We turn shared
stories into action
Our Narrative for a Just Society Initiative offers facilitation, coaching, and tools to support truthful dialogue and deliberation to unleash the power of community storytelling, remembrance, and reclamation to heal and transform our communities.
We turn shared
stories into action
Our Narrative for a Just Society Initiative offers facilitation, coaching, and tools to support truthful dialogue and deliberation to unleash the power of community storytelling, remembrance, and reclamation to heal and transform our communities.
We turn shared
stories into action
Our Narrative for a Just Society Initiative offers facilitation, coaching, and tools to support truthful dialogue and deliberation to unleash the power of community storytelling, remembrance, and reclamation to heal and transform our communities.
“History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. ”
— James Baldwin
Our Programs
Our Narrative for a Just Society Initiative programming includes:
We partner with museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions to engage communities in dialogue and storytelling to make meaning of our shared history and co-create a more complete, inclusive story of our democracy.
Drawing on truth and reconciliation frameworks, we facilitate and support local community members to use storytelling, truthful dialogue, and deliberation to acknowledge aspects of our shared painful history, implement meaningful repair strategies.
We convened cross-movement social justice leaders to co-create a strategy to build and sustain thriving, interdependent democracies and recognize, anticipate, and respond to anti-democratic, anti-human practices.
Our Programs
Our Narrative for a Just Society Initiative programming includes:
Program Highlights
With the DC Public Library
Through Everyday Democracy’s Arts, Culture, and Democracy Labs, young people are using civic imagination to connect their lived experiences to history, culture, and civic life—and to see themselves as agents of change. In partnership with DC Public Library’s Teen Council, teens explored DC history through library archives, created art inspired by their communities, and reflected on the future they want to help shape. Everyday Democracy also trained youth facilitators to lead peer conversations on DC history and go-go music, using culture and storytelling to spark dialogue about identity, change, and collective action.
With the Westport Museum for History & Culture
At the heart of democracy is connection—and food is one of its oldest tools. Everyday Democracy’s Dinner & Dialogue in Westport, CT invited high school students to explore how Afro-Indigenous food traditions serve as a lens for understanding justice, belonging, and civic responsibility. The event blended storytelling, cultural history, and dialogue to spark deep conversations about identity, power, and community. Students walked away not only nourished, but empowered to take civic action in their schools, homes, and neighborhoods
With a cross-movement cohort of social justice leaders
Democracy thrives when people recognize their shared fate. Everyday Democracy’s Interdependent Democracy Innovation Lab convened 18 social justice leaders to reimagine local governance through the lens of interdependence, equity, and care. Through collective inquiry, experimentation, and practice, participants confronted anti-democratic and anti-human forces and co-created an interdependent democracy framework that now guides Everyday Democracy’s narrative work.
Program Highlights
DC Teens Imagine the Future They Want
With the DC Public Library
Through Everyday Democracy’s Arts, Culture, and Democracy Labs, young people are using civic imagination to connect their lived experiences to history, culture, and civic life—and to see themselves as agents of change. In partnership with DC Public Library’s Teen Council, teens explored DC history through library archives, created art inspired by their communities, and reflected on the future they want to help shape. Everyday Democracy also trained youth facilitators to lead peer conversations on DC history and go-go music, using culture and storytelling to spark dialogue about identity, change, and collective action.
Students Break Bread and Build Democracy
With the Westport Museum for History & Culture
At the heart of democracy is connection—and food is one of its oldest tools. Everyday Democracy’s Dinner & Dialogue in Westport, CT invited high school students to explore how Afro-Indigenous food traditions serve as a lens for understanding justice, belonging, and civic responsibility. The event blended storytelling, cultural history, and dialogue to spark deep conversations about identity, power, and community. Students walked away not only nourished, but empowered to take civic action in their schools, homes, and neighborhoods
Reimagining Democracy Through Interdependence
With a cross-movement cohort of social justice leaders
Democracy thrives when people recognize their shared fate. Everyday Democracy’s Interdependent Democracy Innovation Lab convened 18 social justice leaders to reimagine local governance through the lens of interdependence, equity, and care. Through collective inquiry, experimentation, and practice, participants confronted anti-democratic and anti-human forces and co-created an interdependent democracy framework that now guides Everyday Democracy’s narrative work.
