Diego Rivas

Project Manager
diego.rivas@progressives-zentrum.org

About Diego

At Das Progressive Zentrum, Diego was a Project Manager and primarily coordinated the annual Progressive Governance Summit and the New Urban Progress transatlantic dialogue. Diego is also currently the Get-Out-the-Vote Coordinator for Europe, Middle East, and Africa for Democrats Abroad. Before that role he was Chair of Democrats Abroad Berlin and also a Bernie Sanders Delegate to the 2020 Democratic National Convention. Originally from California, Diego has a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Political Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Masters of Art in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin.

Publications

Progressive Governance: Rise or Demise – How Democracies Can Withstand Authoritarian Attacks

New "Talking Progress" Podcast episode: A conversation between Anne Applebaum and Wolfgang Schmidt

News

Recap: NUP Fellows Travel Across the United States

Our Second New Urban Progress Trip Took Our Fellows to Chicago, Denver, and Austin

Projects

Progressive Governance Summit

Europe's largest conference for progressive politics

NEW URBAN PROGRESS

Making cities and the transatlantic partnership more innovative, democratic, and…

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