Lifting Every Voice: "I'd love to understand your thinking better."

Excelsior’s Center for Social Justice, the YWCA of the Greater Capital Region, the Underground Railroad Education Center, and  the Civic Engagement Rope Team are thrilled to invite you to participate in our 2025 democratic engagement dialogue sessions.

How do we lift every voice? Let’s explore together the meaning of democracy and ways to engage with others when we all have different ways of thinking. Join us for a series of conversations hosted by Excelsior’s Center for Social Justice and the Civic Engagement Rope Team.

During each session, the conversation will focus on:

• Our collective exploration of the meaning and power of democracy as a way of thinking and a lifestyle.
• Strategies to create and engage in dialogue that transcends disagreement, promotes inclusion, leverages our diversity, and strengthens democracy.
• Concrete actions we could pursue to participate and promote democracy in our daily environment

This particular session will be hybrid and it will be hosted by the YWCA of the Greater Capital Region located at 21st First St. in Troy, NY. You are welcome to join us in person or virtually at the link you will be provided when registering below. Please register your attendance either way.

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