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Jan 16, 2025 | 
newamerica.org | Hollie Russon Gilman |Sarah Jacob
This interview is part of a series spotlighting successful stories of co-governance models across rural, urban, and tribal communities. Collaborative governance—or “co-governance”—offers a model for shifting power to ordinary people and rebuilding their trust in government. Co-governance models break down the boundaries between people inside and outside government, allowing community residents and elected officials to work together to design policy and share decision-making power.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
newamerica.org | Hollie Russon Gilman |Sarah Jacob
This interview is part of a series spotlighting successful stories of co-governance models across rural, urban, and tribal communities. Collaborative governance—or “co-governance”—offers a model for shifting power to ordinary people and rebuilding their trust in government. Co-governance models break down the boundaries between people inside and outside government, allowing community residents and elected officials to work together to design policy and share decision-making power.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
newamerica.org | Hollie Russon Gilman
Hollie Russon Gilman was quoted in Axios Richmond on participatory budgeting.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
nextcity.org | Hollie Russon Gilman
On March 28, Vice President Kamala Harris announced an Office of Management and Budget policy to “Advance Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management in Federal Agencies’ Use of Artificial Intelligence.” It’s the first government-wide policy to “mitigate risks of artificial intelligence (AI) and harness its benefits.” Following President Biden’s Executive Order on AI, the new OMB policy directs the government to address the risks of AI, expand transparency around its use, advance responsible...
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
nextcity.org | Hollie Russon Gilman
To many of us, thinking about climate change brings about existential dread, panic, or even climate anxiety. The largest ever U.N. climate change conference of the parties, COP 28, will occur this week — and many of us are hoping against hope that the world’s leaders come up with a solution for us all. Climate change, though, is hyperlocal. So, too, are many of the solutions.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
newamerica.org | Hollie Russon Gilman |Sarah Jacob
Americans find themselves surrounded by artificial intelligence (AI) across all facets of life: AI serves as customer service representatives, writes emails, generates new personas, and more. As the adoption of AI grows, so too does the concern and excitement around the controversial technology. AI raises complex ethical, economic, and privacy implications that prompt the question of governance over this family of emerging technologies.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
forgeorganizing.org | Beth Huang |Aditi Juneja |Robert Kuttner |Hollie Russon Gilman
A decades' long right-wing assault on membership organizations led to the collapse of the US Student Association in 2017. What can organizers take away from the last decade of organizational death in the student movement? “USSA is dead,” my friend told me over the phone. I felt like I had been punched in the gut, even though for years I had known that I would eventually hear these words.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
forgeorganizing.org | Robert Kuttner |Hollie Russon Gilman |Lizbeth Lucero |Ben Kei Chin
[Originally published September 1st for Commons, a leftwing journal in Ukraine. An overview of Priama Diia, a leftwing student union in Ukraine, and how they are organizing masses of students in the face of the war with Russia and the increasingly repressive and anti-working class policies of the Ukrainian government.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
forgeorganizing.org | Robert Kuttner |Hollie Russon Gilman |Lizbeth Lucero |Ben Kei Chin
[Originally published September 1st for Commons, a leftwing journal in Ukraine.]On the eve of September 1st, the Day of Knowledge, Commons spoke to activists of the student union Priama Diia about the right to education in a country at war. They explain why they decided to relaunch the union, what obstacles there are to protecting students' rights, and share their plans and dreams for the future of Ukrainian education after the war.
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Jul 30, 2023 | 
popularresistance.org | Hollie Russon Gilman
Above Photo: Mauro Mora / Unsplash. From participatory budgeting to citizen assemblies, local governments around the world are experimenting with new ways to increase civic trust and equity. This summer, cities around the world are unveiling and expanding new tools and initiatives in the name of civic engagement and digital innovation.
