A few weeks ago, my co-conspirators and I facilitated our quarterly workshop called “Disrupting White Supremacy Culture in Nonprofits.” It’s based on the Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture in Organizations, developed by Tema Okun. Some of the comments we hear
In Kern County (CA), we’re trying something new. If we believe Kern County’s current elected officials and corporate power, it’s one of the most conservative places in California. (Yes, there are some.) It’s the heart of California’s petroleum industry. Big
Trigger warning: there is some graphic language about the violence of slavery and the treatment of Indigenous people. The bedrock of the American economy is the belief that everyone can be rich if we just work hard enough. For example,
A few months ago, I met with the co-executive director of a statewide organization that has been instrumental in transforming his state. It hadn’t voted for a Democrat for president since 1964, then voted blue in every cycle since 2008.
When I started Organizing to Win two years ago, I didn’t have big dreams of being my own boss. I didn’t care about being a small business owner. There were no visions of entrepreneurship dancing in my head. I was
With guest co-author Sylvia Gordon (aka Mira’s mom) On December 14, 2012, Sylvia turned 71. Also on December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza made sure 28 people at Sandy Hook Elementary would never turn 71. Sixteen of them wouldn’t even turn
Big news! Starting this month, Organizing to Win’s (OTW) mission expands to include white supremacy disruption consulting and organizing strategy coaching. If you read the Organizing to Win newsletter regularly (thank you!), you may have noticed an emphasis on what
Originally published in November 2021 Earlier this year, I started to think about what I had done in past in campaigns and projects that perpetuated, rather than disrupted, white supremacy, even if I didn’t know it at the time. Most
We have so much more work to do to rid ourselves of this system of white supremacy.
