Presentations

Selected recent presentations by Center for Democracy and Civic Life staff members:

  • David Hoffman was featured as a discussant for “Institutionally Articulating the Purpose: Framing Civic Learning and Community Engagement,” a session at the 2024 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting hosted by the American Democracy Project and NASPA, Detroit, MI, June 6, 2024.
  • David Hoffman and Tess McRae co-facilitated “Pedagogy for a Thriving Democracy: ‘Stories Are Everything’ and Other Civic Maxims,” a session at the 2024 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting hosted by the American Democracy Project and NASPA, Detroit, MI, June 5, 2024.
  • Tess McRae and Simon Stacey co-facilitated “Recognizing Our Shared Humanity and Learning How to Talk About It: Two Civics Courses Grounded in Students’ Everyday Experiences,” a session at the 2023 National Collegiate Honors Council Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 11, 2023.
  • David Hoffman, Tess McRae, and Simon Stacey co-facilitated “This is Real: Two Civics Courses Grounded in Students’ Everyday Experiences, a session at the 2023 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting hosted by the American Democracy Project and NASPA, Boston, MA, June 1, 2023.
  • David Hoffman was an invited panelist for “Leading for Equity and Democracy, a workshop at the 2022 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting hosted by the American Democracy Project and NASPA, Minneapolis, MN, June 22, 2022.
  • David Hoffman, Romy Hübler, Craig Berger (Kent State University), and Melissa Baker-Boosamra (Grand Valley State University) co-facilitated “Together Beyond November: Tools for our collective civic empowerment,” a featured workshop at the 2021 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting hosted by the American Democracy Project and NASPA, June 9, 2021.
  • David Hoffman, Romy Hübler, Tirzah Khan, and Charis Lawson facilitated “Putting the CLDE Theory of Change into practice” at the first gathering of new NASPA LEAD institutions and NASPA LEAD advisors for the 2020-2021 academic year, October 14, 2020.
  • David Hoffman and Romy Hübler facilitated “The CLDE Theory of Change moving forward,” the closing plenary at the 2020 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting hosted by the American Democracy Project and NASPA, July 24, 2020.
  • David Hoffman, Romy Hübler, Tess McRae, Mehrshad Devin, and Joshua Gray co-facilitated “Civic life is everywhere: Applying the CLDE Theory of Change,” a workshop at the 2020 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting hosted by the American Democracy Project and NASPA, July 24, 2020.
  • David Hoffman, Judy Pryor-Ramirez (College of Mount Saint Vincent), and Carol Zhou (U.S. Department of Arts and Culture) co-led “Envisioning Imagining America’s next 20 years,” a featured session at the 2019 Imagining America National Gathering, Albuquerque, NM, October 18, 2019.
  • David Hoffman, Romy Hübler, Tess McRae, Philip Rous, Simon Stacey, Laura Antkowiak, Lauren Mauriello, Kaleigh Mrowka, Brittini Brown, and Michelle Wolff co-facilitated “Change the meanings, change the culture,” a workshop at the 2019 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting hosted by the American Democracy Project and NASPA, Fort Lauderdale, FL, June 8, 2019.
  • David Hoffman, Romy Hübler, and Craig Berger (Kent State University) co-facilitated a session entitled “Thrive your pedagogy: Creating mutual and reciprocal environments for student learning,” a workshop at the 2019 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting hosted by the American Democracy Project and NASPA, Fort Lauderdale, FL, June 7, 2019.
  • David Hoffman, Romy Hübler, Erica Kohl-Arenas (Imagining America), and Robin Bachin (University of Miami) co-led “Engaged pedagogy and civic learning: Promoting civic agency,” a roundtable session at the 2019 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting hosted by the American Democracy Project and NASPA, Fort Lauderdale, FL, June 7, 2019.
  • David Hoffman, Romy Hübler, and national partners co-led the CLDE Theory of Change Tool Foundry Live Briefing (hosted by NASPA), February 13, 2019.
  • David Hoffman and Romy Hübler led a conversation among NASPA LEAD Initiative participants on new tools for civic learning and democratic engagement, October 29, 2018.
  • David Hoffman, Paul Schadewald (Macalester College), Andrew Seligsohn (Campus Compact), and Marisol Morales (Campus Compact) co-led “What’s democracy got to do with it? Reimagining civic learning and engagement with IA and Campus Compact,” a session at the 2018 Imagining America National Gathering, Chicago, IL, October 18, 2018.
  • Romy Hübler led a workshop on civically engaged graduate education as part of the Community Engaged Scholar Luncheon series at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, October 10, 2018.
  • David Hoffman, Romy Hübler, and Craig Berger (Kent State University) facilitated “Tools for living democracy in the classroom,” a workshop at the 2018 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting hosted by the American Democracy Project, The Democracy Commitment, and NASPA, Anaheim, CA, June 8, 2018.
  • David Hoffman, Romy Hübler, and Craig Berger (Kent State University) facilitated “Crafting a new civic story,” a workshop at the 2018 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting hosted by the American Democracy Project, The Democracy Commitment, and NASPA, Anaheim, CA, June 7, 2018.
  • David Hoffman spoke about “Building a thriving democracy, 2016-2046: A progress report,” at the opening plenary session of the 2018 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting hosted by the American Democracy Project, The Democracy Commitment, and NASPA, Anaheim, CA, June 6, 2018.
  • David Hoffman was an invited panelist for “Building the movement! The status and opportunities for civic and community schooling networking and mobilization,” a pre-conference session in connection with the annual meeting of the John Dewey Society, New York, New York, April 13, 2018.
  • David Hoffman and national partners facilitated a session on “Advancing civic learning and democratic engagement in higher education across institutional types: A theoretical framework,” at the Association of American Colleges and Universities annual meeting, Washington, DC, January 26, 2018.