During the past 24 months I published two peer-reviewed articles and one book chapter related to different aspects of the project in leading international outlets. I also gave talks and delivered papers in 15 countries (England, Scotland, Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, Russia, the U.S. Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Chile, Palestine, Tibet in Exile, and South Africa), and delivered keynote speeches at three international conferences and at the Latin American Popular Congress that brought together more than 100 grassroots organisations working towards social justice. In addition to public speaking events, I was invited to give Guest Lectures on systemic corruption, material constitutionalism, and plebeian rights in universities in the U.S. Italy, Mexico, Chile, and New Zealand.
Alongside my academic work, I became an advisor to international and grassroots organisations on civil and political rights, and on procedures and institutions for direct deliberative democracy. I was called to give expert testimony five times on rights and democratic mechanisms at the Constitutional Convention in Chile. Several of my ideas and proposals, as well as the specific constitutional articles I helped develop during the constituent process, were incorporated into the 2022 constitutional draft. Also, invited by grassroots organisations in Chile, I taught a weekly open access class to grassroots organisers on YouTube on constitutional rights, direct democracy mechanisms, and the process of constitution making.
In addition I built relations with civil society organisations in the UK and with European international organisations dedicated to deliberative democracy. I was a speaker in ‘The Future of Democracy Hub’ at the Sheffield Festival of Debate and in the ‘Making Liverpool Better Together’ series organised by Engage Liverpool, and was one of the “incubator intellectuals” in the newly launched NGO, Democracy Next, dedicated to setting up citizen assemblies to reform representative democracy from within. I also began collaboration with civil society anti-corruption institutions in Colombia and Mexico, the Community Environmental Legal Defence Fund to develop rights of nature and grassroots democracy in the U.S. and with the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in its assessment of free speech in the region.