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**Archive Highlights Episode 1: What is Civic Innovation?
What if the most powerful force for change in your city isn't City Hall — it's you? On this landmark episode of Voices of the Community, host George Koster sits down with three pioneering Bay Area civic innovators: Krista Kanalakis, Deputy Innovation Officer for San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee; Judy Brown, co-founder of Civic Makers; and Susan Stewart Clark, founder of Common Knowledge.
What is Civic Innovation?
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
Doing Business in the Bayview Part 1
Welcome to Part One of Doing Business In the Bayview. This episode is focused on economic and community development efforts being executed by community members in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
Doing Business in the Bayview Part 2
This Episode, Part Two of Doing Business in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco is focused on the importance of the emerging artisanal food and beverage startups in the Bayview, as well as the economic and cultural significance of the long-standing artist colony in the Bayview and Hunters Point communities.
“Civic innovation is not just the relationship between citizens and their government. It is the relationship of citizens to each other.”
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