Builders at /The Front Yard: Conversation as a Civic Superpower: Building Trust One Room at a Time

​Builders at The Front Yard bring our campus and city together around real problem-solving. In partnership with the Builders Movement, we are creating a space that goes beyond traditional definitions of entrepreneurship—empowering people and the community to work side by side to think flexibly and create collaborative solutions to the complex challenges of our time. Together, we are cultivating a culture that strengthens our ability to listen with curiosity, imagine with creativity, and act with courage.

​This lecture series invites community members from all walks of life to uncover new strategies, exchange real stories, develop constructive mindsets, and spark ideas that can build a brighter, connected future across differences.

​About Joan Blades :

​Joan Blades is a co-founder of LivingRoomConversations.org - a scalable effort to build respectful connections across ideological, cultural and party lines while embracing our core-shared values. When we care about each other, we work to find ways to meet each other’s needs. Also a co-founder of AllSides.com, MomsRising.org, and MoveOn.org, she is a co-author of The Custom-Fit Workplace and The Motherhood Manifesto.  A mediator (attorney) by training and inclination, she believes in the power of citizens and our need for respectful discourse while embracing our core shared values.