Faces of Change with Marshall Ganz

In our latest Faces of Change podcast, Marshall Ganz sat down with Arisha Hatch, the Vice President and Managing Director of Campaigns at Color of Change. Color of Change is the United States largest digital racial justice organization, with over 1.7 million members. They are on a mission to empower black communities to organize to improve the lives of Black people and build lasting political power for Black people. Marshall and Arisha chart the rise of Color of Change, how they a...

The building of the Sunrise Movement Ever wondered how the Green New Deal was catapulted onto the national agenda in the United States? It’s impossible to answer this question without talking about the Sunrise Movement: the movement of young people in the United States who are uniting to stop the climate crisis. In our latest Faces of Change podcast, Marshall Ganz sits down with Dyanna Jaye, Sunrise’s Co-Founder and Organizing Director, to chart the rise of a movement that has rocked the poli...

Mariali is the co-Founder of Vía Educación, the trailblazing civil society and education organization that is combining community organizing and innovative education approaches to build the citizenship skills of children and young people. Mariali and Vía Educación’s work on citizenship education is being implemented as part of Mexico’s national curriculum. Embedding this into the curriculum is just the foundation, requiring the organizing of teachers and communities to embed the framework and...

Faces of Change is an ongoing series from the Leading Change Network to tell the stories of people developing leadership and enabling communities to create change all over the world. Marshall Ganz sits down with Nisreen Haj Ahmad to explore her inspiring journey to leadership. From a young girl forced to leave Palestine with her family, returning years later to advise the Palestinian team on peace negotiations with Israel, through to discovering organizing and committing herself to building n...

Throughout the world people who have accepted responsibility for leadership, their communities, and their allies are stepping up with courage and showing us that change is possible. Marshall Ganz sits down with leaders from around the world each month to explore how these people were called to leadership, how they organize their communities, and how they’ve begun building the power their people need to achieve real change. This month Marshall sits down with Art Reyes, the Executive Director o...