Below is a selection of recent projects that students in WDPD have worked on and completed.
2024-2025
- Free Speech and Intellectual Property – with Senior Intellectual Property Counsel for Louis Vuitton, Jana Checa Chong
- Notorious Monuments with Dr. Jill Edy – community dialogue focused on the complicated nature of our collective memory
- Youth Mental Health Summit – our 4th year of working with middle and high school students in Montgomery County
2023-2024
- Region 4 Prevention Partners Network – developing shared resource database and communication plan for the region and county agencies assisting with addiction
- Douglass School Deliberation – in partnership with Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program and the 2nd Baptist Church of Kokomo
2022-2023
- Montgomery County Hispanic Business Needs Deliberation – WDPD’s first deliberation entirely in Spanish
- STEM Education through Deliberation – Supported by an NSF Grant from Dr. Sara Mehltretter and Dr. Laura Wysocki
- St. Peter’s Church Accessibility and Development – in partnership with the Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program
2021-2022
- Upper Sugar Creek Watershed Development – in partnership with Montgomery County Soil and Water Conservation District
- Brave Spaces and 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 Belonging – in partnership with RAND Corporation
2020-2021
- Community Conversation on Diversity & Inclusion, Crawfordsville. supported by the Lilly Scholars Network, and in partnership with the City of Crawfordsville, Humans United for Equality
Report from the Community Conversation - Wabash Heartland Innovation Network - Visioning Sessions on Workforce Development
2019-2020
- Montgomery County Health Department Community Needs Deliberation
- Constitution Day Activities, Wabash College
2018-2019
- Cultivate our Gardens - public engagement of science dialogues. supported by the Indiana Humanities, and in partnership with Wabash College Biology
- Serving our City - Brazil, Indiana
- Keeping Community - Mt Comfort, Indiana
- State & Division Community Discussion on Housing Strategies - Elkhart, Indiana
2017-2018
- Transportation Deliberation, Montgomery County
- County Planning Deliberation, Montgomery County
- Land Use and Planning Discussion in Whitestown, Indiana
- Mental Health Dialogue, Wabash College
2016-2017
- Community Conversation on Economic Opportunities in Leslie County, Kentucky
- Community Conversation on Childcare in Montgomery County, Indiana
- Pike Street Pocket Park Deliberation in Crawfordsville, Indiana
- Value Your Voice: Redefining Indiana – in partnership with the Indiana Office of the Attorney General
- Community Conversation on Health Priorities – in partnership with the Montgomery County IN Health Department
2015
- The Next Montgomery County, in Montgomery County, Indiana