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The Conversation Project offers Oregon nonprofits free programs that engage community members in thoughtful, challenging conversations about ideas critical to our daily lives and our state's future. Conversations are facilitated by some of Oregon's most respected humanities scholars.
The problem with this country, according to some disenchanted Americans, is that there are no real leaders anymore. What we most need, they say, are people of our Founding Fathers’ caliber, or another Abe Lincoln or Franklin Roosevelt, to step forward with the courage and wisdom necessary to solve our daunting problems. An opposing point of view holds that in a state or country with free and open elections, people get the government they deserve. Do the failures of modern governance and politics have more to do with a crisis of leadership or a crisis of citizenship? Join Jeff Golden for a conversation about what we as citizens can do to improve the political discourse and the quality of public life.
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Jeff Golden majored in agitation in the Ivy League before dropping out to learn how to take care of himself in the mountains of southern Oregon. After a decade of homebuilding, logging, and river guiding, he began a career as a public broadcasting producer, columnist, radio talk show host, and commentator. He has served as Jackson County commissioner, chief of staff to the Oregon Senate president, and environmental policy aide to the City of Portland. Golden is a senior fellow of the American Leadership Forum and a media fellow of the Property and Environment Research Center. He was Oregon’s first nominee for the JFK Profile in Courage Award. His books include Watermelon Summer, As If We Were Grownups, Forest Blood, and Unafraid: A Novel of the Possible. Golden was a Harvard National Scholar and holds a master’s degree in communications from Stanford University.
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We have had presentaions in the past from The Conversation Project speakers, which we thoroughly enjoyed, and are very excited to have Mr. Golden’s program come to our library on November 2nd! I can’t wait!!
Tonya Harboldt | Josephine Community Libraries | 29 Jul at 09:45 AM
Tonya,
Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm about the Josephine Community Library’s upcoming Conversation Project program with Jeff Golden. The story of how your library came to re-open is inspirational and a great example of how community-building efforts and civic engagement can bring about real change. I’m also thrilled that the Conversation Project has been part of the library’s programming!
Annie
Annie Kaffen | 10 Aug at 11:17 AM
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