Everyone a Changemaker: Michael Zakaras

April 23rd, 2026

”We need to focus on the collective good.”

We discuss the vision of an everyone-a-changemaker society. Now is the moment to step up to protect healthy civil society in America by making the mechanisms and the rituals for participation in local politics more robust and more meaningful.

Michael Zakaras is the director of Ashoka US, the world's largest network of social entrepreneurs and a global leader in social innovation.

Your civic action toolkit recommendations from Michael are:

1. Find a place to plug in at the local level

2. Go to a Civic Saturdays event near you

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Credits:

Host: Mila Atmos 

Guest: Michael Zakaras

Executive Producer: Zack Travis

Executive Editor: Mila Atmos