From the team that brought you Voices of America In One Room, this is Voices of Shaping Our Future. Throughout this season, you’re going to hear from some of our “Shaping Our Future” participants, and you’ll also have the opportunity to listen to two different roundtable discussions with various thought leaders from around the country. One of our roundtable discussions focuses on the idea of national service and the Berggruen Institute’s Youth Environmental Service (YES) campaign, and the other discusses the societal issues we're currently facing related to the idea of economic inequality.
Last season, we heard from the participants of “America In One Room,” a landmark deliberative experiment that brought together more than 500 registered U.S. voters to discuss the most talked about societal issues affecting us today. The age range of participants ran the gamut, and we heard many interesting perspectives from our podcast guests.
For the second season of this podcast, we decided to focus on the 18–29 age cohort. Our "Shaping Our Future" event" was tailored to those who have never (or not) enrolled in post secondary education, currently enrolled students, and recent graduates. In this completely virtual event, we brought together more than 600 participants from all across the country. Over the course of two days, we discussed the electoral college, national service, and economic inequality.
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