Kahlil Greene
Kahlil Greene, also known as the “Gen Z Historian”, is a 2x Emmy-nominated, Forbes 30 U 30 Honored, Peabody Award-winning, and New York Times, WSJ, and Variety Magazine recognized digital...
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Kyle T. Mays
Kyle T. Mays (he/him) is an Afro-Indigenous (Saginaw Chippewa) writer and scholar of Afro-Indigenous history, urban studies, and contemporary popular culture. He is a Professor of African American Studies, American...
Kailea Loften
Guest Editor, Kailea Loften is a mother of Tahltan, Kaska, and Black American ancestry. She is coeditor of the community publisher Loam and has guided climate change policy with an...
Savannah Romero
Savannah Romero (she/her) is the Co-Founder of the BLIS Collective. She is an enrolled member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe and serves as the Director of Communications and Narrative Strategy...
Trevor Smith
Trevor Smith (he/him) is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the BLIS Collective. He is a writer, researcher, and strategist focused on racial inequality, wealth inequality, reparations, and narrative change....
No Matter the Moment, You Organize: A Conversation on Responding to Disaster with Action St. Louis
The trauma of climate disaster, and the lack of state response and care, makes us hyper-individualized within this shared moment—but we have to be nimble enough to respond with a...
Being Pro-Working Class Isn’t Enough, We Need Victories People Can Feel
We must reclaim populism from process. Being pro-union, anti-billionaire, and pro-working class isn’t a sufficient economic vision for the scale of crisis we’re in. To win, the Left needs to...
A Love Letter and A Call to Women of Color Leaders
In the wake of backlash against racial equity in tech and intensifying authoritarianism, what can an Audre Lorde-inspired reading group teach us about the care practices necessary to turn grief...
Vishal Reddy
Vishal Reddy is a union negotiator for nursing home workers in the Pacific Northwest, and is also the Director of WorkFour, the national campaign to make the 4-day, 32-hour workweek...
Selene Chala
Selene Chala (she/her/ella) is a queer afrolatina community organizer and equity leader who has spent the past 13 years building relationships and advancing equity through collective action. She loves creating...
Mimi Fox
Mimi Fox has over fifteen years of experience at the intersection of tech, empowerment, and justice. In this work, she has endeavored to balance the big-picture labor of building toward...
(Almost) Everyone is wrong: Reparations are possible
Every critic of reparations should know that it’s already been done. Back in 1862, America gave reparations, but they were given to the wrong people. President Lincoln signed the District...
Maurice Woodard
Maurice Woodard is the Director of Organizing for Equity and Transformation (EAT), a Chicago-based group that works with formerly incarcerated citizens. As a natural-born organizer, Woodard has always played a...
Returning Autonomy and Power to the People: The Case for People’s Assemblies
Introduction: More Than a Vote In the United States, democracy is often defined by the ballot box. Every two or four years, citizens are asked to cast votes for candidates...
How to Win Back Rural America
The path to restoring and securing democracy runs through red, rural America. Here’s our strategy for forging it. I am the executive director of Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC),...
Deb Love
Deb Love is the Executive Director of Western Organization of Resource Councils, where she has taken the nine-member network through a strategic planning process and reorganization to re-center organizing and...
Four Opportunities To Grow Powerful And Resilient Organizers
In recent years, a growing chorus has pointed to community organizing as critical to rebuilding our democracy and countering rising authoritarianism. But community organizing is only as strong as the...
Katie Fox
Katie Fox is a Principal with Grassroots Solutions, based in Maryland, and facilitates long-term learning and research partnerships with foundations, power-building groups, and intermediaries. Over the course of her career,...
Completing the Social Housing Vision
A call to fellow organizers: Don’t replicate the exclusions we’re all fighting against. The progressive left has correctly diagnosed the housing crisis. We understand that Wall Street landlords and...
Luddite Socialism: Revising Our Relationship to Technology
Leftists must become more critical of cell phones and social media. Is Luddite Socialism the answer to decentering digital technology from our organizing? The Left, like the rest of society,...