Public Dialogue and Deliberation Division

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Interest Group Awards 2025

Listed here are awards given by the Interest Group to its members. Interests Groups are smaller communities within NCA’s large membership that provide a range of resources including networking opportunities, Annual Convention programming, leadership opportunities, awards, and specialized information dissemination channels, among others.

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Top Student Paper Award

Year Award Winner
2025 Julia Simoes, “Fostering Voice, Inviting Dialogic Transformation: Exploring Emergent Communication Practices in Community Collaboration Efforts”
2024 Yanitza A. Cruz Crespo, “Analyzing the Deliberative Nature of Online Messages about Vaccination: A Comparative Study of the Pro- and Anti-Vaccination Messages”
2023 No award given.
2022 Nicholas Aranda, “Material Affordances, Agency, & Attunement in Deliberation: Wedding New Materialist Aims with Deliberative Practice”
2021 Tate Adams, “Practical Tools, Critical Grindstone: (Re)Constructing a Critical-Pragmatic Model for Deliberative Democratic Responses to Climate Change”
2020 No award given.
2019 Vincent Russell & Therese Gardner, “Publicity and Transparency for Social Justice and Equity in Denver Participatory Budgeting”