🌍 A Global Thank You
What’s Next for Our Democracy-Focused Gathering
I am incredibly grateful for the insightful and passionate responses I’ve received to our planning survey for an upcoming summit focused on democracy, resistance, and community resilience around the globe.
Already, participants from at least 10 countries have shared ideas and indicated interest:
🇦🇷 Argentina
🇦🇺 Australia
🇨🇦 Canada
🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
🇮🇳 India
🇮🇪 Ireland
🇩🇪 Germany
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇺🇸 United States
If you haven’t yet filled out the survey, or know someone who should be part of this global dialogue, please share it widely:
👉 https://bit.ly/4jhX8tR
Next Steps: Building the Summit Together
Over the next two weeks, I’ll begin reaching out to those who indicated they want to be involved. We’re aiming for a virtual summit that is inclusive, actionable, and accessible—rooted in community wisdom and global collaboration.
I have a basic structure in place that will allow us to move quickly:
Multiple keynote and featured speakers across two days
Open session slots for anyone who wants to present
A "pay what you can" registration model to ensure financial accessibility
Live sessions with recorded access to maximize global reach
This format is designed to welcome grassroots leaders, educators, policy experts, caregivers, students, and community advocates from all walks of life.
I recently helped organize the cross-sector Compassionate Action Conference and I appreciated how people involved in various fields such as healthcare, wellness, education, the arts, and business learned from each other. With this proposed event, we could just focus on education, but I think there is a greater opportunity to inspire more people if we include related fields as well.
Explore Our Resource Hub: AI Meets Civic Education
To support this effort, I’ve also curated a Google NotebookLM project titled The Resistance Notebook. This AI-driven tool lets you interact with a growing body of curated documents and links—and it even produces a podcast based on the content.
Check it out or send me a message with your email address and I’ll add you as a viewer.
🎧 https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/4351bd37-8761-41a0-b7eb-e53256082cde
The notebook includes:
Articles, toolkits, and research I’ve collected
Submissions from our survey community
AI-generated summaries and contextual learning
A Few Caveats on NotebookLM
While this tool is powerful, it's not perfect. Notably:
It can’t parse large websites or platforms with dynamic content like Tableau, AirTable, or extensive web archives
Spreadsheet-based data isn’t currently well supported
It has a cap of 300 resources, so I’ve had to prioritize what to include
Despite these limits, it’s a great starting point for building shared understanding and organizing resources.
A Few Standout Sites I Highly Recommend:
Here are a few websites that I particularly found compelling:
🧭 UC San Diego Trump Tracker Index
https://ucsd.libguides.com/usgov/trumptrackers🔎 InfluenceWatch – Tracking funders and networks behind public narratives
https://www.influencewatch.org/🛠️ Commons Library – Tools for social change and community organizing
https://commonslibrary.org/
Want to Build Your Own AI-Enhanced Notebook?
Here’s how to create your own curated resource hub with NotebookLM:
✅ Step-by-Step Guide:
Visit: https://notebooklm.google.com
Click “Create a new notebook”
Add your content: upload Google Docs, PDFs, or paste in text. You can also link to web articles and YouTube videos.
Ask questions in natural language using the AI chat tool.
Use the studio tab to generate audio recaps and summaries.
Share your notebook via link to collaborate or publish.
Use this for a class, a movement, a project—or even as your own civic learning log. Keep in mind that these notebooks are NOT currently shareable if you create one in a Google Workplace domain. For example, notebooks that I’ve created using my lucy@lucygrayconsulting.com account are not shareable. The one cited above is shareable because I created it with my free gmail account. Google apparently has plans to make domain-connected notebooks shareable at some point.
More news is coming soon, including:
Session proposal opportunities
Preliminary dates
Outreach and partnership strategies
Please continue to share the survey and explore the resource hub. Together, we will Resist. Rebuild. Reimagine.
In solidarity,
Lucy Gray
Founder, Actionable Innovations Global
Organizer, THRIVE 2025 and the Global Democracy Summit in Progress