Citizens' Assemblies bring together residents across lines of party and ideology to create home-grown, bottom-up solutions. They are a form of "deliberative democracy," a growing movement that engages communities in practical, collective problem-solving. Watch to learn how to put the "d" back in democracy.

Alejandro Salazar is the Executive Director of Unify Montrose. The first in his family to graduate from college, his civic path began in 2023 when participating in Montrose’s Citizens’ Assembly showed him how ordinary residents could meaningfully shape their community. That experience motivated him and several peers to build a lasting, locally grounded model of representative democracy that bridges the divides that separate Americans.