Center for Civic Participation and Leadership
The Center for Civic Participation and Leadership is designed to bring expertise and support for hosting roundtables and other deliberative dialogue opportunities to address community and state issues and concerns.
The Center for Civic Participation and Leadership is designed to bring expertise and support for hosting roundtables and other deliberative dialogue opportunities to address community and state issues and concerns.

John Usera, Ph. D., Moderator & Reporter
Dr. Usera serves as the Director of Policy Analysis & Civic Engagement. The Institute focuses on providing a public space and forum for discussion and analysis of public policy issues. Dr. Usera has convened, hosted, and moderated many forums and roundtables dealing with public policy issues on P-16 education, tourism energy, transportation, technology, and many more topics. Through these efforts, many leaders and citizens have gathered together to dialogue, deliberate, and act on pressing and relevant issues.



