Last Monday was Gillian Stawisynski’s last day with CivicLex. Gillian has served as our Civic Journalism VISTA for the past year, covering all the big things going on in City Hall.

Last week, the national organization Reimagining the Civic Commons published an article from our Executive Director Richard Young’s Medium Article called “How to strengthen the civic health of cities.”

This week, our Director of Operations, Kit Anderson and our Civic Education Journalist, Gillian went to Washington D.C. to meet with Seek Common Ground. For the past year, CivicLex has been part of a learning cohort with other local community-led organizations across the country.

This past week, CivicLex's Executive Director Richard Young joined the non-profit publication Next City's annual Vanguard Summit as an alumni of the program!

Last week, CivicLex was incredibly excited to have an opportunity to be part of a series of events with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S), Stephen Heintz of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Carolyn Lukensmeyer, Executive Director of the National Institute of Civil Disclosure.

Last Monday, we held our County Office Open House - an event where office holders and candidates for lesser-known offices like Coroner, Judge/Executive, Magistrate, and more spoke directly to voters about their work. It was such a hit!

Richard, Gillian, and Adrian all made separate visits to the University of Kentucky to discuss the importance of voting and local elections!

Last week, Civic Genius hosted It's Your America — conversations between Lexingtonians across the aisle to draft policy solutions to disinformation on social media.

We aired our first episode of CivicShorts — a program where we take a quick look at all things civic in Lexington and Kentucky.

Our own Megan Gulla was interviewed on WUKY about It’s Your America!

On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of last week, our Director of Programs Megan Gulla visited Carter G. Woodson Academy with Seedleaf Executive Director Christine Smith to talk about our Parks Equity Accelerator Program!

This week, we had the opportunity to celebrate Anthony Gilmore, Debra Faulk, Hannah Allen, CivicLex, and LFUCG's Civic Artists in Residence for the past year!

We're excited to announce the return of our City Committee Watch Parties at UK, monthly gatherings where we watch LFUCG Council meetings, play civic board games, and learn about the workings of local government!

CivicLex is now offering to Lexington Residents who want to dive deeper into the On the Table Results. You can apply for a data project with qualitative or quantitative analysis of the OTT dataset. Alternatively, you can propose a storytelling project about one of the 32 On the Table codes.

We’re happy to announce a new program! CivicLex is partnering with LFUCG‘s Divisions of Planning and Parks and Recreation, Seedleaf, and a number of community organizations on The Lexington Park Equity Accelerator! The project, funded by the Trust For Public Land, seeks to increase access to parks and public space and urban greenspace in Lexington through public policy.

On July 28, Danielle Allen, the Director of the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University described CivicLex as a critical piece of civic infrastructure before the House Select Committee for the Modernization of Congress.

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