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View ChannelAt The Village Square, we've had hundreds of conversations with tens of thousands of people — and now we bring you our favorites of these conversations via YouTube. We talk in bars, we talk in churches, we talk across a hundred continuous tables in the middle of a street downtown. And through all this talking, we've discovered something truly remarkable — people are hard to hate close up. Oh, and we really think civics ought not to be boring. We hope you'll join us
Liz Joyner is founder and president of The Village Square, a nonprofit dedicated to building civic trust between people who don't look or think alike inside American hometowns. Devoted to living out the high principles of the country's founding, The Village Square was called "a model for the land" by former NEH Chair Jim Leach. Coming early to the notion that it’s in hometowns where we live our lives that our accelerating division is most effectively addressed—The Village Square is now offering their concept-tested model to other communities. Liz has a master’s degree in clinical social work, specializing in family systems theory—which directly influenced The Village Square’s unique and scalable model for strengthening civic life. She was named by USA Today as an "extraordinary American who is making our nation a better place," nominated by Leadership Tallahassee as Leader of the Year, and selected by the Tallahassee Democrat as one of "25 Women You Need to Know.” Liz is a member of Heterodox Academy’s board of directors, having spent two decades living the transformational power of people gathering with good intentions when they disagree.
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