The Inflection Point

Landit helps women navigate their careers in a way that benefits them and their companies. Its co-founder Lisa Skeete Tatum will talk about increasing access at the Citizen event Wednesday

By Jamie Bogert

The Citizen Recommends: Hot Dogs

Because civic engagement begins (and ends, really) with sausage

By Jamie Bogert

Notes from a Committee Person: How I Ran for Office—and Barely Won

In the first of a series, a young Philadelphian takes the political plunge for civic engagement—and bouncy houses

By Jamie Bogert

The Citizen Recommends: QUEST

The North Philly-based documentary airing tonight on PBS marks the beginning of a conversation about inner-city trauma, race, class and politics.

By Jamie Bogert

The Citizen Recommends: Mission Story Slam

Calling all nonprofit and do-good business leaders: Share your successes, your failures, your hilarious mishaps—and maybe win some money

By Jamie Bogert

The Citizen Recommends: Flash Focus on Privacy and the Internet

An event at the Rosenbach with The Citizen’s Larry Platt asks a question of our time: How can we live in the age of Facebook?

By Jamie Bogert

The Citizen Recommends: 2018 Solas Awards

The Welcoming Center’s annual fundraiser will honor businessman Stephen Tang and other immigrants who are helping to build a better Philadelphia

By Jamie Bogert

Citizen Recommends: Civic Engagement Launchpad 2018

Code for Philly launches a month of civic hacking to fix democracy in Philadelphia

By Jamie Bogert

The Citizen Recommends: Philadelphia The Great Experiment

The latest from Sam Katz’s History Making Productions looks at the golden age of Wanamaker —when civic leaders didn’t wait for permission

By Jamie Bogert

Give Us Our Crowns

High schoolers from around the city answered the call for solutions to Philly’s problems. One team takes their project—to halt the schools to prison pipeline—to Aspen

By Jamie Bogert