NORTH AMERICA TEAM
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Movement builder, strategic policy advisor, researcher and practitioner. She is a fierce believer in citizen-centric, inclusive, responsive and impactful government-led engagement that provide citizens with consequential voice in policy reform.
Marjan is a Berggruen Institute Future of Democracy Fellow, an IDEA Senior Fellow, a Senior Associate at MASS LBP, and Strategic Program Director of the Democratic Action Fund. She is on the steering committee of Global Innovations and Democracy (GID) and serves on several boards including Healthy Democracy, the American Friends Service Committee, Apolitical Academy and the Local Policy Lab. She was one of four guarantors selected to the Collège des Garants of the French Citizens’ Convention on the End of Life (Convention Citoyenne sur la Fin de Vie) (2022-2023) and on the Oversight Committee of G1000’s We Need To Talk Citizens’ Panel (2022-2023).
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COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR
Ansel Herz is a communications professional with extensive experience in the U.S. Congress and the news media. He worked previously for DemocracyNext, Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Pramila Jayapal.
Ansel studied journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and was a finalist for the Washington Coalition for Open Government Bunting Award. He speaks English and Haitian Creole.
Contact: ansel.herz@gmail.com
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GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
FIDE - Europe & North America
Miguel holds a BA in Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Santiago. Started his professional career at Eurocities, where he collaborated in the development of its citizens’ engagement principles and organized cooperation events for cities and municipalities across Europe.
At FIDE, he is responsible for coordinating our communications across Europe and North America, as well as the organization of our Citizens’ Assembly Schools.
Contact: miguel.gonzalez@fide.eu
LEARNING SERIES TEAM
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LEARNING SERIES RESEARCH COORDINATOR
Pim is a second-year PhD student in political theory with a focus on plebeian politics, radical democracy, and critical theory. Currently, his projects look at the ways in which people experience political life within modern democracy and anti-oligarchic institutional design.
At FIDE - North America, he leads the team of evaluators behind the Citizens Assemblies Learning Series.
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RESEARCH COORDINATOR
Mary is a recent graduate of Hamilton College where she majored in Public Policy and minored in French. She began to research citizens’ assemblies during her junior year of college and believes that citizens’ assemblies play a vital role in creating spaces for citizens to engage directly in policy-making processes across North America.
Mary works to develop our Learning Agenda to evaluate the impact and strength of Citizens’ Assemblies. She will finalize a methodology including standard survey and interview questions to be asked at Citizens’ Assemblies across North America. She is currently working with the Yukon Citizens’ Assembly to collect data on citizen experiences.
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Executive Board
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Valerie Lemmie
Senior Advisor for State and Local Government
Charles F. Kettering Foundation
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Yves Dejaeghere
Executive Director
FIDE - Europe
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Amy Lee
Associate Director
IDEA, Ohio State University
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Peter MacLeod
Founder
MASS LBP
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Hélène Landemore
Full Professor in the Political Science department
Yale University
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Harry Gottlieb
Founder
Unify America
Federation for Innovation in Democracy - North America
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