Book Release: Budget Justice

​Drawing on her years of engagement with democratic governance in New York City and around the globe, CUNY Graduate Center professor and poet Celina Su proposes a new kind of democracy—in which city residents make collective decisions about public needs through processes like participatory budgeting, and in which they work across racial divides and segregated spaces as neighbors rather than as consumers or members of voting blocs.

​Essential reading to empower citizens, Budget Justice explains why public budgets reflect a crisis not so much in accounting as in democracy, and enables everyone, especially those from historically marginalized communities, to imagine and enact people’s budgets and policies—from universal preschool to affordable housing—that will enable their communities to thrive.

​For this event, Su will be in conversation with Mary Austin Speaker, poet and creative director of Milkweed Editions.