WHATS GOING ON
Interview with “Dreamer” Renata Teodoro
Renata Teodoro, who lives in Boston and is a student at UMass Boston, spoke with WBUR’s All Things Considered host, Sacha Pfeiffer. Renata reunited with her mother, Gorete Borges Teodoro, who was deported in 2007, at a massive steel fence at the United States-Mexico border. The moment was meant to draw attention to immigration reform, and a photo of that emotional moment was captured by The New York Times. Listen to Renata’s interview Boston Woman In Border Reunion Photo-Gone-Viral: ‘This Wasn’t Us Acting’ Read the NYT’s article Immigrants Reach Beyond a Legal Barrier for a Reunion [VIDEO] DREAMers Reunite With … Continue reading
Tokyo Project
Dear All, On Sunday, June 2, we led a public narrative workshop with 30 doctoral students enrolled in the Global Health Leadership Program at Tokyo University led by Kenji Shibuya and Mariko Gakiya. About 1/2 of these students are Japanese and half from a diversity of countries including Jordan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and elsewhere, largely in the developing world. Along the lines of what we’ve been seeing in the domain of public health generally, there is growing recognition of the fact that fulfilling the mission of healing requires drawing on the tools of leadership, organizing, and action that we’ve been … Continue reading
Distance Learning Class Celebration
Below you will find two video links from the Distance Learning Class celebration! —– VERUM DUCES (True Leaders) Celebration video of our key learning this course Organize Me, Maybe! Ana Babovic’s section – Organizers Extraordinary For more info regarding the online class, visit Leadership, Organizing and Action: Leading Change
New Zealand Organizing Project
Below you will fine Jake Waxman’s account of the extraordinary organizing project he, Natalie Finstad and Hahrie Han have launched with the District Health Borad in Aukland New Zealand. It’s taken our work in some exciting new directions and, as always, offers a great deal of experience from which to learn. —- Friends in the Leading Change Network, I want to share with you all the results of the launch training of Hahrie, Natalie, and I’s partnership with a wonderful group of leaders down here in Auckland, New Zealand. Writing to this group because you’ve been close in my heart … Continue reading
Marshall Ganz on Making Social Movements Matter
Veteran activist and organizer Marshall Ganz joins Bill Moyers to discuss the power of social movements to effect meaningful change. Watch here: http://billmoyers.com/segment/marshall-ganz-on-making-social-movements-matter/
A map of Our Network Members
The map below shows the members of the Leading Change Network and their location in the world.
Why you should reframe your strategy as transformational
A post by Helen Bevan in the Health Service Journal In my last post, I talked about strategy as logic; that is, a system of reasoning we utilise, based on our views and beliefs, about how to achieve change. My own strategic logic for change (and therefore my practice as a leader of healthcare improvement) has been particularly influenced by Marshall Ganz. Ganz spent decades as a community organiser, leader and enabler of campaigns and social movements before joining the Kennedy School of Government to teach, research and write about leadership of change from a social movement perspective. It’s very … Continue reading
