Build Your Own Community Assembly

​How can we bring citizens’ voices into local decision-making?

​This interactive session mirrors the structure of a real community assembly — moving from learning → deliberation → action — to show how community assemblies empower people to lead change from the ground up.

​Through stories, visuals, and hands-on collaboration, participants will:

• ​Discover what community assemblies are and how they connect local action to global impact.

• ​Hear real stories from ongoing pilot assemblies facilitated by Lucas and others.

• ​Design their own community assemblies in small groups using guided prompts.

​By the end, everyone will leave with one concrete step to bring assemblies to life in their own communities.

​Speakers:

• ​Lucas Veloso – Community Assembly Manager, facilitating assemblies worldwide.

• ​Caue Bueno – Community Assembly Facilitator, working directly with local assemblies in Brazil to translate citizen voices into action.

• ​Silvia Cervellini – Co-founder and Director of Delibera ; Co-author of What is Public Opinion and multiple academic articles on citizens’ assemblies and democratic innovation in Brazil.

• ​Dr. Bonny Ibhawoh, FRSC – Senator William McMaster Chair in Global Human Rights; Expert-Rapporteur, United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development (UN-OHCHR); Project Director, Participedia.