In the run-up to the contentious 2016 presidential election, Village Square co-founder Liz Joyner was invited to join a panel on “Political Dialogue” to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program.

There are dozens of organizations that also have touched the lives of Americans across the country. From Village Square in Tallahassee… to Kitchen Table Democracy in Portland, Ore., civility-focused organizations are springing up in virtually every corner of country.

“No matter how you want to address it,
race is a common thread through
every fabric of our lives…”

In “Americans must take a stand
against our own extremists:”
“The Village Square…brings citizens
together to a bipartisan, formal debate
on issues crucial to the community.”

Come here often? And with the most cliché of all pickup lines, the 2016 “Speed Date Your Local Leaders” began.

What would Thomas Jefferson think about Tallahassee issues? Well, the curious need look no further for those answers than Clay Jenkinson, host of the popular radio program and podcast “The Jefferson Hour.”

Demagoguery is playing on the fears, the darker energies,
the prejudices, and the uncivil desires of the people…
that degrade the possibility of true resolution of our problems.