The Ole Bio:Linn is among the leading voices for Civic Assemblies in the United States. He co-leads process design and program development at Healthy Democracy, a US-based nonpartisan nonprofit that is a global leader in Civic Assemblies. These unique democratic innovations bring together everyday people – selected by democratic lottery – to take on our toughest policy questions with unusual depth and efficacy. He is a co-creator and member of the democratic management structure at HD.Linn consults with local governments across the US (and abroad) on deliberative engagement, specializing in HD’s systems-level democracy innovations, including city charter review and citizens' initiative reform. Since joining Healthy Democracy in 2016, he has co-designed and -managed over a dozen of HD’s groundbreaking lottery-democracy projects, including the most intensive Civic Assembly to date in the United States.He is a frequent speaker on the why, what, and how of democratic innovation – from high-level principles to the deep weeds of process design, from state-level reform models to the democracy of small organizations. His other interests include urban planning, Oregon history, Cascade forests, fire lookouts, music, democracy in the arts, and the arts in democracy.