2019 Civic Action Academy

County governments are often overlooked as agents of change. Through role-playing as government agencies, participants will be encouraged to examine local government authority and how they can work with their community to enact crucial change.

The fossil fuel era was built on a vision of the world through the lens of scarcity, people either had fossil fuels or they didn’t. The future must be build on abundance with clean energy depending on human ingenuity working with nature. For example, we will never run out of the sun. We will look at this transformation currently underway from a values based framework, especially in values shared by many of the worlds’ faith traditions.

Do you feel like you're ready to take the next step? To make others feel inspired and take action? Then this workshop is for you! We'll explore what it means to be a civic agent - and no, not someone that works for a federal agency. Civic Agency is a framework that emphasizes all people's capacity to be effective problem solvers and have agency or power to address the issues they care about.

The Baldwin Leadership Fellows, look to make change in their community though community service projects. This session will enable others to take action through their own experiences to benefit the communities around them.