The Commons, Center for Service Learning, and Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity are teaming up to bring the University of Kansas community the 2020 Collaborative Civic Engagement Series leading up to the national presidential election in Fall 2020. This partnership seeks to provide a space for the greater KU and Lawrence community to engage with difference aspects of US democracy featuring experts from the KU faculty, staff, student body as well as specialists from beyond the University. Programs in this series will center on knowledge acquisition and building our own capacities for creating change in our communities.