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Citizen Connect (ARCHIVED VERSION) was a nonpartisan doorway to civic action. This site preserves content from over 600 organizations – right, left, and center – previously working to strengthen our democracy. All materials are provided for archival and informational purposes only and are no longer actively updated.

  • Conversation Collective hosted by

    Karen Gross

    Citizen Discourse’s Conversation Collective is a community of folks from around the country — and even the globe!! — who gather for a Citizen Discourse style conversation. We started these conversations at the very beginning of the pandemic as an opportunity to connect more meaningfully with folks using the magic of zoom. We converted it…

  • Who’s Laughing Now?

    Graham Bodie

    Comedy has arguably been one of the most protected forms of democratic free speech, but in recent years there has been an emergent chorus of voices seeking to limit the freedom of comedic speech. While some have argued that there are jokes a comedian must never tell, or topics that must be placed beyond the…

  • Let’s Talk: Is Gen Z Falling Behind in the Economy?

    Manu Meel

    Is Gen Z falling behind in the economy? We are inviting students from around the nation to discuss this important, relevant topic with their counterparts on other campuses. Just as our chapters do on colleges across the country, we will create a space to practice disagreement and critical thinking. This will allow them to interact…

  • THE FIRST STEP FILM SCREENING

    Steve Higgs

    We are hosting a screening of the film, THE FIRST STEP, about Van Jones and the bipartisan coalition who fought to pass landmark criminal justice reform amidst the divisiveness of the Trump presidency. Specifically, the film focuses on the passing of 2018 The First Step Act, which has allowed more than 20,000 people to-date to…

  • Antisemitism is Everyone’s Concern

    Randee Wilding

    This presentation offers a working definition of antisemitism. It explains how antisemitism is used to divide groups from each other and how it hurts everyone—Jews and non-Jews alike. It describes why antisemitism is particularly harmful to working-class people and how it is used to shield those who profit from an unfair system. And it concludes…

  • PURPLE Film Screening and Skill-Building

    Melissa Weintraub

    This short film from Emmy-Award-winning Transient Pictures and Resetting the Table tells the story of everyday Americans with opposing viewpoints addressing their differences head-on and discovering the concerns and humanity that lie behind each other’s positions. Filmed in a swing region with the greatest concentration of counties that flipped Obama-to-Trump in the 2016 presidential election,…