Marshall Ganz

Marshall Ganz worked on the staff of United Farm Workers for sixteen years. A political organizer, he is a senior lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

ActivismMarch 16, 2018

How to Organize to Win

Rebuilding the democratic infrastructure is too important to leave up to the consultocracy.

Marshall Ganz
Election 2016June 22, 2016

What Hillary Clinton Can Learn From Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump

Trump and Sanders both communicated leadership through narratives that animated outpourings of enthusiasm that have so far eluded Clinton.

Marshall Ganz and Hahrie Han
Internet and New MediaOctober 17, 2014

Why Hasn’t ‘Big Data’ Saved Democracy?

Micah Sifry’s new book offers some answers, but misses important shifts in the power base of traditional progressive organizing.

Marshall Ganz
FilmApril 1, 2014

Not the Cesar Chavez I Knew

A new film about the labor leader reduces him to a caricature and ignores his true strengths as an organizer.

Marshall Ganz
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Marshall Ganz

ActivismMarch 16, 2018

Rebuilding the democratic infrastructure is too important to leave up to the consultocracy.

Election 2016June 22, 2016

Trump and Sanders both communicated leadership through narratives that animated outpourings of enthusiasm that have so far eluded Clinton.

Internet and New MediaOctober 17, 2014

Micah Sifry’s new book offers some answers, but misses important shifts in the power base of traditional progressive organizing.

FilmApril 1, 2014

A new film about the labor leader reduces him to a caricature and ignores his true strengths as an organizer.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.