Organizing 2.0 2021 Conference

The target audience for this session are lead organizers, people who manage organizers, and people on the ladder to becoming leads and managers. Attendees will learn how to center their values with being an effective manager, and how to lead and train organizers without bullying them or burning them out. We can win and win the right way!

Organizations committed to justice must constantly examine our
practices. Diversity, equity and inclusion should go beyond recruitment and hiring. Are we agitating to disrupt systems of oppression? This session will help organization and campaign leaders identify places in their work that may perpetuate traditions of injustice and provide space to brainstorm solutions.

Those on the left and right alike decry “cancel culture.” But what is “canceling” someone but a public attempt to hold them accountable? How can we effectively hold individuals and organizations accountable without the disruption and privacy violations that often work opposite of what is intended, and can discourage those who have been harmed from reporting it?

We will discuss the necessary components of a survivor-centered, trauma informed accountability process that is not based upon organizing around other people or "Trial by Twitter." Building accountability into our institutions and leaders means we don’t have to destroy or “cancel” them in order to recognize and repair harm. Organizers will leave with the tools to begin transforming their community spaces in healthy, positive ways to provide needed accountability and demonstrate leadership.

Target audience is anyone with an interest in leading or supporting efforts to combat toxic cultures in their organizations, workplaces and other movement spaces, by limiting harm caused by harassment, bullying, racism and misogyny.