Citizen of the Year Awards: Sarahi Franco-Morales

The South Philly native has helped feed hundreds of families, translated at City Council meetings, advocated for fair housing and employment, and tutored kids to read. And she’s only 18

By Jessica Blatt Press

Saving Pennsylvania Moms

The U.S. has the highest rate of maternal mortality in the developed world – especially among Black women. State Representative Morgan Cephas is on a mission to change that

By Jessica Blatt Press

MEET THE 2023 CITIZENS OF THE YEAR

Join us in honoring the most impactful Philadelphians of 2023 at a dinner featuring MSNBC’s Ali Velshi and actor and activist George Takei

By Jessica Blatt Press

Listen: Tuxes, Blackberries and the Key to Effective Policing

In the first of this two-part episode of the How to Really Run a City podcast, former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey shares how he helped oversee a record low crime rate — and how more leaders can do the same

By Jessica Blatt Press

The Citizen Recommends: Visionary Women

Whatever your faith, or lack thereof, Interfaith Philadelphia’s program for women can change your worldview — and your confidence to change the world

By Jessica Blatt Press

Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2023: The Ultimate Citizen Reading List

Catch up on the books written by this year’s Ideas We Should Steal Festival speakers — along with some of our all-time favorite tomes for anyone who lives in, or simply loves, cities

By Jessica Blatt Press

Listen: What Mayors Can Learn From … Toyota?

Brian Elms, CEO and Founder of Change Agents Training, joins the latest episode of the How to Really Run a City Podcast to share the secret to better customer service in cities

By Jessica Blatt Press

A Village of Moms, for Moms

Cocolife.Black provides Black and Brown women with lifesaving maternal care they have long needed, from pre-conception through baby’s early years

By Jessica Blatt Press

Listen: Business as Unusual

In the latest installment of The Citizen’s acclaimed podcast, Kathryn Wylde, CEO of Partnership for New York, shares the secrets to — and power of — harnessing cities’ business communities.

By Jessica Blatt Press

Listen: It’s the Implementation, Stupid!

In the latest episode of our acclaimed podcast, tech expert/author Jennifer Pahlka and Little Rock, AR, Mayor Frank Scott, Jr., caution those in power that leadership is about more than having great ideas

By Jessica Blatt Press