Download or read book Jumping Into Civic Life written by Scott J. Peters and published by Kettering Foundation. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through detailed oral histories, this book helps to open our imagination to the possibilities for professionals to make contributions to the task of making democracy work as it should. The firsthand stories of public work in these oral histories are told by professionals from six different U.S. states who entered civic life as active participants. They help us see what it means and takes to be a "citizen professional" who respects and supports the capacities, intelligence, expertise, and agency of others.