Movement Capture: Lessons from Funders and Organizers

Dorian Warren is President of Community Change, a 52-year-old organization founded as a memorial to Bobby Kennedy, after his assassination. Community Change builds the power of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, through grassroots organizations and grassroots organizing. He is also a co-founder of the Economic Security Project, which seeks to advance the idea of guaranteed income, take on corporate power and monopolies, and provide economic security for everybody.

Maurice Mitchell is the national director of the Working Families Party.

Megan Ming Francis is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington. During the 2020-21 academic year, she is also a Senior Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and a Racial Justice Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School. Formerly, she was a research fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute at the NAACP-LDF. Francis specializes in the study of American politics, with broad interests in constitutional law, Black political activism, critical philanthropy, and the post-civil war South. She is the author of the award winning book, Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State. And recently led her students in the development of a widely listened to podcast ‘Philanthropy and Social Movements.’