Importance of labor/community collaborations; challenges of working in multi-cultural environments. Bloch organized for 5 years in Thailand; worked for ACORN in Oakland; joint campaign with …
Interesting story about converting an opponent to the organization’s point of view. Student activist; volunteer for Asian Immigrant Women Activists (workplace toxic exposure); worked for …
Extensive work in educating funders about community organizing; strategic thinker about what new capacities community organizations need to develop. Began at Mass Fair Share; Florida …
Contrast between organizing farmers in a highly rural area versus building organizations in urban centers; working as an independent organization versus within a structured network …
Early field organizing in the Alinsky model. Extensive experience in building statewide coalitions (labor, consumer, environmental, utilities). Early adoption of electoral strategies to accompany issue …
One of the leaders/founders of environmental justice organizing in the South; particular interest in working with young people. Initially worked for Kentuckians for the Commonwealth …
Anxiety is one of the most common and widespread psychiatric disorders among children in the United States of America. Risk factors for anxiety can range …
Deep involvement in environmental justice and immigrant rights movements; “analysis is important; relationships are even more so.” Background in academic left politics; began in high …
Committed to a “high-touch” form of organizing with deep staffing; goal is to be a space where immigrants, especially Latin American, can both receive services …
Organizing experience that started with a faith-based network, moved to issue-based. He values movements, but sees that mobilizing overwhelms leadership development and ownership. “There is …
Strong attachment to movement-building in addition to traditional community organizing. Importance of branding and concise messaging. Left the organization he founded, and now it is …
Dick Harmon worked with the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) for 40 years and independently as the Director/Lead Organizer of Brooklyn Ecumenical Cooperatives for 7 years. …
Highlighted the gratification that comes with working on a campaign that has broad momentum such as the immigrant rights marches in the early 2000’s and …
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