Rachel Weidinger
Rachel Weidinger (they/them) Raised in central Ohio in a blue-collar family, Rachel started working early. Before age 25 they worked in fast food, restaurants, landscaping, telemarketing, and grocery stores. Rachel...
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Patrick Reinsborough
Patrick Reinsborough (he/him) is a strategist, trainer and leadership coach working at the intersection of the ecological crisis, narrative shift and transformational movement-building. He is a founder of narrative capacity-building...
Rev. Dr. Marian Stewart
Rev. Dr. Marian Stewart (she/her) is a retired minister. In addition to serving congregations, she was the Ohio Organizing Manager for Faith and Public Life. She has earned degrees in...
Belén Marco
Belén Marco (she/they) is the Narrative Strategy Director at the New Economy Coalition, where she supports building narrative power and uplifting stories for the solidarity economy. For more than 20...
Kat Ramos
Kat Ramos (they/them) is the Communications Manager at the Center for Economic Democracy and currently based in Boston, MA but originally from Newark, NJ. They are a narrative organizer, visual...
Katya Abazajian
Katya Abazajian (she/they) is a writer, facilitator, and public researcher helping people navigate relationality within collectives to envision and build alternative futures. She is Creator & Lead Educator of the...
Anansa Benbow
Anansa Benbow (she/her) is a linguist and lexicographer working on the Oxford Dictionary of African American English. Previously, Anansa has worked with multilingual youth in Providence, RI and New York,...
Jen Soriano
Jen Soriano is a Filipinx American writer, independent scholar, and performer who has long worked at the intersection of grassroots organizing, narrative strategy, and art- driven social change. They are...
Malkia Devich Cyril
Malkia Devich- Cyril is an activist, writer, and public speaker on issues of digital rights, narrative power, Black liberation, and collective grief. Devich- Cyril is also the founding and former...
Philanthropy’s Mandate to Divest from Genocide in Palestine and Beyond
Philanthropy’s urgent mandate to divest from genocide, occupation, and systemic oppression is powerfully underscored by the launch of the Funding Freedom toolkit, which calls for funders to fulfill their moral...
Funding Freedom
We build support for Palestinian freedom in the philanthropic sector through education, advocacy, communications, and donor support.
How #TeslaTakedown Combined Centralization and Decentralization to Fight Authoritarianism
The TeslaTakedown campaign exemplifies how we can build meaningful structures that allow for strategic spontaneity and mass participation. Historians are going to have hundreds of stories of how people...
LJ Amsterdam
LJ Amsterdam (she/her) is a social movement organizer from New York City. Since Occupy Wall Street, LJ has trained close to 20,000 people to take action. A former DJ and...
How Do We Break Out Of The Loop We Find Ourselves In?
Future Currents’ report Forging Through the Fire outlines the biggest challenges we are facing as a field, and more importantly, offers interventions, ideas for innovation and evolution, and experiments for...
Three Co-Governance Lessons for Organizers
Elected champions need more than votes, they need organizers at their side, pushing, strategizing, and holding them accountable. That’s how you turn campaign promises into policy. On my first day...
Amaya Lin
Amaya Jennifer Lin (she/her) has been building coalitions and running campaigns in worker, climate, and student movements for almost 25 years. She is currently a campaign development and governing strategies...
How the First Amendment of the Internet Underpins Modern Activist Movements
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has drawn the ire of Democrats for years—but without it, decentralized mass protest would be near-impossible. The US protest movements of 2025 will...
Lia Holland
Lia Holland (they/she) serves as the Campaigns & Communications Director for Fight for the Future, the queer women- and artist- led organization behind the largest online protests in history. In...
What We’ve Cultivated Still Remains: Black Home, Black Memory, and Collective Resilience in a Burning World
The same systemic forces that steal Black communities’ cultural harvest are being met with an unbreakable resilience, as neighbors build solidarity networks, reclaim land, and seed a future where their...
As Climate Collapse Inches Closer, The Tenant Union Is The Best Chance We’ve Got
The hallways of apartment buildings have become a new front in the climate fight, where tenant unions are battling for survival against the twin threats of negligent landlords and rising...