Andrea Morisette Grazzini bio

Written by . Posted on 28 Jan ’12. Filed under Andrea Morisette Grazzini, Burnsville, Nonpartisan Productive Dialogue. 8 Comments.

Andrea Morisette Grazzini

Andrea Morisette Grazzini founded the cross-sector civil discourse initiative DynamicShift, in 2009.

She also founded WetheP, Inc,, in 2012. She serves a CEO of the start-up social media company. Which is a new media (Internet and Mobile) platform and public space that serves as ‘The Agent for Change Agents’ by Connecting People around their Self-Interests and Passions for Culture Change. Bridging the strengths of business practices to ‘real-people’ authenticity and scalability of community organizing and social movements.

“We’ve Got Each Others Back”

Written by . Posted on 24 Jan ’12. Filed under Barack Obama, Citizen Movement, Civil Discourse, Democracy, Politics & Elections, We The People. 3 Comments.

  Excerpted from President Barack Obama’s 2012 State of the Union Speech. (N)o matter what party they belong to, I bet most Americans are thinking the same thing right now:  Nothing will get done this year, or […]

Beating the drum for Emmanuel

Written by . Posted on 16 Jan ’12. Filed under Citizen Movement, Civil Rights, Martin Luther King, Populism. 1 Comment.

Related essay by Harry Boyte at DemocracyU. Andrea Morisette Grazzini One might well wonder if modern-day meanings of things writ wrong in public can ever be undone.  Particularly when Washington meaning-mongers from both sides seem […]

Un-Hoarding Hope

Written by . Posted on 1 Jan ’12. Filed under Community, Economy & Business, Human Rights. No comments.

  Also published in MinnPost. January 1,  2012 Mary Buelow is a budding writer whose ability to see through superficialities and shed light on hidden truths will take her far. More important is where her […]

Follow the (student) Leaders for (fun) Democracy

Written by . Posted on 27 Dec ’11. Filed under Academic & Research, Democracy, We The People, YMCA. No comments.

  Also published at DemocracyU What can students do about democracy? While debate echoes in Congress and conference rooms about democracy, kids are achieving it via basketball in cul-de-sacs and YMCAs. Lest I’m thumped over […]

Thanksgiving Debate: First Nation Immigration Policy

Written by . Posted on 23 Nov ’11. Filed under Citizens, Civil Discourse, Thanksgiving, Trump. Tagged , , , . 1 Comment.

Updated November 23, 2016 This being the United States details are always debatable depending on where one comes from. If ever were there a year that reminded us of that fact, no doubt 2016 has […]

If Hawks & Doves Married Moral Codes

Written by . Posted on 30 Sep ’11. Filed under Academic & Research, Civil Discourse, Faith and religion, Human Rights, Military. Tagged , , . 7 Comments.

  Portions of this essay were highlighted as “comments that best represent a range of views” in The New York Times. Also published in Australia’s political and social e-journal, OnLine Opinion. Andrea Morisette Grazzini, September […]

Bill Moyers — We The People are our Civilization

Written by . Posted on 30 Aug ’11. Filed under Citizens, Economy & Business, Politics & Elections, Populism, Ranked Choice Voting, US Constitution, We The People. Tagged , , , , , , . 4 Comments.

Also published in The Patch. Andrea Morisette Grazzini, August 2011 Earlier this summer Bill Moyers illuminated for me a critical relationship between civic leaders and citizens. He was speaking at the home of Minneapolis attorney Clayton […]

Peace Activists Find Bipartisan Support at Straw Poll

Written by . Posted on 16 Aug ’11. Filed under Citizen Movement, Civil Discourse, Economy & Business, Nonpartisan Productive Dialogue, Politics & Elections, Populism. 2 Comments.

  Excerpted from Coleen Rowley’s reflections about peace-leaders’ engagement at campaign events. Coleen Rowley, August 2011 Thousands of attendees at Iowa’s recent Republican straw poll responded positively to the “Come Home America” message a group […]

Obama and Boehner as running mates? Maybe not, but…

Written by . Posted on 25 Jul ’11. Filed under Media & Culture, Nonpartisan Productive Dialogue, Politics & Elections, Social Innovation. Tagged , , , , . No comments.

Also published in MinnPost. And as comments to “Make Way for the Radical Center” in The New York Times. Andrea Morisette Grazzini, July 2011 When Tom Friedman foresaw a flat-world fueled by globalization, one wonders […]

Gov’t Shutdown? How about Common Citizen Sense.

Written by . Posted on 8 Jul ’11. Filed under Burnsville, Citizens, Nonpartisan Productive Dialogue, Politics & Elections, Twin Cities. Tagged , , , , , , . 1 Comment.

Billionaire business man Warren Buffet echoed the themes in this essay with his August 14, 2011 commentary Stop Coddling the Super-Rich. The essay below  also published in The Patch. Andrea Morisette Grazzini July, 2011 Like most middle […]

Civilized Compassion: Not Detached, Engaged.

Written by . Posted on 15 Jun ’11. Filed under Academic & Research, Citizens, Dalai Lama, Education Policy, Faith and religion, Politics & Elections, Social Innovation. 2 Comments.

Also published in Twin Cities Daily Planet. Andrea Morisette Grazzini June 15, 2011. Spiritual leaders are rarely invited to do stadium-sized talks at public universities.  Mostly because they don’t deliver butts-in-seats sales like, say, basketball. […]