Article by Mel Ulle
Just the name will make you cozy up to the very idea of civic engagement. While knocking on doors and engaging in a budget meeting doesn’t sound fun, cookies always do.
How does one successfully tie delicious cookies to civic engagement? Just ask Evan Weissman, the founder of Warm Cookies of the Revolution (and a Buntport Theater Company alum). When you’re a playwright, director, designer, and actor you’re twenty times more likely to figure out weird ways to make boring civics more fun.
Tens of thousands of residents have participated in Warm Cookies of the Revolution’s programs. The group has cracked the code on active participation and is successfully engaging real folks in public policy discussions that directly impact their communities. Conversations include racial justice, tax reform, education, the media and more. Safe spaces are created for people from differing backgrounds to come together with the promise of cookies, or pie, or Sin Tax Bingo.
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