Hollie Russon Gilman is a Political Reform program fellow at New America. Her first book is Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and Civic Innovation and America as part of the Harvard Kennedy School's series on governance innovation in the 21st century. Gilman also held an Open Technology Institute fellowship at New America. She also has a forthcoming co-authored book with Sabeel Rahman, Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis (2019).