How to Use Civic Language to Bridge Divides | Equity Signature Series
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Join us for an engaging and insightful conversation with Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) on how to use civic language to bridge divides.
In October 2024, PACE released “How to Talk Bridgey” – a guide for the democracy and civic field that shares lessons for how to use civic terms, including terms like racial equity and social justice, in a way to connect with the broadest possible audience–no matter how different those audiences might be in other respects. It pulls on PACE’s five years of research on Americans’ perceptions of civic language and applies it to a moment in our nation’s history we might most need to talk bridgier in order to advance equity and pluralism.
During this webinar, the PACE team will share:
- Lessons from their research for how to talk bridgey
- The civic terms that are inherently bridgey
- An overview of the signals civic terms send to different demographic groups, including distinctions between rural and urban communities in the Midwest
- A deeper look into the term racial equity and related DEI terms, with data-informed guidance on communication and conversation strategies for different audiences
- Space to ask questions from the research experts
About CMF’s Equity Signature Series
Over the course of the year, you’re invited to engage in a special slate of conversations and deep learning centered in equity, and racial equity imperatively. We’re featuring thought leaders from Michigan and across the country in a series of virtual programs that deeply explore and examine the ways that we can, and must, move the needle to advance systemic change. This CMF signature series will be a time to ask ourselves the hard questions, challenge our thinking, inspire action and lift up the work of foundations, nonprofits and other peers and partners as we learn from and with each other on our journeys to advance equity.
Siri Erickson
Siri supports learning and experimentation initiatives, including Faith In/And Democracy and the Civic Language Perceptions Project, as well as member communications. She joined the team after working in leadership, learning, and strategy positions in the non-profit, faith, and higher education sectors. Siri most recently held DEI, learning, and religious life roles in higher education and was the founding director of the Gustavus Academy for Faith, Science, and Ethics. She is a graduate of Carleton College and Claremont School of Theology (M.Div., D.Min.). She lives in St. Peter, Minnesota, with her husband and two children.
Kevin Singer
Kevin is Communications Support Lead at PACE after six years of media relations and PR experience for a non-profit and two research organizations. Kevin grew up at the intersection of his mother’s evangelical Christianity and his father’s reform Jewish roots, learning how to appreciate deep difference at home. In 2015, while pursuing an M.A. in systematic theology from Wheaton College, he co-founded Neighborly Faith, an organization equipping evangelical Christians to live out neighborly values when engaging people of other faiths. He also holds an M.A. in higher education from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he now calls home with his four young kids, dog Sheeps, and cats Han and Chewie. Kevin is a prolific writer on religion and politics with placements in WashPo, The Hill, Religion News, Christianity Today, and more.
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