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October 21, 2021
Governing Together: Layers and Lessons
Sarah Johnson Elianne Farhat
The stakes are as high as they have ever been for our people and our planet. We can no longer afford a narrow focus on winning incremental policies, elections, and...
Community Organizing, Political Organizing
Elianne Farhat
Elianne Farhat (she/her) has been a leader in many successful local, state and national campaigns throughout her 15 years organizing.
Greg Casar
A native Texan, son of Mexican immigrants, and community organizer, Gregorio “Greg” Casar currently serves on the Austin City Council representing the city’s lowest income district.
October 21, 2021
“It takes all of us to push policies forward”
Jessica Byrd
Jessica Byrd talks with three local elected officials — Mike Elliot, Gail Johnson, and Tishuara Jones — about the challenges they’ve faced as they fight to make...
Political Organizing
Jessica Byrd
Jessica Byrd founded Three Point Strategies in 2015 to provide a home for electoral strategy that centers racial justice and is transformational rather...
October 21, 2021
From Organizer to Elected: New Lessons on Co-Governance from those in Power
Hon. Jessie Ulibarri
What does it mean when activists are the ones in office, and how should they and the movements they come from relate to each other? Four organizers turned elected...
October 21, 2021
Building Governing Power in Texas
Greg Casar
Organizers and elected officials in Austin talk about the work they’ve done to build governing power — what’s worked, what hasn’t, and what they’ve learned along...
October 21, 2021
“Co-governance doesn’t just mean electing people”
Lauren Jacobs
Cindy Chavez and Derecka Mehrens on what they’ve learned about building co-governance models, how COVID has tested these models, and why investing in...