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Strengthening Democracy Challenge

Working Together on Project

Bridging Divides & Strengthening Democracy

From Science to Practice

The Stanford Polarization and Social Change Lab, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Civic Health Project, and the Listen First Project convened “Bridging Divides & Strengthening Democracy: From Science to Practice,” a free, virtual, and practitioner-focused conference on September 29th, 2022.

We presented the approaches that most effectively reduced anti-democratic attitudes, support for political violence, and partisan animosity, explored data-driven approaches and best practices for implementing the Challenge's findings, and announced a new funding opportunity pairing academics and practitioners to implement and evaluate insights from the Challenge within relevant nonprofit organizations.

Recordings

Weren't able to make it? Please see our plenary videos here.

Conference Speakers

We were proud to welcome the following speakers:

Sharif Azami

Senior Program Officer

Fetzer Institute

Katherine Clayton

PhD Candidate

Stanford University

Gabriel Lenz

Professor of Political Science

University of California, Berkeley

Samantha Moore-Berg

Emile Bruneau Postdoctoral Researcher; Director, Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab

University of Pennsylvania

Nick Stagnaro

Post Doctoral Scholar, Human Collaboration Lab and Polarization and Social Change Lab

MIT and Stanford University

Alia Braley

PhD Student, Political Science

University of California, Berkeley

Tom Fishman

CEO

Starts With Us

Manu Meel

CEO

BridgeUSA

Chrystal Redekopp

Research Director, Polarization and Social Change Lab

Stanford University

Palma Strand

Co-founder and Research Director; Professor of Law and Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program

Civity; Creighton University

James Chu

Post Doctoral Scholar, Polarization and Social Change Lab

Stanford University

Nour Kteily

Professor of Management and Organizations

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Julia Minson

Associate Professor of Public Policy

Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Priya Shanker

Executive Director

Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society

Robb Willer

Professor of Sociology, Psychology (by courtesy), and Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business (by courtesy)

Stanford University

Schedule

This conference was co-hosted by:

With support from:

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