Process designer, convener, facilitator, and mediator focused on reinventing community participation, collaboration, and democracy for the 21st century.
Kansas City, Missouri
Joined March 2011
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Lauren Higgins retweeted
The @WhiteHouse #UnitedWeStand summit is a BIG DEAL. Major bipartisan commitments. A billion dollar philanthropic mobilization for pluralism. The paradigm is shifting. The new approach is as simple as it is significant. #RespectRelateCooperate whitehouse.gov/briefing-room…
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Here are 3 key innovations Citizens’ Assemblies & Deliberative Democracy hold for 21st-century democracies -- critical tools for our time:
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Galaxy brain - Do you know of examples of Transpartisan Organizing where unlikely coalitions were formed to create changes in public policy & their communities?
Please Share.
One from SF's history that inspires me:
hoodline.com/2015/10/how-the…
Lauren Higgins retweeted
Wyoming is 92% white.
California is 37% white.
A Wyoming voter has nearly 4x more influence than a California voter.
The Electoral College is racist. It must be abolished.
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Wondering how well Missouri's law and policy makers have responded to COVID-19 on the housing front in comparison to other states? Here you go: evictionlab.org/covid-policy… We're at the end. @GovParsonMO #ProtectMOTenants
Lauren Higgins retweeted
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Basic Income since 2013. Here's a list of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments, unconditional cash transfer studies, and cash dividend research.
The data speaks for itself.
Data: reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/wik… #basicincome
Lauren Higgins retweeted
Protip: when playing Monopoly, if you work together as a team and agree to not charge rent, all the players can become wealthy and successful by going around the board forever.
Lauren Higgins retweeted
on the bullshitization of academic life
chronicle.com/article/Are-Yo…
“No need for silence:” Art as Collective Address | Art Practical artpractical.com/feature/no-… #art #imagination #empathy #visbility
Lauren Higgins retweeted
Another unarmed black man turned into a hashtag, except #JamesShaw is the hero, not the victim. He disarmed a terrorist who was killing people with an AR-15. A good guy with heart defeats a bad guy with a gun. cnn.it/2vwmIbW
Not sure how much fantasy is here. Just a better #imagination for the #futureofwork "Artists envisioned the future of work, and the results are pure fantasy" - via @techreview technologyreview.com/s/61015…
Lauren Higgins retweeted
What does the office of the future look like? qz.com/1219480 via @qz
Lauren Higgins retweeted
The Future of Work, a History: America has a long, complicated track record of dreading that robots would take our jobs via @politico #futureofworkers politico.com/magazine/story/…
Workplaces are commons: Q&A with Sustainable Economies Law Center's Ricardo Nuñez and Chris Tittle (via @Shareable) shareable.net/blog/workplace… #futureofworks #transformingcapitalism #commons
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Alter Ego ow.ly/dOhM30jqYA4 videos on deep transformative change
How does work structure our lives? "Work, Sleep, What We Will" a… instagram.com/p/BhhV8fwHNlb1…
Exploring what is beyond GDP. Watching #transformingcapitalism live now, in a session on #doughnuteconomics presencing.org/#/programs/li… …
Lauren Higgins retweeted
PLEASE RT If you strenuously and unambiguously object to Trump firing Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein or Special Counsel Mueller.
Based on tonight's news, the chance one or both things will occur in the next two days, thereby ending the rule of law in America, is very high.
Diving into the Transforming #Capitalism Lab by @presencing_inst with this article by @ottoscharmer1 "Our Obsession With Economic Growth Ignores Everything That Makes Life Worthwhile" presencing.org/#/transformin…
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How Cooperation Richmond is empowering marginalized communities to build an equitable economy complementarycurrency.org/ho…