Building the civic infrastructure Louisiana deserves.
The Louisiana Democracy Initiative develops tools, platforms, and statewide convenings that make civic participation easier, more informed, and more powerful.
The problem
Democracy should not require an advanced degree in bureaucracy.
Too many Louisianans face unnecessary friction when they try to participate: confusing ballots, scattered election information, under-resourced campaigns, weak civic infrastructure, and too few spaces where policy, organizing, and governing strategy actually come together.
LDI exists to reduce that friction.
Confusing ballots
Voters often do not know what they are being asked to decide until it is too late.
Uneven infrastructure
Grassroots campaigns and civic groups are too often forced to rebuild basic systems from scratch every cycle.
Disconnected policy work
Good ideas lose power when they are not connected to people, implementation, and accountability.
Low participation loops
When participation is low, a small slice of the public makes decisions for everyone else.
Our work
A participation stack for all 64 parishes.
LDI's work is not one app, one event, or one election cycle. It is an ecosystem designed to make civic participation easier to start, easier to sustain, and harder to ignore.
Educate voters. Equip leaders. Build the agenda.
Voter education made usable.
A voter-facing tool that helps people understand their ballot, compare choices, plan how they will vote, and share clear information with their communities.
View MyBallotGrassroots organizing infrastructure.
A campaign-grade platform designed to lower the cost and complexity of field organizing, volunteer coordination, voter contact, and civic data management.
Explore AtlasFrom ideas to governing agenda.
An annual convening that brings organizers, advocates, policy leaders, candidates, and community voices together to develop a practical action blueprint for Louisiana.
Learn About My Louisiana SummitHow it connects
Each piece strengthens the next.
MyBallot
Voters know what is at stake.
Atlas
Campaigns and organizers can act on that knowledge.
My Louisiana Summit
Leaders turn participation into policy, strategy, and accountability.
The goal is not just higher turnout. The goal is a healthier civic system where more people can understand power, use power, and shape what comes next.
Start with the ballot. Build from there.
MyBallot helps voters move from confusion to confidence by giving them clearer information about the choices in front of them before they walk into the voting booth.
- Know what is on your ballot
- Compare candidates and measures
- Make a voting plan
- Share reliable information
Grassroots infrastructure should not have to start from scratch every cycle.
Atlas is being developed as campaign-grade organizing infrastructure for under-resourced campaigns, civic groups, and leaders who need reliable tools without enterprise-level costs or complexity.
- Voter file and field workflows
- Volunteer and team operations
- Interaction logging
- Campaign progress dashboards
- Data ownership and exportability
Where Louisiana's policy future gets built.
The My Louisiana Policy & Action Summit brings advocates, organizers, policy leaders, candidates, community voices, and practitioners into the same room to move beyond conversation and toward a practical action agenda.
- Policy alignment
- Leadership pipeline
- Implementation-focused agenda
- Year-round accountability
Our values
Built for access. Designed for trust.
Participation-first
We measure success by whether more people can participate meaningfully.
Nonpartisan public service
Our public-facing tools are built around access, clarity, and participation, not candidate outcomes.
Privacy-conscious infrastructure
Civic data should be handled carefully, transparently, and responsibly.
Louisiana-rooted
Built for the real conditions of Louisiana politics, parishes, communities, and voters.
Access by design
Participation tools should work for people with limited time, limited resources, and limited patience for government confusion.
Innovative & iterative
We pride ourselves in embracing new ideas, user feedback, and incorporating the cutting edge of technology into our tools to make our democracy work.
Help build Louisiana's civic future.
LDI is looking for community partners, civic organizations, funders, technologists, policy experts, organizers, and local leaders who believe participation should be easier, smarter, and more durable.