My experiences organizing in movements for justice include:

• designing and facilitating interactive content around human rights

• story-coaching and narrative craft for organizers in action

• base-building for political strategy

• grassroots training and education

• advocacy and electoral organizing

• immersing in movement structures & organizational theory

• commitment to mutual & direct aid.

Currently, I draw from each of these skills in my national role as Field Organizer with IfNotNow Movement.

Organizing informs my process as an artist & cultural worker, and vice versa. I see most everything as a project of organizing. Collaboration towards a common set of goals cannot commence without deep relational work, systems of reciprocity, forums to share personal stories and experiences, and an iterative decision-making & feedback process. I resist the notion that we must do things one way, limiting ourselves to an idea of what “should” be confined to the classroom, the rehearsal room, the community space, the beit midrash (sacred house of Torah study).

We are more powerful, our ideas braver, and our capacity deeper when we conspire to tell a new collective story.