Women’s History Made Today
March 1, 2023
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…
Navigating With Vision: Transitions Lab Nurtures Leaps Into the Unknown
February 28, 2023
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…
#BlackLivesMatter: “It’s About How We Are Together”
February 28, 2023
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
January 30, 2023
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
January 23, 2023
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
January 11, 2023
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
December 6, 2022
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
November 7, 2022
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
November 1, 2022
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
October 31, 2022
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…