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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.

  • Civic Renewal Conversation

    Becca Kearl

    Civic life encompasses the infinite ways that people may connect and contribute to their community and society: from voting in an election or organizing a neighborhood block-party, to standing up for a just cause or supporting arts in our parks. For some time, however, many facets of civic life have been in decline. This conversation is an opportunity…

  • Resetting the Table: Wisdom from Conflict

    Liz Joyner

    This podcast episode of Village SquareCast will drop on February 23rd. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts or at https://podfollow.com/villagesquarecast/view.  As part of our spring 2024 virtual lecture series, “UNUM: Democracy Reignited,” we’ll engage international expertise in service of quelling increasingly dangerous divisions here at home. Drawing on decades of experience addressing…

  • Fragile Neighborhoods with Seth Kaplan

    Liz Joyner

    This podcast episode of Village SquareCast will drop on March 28th. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts or at https://podfollow.com/villagesquarecast/view.  Too many of us live in neighborhoods plagued by rising crime, school violence, family disintegration, addiction, alienation, and despair. Even the wealthiest neighborhoods are not immune; while poverty exacerbates these challenges, they…

  • Over Zero with Rachel Brown

    Liz Joyner

    We can feel the tectonic shifts occurring in our country’s civic life—where the once unthinkable specter of political violence isn’t as unimaginable as it once was, where too many of us think of fellow citizens as direct threats to us, and where what were once durable institutional guardrails simply are not holding.  We’ll be joined…

  • Warschaw Conference on Practical Politics

    Kamy Akhavan

    The USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future is honored to host its annual Warschaw Conference on Practical Politics on January 30, 2024 in Town & Gown at USC.  In collaboration with POLITICO and Unite America, this conference brings together top experts from politics, government, media, and academia to explore the most pressing issues in…

  • US Senate Candidates Debate at USC

    Kamy Akhavan

    The USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future, FOX 11 Los Angeles, and POLITICO will co-host this year’s first debate for California’s Senate race at 6 p.m. PST, Monday, Jan. 22, at USC’s Bovard Auditorium.   The four California candidates invited to participate in the debate include Democratic U.S. Reps. Adam Schiff, Katie Porter and Barbara…