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Dear Friends,

Thanks to those who joined us for our great conversation with DOE’s Jigar Shah a week ago Friday.  You can find our uplifting talk about the progress being made in our much-needed energy transition here.  Do watch or listen – it left us excited about where we, and grateful for the good work Jigar and others are doing to lead us forward. 

In the next few weeks, we have a great set of public events on tap for you, below.  Join us for as many as you can.  Invite friends, colleagues – all are

Tuesday, April 12th 1pm ET – Future Majority’s Gretchen Barton on What She’s Heard Listening to the American People – Join us for what will be a really interesting event.  Gretchen Barton is a public opinion researcher who uses deep listening techniques – long interviews, multiday engagements, and use of visual imagery and multimedia - to understand the deep-rooted thoughts and feelings of Americans.  She has spent the last year listening daily to the American people about their lives, their struggles, their hopes, and their fears to find opportunities for better connecting with and engaging Americans.  She has taken all of this work and combined it with some more traditional polling from Future Majority and created a presentation about what’s she learned and what it means for center-left politics this year. 

We are excited to be hosting one of the first public presentations of this project and hope you will join us.  This work has heavily influenced NDN’s own thinking about where are we right now, and what we need to do – and we are sure it will influence yours, too.  RSVP here.  Learn more about Gretchen and this important work here.  

Tuesday, April 19th 1pm ET – Tomicah Tilleman on Web3 - We are excited to be hosting a discussion about a very timely and important topic - the public policy implications of the rapid advances of Web3, blockchain technology and cryptocurrency.   Joining us to break it all down is a trailblazing thought leader in this space, Tomicah Tillemann. Our live, indepth talk will take place on Tuesday, April 19th at 1pm ET via Zoom.  RSVP here.  It is free and open to all. 

More on Tomicah - Tomicah Tillemann is the Global Chief Policy Officer at Katie Haun's new firm.  Previously, Tomicah was a partner and Global Head of Policy for the crypto team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he builds public policy architecture to support the next generation of the internet. Tomicah served as Senior Advisor to two secretaries of state, leading a team of experts that built 20 major initiatives in 55 countries. He joined the State Department in 2009 as Hillary Clinton's speechwriter and spent four years on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee working with Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and John Kerry.

Tomicah also served as the Executive Director of the Digital Impact and Governance Initiative at New America, where he led programs to address social impact, finance, and governance challenges worldwide. He authored extensive research on how to harness frontier technologies to strengthen democratic institutions, and launched successful efforts to use decentralized platforms to combat public corruption, increase government efficiency, and promote private sector accountability. He helped deploy the world's first decentralized land registry and managed development of open source technology platforms for city, state, and federal agencies in the U.S.

Tomicah is a co-holder of four patents. He received his B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University and holds a Ph.D. with distinction from the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

- Simon, Georgia and the rest of the NDN team       

                                                                     

                                                                                                                                                                   
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