The Promise and Peril of Community Organizing

Center for the Study of Politics and Governance
Speaker(s)
Hahrie Han, Kara Carlisle
May 2, 2019 - 12:00 pm CDT
- 1:15 pm
Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Professor Hahrie Han examines the opportunities and substantial hurdles facing community organizers. Professor Han studies the way political and community organizations make the civic participation of ordinary people "Possible, Probable and Powerful." Her work explores how to increase grassroots power and capacity rather than short-term mobilizing. Kara Carlisle of the McKnight Foundation moderates the program.