“If we’re going to win, organizing is going to be key to getting us there” (With Elyssa Feder of Rising Organizers)
So, the election is over, political changes are afoot, and you’re looking to help people take action into their own hands. What do you do?
For Elyssa Feder and her team at Rising Organizers, the answer was to teach emerging activists the tools they need to change their communities, policies, and the world. By focusing on issues instead of elections, Rising Organizers helps people take steps towards making this change whether or not an election is on the horizon.
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Elyssa Feder
Elyssa has over a decade of experience as an organizer and trainer, including in roles as the Training Director for EMILY’s List and Deputy Training Director at Priorities USA. While at EMILY’s List, she created multiple new training programs, including the Ignite Change Fellowship, which trains women from underrepresented communities to increase their presence in political office and grow the pipeline of candidates of color. She co-founded Rising Organizers in 2016 and has overseen the organization's growth from an all-volunteer startup to a staffed organization that has trained nearly 3,000 activists and held nine intensive fellowship cohorts on community organizing skills. As a result of her work, Elyssa was selected for Washingtonian Magazine’s 40 Women Under 40 issue in 2020.
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