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Our leadership: Meet our neighbors devoted to this Big Idea

When you set Big Audacious Goals like ours you’d better have a pretty audacious team leading you onward. Meet the bipartisan community of leaders who volunteer their time on our board of directors to embrace our Impossible + Mandatory mission – and our staff who make pigs fly daily. (They have to blow hard.)

Village Square 101: A completely new extremely old idea. Tocqueville saw it first.

America’s founders were well ahead of their time when they built a country where “the constant clashing of opinion” solved problems. But now as technology too often divides us, to keep the marketplace of ideas healthy we’ll have to breathe a little life into the neighborly civic connections that used to exist without much effort on our part.