Executive Director, RadicalxChange | Author, Glimpses of Utopia: Real Ideas for a Fairer World | Former Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney | Let’s build the future
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11 Aug 2020
How do we update democracy’s operating system?
There are models in use around the world showing us how we can rebuild trust and get more courageous policy decisions by expanding who has a say and how.
I’m in @GuardianAus today sharing some of the ideas in #GlimpsesOfUtopia
From Sydney, AU's deputy mayor @jessaroo: "The way we do politics today underestimates the capacity of the average citizen for big-picture thinking. They need to be empowered and informed, and we need to cast the net wider than the usual suspects." 🙌
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26 Nov 2025
🎙️ NEW POD: WHAT PROTESTS WANT
@jessaroo talks with @yutingj_, cofounder of @join_agora, about prosocial media that can channel protests into positive, shared agenda-setting
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11 Nov 2025
Good to speak with new Japanese MP @takahiroanno, inventor of Broad Listening, a new AI-augmented approach to political campaigning policy design: he’s joining our Future of Digital Democracy event this Friday, register here: luma.com/0iyrzr14
11 Nov 2025
🎙️NEW POD: FIXING BUGS IN DEMOCRACY
What if democracy worked more like open-source software?
@jessaroo speaks with @takahiroanno, an AI engineer and sci-fi writer who just won a seat in Japan's parliament. youtu.be/A_S6GP5-lBQ
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7 Nov 2025
Next Friday, on Nov 14 we'll be gathering for Learning with Ukraine 🇺🇦, a global conversation on democratic resilience & frontline innovation:
👉 luma.com/0iyrzr14
Why? Because even in the darkest of times, Ukraine is showing the world what 21st-century democracy can look like. Watch @jessaroo dive into this remarkable story with @maxsemenchuk of @Web3InstituteUA.
Full RadicalxChange(s) episode:
📺YouTube | youtu.be/U0XH8WhVFlU
🎧 Spotify | sptfy.bio/rxcsukraine
Apple | bit.ly/43l8kRw
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15 Oct 2025
I’ve spent my career championing innovation for a fairer world and I’ve never encountered an organisation like @RadxChange: at the intersection of creative & digital culture, democratic participation & market reform, all of which are critical for tackling systemic transformation.
30 Sep 2025
She has precisely the mix of leadership experience, imaginative capacity, political savvy and academic curiosity and rigor that @RadxChange needs to scale into everything that our previous ED, @m_t_prewitt, laid the ground work for and I have hoped for for so long.
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15 Oct 2025
Thanks @glenweyl, I can’t believe my luck to be guiding @RadxChange in this next phase. I’m excited to expand its influence, scale the pluralistic solutions we need, and co-design projects with partners from social movements to web3 communities. If you’re curious, get in touch!
30 Sep 2025
I couldn't be more thrilled to announced that @jessaroo will be joining @RadxChange as its new Executive Director. I met thousands of people around the world as we traveled for the @pluralitybook, yet no one impressed me as much as @jessaroo.
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12 Aug 2024
Tomorrow: register below!
Tech evolves at speed: why should democracy, a technology for social decision making, remain static & stuck in the 19th century?
#Plurality by @glenweyl @audreyt is a guide to updating democracy for our times using tech, diversity and human connection
7 Aug 2024
Can we play a role in reshaping our digital public sphere for the common good?
I’m interviewing @audreyt & @glenweyl on Tuesday at a *free* Sydney event, thx to #CentreofthePublicSquare, #CommitteeforSydney
and #CivicImaginationNetwork. Join us!
eventbrite.com.au/e/can-tech…
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7 Aug 2024
Can we play a role in reshaping our digital public sphere for the common good?
I’m interviewing @audreyt & @glenweyl on Tuesday at a *free* Sydney event, thx to #CentreofthePublicSquare, #CommitteeforSydney
and #CivicImaginationNetwork. Join us!
eventbrite.com.au/e/can-tech…
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16 May 2024
"After 10 years of pain and uncertainty, my family risks being torn apart by Labor’s deportation bill." Op-ed by Vashini Jayakumar - mother of 3, childcare worker and @HometoBilo campaigner. Labor's deportation bill has been delayed by six weeks.
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5 Sep 2023
Here's what I got up to at the Byron Writers Festival.... abc.net.au/listen/programs/f… Join @jessaroo @jeffgoodell and @benroche for a chat about thinking systemically about the environment and moving away from consumer capitalism.
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17 Jul 2023
An easy way to show solidarity with @WGAWest @WGAEast @sagaftra and all the writers, actors and creative workers on strike for fair pay and better conditions. There’s no content without creative workers. Bye @NetflixANZ 👋🏽 @binge and the rest 👋🏽 #WGAstrike
Can you do it too?
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31 May 2023
Sydney: What are you up to for World Environment Day (Mon, June 5)?
📽️Join me to kick off the cinematic release of The Endangered Generation?
After the film I will be hosting a Q&A with director Celeste Greer, @camillegh and @jessaroo.
Info: theendangeredgeneration.com/
ALT Background is a picture of an icey crevasse looking up toward the sky. Title: The Endangered Generation? Our story is not yet told. We can change it. Premiere screening 5 June Dendy Newtown Followed by a Q&A with director Celeste Greer & special guests Camille Goldstone-Henry, Jess Scully & Lee Constable theendangeredgeneration.com
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28 May 2023
I’m so honoured to have my book, #GlimpsesOfUtopia, included in this incredible list of #bookstochangetheworld in the Guardian UK, thanks to author of #JoinedUpThinking, @HanCritchlow
27 May 2023
Super delighted to feature in @guardian with #bookstochangetheworld as part of the @hayfestival celebrations. I chose @jessaroo's book #GlimpsesofUtopia theguardian.com/books/2023/m…
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8 May 2023
Tune in to @abcsydney, I’m about to have a chat with Richard Glover @rgloveroz
about the ideas in the shiny ✨ new edition of my book, Glimpses of Utopia 🌞, have a listen!
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27 Apr 2023
Fantastic infographic. The #Stage3taxcuts are bad LNP policy from 2018: before the pandemic and the colossal spending that accompanied it, before the inflation, rental and cost of living crisis. It is so out of step it borders on immoral. How can the ALP continue to support this?
27 Apr 2023
This graphic from @abcnews is brilliant. Top journalism! #Stage3taxcuts are insane & must be scrapped. It’s not about ‘tough choices’- it’s not another ‘good idea’.It’s immoral to give well off that much money - #RaisetheRate single parent measure to 16yr abc.net.au/news/2023-04-28/s…
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23 Apr 2023
“The world’s most productive areas, the places where the biggest breakthroughs are made, are in cities. But if we make them prohibitively expensive, the chance of a scientific or technological innovation is reduced.”
There are solutions beyond USA/UK: but we need political will.
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19 Apr 2023
“NIMBYs come in a variety of forms, but the most confounding are those who call themselves progressive yet abuse laws conceived to protect the environment, or foster good government, to block desperately needed housing, driving up costs and fueling homelessness.”
18 Apr 2023
Mother Jones is SPITTIN 🔥
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18 Apr 2023
“Building infrastructure such as roads, electrical grids and communications for fringe suburbs is up to four times more expensive than adapting infrastructure in established suburbs with growth capacity, according to Infrastructure Victoria.”
Great piece @GuardianAus #YIMBY
17 Apr 2023
We don’t build *anywhere near* enough 3-5 storey housing in Australia
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14 Apr 2023
The YIMBYs are here.
Article ft. @MaxHolleran, @klrhull, @jonobri, calling for a better, denser Melbourne.
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12 Apr 2023
My column today on the inequality of wealth - and yep it has a lot to do with housing (and some not great graphs for anyone born after 1980)
Young Australians never stood a chance. For decades the controls have been set to favour older generations theguardian.com/business/gro…
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13 Apr 2023
Delighted to hear this from new NSW Housing Minister @RoseBJackson
Sydney’s density peaks 20km from the CBD. For fairness, more social & #affordablehousing must be within the well-served inner suburbs. I spoke to @RNDrive about the #YIMBY movement & enabling density done well.
“Get out of the way”: Nimbies given a blunt message by the new NSW Minister for Housing @RoseBJackson … we spoke to @jessaroo abc.net.au/radionational/pro…
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