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Over the past few years, many Oregonians have found meaning and connection through what were once known as the domestic arts. Tasks once considered obsolete, such as knitting and baking from scratch, are at the forefront of the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) movement. This renewed interest in the home and handmade things is multigenerational and expanding. Might increased attention to our most personal spaces be connected to the tending of our common civic spaces? Wendy Willis, deputy director for national programs at the National Policy Consensus Center, will examine the connections between domestic life and a healthy civil society, asking participants to consider whether blending together these two notions might help to create a new foundation for civic and political life in Oregon.
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Wendy Willis is the deputy director for national programs at the Policy Consensus Initiative and the National Policy Consensus Center at Portland State University. Prior to joining PCI/NPCC, Willis was the executive director for City Club of Portland. She has also served as an assistant public defender for the District of Oregon and a law clerk to Chief Justice Wallace P. Carson, Jr. of the Oregon Supreme Court. Willis is also a senior fellow of the American Leadership Forum Oregon, an active volunteer in the local food-to-school movement, and a poet who has published poems in a variety of local, regional, and national journals. She graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown Law Center and holds a BA from Willamette University.
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