{"id":22189,"date":"2019-12-17T17:11:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T22:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=22189"},"modified":"2019-12-17T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T22:11:10","slug":"political-reform-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=22189","title":{"rendered":"political reform in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MassForward: Advancing Democratic Innovation and Electoral Reform in Massachusetts\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/372864354?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the video of me presenting our <a href=\"https:\/\/massinc.org\/research\/30921\/\">study<\/a> entitled <em>MassForward: Advancing Democratic Innovation and Electoral Reform in Massachusetts<\/em> at the Boston Foundation in November, with discussion by Jay Kaufman, a former state representative and Founder and President of the Beacon Leadership Collaborative; Beth Lindstrom, former Executive Director of the Massachusetts Republican Party; Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson, Interim Director of the Center for Women in Politics &amp; Public Policy at UMass Boston; and Pavel Payano, an at-large city councilor in Lawrence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report was covered in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/news\/2019\/11\/report-massachusetts-legislatures-leadership-lacks-diversity.html\"> MassLive<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/news\/local-news\/2019\/11\/13\/mass-political-institutions-are-elite-with-striking-lack-of-representation-report-says?utm_source=TWITTER&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=20191113&amp;utm_content=2824176945&amp;utm_campaign=WGBH+News\"> WGBH <\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2019\/11\/13\/elected-officials-diversity-report\"> WBUR<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commonwealthmagazine.org\/politics\/in-mass-white-pols-dominate-state-and-local-politics\/\"> CommonWealth<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nepr.net\/post\/report-white-men-dominate-massachusetts-politics-even-more-expected#stream\/0\"> NEPR <\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpri.com\/news\/local-news\/se-mass\/study-minorities-underrepresented-in-new-bedford-fall-river-politics\/\">WPRI<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoasttoday.com\/news\/20191113\/report-highlights-disconnect-between-legislature-population\"> SouthCoast Today<\/a>, and  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salemnews.com\/opinion\/editorials\/our-view-the-imbalance-in-local-and-state-politics\/article_beb14662-7472-52bf-9a22-74e5e0ca852f.html\"> The Salem News (an editorial)<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the video of me presenting our study entitled MassForward: Advancing Democratic Innovation and Electoral Reform in Massachusetts at the Boston Foundation in November, with discussion by Jay Kaufman, a former state representative and Founder and President of the Beacon Leadership Collaborative; Beth Lindstrom, former Executive Director of the Massachusetts Republican Party; Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio-and-video","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22194,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22189\/revisions\/22194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}