Liz Barry

Perspective Lisa Schirch, John Richardson, André Côté, Liz Barry, Audrey Tang, Jeffery Marino, Stephen Huddart / Sep 5, 2025 Last month at the Victoria Forum, a conference hosted by a Canadian nonprofit organization that seeks to develop challenges to global problems in line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, we shared ideas on “Democracy’s Digital Future.” Even in this time of political turmoil and skepticism about the role of technology in society, a new class of digital democracy...

5th graders across the state are voting between November 4th and 11th for Connecticut’s next Kid Governor. The program is a national award-winning civics program for 5th graders created by the Connecticut Democracy Center in 2015.

Make-A-Wish Connecticut helps grant the wishes of about 250 children every single year, and each wish costs an average of $10,000. Granting wishes is impossible for Make-A-Wish without the help of donors, and one foundation stepped up recently with a huge donation to help kids across the state.