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[Election Reflection] Introduction to community organizing with Elyssa Feder, Executive Director, Rising Organizers
Details
In this training, you'll discover actionable steps you can take right now to start organizing, join a cause you care about, or build a new campaign of your own. Learn how to bring people together around a shared goal and harness their collective strengths to drive social change. You'll dig deep on key concepts like power—how it works, how to build it, and what it even is—and learn how to parse actionable issues and make a real impact.
What you'll learn:
What is Organizing, Anyway?: "Organizing" is a big word lots of people use in lots of ways—let's have a shared definition
Building Your Base: Strategies to identify, engage, and grow a strong community of supporters
Organizing Strategy: Design the beginnings of a strategy to achieve an organizing goal you care about
Speakers
Elyssa Feder
Executive Director
Rising Organizers
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elyssa-feder-47a68a54/
Elyssa Feder
Executive Director
(She/her)
Elyssa has over a decade of experience as an organizer and trainer, including in roles as the Training Director for EMILY’s List and Deputy Training Director at Priorities USA. While at EMILY’s List, she created multiple new training programs, including the Ignite Change Fellowship, which trains women from underrepresented communities to increase their presence in political office and grow the pipeline of candidates of color. She co-founded Rising Organizers in 2016 and has overseen the organization's growth from an all-volunteer startup to a staffed organization that has trained nearly 3,000 activists and held nine intensive fellowship cohorts on community organizing skills. As a result of her work, Elyssa was selected for Washingtonian Magazine’s 40 Women Under 40 issue in 2020.