Katherine Diaz
Katherine Diaz is the Grassroots Engagement Manager at Liberation in a Generation (@libgen_econ), where she leads our partnership development and engagement and comes to her with extensive experience in labor...
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Stella Adams
Stella Adams is the former Executive Director of the North Carolina Fair Housing Center and former Board member of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. Stella was an early advocate against...
Audrey Aradanas
Audrey Aradanas is the Deputy Director at Miami Homes For All, a nonprofit organization systems change related to affordable housing and homelessness. With a background in policy advocacy, coalition building,...
Iris Craige
Iris is the Assistant Director of Policy and Research at Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE). Her work explores how policy can empower tenants, disempower corporate landlords, and create...
Sue Holmberg
Susan R. Holmberg is a political economist and Senior Editor and Researcher with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Independent Business Initiative. She writes on corporate power and inequality and has...
Lenore Palladino
Lenore Palladino is associate professor in the Department of Economics and the School of Public Policy at UMass Amherst. She is a research associate at the UMass Amherst Political Economy...
Trinity Tran
Trinity Tran is the Executive Director, co-founder and lead organizer of Public Bank LA (PBLA) and California Public Banking Alliance (CPBA). In February 2017, Trinity created Divest LA which mobilized...
Sean Gonsalves
Sean Gonsalves is a longtime former reporter, columnist, and news editor with the Cape Cod Times. He is also a former nationally syndicated columnist in 22 newspapers, including the Oakland...
Candace Milner
Candace is a Senior Policy Analyst, Economic Justice, at joined Dēmos. She has years of policy, strategy, and organizing experience previously serving as a Racial Equity Policy Associate at Public...
Ron Knox
Ron Knox is a senior researcher and policy advocate for ILSR’s Independent Business Initiative. A combined storyteller and antitrust expert, Ron is building our deep bench of reporting and research...
Ryan Gerety
Ryan Gerety is the director of the Athena Coalition, a coalition of 50+ worker, antitrust, racial justice, tech advocacy, economic justice, and environmental justice organizations working together to break Amazon’s...
LiJia Gong
LiJia Gong (she/they) is the former Managing Director, Legal and Policy at Local Progress. In this capacity, she led the development of Local Progress’ legal, policy and research capacity to...
Sofia Lopez
Sofia Lopez is an organizer with Texas Organizing Project.
Corrine Hendrickson
Corrine Hendrickson is a childcare provider and advocate, small business owner, educator, and former New Glarus (WI) School Board member, and proud mom raising her family in the community she...
Our Prescription for Winning: Give Organizers What They Need to Thrive
At this moment, our sector is immersed in a critical debate over what it takes to win. Yet primarily scrutinizing current organizers in a rush toward correction risks getting the...
Rebecca Gorena
Rebecca Gorena (she/ella) is a community advocate and program director with over a decade of experience in social justice movements, including labor, gender justice, and LGBTQ+ liberation. She has served...
Kara Park
Kara Park (she/her) is a former organizer, facilitator and coalition builder who has been shaped by her work with reproductive justice and Asian American organizing efforts in Oregon, Minnesota and...
Alicia Jay
Alicia Jay (she/her) is the co-founder and former executive director of All Due Respect, a national project working to improve sectoral labor standards for community organizers, and currently serves as the...
Izzy Goodman
Izzy Goodman (She/her) has spent over a decade recruiting, training, and mobilizing volunteers and organizers, as well as supporting progressive organizing projects to find the necessary infrastructure, staff, and support...
We Won’t Always Have a Mamdani: Funders Must Invest In Civic Engagement To Sustain Voter Turnout Among Marginalized Communities.
To build consistent voter turnout beyond star candidates, funders must shift from late-cycle spam to early, year-round investments in community-based civic education, trusted messengers, and leadership development. It seems counterintuitive...