Name: Our Cities: Participatory Budgeting for Inclusion and Equity
Start: 2018-06-23T11:00:00-0400
End: 2018-06-23T12:30:00-0400

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Our Cities: Participatory Budgeting for Inclusion and Equity

Participatory Budgeting (PB) has been used in the United States for nearly 10 years in cities, districts and schools. What has the impact been in communities so far? What opportunities are there to use PB to make democracy more equitable and inclusive? In this workshop, we’ll cover PB basics and focus on how people are using this as a way to rebuild civic power.

Speakers

Scott Barish

Olga Bautista

Director of Community Leadership, Our City Our Voice

Maria Hadden

Executive Director, Our City Our Voice

Rebecca Hollenbach

Vincent Russell

Graduate Part-Time Instructor, University of Colorado Boulder

I'm a doctoral student studying the ways communicative practices promote democracy, activism, and social justice. For three years, I was the president of the grassroots organizing effort Participatory Budgeting Greensboro that secured the city’s first PB process in 2015 with $500,000... Read More →