Citizens' Assemblies webinar with Shoni Field, Graham Allen and Michael Johns

Around the world, citizens' assemblies are driving change on some of the most challenging issues of our time. How can citizens' assemblies lead the way to a stronger, more inclusive democracy and usher in electoral reform?

Join three special guests to look at how and why citizens' assemblies work and their potential for leading the changes we need in our democracies.

Graham Allen is a former Government Whip and was a Labour MP for 30 years. He stepped down from Parliament in 2017 in part to focus on the creation of a Citizens Convention on UK democracy. Read more about Graham here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/graham-allen

Shoni Field was one of the randomly selected members of the BC Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform in 2004. Since then, she’s been committed to electoral reform, citizens’ assemblies and voter engagement including serving as Co-Chair and Media Spokesperson - Citizens’ Assembly Alumni, as a board member of Fair Voting BC, Provincial Spokesperson & Campaign Executive– British Columbians for BC-STV in 2009
President of the National Council, Fair Vote Canada and member of the Vancouver Independent Election Task.

Michael Johns is a visiting Professor at York University and former Vice Dean of Arts at Laurentian University. His research and teaching interests involve questions surrounding minority rights in the European Union and issues that impact levels of social cohesion such as electoral systems, immigration policies and federalism. Michael was a group facilitator for the Ontario Citizens' Assembly in 2006.

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