The Commons in Conversation with Amy McIsaac

Words like “community,” “diversity,” and “democracy” are commonplace in nonprofit vernacular. But how do average Americans react to them? Amy McIsaac has answers. She leads a project at Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) that studies how civic language describing our values, ideals, and practices can motivate people or turn them off.
McIsaac joined Chronicle senior editor Drew Lindsay for a conversation about her research analyzing words that bring us together and those that divide us.
About the series: The Commons in Conversation is a series of exclusive, one-on-one conversations with national and local leaders working to strengthen a fractured America. Chronicle editors and writers will host individuals from across the country in casual lunchtime discussions about what it will take to bring Americans together. Guests will talk about ideas and promising solutions and how the philanthropic world - from major philanthropists to everyday nonprofit leaders - can contribute.
#TheCommons