The Public Policy Project

Welcome from Loren

Greetings, Loren Niemi here, saying that I’m glad that you’ve found our site and have explored enough to arrive at this blog! If you haven’t explored other parts of this site, I invite you to look around. We’ve tried to make this both easy to navigate and useful in giving you a sense of what James and I do.

I have spent most of my adult life working with non-profit organizations as a community organizer, manager or consultant. As the Grateful Dead say, “what a long strange trip it’s been.” But the truth be told, this work, The Public Policy Project, with its focus on assisting low-wealth individuals and people of color to utilize their inherent power to speak their truth and engage the decision-making systems that impact their lives, is the most satisfying work I have done.

As I write this, it is early 2008. An election year and hence, a year in which each and every one of us is invited to the national conversation about what kind of government we want. In the next few months, I will comment on some topics - health care, employment, housing, energy independence, etc. - that I think should be front and center in that conversation. Come back and see if you agree with me. If you do, act on that agreement in the campaign season and at the ballot box. If you don’t speak your own truth in the public square.

LN