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Everyday Democracy Executive Director Martha L. McCoy

Biography

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Past speaking engagements on topics of civic engagement, leadership, diversity, democracy and racism, and education reform include:

• United Way (Baltimore, Maryland)
• Federal Reserve Bank (Washington, D.C.)
• Tri-State Diversity Conference sponsored by the Cooperative Extension Services (Kentucky State University, University of Kentucky, Ohio State University, and Purdue University)(Clarksville, Indiana)
• National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (Denver, Colorado)
• Michigan Association of School Boards (Traverse City, Michigan)
• Capacity Building and Civic Reengagement Forum, sponsored by the Connecticut Commission on Children (Hartford, Connecticut)
• Midwest Race Relations Institute (Columbus, Ohio)
• U.S. Department of Labor (Washington, D.C.)
• Study Circles Kickoff Event (Lima, Ohio)
• Study Circles Action Forum (Wilmington, Delaware)
• Funders Committee for Citizen Participation, Soros Foundation (New York, New York)
• Institute for Civic Leadership (Portland, Maine)
• Leadership Conference, University of Vermont, School of Government (Burlington, Vermont)
• Neighborhood Learning Conference (St. Paul, Minnesota)
• National Association of Human Rights Workers (Columbus, Ohio)
• Kickoff Event for the Hartford Study Circles Program on Racism (Hartford, Connecticut)
• Annual Prayer Breakfast (Springfield, Illinois)

Select Writings

• Panelist presentation at "How broken is our democracy? And how can we fix it?," by Martha L. McCoy, Brookings Institution half-day conference, June 1, 2010.
• "Politics as Unusual: How Local Communities Are Reinventing Democracy" by Martha L. McCoy and Julie Fanselow, Movement Vision Lab Blog, January 25, 2008.
• “Mix It Up: Crossing Social Boundaries as a Pathway to Youth Civic Engagement” by Biren (Ratnesh) A. Nagda, Martha L. McCoy, and Molly H. Barrett, National Civic Review, spring 2006.
• The Deliberative Democracy Handbook: Strategies for Effective Civic Engagement in the 21st Century,“Study Circles: Local Deliberation as the Cornerstone of Deliberative Democracy” by Patrick Scully and Martha L. McCoy, 2005.
• “An end to the blame game”  by Martha L. McCoy, Amy Malick and Matt Leighninger, Principal Leadership, December 1, 2003.
• “Deliberative Dialogue to Expand Civic Engagement: What Kind of Talk Does Democracy Need?”  by Martha L. McCoy and Patrick Scully, National Civic Review, summer 2002.
• “Democratic Work Stations: An Image for Human Rights Today” by Martha McCoy, Journal of Intergroup Relations, fall 1997.
• “Art for Art’s and Democracy’s Sake: The potential of public art to foster civic dialogue”  by Martha L. McCoy, Public Art Review, fall/winter 1997.

• “Taking the Lead: Engaging the Public in an Honest, Democratic Discussion of Race" by Martha L. McCoy, Governing Diverse Communities: A Focus on Race and Ethnic Relations (National League of Cities’ Local Officials Guide), 1997.