Voices of Shaping Our Future Tobe Agency, The Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford University

In our final episode this season, we conclude Voices of Shaping Our Future by sitting down with a group thought leaders for a roundtable discussion about economic inequality.

In this episode of Voices of Shaping Our Future, we had the pleasure of talking with Kareem and Sierra — a recent graduate presently fulfilling his military service commitment and a college student who both attended the “Shaping Our Future” event in May.

We begin our discussion with Kareem and his thoughts on experiencing Shaping Our Future as a registered Independent, teaching people the importance of a dollar to help combat economic inequality, and his perspective on national service as an active member of the U.S. military.

We end our discussion with Sierra and her thoughts on electoral reform and how the concept of rank choice is a lot more common in everyday life than we may assume, her concerns surrounding universal basic income in an increasingly automated world, and how living in a rural community informed many of the discussions she had during our event.

In this episode of Voices of Shaping Our Future, we had the pleasure of talking with Fiona, Dean, and Seth — a trio of participants from our “Shaping Our Future” event in May.

We begin our discussion with Fiona and her thoughts on what it was like being a part of Shaping Our Future, the complications surrounding rank choice voting, and her expectations surrounding the minimum wage discussion — versus the talking points her group actually addressed.

We then hear from Dean and learn about the civil discussions he took part in during the Shaping Our Future event, the controversy surrounding the economic inequality portion of the discussions, and how his group approached the idea of national service.

And we end our discussion with Seth and his thoughts on the civilian climate corps and the concept of national service, the various economic inequality proposals that were discussed within his group, and the potential side effects of implementing a national universal basic income.

In this episode of Voices of Shaping Our Future, we had the pleasure of talking with Isobel and Tanner — a current college student and a college graduate. Despite being on opposite sides of the country, the two share similar outlooks on many of the issues that were discussed during the two-day event.

We begin our discussion with Isobel and her thoughts on electoral reform and her group’s reluctance with rank choice voting, the importance of engaging in conversations with each other, and the idea of national service.

We end our discussion with Tanner and his thoughts on the concept behind Shaping Our Future and why he participated in our event, his opinion on climate change and national service, and what economic inequality means to him.

In this special episode of Voices of Shaping Our Future, we’re excited to hear from a diverse group of thought leaders. The wide-ranging discussion is inspired by the Berggruen Institute’s Youth Environment Service (YES), a campaign to forefront youth voices in the climate fight and build commitments from governments to invest in jobs, national service, and other opportunities for young people in the fight against climate change.

In this episode of Voices of Shaping Our Future, we had the pleasure of talking with Kate and Benjamin – a current college student and a college graduate who both attended our event in May.

We begin our discussion with Kate and her thoughts on electoral reform skepticism, why we need to prioritize voter education, and differing opinions on climate change and the idea of national service.

We end our discussion with Ben and his thoughts on the importance of having conversations about climate change, society coming together on how to reach solutions for tomorrow’s problems, and how our voting system should be.