Unity is Power: Building Our Community Organizing Skills

Date: Friday, October 30, 2009
Time: 9 - 10:30
Place: Room 6, First Floor
Workshop Track: Youth Leadership & Community Organizing

Students, activists and nonprofit and public sector leaders are invited to gain a skills-based understanding of the concepts and practices of community organizing, including defining power, identifying organizing models and building an issue campaign. Participants will learn from a firsthand account of a successful organizing campaign and get practical tips on issue campaigns in your community.

Click here for a recording of this workshop: Unity is Power: Building Our Community Organizing Skills.

Speakers:

	Lisa Chen Community Advocate Asian Law Caucus (Workshop Co-Moderator)		Sung Yeon Choi-Morrow Community Organizer Asian American Institute (Workshop Co-Moderator)
	Jay Conui Co-Director Asian American Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership		Mimi Ho Program Director Asian Pacific Environmental Network
	HyunJoo Lee National Organizing Coordinator National Korean American Service and Education Consortium