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Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe, October 11, 12-1 PM, Free lunch provided! University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St., Champaign, Democracy as a Way of Life, Harry Boyte, Civic Organizer and Theorist of Public Work Framework for Democracy and Citizenship and Marie Ström, Director of Education and Training, Institute of Public Life and Work

FF+CC: Democracy as a Way of Life

Event Type
Conference/Workshop
Sponsor
Diversity and Social Justice Education and University YMCA
Location
University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820
Date
Oct 11, 2024   12:00 - 1:00 pm  
Speaker
Harry Boyte & Marie Ström
Contact
Christine McConkey
E-Mail
cam18@illinois.edu
Phone
217-300-9786
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Originating Calendar
Diversity & Social Justice Education

Harry C. Boyte is a civic organizer and theorist of the public work framework of citizenship. In the 1960s, he worked as a field secretary for Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Founder of the international youth civic empowerment initiative Public Achievement, he is former director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship at the UMN and Emeritus Senior Scholar at Augsburg University. Boyte has authored eleven books on democracy, citizenship, and community organizing and his writings have appeared in Time, the New York Times, Political Theory, and elsewhere. He is married to Marie Ström, long time democracy educator. Marie Ström is co-founder and Director of Education and Training at the Institute for Public Life and Work. Originally from South Africa, for twenty years she directed the democracy education program at the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa), an independent, non-profit organization that played a significant role in facilitating that country’s democratic transition. Ström conducted citizen leadership training across the continent of Africa and elsewhere, working with professionals from diverse backgrounds as well as grassroots leaders. In partnership with her husband, Harry Boyte, she now organizes workshops on democracy, citizen professionalism, and non-violence.

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