F.O.C.U.S. on Civil Discourse
Friday, February 17th: 7:30 – 8:45am
City Hall Commons, 201 E. Washington St.
1st Floor Atrium
Dr. Tina Nabatchi, Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Faculty Research Associate at the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC) and co-f0under of CNY Speaks. Her research interests include public management, public policy, and law; particularly in relation to citizen engagement, collaborative governance and conflict resolution.
Professor Grant Reeher is Director of the Campbell Public Affairs Intitute andprofessor of political science at Syracuse Maxwell’s School. He is host and producer of The Campbell Conversation, a public affairs radio program airing on WRVO. He writes and teaches about the democratic process, citizenship participation and legislative politics.
Greg Munno, is co-founder of CNY Speaks with Tina Nabatchi and Grant Reeher. Through their efforts the project has attracted thousands of particants who offered over 10,000 ideas for improving Syracuse. Greg recently earned an Executive Master’s of Public Administration along with a Certificate of Advanced Study in Conflict Resolution.
“Bring Back Civility,” a project focusing on public discourse, is a working group of individuals with a goal of strengthening our community’s capacity to ensure that respect-based norms for individual and group behavior are known and voluntarily adhered to at public events of any and every kind throughout our region.
