“Certainty is not what democracy is about. You don’t have the luxury of sitting on the sidelines until you’re ready to be seen,” a student speaker said.

Stanford Continuing Studies, a program that shares educational resources with adult students, hosted the sixth and final installment of its “Reimagining Democracy” speaker series on Nov. 11.

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