Date/Time
2/24/2026
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Eastern
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Eastern
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Event Description
This three-hour workshop is designed for Community Leadership Programs staff, volunteers, and alums – anyone who wants to nurture relationships across social differences in their communities. Highly interactive, it provides content and practice for building skills in starting a conversation, authentic story-sharing, and connecting across difference.
Participants build skills in starting conversations, sharing stories authentically, and connecting across difference themselves. They also discuss and develop strategies for “seeding civity” – creating civity opportunities in their gatherings for other community members. This workshop includes one (1) one-on-one post-workshop coaching session, available for up to a year after the workshop.
Cost: $225
The workshop is sponsored by ALP and the National Leadership Network. It will be delivered by Malka Ranjana Kopell and Palma Joy Strand, co-founders of Civity, a national nonprofit organization that envisions a society where we all belong. To see Civity’s work with Leadership Rhode Island, take a moment to watch this recent profile by Judy Woodruff on the PBS NewsHour.
About the Facilitators:
Malka Ranjana Kopell, Co-Founder and CEO of Civity, has over 30 years’ experience facilitating public policy conflict resolution and community engagement processes. She served as a program officer for the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, was the founding managing director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University, and is a senior mediator/facilitator with the Center for Continuing Education at California State University, Sacramento. Malka holds an M.P.P. from Harvard University and a B.A. from Stanford University, and is a proud graduate of Leadership San Francisco.
Palma Joy Strand, Co-Founder and Research Director of Civity, is a Professor Emerita of Law at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, where she taught in the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program. Most recently, she was Visiting Professor at Marquette University Law School. She also designs and facilitates Conversations on Race and Belonging for teachers and parents in public education. Palma holds a BS (Civil Engineering) from Stanford University, a JD from Stanford Law School, and an LLM in Alternative Dispute Resolution and Legal Problem-Solving from Georgetown University Law Center. Palma is a proud graduate of Leadership Arlington.
Participants build skills in starting conversations, sharing stories authentically, and connecting across difference themselves. They also discuss and develop strategies for “seeding civity” – creating civity opportunities in their gatherings for other community members. This workshop includes one (1) one-on-one post-workshop coaching session, available for up to a year after the workshop.
Cost: $225
The workshop is sponsored by ALP and the National Leadership Network. It will be delivered by Malka Ranjana Kopell and Palma Joy Strand, co-founders of Civity, a national nonprofit organization that envisions a society where we all belong. To see Civity’s work with Leadership Rhode Island, take a moment to watch this recent profile by Judy Woodruff on the PBS NewsHour.
About the Facilitators:
Malka Ranjana Kopell, Co-Founder and CEO of Civity, has over 30 years’ experience facilitating public policy conflict resolution and community engagement processes. She served as a program officer for the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, was the founding managing director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University, and is a senior mediator/facilitator with the Center for Continuing Education at California State University, Sacramento. Malka holds an M.P.P. from Harvard University and a B.A. from Stanford University, and is a proud graduate of Leadership San Francisco.
Palma Joy Strand, Co-Founder and Research Director of Civity, is a Professor Emerita of Law at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, where she taught in the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program. Most recently, she was Visiting Professor at Marquette University Law School. She also designs and facilitates Conversations on Race and Belonging for teachers and parents in public education. Palma holds a BS (Civil Engineering) from Stanford University, a JD from Stanford Law School, and an LLM in Alternative Dispute Resolution and Legal Problem-Solving from Georgetown University Law Center. Palma is a proud graduate of Leadership Arlington.
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Virtual Event - Zoom
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