• Home
  • Opinion
  • Quizzes
  • Redistricting
  • Sections
  • About Us
  • Voting
  • Events
  • Civic Ed
  • Campaign Finance
  • Directory
  • Election Dissection
  • Fact Check
  • Glossary
  • Independent Voter News
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Subscriptions
  • Log in
Leveraging Our Differences
  • news & opinion
    • Big Picture
      • Civic Ed
      • Ethics
      • Leadership
      • Leveraging big ideas
      • Media
    • Business & Democracy
      • Corporate Responsibility
      • Impact Investment
      • Innovation & Incubation
      • Small Businesses
      • Stakeholder Capitalism
    • Elections
      • Campaign Finance
      • Independent Voter News
      • Redistricting
      • Voting
    • Government
      • Balance of Power
      • Budgeting
      • Congress
      • Judicial
      • Local
      • State
      • White House
    • Justice
      • Accountability
      • Anti-corruption
      • Budget equity
    • Columns
      • Beyond Right and Left
      • Civic Soul
      • Congress at a Crossroads
      • Cross-Partisan Visions
      • Democracy Pie
      • Our Freedom
  • Pop Culture
      • American Heroes
      • Ask Joe
      • Celebrity News
      • Comedy
      • Dance, Theatre & Film
      • Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
      • Faithful & Mindful Living
      • Music, Poetry & Arts
      • Sports
      • Technology
      • Your Take
      • American Heroes
      • Ask Joe
      • Celebrity News
      • Comedy
      • Dance, Theatre & Film
      • Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
      • Faithful & Mindful Living
      • Music, Poetry & Arts
      • Sports
      • Technology
      • Your Take
  • events
  • About
      • Mission
      • Advisory Board
      • Staff
      • Contact Us
Sign Up

Julie Hudman

    FollowUnfollowFollowing
    Civic Ed

    Sure, political activism is good for the system. It's also good for your health.

    Julie Hudman
    Scott Warren
    March 16, 2021
    Health in the United Statees
    mstahlphoto/Getty Images

    Hudman is managing partner at Vikasa Health, which invests in reducing social inequalities that make people sick, and the board chair of Generation Citizen. Warren founded that civics education organization and is a visiting fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, which seeks to strengthen global democracy by improving civic engagement and inclusive dialogue.

    Keep ReadingShow less
    civic engagement

    Join an Upcoming Event

    View All Events
    Get some Leverage Sign up for The Fulcrum Newsletter
    Follow
    Get some Leverage Sign up for The Fulcrum Newsletter
    Follow
    Contributors

    Reform in 2023: Leadership worth celebrating

    Layla Zaidane

    Two technology balancing acts

    Dave Anderson

    Reform in 2023: It’s time for the civil rights community to embrace independent voters

    Jeremy Gruber

    Congress’ fix to presidential votes lights the way for broader election reform

    Kevin Johnson

    Democrats and Republicans want the status quo, but we need to move Forward

    Christine Todd Whitman

    Reform in 2023: Building a beacon of hope in Boston

    Henry Santana
    Jerren Chang
    latest News

    COVID created an expanded social safety net; activists are now quietly working to bring it back

    Davis Giangiulio
    6h

    Banking, democracy & trust

    Lawrence Goldstone
    6h

    SVB’s newfangled failure fits a century-old pattern of bank runs, with a social media twist

    Rodney Ramcharan
    8h

    Podcast: How women are showing up for justice & democracy

    Our Staff
    8h

    Improving voter engagement for all Americans

    Barbara Smith Warner
    29 March

    Meet the Faces of Democracy: Carly Koppes (R-CO)

    Michael Beckel
    Mia Minkin
    Ariana Rojas
    29 March
    Videos

    Video: Can bipartisanship survive the rise of the independent voter?

    Our Staff

    Video: Ted Lasso cast at the White House press briefing

    Our Staff

    Video: The hidden stories in the U.S. Census

    Our Staff

    Video: We asked conservatives at CPAC what woke means

    Our Staff

    Video: DeSantis, 18 states to push back against Biden ESG agenda

    Our Staff

    Video: A conversation with Tiahna Pantovich

    Our Staff
    Podcasts

    Podcast: How women are showing up for justice & democracy

    Our Staff
    8h

    Podcast: Harnessing the power of juries

    Our Staff
    28 March

    Podcast: Partial truths & corporate fables

    Debilyn Molineaux
    David Riordan
    27 March

    Podcast: Risky business: More bank collapses ahead?

    Our Staff
    27 March
    Recommended
    COVID created an expanded social safety net; activists are now quietly working to bring it back

    COVID created an expanded social safety net; activists are now quietly working to bring it back

    Government
    Banking, democracy & trust

    Banking, democracy & trust

    Threats to democracy
    SVB’s newfangled failure fits a century-old pattern of bank runs, with a social media twist

    SVB’s newfangled failure fits a century-old pattern of bank runs, with a social media twist

    Big Picture
    Podcast: How women are showing up for justice & democracy

    Podcast: How women are showing up for justice & democracy

    Podcasts
    Improving voter engagement for all Americans

    Improving voter engagement for all Americans

    Voting
    Meet the Faces of Democracy: Carly Koppes (R-CO)

    Meet the Faces of Democracy: Carly Koppes (R-CO)

    Elections