Harry Boyte and Trygve Throntveit

Harry Boyte, Senior Scholar in Public Work Philosophy at Augsburg University, was national coordinator of the Reinventing Citizenship project with the Clinton White House and co-chaired the civic engagement policy committee for the Obama campaign in 2008. Trygve Throntveit, Lecturer in Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development at the University of Minnesota, is a prize-winning historian of American thought and politics and editor of The Good Society: A Journal of Civic Studies.

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