How to Research for Community Organizing and Campaigns

Do you want to launch a campaign? This lunch & learn, will cover power mapping and the campaign cycle. Power mapping allows us to understand who has power and influence to actualize your demands. Who are your targets in your campaign and why? Do they have the power to implement change? Come ready with your campaign details so you can work through the exercises with relevant examples. Join Ohio Voice for our February lunch & learn to learn how to power map, implement strategy, and build campaigns! See you soon!

TRAINER BIO:

Alwiyah Shariff is the Training & Fellowship Manager at Ohio Voice. In 2007, as a high-schooler, she started her organizing career on a campaign to raise the minimum wage and learned how to advocate for young people in the system. Since then, she has worked in multiple sectors of the social justice movement including protest organizing, lobbying, union organizing and field organizing – registering over 45,000 young people in Ohio to vote as Ohio Student Association’s Field Director. She’s also been a trainer for multiple training institutions including the Midwest Academy, Momentum and WildFire. She is coming to us from her role as the National Membership Coordinator with the Working Families Party and is eager to work (strictly) in Ohio at such a critical time in our country. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her family and loves to travel back home to East Africa.