072 → 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.