Democracies worldwide are facing a crisis of trust due to a lack of collaboration between citizens and their representatives, as well as growing civic disengagement. This episode of PBS’s new docuseries, “A Brief History of the Future,” delves deep into this issue AND a potential solution: Deliberative Democracy.

Alice Siu, senior research scholar at CDDRL and Associate Director of the Deliberative Democracy Lab, sheds light on how Deliberative Polling has been used to bridge divides among participants and what the future of democracy could look like when empathetic conversations take center stage.