Founder and Executive Director of The Civic Canopy

Joined September 2009
I have reached a new level of mediocrity in my life. I just finished the mini crossword in under a minute, did the Wordle in 3, the Quordle in 7, and the Worldle in 1, and started Googling "what do you call it when you..." as if I had just completed a decathlon or something.
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Twitter is full of straw-man arguments that enrage and divide us. Luckily, scientists have just discovered a groundbreaking cure! 👇
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Enjoying @JessicaYellin as host on @LRCkcrw . Conversation with @JonHaidt was a great example of what is so often missing here: dialogue, depth and nuance.
Reading @ezraklein and @FrankBruni today makes me realize that increasing vaccination rates is more about identity than information. Defining each other as "the vaccinated" and "the unvaccinated" is medically accurate but socially unproductive. We share a common identity: people,
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some vaccinated and some not yet. Whether its through a change of heart or mind, a coming mandate, or contracting the virus, few will remain unvaccinated for good. But we can speed up how soon we get there by reducing the us/them divide. Its just us.
Someday politicians will have one day to raise money and we will spend the rest of the year investing in collaboration. Join @TheCivicCanopy on #ColoradoGivesDay as we Campaign for Collaboration. Donate at bit.ly/33EI0Tt
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It’s been devastating and also revelatory. It’s been amazing to read to my kids every night and not be killing the planet on a plane. I will never travel 4 meetings as much again. I #reimagine us expressing our interconnected humanity w/out flying to c each other. Happy May Day!
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Equity is the bottom line of balance sheets. It should also be the bottom line of how we measure our success as a society. I commit to helping rewrite the rules of the game so we all win. #Reimagine Equity.
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.@onefairwage, @nowthisnews & @theappeal are hosting special a town hall tomorrow to #REIMAGINE the service industry w/ workers, employers & special guest @SenGillibrand at 2:30PM EST. Watch live: Facebook.com/NowThisPolitics or here on Twitter @theappeal
"What are each of us normally not that these times require us to be?". Thank you @SamanthaJPower for always being a light in the darkness.
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This executive order hereby creates the Office of Saving People Money on Health Care within the Governor’s office. #BoldlyFWD #COPolitics
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Congratulations to David Eves of @XcelEnergyCO and Jon Goldin-Dubois of @wradv for the "radical collaboration" it took to cut coal emissions by 60% while creating clean energy jobs. Unlikely partnerships producing results our grandchildren will be proud of @jonnygd
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thank you @carvellwallace for this brilliant piece. A must read. Why ‘Black Panther’ Is a Defining Moment for Black America nytimes.com/2018/02/12/magaz…
I guess overcoming our partisan divides is a matter of national security: "American intelligence agencies believe that Russia’s spy services see the deep political divisions in the United States as a fresh opportunity to inflame partisan tensions." nyti.ms/2Bm0aw7
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What does it take to tackle problems collaboratively? 10/17 webinar:@Tamarack_Inst and @adamkahane w/ @reospartners. ht.ly/sNHV30f8cO8
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Want To Heal Political And Social Divisions? Here Are Some Ideas. buff.ly/2t4xBQr
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Mobilization without polarization--a dialogue with state staff from @SenCoryGardner and Sen. @SenBennetCO xitter.cf/COCivicHealth/status/8…
Join us at our event next Tuesday, March 14th, where we will hear from people across the political spectrum. us12.campaign-archive1.com/?…