Women’s History Made Today

Errika Moore on Changing the Things She Can’t Accept MSC Chats with Errika Moore, Executive Director of STEM Funders Network (SFN), about Representation, Positive Influence, and Creating Pathways The battle for representation is not…

A group of people holding their extended arms out to either side of their body in front of towering windows with trees outside.

Navigating With Vision: Transitions Lab Nurtures Leaps Into the Unknown

MSC’s Transition Labs Offer a New Perspective on Transformative Movement Building by Julie Quiroz Originally published on April 16, 2015 “Reality is not destiny,” wrote Eduardo Galeano, the extraordinary Uruguayan writer who inspired…

A person holds a poster board sign that reads #Black Lives Matter. They are surrounded by people holding candles in the dark of the night.

#BlackLivesMatter: “It’s About How We Are Together”

With Great Love, MSC Offers this Excerpt from Love With Power: Practicing Transformation for Social Justice by Julie Quiroz and Kristen Zimmerman Originally published on February 12, 2015 In early October 2014, Alicia Garza arrived in…

Calling for Love With Power

With Great Love, MSC Offers this Excerpt from Love With Power: Practicing Transformation for Social Justice by Julie Quiroz and Kristen Zimmerman Originally Published on February 12, 2015 We, humanity, need a movement, a really big…

A New Graphic Novel Celebrates Beloved Community and the Wisdom of MSC’s Transitions Initiative

Beloved Communities Network Launches Kickstarter for Ten Thousand Beloved Communities Kristen Zimmerman of Root. Rise. Pollinate! (left) and Leila McCabe of Beloved Communities Network (BCN) In the earliest and most precarious days of the…

The MSC Storytelling Series: Kristen Zimmerman

In this installment we get to know activist, artist and storyteller Kristen Zimmerman — co-founder of Movement Strategy Center (MSC) and Root. Rise. Pollinate!, and illustrator of the new graphic guide Ten Thousand Beloved Communities, a…

Sharing a Cultural Recipe for Resilience

A Project Advisor at Movement Strategy Center Presents a Recipe and a Family History for Southern Black Lives The holiday season is among us — a time to celebrate, reflect, reset, and gather in community. It’s also time to prepare festive…

Judith LeBlanc: A Movement Icon Goes to Harvard

One of Movement Strategy Center’s Board Members Brings Native Organizing to Cambridge Judith LeBlanc isn’t just one of Movement Strategy Center’s board members — she’s a movement icon. LeBlanc, an enrolled member of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma,…

Sandbranch, Texas, and the Intersectionality of American Water

Movement Strategy Center Considers Water Equity, the Clean Water Act, and the Repercussions of Sackett v. EPA Water seems fairly innocuous — you open your tap and water comes out. You assume it’s safe, it’s clean, it’s drinkable. Maybe you prefer…

The How of Transformative Change

MSC Board Member, Tomas Garduno, on Getting to the “How,” and Other Insights from the Transitions Labs Originally published on December 2, 2014 A few weeks ago I got to spend two days in Oakland with a tremendous group of wonderful people…