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Citizen Ballot Initiatives: A New Tool for Election Reform

By March 4, 2021March 5th, 2021No Comments

Hosted by the Harvard Ash Center

The last several years have seen the growing and successful use of citizen-initiated ballot initiatives to win major election reforms. Some of the most successful, well-funded, and engaging campaigns have had unlikely initiators: small groups of everyday Americans fed up with waiting for someone else to take on an issue and deciding to do it themselves. Organizers of successful citizen-driven campaigns from different parts of the country, which beat the odds and succeeded, will discuss their issues, their motivations, and how they won.

Panelists include:
  • Chris Melody Fields-Figueredo, Executive Director, Ballot Initiative Strategy
  • Center Katie Fahey, Executive Director, The People, Michigan
  • Desmond Meade, Executive Director, Florida Rights Restoration Coalition
  • Cara McCormick, Co-Founder, Committee for Ranked Choice Voting in Maine
  • Dina Butcher, Co-Founder, Badass Grandmas of North Dakota
  • Carolyn Lukensmeyer (Moderator), Board Member, National Institute of Civil Discourse

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School.

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