(Washington, DC) The agenda for Frontiers of Democracy 2016 is almost set. Tickets are running out, although some remain. Register here.

The dates are June 23-25 in Boston.

Most of the time will be devoted to highly interactive “learning exchanges” on topics ranging from civic tech to faith communities, from museums to social movements. The 21 learning exchanges are listed here.

We also hear briefly from featured plenary speakers:

• Danielle Allen is the Director of the Center for Ethics and Professor of Government and Education at Harvard University, is a political theorist who has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of political thought. Her most recent books are Education and Equality (forthcoming, 2016) Our Declaration (2014) and From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in a Digital Age (2015), co-edited with Jennifer Light.
• Laura Grattan, Wellesley College, is an Associate Professor in the Political Science department at Wellesley College and author ofPopulism’s Power: Radical Grassroots Democracy in America. In addition to her research on democratic theory and practice, she has long been active in civic engagement and community organizing with the Kettering Foundation, the Industrial Areas Foundation, and Wellesley’s Program on Public Leadership and Action.
• Joseph Hoereth is the Director of the Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement at the University of Illinois at Chicago
• Hélène Landemore, is Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. She is the author of Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many (Princeton University Press 2013), which was awarded the 2015 David and Elaine Spitz Prize for best book in liberal and/or democratic theory published two years earlier. She is also the co-editor (with Jon Elster) of Collective Wisdom: Principles and Mechanisms (Cambridge University Press 2012). She is currently working on a new book project entitled After Representation: Reinventing Democracy for the 21st Century, where she envisions alternatives to representative government as we know it. Her most recent articles are on the participatory Icelandic constitutional process of 2010-2012, crowdsourced policy-making in Finland, and workplace democracy.
• Frances Moore Lappé, is the author of eighteen books, including Democracy’s Edge and Getting a Grip that focus on what she calls Living Democracy. Coauthored with Joseph Collins, her latest work, World Hunger: 10 Myths, identifies democratic practices as key to solving the hunger crisis. Frances is cofounder of three organizations, including the Oakland-based Food First and most recently the Cambridge-based Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter Anna Lappé. Lappé has received eighteen honorary doctorates as well as the Right Livelihood Award, often called the “Alternative Nobel.”
• Tiago Peixoto is the Team Lead of the World Bank’s Digital Engagement Unit
• Talmon J. Smith, Tufts ’16, is a teaching assistant and research associate at the NYU Arthur Carter Journalism Institute and a contributor to Huffington Post Politics & Media. His research focus as a Tisch Scholar (2013-2016) and writer at Issue One centered on regulatory capture and anatomizing the conflicts of interests the current finance system produces for Congress and its industry oversight committees.
• Victor Yang is an educator and labor organizer. He spends his days doing leadership development work with janitors and security officers of SEIU 32BJ, a local of the Service Employees International Union. He has a doctorate in politics and a master of public policy from Oxford, and a bachelor’s in the history of science from Harvard.
• A panel on civic tech with Nigel Jacob (City of Boston), Jesse Littlewood (Common Cause), and Chris Wells (University of Wisconsin)