The Civic Series.

The people fixing a city, on the record.

Recorded in Chicago during the years Microsoft sponsored the work.

Between 2017 and 2018, advisor.tv turned its cameras on the people doing Chicago's civic work: education funds, ballot access, clean energy, public schools, city hall technology.

Microsoft sponsored advisor.tv in this era and never touched a single editorial decision. The series is complete. Every episode is below.

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One seat. One microphone. Twenty Chicago builders.

Episodes · complete library

Twenty conversations.

Akosua Boadi-Agyemang, Microsoft
Anna Draft, Civic Technology Fellow, Microsoft Chicago
Alex Niemczewski, CEO, BallotReady
Heather Anichini, President and CEO, The Chicago Public Education Fund
Nelson Gerew, The Chicago Public Education Fund
Melissa Anderson, cofounder, Public Good Software
Eric Vazquez, CTO, Office of the City Clerk
Parvathi Santhosh-Kumar, StriveTogether
Charlie Barlow, Policy Research Collaborative, Roosevelt University
Erik Birkerts, CEO, Clean Energy Trust
Jimmy Odom, ChicagoNEXT
Mark Harris, Illinois Science and Technology Coalition
Matt Strauss, CEO, Solve
Valerie Groth, founder, Ryan Banks Academy
Vinesh Kannan, CEO, Omnipointment
MarySue Barrett, President, Metropolitan Planning Council
Beth Bond, GoCivic Chicago
Neal Sales-Griffin, CEO, CodeNow
Heather Van Benthuysen, Chicago Public Schools, and Gabrielle Lyon, Chicago Architecture Foundation
Lauren Woods, Chicago Public Schools