Participatory Budgeting Advisory Committee

Isabel Luciano

With a decade of experience helping governments engage communities that have been excluded from traditional decision-making processes in allocating public funds, Isabel has dedicated herself to opening access to our democracy. Isabel spent the first half of her career guiding cities & institutions across North America to implement participatory budgeting (PB). More recently, she has focused on creating youth programming that resources young people to lead their own civic engagement innovations - including the 'People's Fellows' who supported the CEC's '2021-2022' The People's Money. Currently, she is developing curriculum designed to help communities and institutions run participatory budgeting. Isabel is excited to use the insights she's accumulated over the years to help strengthen New York City's civic infrastructure as part of the CEC's PB Advisory Committee. 

isabel.civicengagement@gmail.com