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Learn about the extraordinary story of drafting a new constitution in Iceland, as the host interviews Katrin Odstater, a lawyer and troublemaker involved in the process. Explore the values and challenges faced during the assembly of a national assembly and the election of citizens to draft the constitution.

Katrín Oddsdóttir is a founding mother of the still-not-ratified Iceland Constitution. In 2012, the people of Iceland told their Parliament to adopt a constitution based on the draft that she and 24 other Icelanders crafted. They had crafted their draft based upon the results from two citizens assemblies. We hear about that history and what it can teach us going forward.