What’s the problem participatory budgeting solves? (The following interview has been condensed and edited.) An Obama Foundation fellowship came after, then a TED Talk and now an Emerson Collective fellowship, which they’ll use to create a visual guide to participatory budgeting. They honed their organizing chops as a preteen teaching martial arts, then led Boston’s Department of Youth Engagement and Employment. After the city’s decision to slash its police budget in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, residents will soon direct some $30 million toward a new vision of public safety.ĭavis’s path to the realm of line items and capital projects arguably began in childhood. A current example: After a year’s delay, Seattleites will engage in one of the biggest instances of participatory budgeting to date. Since its first application in Brazil in the late 1980s, the participatory budgeting movement has spread to more than 7,000 cities around the world, including 29 in the United States, where ordinary citizens already have allocated $386 million.
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