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Home » Ideas We Should Steal Festival

Topic: Ideas We Should Steal Festival

Ideas We Should Scale Showcase

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By The Philadelphia Citizen

The Festival

By The Philadelphia Citizen Staff

The 2024 Ideas We Should Steal Festival

The Philadelphia Citizen presents: (Re)building a More Perfect Union

By The Philadelphia Citizen Staff

2024 Speakers

Meet the speakers for the 7th Annual Ideas We Should Steal Festival.

By Ralph Thorn

The Festival

Ideas Philly Has “Stolen”

Solutions that have launched in Philly as a result of The Citizen’s annual Ideas We Should Steal Festival

By Ralph Thorn

2023 Festival Speakers

By The Philadelphia Citizen Staff

Past Festival Speakers

We have welcomed thought leaders from across the country for the past seven years.

By The Philadelphia Citizen Staff
Ideas We Should Steal 2022 Recap

What We Learned at the Ideas We Should Steal Festival

Our 5th annual festival last week featured luminaries in the arts, politics, media and justice. Here, some solutions we should adopt

By Lauren McCutcheon and Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2022 Recap

“Tell the Truth About Who We Are”

At the opening night of last week’s festival, renowned journalists from Ali Velshi to Jill Abramson offered solutions to what plagues distrust of the media

By Jessica Blatt Press
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