Columbia Votes student “voter registration genius” Haley Patton (center) moderates a panel as part of “Meeting the Moment” in March 2025. When I started Columbia Votes in 2018, the name accurately ...

Civic engagement rarely begins in a vague email or at the registrar’s office. It really begins in late-night dorm talks, over dining hall meals, and with hushed study sessions in the campus library.

Civic engagement, individual and collective actions aimed at addressing public opportunities and challenges, is fundamental to constitutional republics in healthy societies and is a key driver of ...

The honors were announced during the 2025 American Democracy Project Summit in Indianapolis. Schmidl-Gagne was on hand to receive the Spirit of Democracy Award, which honors exemplary leadership in ...