez, a citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Nation from Southwest Michigan, holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology and a master's degree in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education. She assumes the role of CEO at Nevada Native Solutions and Director of Programs with... Read More →

Lisa Stifler

Attorney, Organizer, Public Service Staffer

Lisa Stifler is a North Carolina-based attorney, organizer, and public service staffer. She has almost two decades of experience in state and federal issue-based legislative, regulatory, ballot measure, and legal campaigns on a variety of issues, including healthcare, consumer and... Read More →

Friday December 13, 2024 10:30am - 11:20am EST
International 5 Breakout

Breakout, Breakout Block F

Host Organization State Innovation Exchange