Voices of Shaping Our Future

In our final episode this season, we conclude Voices of Shaping Our Future by sitting down with a group thought leaders for a roundtable discussion about economic inequality.

In this episode of Voices of Shaping Our Future, we had the pleasure of talking with Kareem and Sierra — a recent graduate presently fulfilling his military service commitment and a college student who both attended the “Shaping Our Future” event in May.

We begin our discussion with Kareem and his thoughts on experiencing Shaping Our Future as a registered Independent, teaching people the importance of a dollar to help combat economic inequality, and his perspective on national service as an active member of the U.S. military.

We end our discussion with Sierra and her thoughts on electoral reform and how the concept of rank choice is a lot more common in everyday life than we may assume, her concerns surrounding universal basic income in an increasingly automated world, and how living in a rural community informed many of the discussions she had during our event.

In this episode of Voices of Shaping Our Future, we had the pleasure of talking with Fiona, Dean, and Seth — a trio of participants from our “Shaping Our Future” event in May.

We begin our discussion with Fiona and her thoughts on what it was like being a part of Shaping Our Future, the complications surrounding rank choice voting, and her expectations surrounding the minimum wage discussion — versus the talking points her group actually addressed.

We then hear from Dean and learn about the civil discussions he took part in during the Shaping Our Future event, the controversy surrounding the economic inequality portion of the discussions, and how his group approached the idea of national service.

And we end our discussion with Seth and his thoughts on the civilian climate corps and the concept of national service, the various economic inequality proposals that were discussed within his group, and the potential side effects of implementing a national universal basic income.

In this episode of Voices of Shaping Our Future, we had the pleasure of talking with Isobel and Tanner — a current college student and a college graduate. Despite being on opposite sides of the country, the two share similar outlooks on many of the issues that were discussed during the two-day event.

We begin our discussion with Isobel and her thoughts on electoral reform and her group’s reluctance with rank choice voting, the importance of engaging in conversations with each other, and the idea of national service.

We end our discussion with Tanner and his thoughts on the concept behind Shaping Our Future and why he participated in our event, his opinion on climate change and national service, and what economic inequality means to him.

In this special episode of Voices of Shaping Our Future, we’re excited to hear from a diverse group of thought leaders. The wide-ranging discussion is inspired by the Berggruen Institute’s Youth Environment Service (YES), a campaign to forefront youth voices in the climate fight and build commitments from governments to invest in jobs, national service, and other opportunities for young people in the fight against climate change.

In this episode of Voices of Shaping Our Future, we had the pleasure of talking with Kate and Benjamin – a current college student and a college graduate who both attended our event in May.

We begin our discussion with Kate and her thoughts on electoral reform skepticism, why we need to prioritize voter education, and differing opinions on climate change and the idea of national service.

We end our discussion with Ben and his thoughts on the importance of having conversations about climate change, society coming together on how to reach solutions for tomorrow’s problems, and how our voting system should be.

In this episode of Voices of Shaping Our Future, we had the pleasure of talking with Iyanuoluwa and Marketta — two female participants from Chicago who participated in our event.

We begin our discussion with Iyanu and her thoughts on our individual voices being heard, national service, the climate change debate, and universal basic income.

We end our discussion with Marketta and her thoughts on electoral reform and rank choice voting, economic inequality and a livable wage, and the concept of national service.

In this episode of Voices of Shaping Our Future, we had the pleasure of talking with Harrison and Cade — two 23-year-old graduate students who participated in our event.

We begin our discussion with Cade and his thoughts on the minimum wage debate, and the idea of national service versus being a more active member within one’s own individual community.

We end our discussion with Harrison and his thoughts on universal basic income being used to help curb economic inequality, and resolving the climate crisis sooner rather than later in order to minimize the impact it’s having on us now and will have on us in the future.

From the team that brought you Voices of America In One Room, this is Voices of Shaping Our Future.

Throughout this season, you’re going to hear from some of our “Shaping Our Future” participants, and you’ll also have the opportunity to listen to two different roundtable discussions with various thought leaders from around the country.

One of our roundtable discussions focuses on the idea of national service and the Berggruen Institute’s Youth Environmental Service (YES) campaign, and the other discusses the societal issues we're currently facing related to the idea of economic inequality.

In our final episode of the first season of Voices of America in One Room, we sit down with thought leader Daniel Lubetzky, founder and executive chairman of KIND. As a philanthropist, Daniel is passionate about building bridges between people, and it's his mission to make the world a little kinder.

We are honored that Daniel was able to take time out of his busy schedule to discuss the issues that America in One Room was centered around — a range of issues currently impacting all of us.