**Season 4 live taping** You're invited to join Baratunde and Alex Zhang for a live Zoom conversation and audience Q&A on December 8th, 4 pm ET/1 pm PT. They’ll discuss the future of our digital common spaces and the possibilities they hold for regaining agency and building people power online.
How To Citizen with Baratunde is a podcast where we reimagine "citizen" as a verb and remember how to wield our collective power.
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How To Citizen with Baratunde reimagines the word “citizen” as a verb and reminds us how to wield our collective power. So many of us want to do more in response to the problems we hear about constantly, but where and how to participate can leave us feeling overwhelmed and helpless. Voting, while critically important, simply isn’t enough. It takes more to make this experiment in self-governance work. Listen in to learn new perspectives and practices from people working to improve society for the many. Join writer, host, producer, and activist Baratunde Thurston on a journey beyond politics as usual that will leave us all more hopeful, connected, and moved to act.
Baratunde Thurston is an Emmy-nominated, multi-platform storyteller and producer operating at the intersection of race, tech, democracy, and climate. He is the host of the PBS television series America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston, creator and host of How To Citizen with Baratunde which Apple named one of its favorite podcasts of 2020, and a founding partner of the new media startup Puck. His comedic memoir, How To Be Black, is a New York Times bestseller. In 2019, he delivered what MSNBC’s Brian Williams called “one of the greatest TED talks of all time.”
Alex Zhang is an advocate for how Web3 technology can help propel culture and large-scale human coordination forward. Zhang is the de facto Mayor at Friends with Benefits, a crypto-enabled cultural membership, and community cited by the New York Times as one of the most interesting uses of DAOs right now. Formerly, he was the Creative Director and President of Summit Series, a global community and events company that were the owner and developer of Powder Mountain, North America's largest ski resort. Additionally, he's an early-stage investor across a variety of disciplines, a curator across artistic and cultural mediums, and an advisor at PleasrDAO, Seed Club, Republic, and others where he helps organizations understand how to empower their communities.
Sab Pell is senior director of product marketing at Openform, where her goal is to help people unlock the power of in-person events. Prior to Openform, she led global product marketing teams. Sab Pell is senior director of product marketing at Openform, where her goal is to help people unlock the power of in-person events. Prior to Openform, she led global product marketing teams.