Training Programs

Building Community Power Together: How Organizers & Lawyers Collaborate

A Skills & Strategies Workshop

Oct 30-31, 2025

Where political power resides 

How it is used to oppress marginalized communities 

What to do about it 

These are the core inquiries of this immersive, inter-active, in-person workshop, which examines what it means to organize communities and collaborate with lawyers to boost local capacity to acquire and exercise inclusive, equitable power. As building movement power is a cross-disciplinary effort, this workshop is for lawyers, organizers, and community-based leaders. 

Advancing justice through structural change requires the skills, knowledge and self-understanding needed to challenge and disrupt entrenched power. 

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• Develop your understanding of the theoretical frameworks and methods involved in community organizing and movement lawyering.
• Acquire tools for campaign development and execution, including participatory research, power-mapping, storytelling, and leadership development.
• Explore how lawyers and legal strategies can contribute to organizing campaigns and building movements.
• Learn how to develop and sustain impactful organizer-lawyer collaborations. 

At this pivotal moment, it is vitally important that groups and communities that have been historically discriminated against have a voice and seat at the table to fight against systemic inequity.

Fee is $500; Accommodations Available*

Application requires a CV and Statement of Interest 

Apply no later than October 10, 2025 

The workshop is led by highly experienced facilitators with deep and diverse experience in community organizing and movement lawyering.

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