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Centennial Conference - February 28, 2003

Panel Discussion
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COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION & CIVIC DIALOGUE

DUDLEY COCKE, Director, Roadside Theater in Appalachia
DENISE COLLAZO, Executive Director, San Francisco Organizing Project (SFOP) of the Pacific Institute on Community Organizing
RICHARD DELEON, Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies; Founder and Former Director, Public Research Institute at San Francisco State University
GRACE DYRNESS, Associate Director, Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California
DAVID LEE, Executive Director, San Francisco Chinese American Voter Education Committee
VERA MIAO, Project Director, Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing
GASPER RIVERA-SALGADO, Assistant Professor in Sociology, American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California

Moderated by CRAIG MCGARVEY, Former Director, Civic Culture Program, The James Irvine Foundation


Statistics indicate that Americans' participation in community, through organizations and affiliations, has dropped substantially in the past 30 years. As part of our Centennial Assembly earlier this year, we brought together a panel to look at whether this is in fact the case. And even if it is, we asked, what are some examples of success of citizens contributing through organizations? And how can civic discourse be strengthened?

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