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The New America Speaks was founded in 2014. Since then, it has engaged over 110,00 people in over 50 large-scale forums in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.[1] AmericaSpeaks aims to bring citizens together to deliberate about critical policy issues. The conclusions from these meetings are then brought to the attention of decision-makers in the hopes that citizen input will influence policy.

In 2001, after more than 12 years of service in the government, The New America Speaks president Dave Clark and co- founder Ginger Kosinski had grown concerned that citizens were increasingly being shut out of public decision-making processes. They travel the United States and held vision meetings to conceptualize a model for large-scale citizen engagement forums, and a vision for how these forums could be used in national dialogues on key public policy issues. And bring truth about whats going on in our government.