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“Bringing innovation methodologies into mostly local governments” - Judi Brown

This episode was first broadcast on KCSF in 2016. This episode was focused on Civic Innovation and its impact on our economy, community, and democracy. In this episode, we featured the voices of Krista Canellakis the Deputy Innovation Officer from the City of San Francisco’s Office of Civic Innovation, Judi Brown co-founder of Civic Makers and Susan Stuart Clark the Executive Director at Common Knowledge

More about Civic Innovation - University of Wisconsin professors Satish and Priya Nambisan, says that a trifecta of austerity, complexity, and digital technology has created this new opportunity for everyday citizens to help “co-create” new solutions for solving civic problems in their communities.http://brook.gs/MsUtPU

Susan Stuart Clark

Susan formed Common Knowledge to pioneer “community-driven design,” demonstrating how inclusion of diverse stakeholders stimulates innovative solutions on issues such as housing, health care, the environment, civic participation and financial literacy. She brings over two decades of experience designing culturally responsive communications and engagement programs across multiple sectors and presents frequently about increasing participation of lesser-heard voices. At the core of this successful work is a unique body of knowledge about the properties of local community ecosystems and how communities can increase their collective capacity to identify and make progress on shared goals. Due to their deep reach into community life, public libraries have played a role in many of Common Knowledge’s projects and the California State Library awarded Susan their Champion of Literacy award.

Judi Brown

Judi Brown is a creative systems thinker and human-centered design practitioner with a penchant for civic technology and radically inclusive, participatory governance structures. As Chief Impact Officer of CivicMakers, Judi brings over 12 years of experience in applied innovation methodologies with social enterprises, nonprofits, and government agencies to the practice. Her work is grounded in multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral approaches with a lens toward equity and inclusion. Prior to CivicMakers, Judi worked as a Design Strategist with Collective Invention, a social innovation firm working primarily in education and community development. She honed her applied design thinking and public involvement skills while working in Kenya on survey development and evaluation services for Zawadisha, a micro-lending fund benefitting women entrepreneurs. She has also worked in the fields of nonprofit management and corporate philanthropy before co-founding CivicMakers in late 2015. A lifelong learner, Judi thrives in co-creating learning experiences. At CivicMakers, she has led the development of trainings that apply human-centered design to community engagement, strategic planning, and change management. She taught an MPA Capstone class at Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco where she earned a Master’s degree in Sustainable Public Administration and Policy.

Krista Canellakis

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“I think there are a growing opportunities to work in local government. For me, cities are sort of small enough to act, but big enough to matter. And so working in city government is a really cool, exciting, and challenging place to kind of apply your skills”

— Krista Canellakis, Deputy Innovation Officer,City of San Francisco’s Office of Civic Innovation

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