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Thank you, Pope Francis
With Pope Francis’s passing, I’m reflecting on some of the ways he has been guiding my thinking over the years. On ecology and cooperativism: https://osf.io/jhrmd On Catholic economic thought: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-pope-francis-is-reviving-radical-catholic-economics/ On borders: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/03/05/catholic-case-open-borders On “gender ideology”: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/11/16/gender-ideology-catholic-246515 Pray for us.
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Counter-media residency
Calling all media-makers working at the intersection of religion and social change! Apply for a $25,000 residency to be part of our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture for the next academic year: https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2025/04/07/open-call-counter-media-residency
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Beautiful Solutions at Matter in Denver
I’m thrilled to announce that we’ll be doing a Beautiful Solutions launch event in Denver on May Day at the great Black-owned bookstore Shop at Matter—find the discount code in the text: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-for-beautiful-solutions-a-toolbox-for-liberation-tickets-1316548374629
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New hope for social media and democracy
I’m grateful to be back on the Reimagining the Internet podcast with Ethan Zuckerman to talk about the prospects and challenges of open social media: https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/110-nathan-schneider-governable-spaces/
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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