Category: Posts
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“the politics of yes”—Beautiful Solutions in Nonprofit Quarterly
We need a “politics of yes.” In a new interview at Nonprofit Quarterly, my Beautiful Solutions co-editors describe our attempts at the “nonextractive storytelling” that our movements need right now: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/beautiful-solutions-a-conversation-with-eli-feghali-and-rachel-plattus/
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Running for the NCBA CLUSA board
For the first time in my life, I am running for something. The national co-op association, NCBA CLUSA, is in a decisive time of crisis and opportunity, and I feel the call to serve: https://ncbaclusa.coop/blog/meet-the-candidates-running-for-election-to-the-2025-ncba-clusa-board-of-directors/ If you’re a member, I hope you’ll vote, and I’d love to connect about our shared hopes for the movement.
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We Just Build Hammers
I just learned that TODAY is the release date of the book by one of my great heroes, Coraline Ada Ehmke. She is an engineer who created the most widely adopted code of conduct in tech, and her wisdom and courage overflow everywhere she goes. Get it now: https://thehammerbook.com
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Decentralized justice conference
My lab has been focused on dispute protocols lately, and so I’m really looking forward to (remotely) participating in this conference on digital justice: https://blog.kleros.io/mechanism-design-for-decentralised-justice-law-in-the-age-of-crowds-and-code/
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Talk on OER as “evolutionary media”
Join Diana Daly and me for a session on our work about “Textbooks as Evolutionary Media: The Governance of Open Educational Resources” on March 4—register here: https://colorado.libcal.com/calendar/events/OERPanel25
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March 11 Laudato Si event
On March 11, join me for a panel celebrating the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’ encyclical on “integral ecology.” I’ll be echoing Francis’s insistence that, despite what it might seem, “Truly, much can be done!” https://www.jcu.edu/livable-future
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Recruiting teaching professors
Are you passionate about teaching media literacy? My lovely little department is hiring TWO teaching professors in multi-year, renewable positions: https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Assistant-Teaching-Professor-of-Media-Studies/61458
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Why to read Governable Spaces now
My aunt texted: “Perhaps now is the time for super shameless promotion of Governable Spaces. The audience won’t need any handholding to get it.” I don’t know if it is true, but see for yourself: https://ntnsndr.in/govbook
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Poverty and the good life
“The goal for Christians should be not the elimination of poverty—Jesus said that is futile, anyway—but actually to encourage more of it.” My latest in America Magazine: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2025/02/13/christian-poverty-dignity-249696
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BSOL in Boulder
This Tuesday night in Boulder, join me at a release event for the new book Beautiful Solutions—hear updates from leaders in Colorado’s solidarity economy: https://www.tridentcafe.com/events/2025/2/4/trident-author-series-nathan-schneider