Matrix on Point: Organize! Power and Collective Action

What can we learn from historical and contemporary cases about building organizations that engage, mobilize, and manage to wield influence on the political process? What kinds of infrastructural choices best support engagement and success in the long run? 

Recorded on May 5, 2022, this panel explored the varied and changing terrain of collective action to reflect on the nature, promises, and pitfalls of associational power in the 21st century.

Panelists included Arisha Hatch, Vice President and Chief of Campaigns at Color Of Change; Liz McKenna from Johns Hopkins University; Michelle Oyakawa, from Muskingum University; Margaret Levi, Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University; and Marshall Ganz, the Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing and Civil Society at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. The panel was moderated by Lisa García Bedolla, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division and a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley.

This panel was presented as part of the Matrix on Point event series and co-sponsored by the Center on Democracy and Organizing.