Mica serves as the Director of Outreach and Engagement for the Democracy Imperative at the University of New Hampshire. For the past several years, Mica has helped organize many public engagement projects in New Hampshire, including Portsmouth Listens. He’s worked with the Case Foundation’s Make It Your Own awards program and has managed five presidential debates during recent NH Primaries. Mica was the founding Co-Chair of the City Year New Hampshire Board of Directors. He currently serves as Vice President of the Piscataquog Land Conservancy. Mica and his wife have two young boys and two dogs.
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.
