Dave Meslin

David Meslin is community organizer and activist who worked particularly in Toronto. He is the founder of the Toronto Public Space Committee and Cycle Toronto, and organized City Idol. He was involved in founding 'Spacing' magazine.[1] He also founded the Ranked Ballot Initiative of Toronto. In 2019, he released the book Teardown: Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up, which covers his accumulated experience to date about his three main themes of "billboards, bicycles and ballots", and more, advocating for an intelligent redesign of our governance systems.