Supervising Organizers

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The Midwest Academy’s Supervising Organizers training deals with the specific challenges of guiding social change organizers.

So you know how to organize, but how do you get others to be good organizers? The Midwest Academy’s Supervising Organizers training deals with the specific challenges of guiding social change organizers to do their best work. The focus is on providing a framework for aligning the roles of a supervisor with a vision for justice, and on developing and supervising organizers to become the next generation of the movement. The training combines a mix of management skills (developing work plans, building accountable relationships, teaching on-the-job skills) with considerations specific to the organizing work. How do you develop a common understanding of what’s expected in a rapidly shifting campaign? How do you build organizers not just for now, but for the long haul? Explore all this and more in this 3-day workshop.This workshop is for people who are supervising organizers in community groups, organizations, and coalitions that are led by communities experiencing injustice and are already engaged in direct action organizing or are beginning to engage in organizing. For individuals who did not attend the earlier Midwest Academy&#x27;s Organizing for Justice training, we ask that those participants already posses a power analysis of the roots of structural equality and how it influences their campaign work and already have a solid grasp of direct action organizing skills in order to be ready to apply the content presented in this training.Max of 20 people.About the Trainers:Jay Travis: Jay’s commitment to racial justice and democracy at the grassroots level has led her to play leadership roles in building local and national organizing alliances for education justice, youth employment, affordable housing, and political independence. At age 28, she became one of the youngest executive directors of the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization (KOCO), one of Chicago’s oldest black-led intergenerational grassroots organizations. Jay Travis has worked to highlight the intersection between gentrification and education issues, and played a vital role in building community and labor alliances fighting to protect public education and against mass school closings impacting black and brown students at the local, state and national level. Jay has also worked as a program officer at progressive foundations such as the Woods Fund of Chicago and the Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing. As a founding member of the People United for Action PAC, Jay supports efforts to build infrastructure to support independent candidates and policies to address the needs of low-income and working families. Jay was a trainer with the Midwest Academy for five years prior to becoming co-Director in 2019.

Eric Zachary: Eric&#x27;s career has included deep experience in both community and union organizing, and has been distinguished by starting and directing new projects and alliances in the struggle for social justice. These have included developing a comprehensive leadership training program for neighborhood and parent leaders, serving as the founding director of the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice, and most recently establishing a new community engagement infrastructure at the American Federation of Teachers. In this last position, he has helped to establish community-labor alliances fighting for educational and racial justice in a dozen cities, as well as the national Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools. Working with a wide range of community, labor, university and faith-based allies at the neighborhood, city and national levels, all of these efforts have included a participatory and democratic culture at their heart, along with a deep commitment to racial, economic and gender diversity and justice. A life-long resident of Brooklyn, Eric is a product of both public housing and public education from kindergarten through his doctorate. He has been co-Director since 2019.

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