Working with Nonprofits, Activists and Organizers to Improve Outcomes and achieve Change
Services
Trainings and Consulting
Are you a newly formed organization trying to figure out strategy and tactics to achieve your social change goals? Or perhaps you’re a veteran non-profit or community activist organization looking to explore new avenues or shake free from established routines. Either way, let me assist you in leveling up your organization across a variety of dynamics vital for movement success.
Field Scans
Having an understanding of your organization’s place in the wider activism field can be important for identifying funding, resources, new recruits, potential allies and more. Let me show you how your organization fits within the wider context and how to best take advantage of your position to move forward your goals.
Research
Let me help you develop your small to medium sized research projects. From ideation to publication, I am experienced in guiding research tailored to clients’ needs. I am ready to work on your project and help you develop the best methods for measuring, capturing, assessing or translating the data that will best serve your organization.
Seminars and Workshops
I offer seminars and workshops for activist organizations on a variety of topics related to protest movements, from historical roots of modern movements, to discussions of topics like tactics, funding and resource allocation, recruitment or media relations.
Why Should you work with me?
My journey as an activist stretches back to the 1990’s when I was a teenager who desperately wanted to make the world a better place. Unfortunately, like most teens, I had little idea of how, exactly, I might do that. At university I met many like-minded folks, people who wanted to make a better world, and more importantly I met people outside of the university who were doing the hard work in their communities and who were willing to mentor a mostly-ignorant kid from the midwest.
After I graduated I became increasingly involved in activist work around issues of anti-racism, economic justice, prison and police reform and abolition, underground media and, by this time, anti-war activism in the wake of 9/11.
When I returned to university to pursue my doctorate I chose a field where I would be able to pair my academic interests with my ethical beliefs and specialized in social movements and social change. My doctoral work looked at how activist organizations retained members, the role that radical movements played in overall movement success and how new technologies were both enabling and limiting grassroots activist organizations.
Since then I’ve remained involved in activism seeking to better our communities, understand extremism and make for a more robust civil society.
“The price of apathy is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato, Republic Book 1