Supported by a grant from the Knight Foundation, the goal of the project was to create an easily reproducible system that could be adopted by other public radio stations as a means to involve underrepresented audiences in their programming. Housed within a standard aluminum payphone enclosure, TalkBox can be installed directly on city streets. By simply lifting the handset, non-listeners are drawn into and empowered to participate in the important civic conversations that otherwise take place only on-air.