At the Carsey Institute at UNH, Mica Stark leads initiatives designed to build working relationships with scholars, community leaders, and policy makers, on campus and across the nation. During the 2008 NH Primary season, Mica managed four presidential debates at Saint Anselm College. Previously, he was the managing director at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics where he developed and led numerous civic engagement initiatives. Mica has worked on numerous deliberative democracy efforts (in the community and on campus), including Portsmouth Listens. He currently serves as vice president of the Piscataquog Watershed Association, a regional land trust west of Manchester. Mica is a ninth-generation NH native and lives in New Boston, NH with his family.
The Carsey Institute is becoming a leading national center for policy research on youth, working families, and sustainable development in small cities and rural communities. Our studies provide tools for policy makers and community leaders working to increase upward mobility, support the middle class, and create sustainable, healthy communities.
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The Democracy Imperative, based at UNH, is a new national network of multidisciplinary scholars, campus leaders, and civic leaders in the fields of democracy building, public dialogue and deliberation, and social change. TDI's mission is to improve public life and advance deliberative democracy in and through higher education.
