San Francisco There ought to be a law. In the case of student loan forgiveness, there is a law, it just seems that the government is not willing to follow the law, or worse, not willing to make it work. This has created a classic bait-and-switch, leaving tens of thousands of students operating in good …
Month: May 2019
Impacting Systems with Campaigns
Oakland As a special East Bay treat, I helped Francis Calpotura and Lisa Castellanos, run a fascinating workshop organized by In-Advance as part of their series of working with community-based organizations on impacting systems. The topic for this session focused on developing campaigns. My piece was to layout the scenario for a campaign on reigning …
Building Political Clout from Scratch
San Francisco The last session on this tour of Milwaukee and Amani United’s steadily progressing leadership development had a curious title: platform. Curious, because the organization had a fairly detailed issue agenda formed over recent years. Much of the scope of my work with them initially had been helping them construction programs and campaigns …