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INTRODUCING THE CIVIC IMAGINATION

Sangita Shresthova
University of Southern California
sangita.shresthova@gmail.com

I’m thrilled to share our work on the civic imagination with you. Over
the past two years, I’ve enjoyed getting to know Prof. Raquel Espinosa
Castañeda and her colleagues and am excited about the work she
and her colleagues have been doing to expand on our concepts and
approaches.

I am going to start by citing Isabel, a young woman who participated
in the “Atlas of the Civic Imagination”, a storytelling initiative
we launched in 2020. Through the Atlas, we invited participants
to imagine what the people of the future in 2060 might want to
remember about our individual and shared experiences during the
Covid-19 pandemic. We received over 200 submissions from different
parts of the world. Isabel’s submission was a letter that she wrote to
her sister Elena, who had died of Covid-19. Here is what Isabel wrote:

Dear Elena,
I hope you are well. Wherever you are.
It makes me thrilled to think that you are reading this, with

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