Carolyne Miller Abdullah, Everyday Democracy’s senior director of Strengthening Democratic Capacity, leads the organization’s programming unit and strategy for helping neighborhoods, towns, cities and states across the U.S. build their own capacity for public engagement that leads to concrete changes on seemingly intractable problems.
Her experience in working with a variety of informal and formal leaders from all backgrounds and sectors makes it possible for her to provide advice on finding ways to bring people together to find and implement solutions. She brings leadership on equity – with explicit, though not exclusive, attention to racial equity – to the fields of civic engagement, democracy reform, and philanthropy. Carolyne holds degrees (BA, MA) in political science, public administration (MPA) and is ABD in political science (public policy).