2023 Gatherings
March 30, 2023
Ranked Choice Voting and Open Primaries
Mike Alfoni, Co-founder of Oregon Ranked Choice Voting.
Sol Mora, Advocacy Director at Coalition of Communities of Color.
Michael Calcagno, Board Chair of All Oregon Votes, Oregon Open Primaries.
April 25, 2023
Vote at Home and Small Donor Elections
Barbara Smith Warner, Executive Director of the National Vote at Home coalition and former Oregon state legislator
Susan Mottet, Director of the City of Portland's Small Donor Elections program
June 27, 2023
Legislative Wrap Up and Happy Hour
We were joined by legislators who have led or supported reforms to how Oregonians vote, participate in democracy and run for office.
July 25, 2023
2022 Voter Report and Planning for 2024
Kelsey Paden, Data Director at Our Oregon: Reviewing 2022 Mid Terms Voter Participation.
Grace Ramsey, Co-Director of Democracy Rising: Previewing 2024 election day in Portland – the first election with our new Proportional Ranked Choice Voting system
October 24, 2023
Participatory Democracy
Blanca Gaytan Farfan & Jim Labbe, Participatory Budgeting Oregon
Grace Taylor & Linn Davis, Healthy Democracy
November 7, 2023
Defending Democracy from Organized Bigotry in the PNW
Amy Herzfeld-Copple, Executive Director of Western States Center
December 12, 2023
Campaign Finance Reform
Dionne Foster, Executive Director of Progress Alliance of Washington
Nicole Hensel, Executive Director of New Era Colorado
Rebekah Stewart, city councilwoman in Lakewood Colorado, candidate for the Colorado legislature, and former managing director of the Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable
Aly Ferrufino-Coqueugniot, Political Director at Conservation Colorado
(Colorado and Washington have similar campaign finance limits to what are being proposed in Oregon)