Can Your Dinner Table Charcha Shape Policy?

We talk about policy all the time — at home, over chai, in dinner table conversations about the invisible rules that shape our lives. So then, why does shaping policy still feel like something only experts can do? In this episode, we explore why lived experience is a valuable form of public knowledge that escapes the experts, how we silence our opinions as ‘not good enough’, and the reasons why ordinary voices belong in public consultations. We also break down the five pillars of good feedback during public consultations, offering a practical way to turn everyday opinions into clearer, more credible, and more actionable inputs for policymaking. This is our attempt to make responding to public consultations more accessible, because if policy shapes our lives, our lives should help shape policy too.Thumbnail Photo: Google Image