What is New at MSC


Announcing MSC's Senior Fellowship!

In 2009, The Movement Strategy Center launched its inaugural Senior Fellowship class.










The Senior Fellowship is targeted to individuals transitioning out of senior leadership positions looking for a space to reflect and draw lessons from their past experiences.  Through the Senior Fellowship they can stay grounded in a solid practice of delivering high quality services to strategically placed organizations and transfer lessons to the rest of the movement.


The fellowships run from one to three years. Fellows spend the bulk of their time in small teams, equipped with MSC's movement building tool box supporting MSC's current partners and clients in their alliance building and movement building work.

Their remaining time is spent initiating new projects and partnerships and researching areas for thought leadership, documenting past leadership experiences and lessons learned.

In 2010, MSC will be looking for Senior Fellows who as a cohort bring the following capacities and interests to strengthen what is currently on the team:

  • Alliance building facilitation or leadership background with social justice organizing groups.
  • Curriculum development and training expertise.  
  • Capacity building and coaching with organizations and alliances, particularly in the areas of strategy, collaboration and sustainability.
  • Deep experience in one or more of the following racial justice movements: education justice, environmental justice, gender and justice reproductive justice, LGBT movement building, immigrant rights, media justice, land justice (housing, gentrification, development), worker justice, criminal justice.


If you or someone you know is a candidate for the MSC Senior Fellowship, please email rachel@movementstrategy.org.  Please forward this notice to potential candidates.

 

 

CURRENT SENIOR FELLOWS

JidanJidan Koon
Jidan has worked in the field of youth development and community organizing for social justice and educational equity for over 15 years. She's enjoyed spending the last four years providing organizational development consulting as well as exploring different organizational forms and transformational strategies.

 


Kimi Lee
Kimi has an extensive history of organizing youth and immigrants (inside and outside the nonprofit structure) around social justice issues for the last 15 years. She is currently the Coordinator for a new national network of youth organizing groups - the Alliance for Educational Justice and was the founder and Executive Director of the Los Angeles Garment Worker Center.

 
Julie Quiroz-Martinez
Julie joins the MSC staff after six years as an independent consultant working with organizations and foundations to develop new ideas, strategies and capacity for achieving racial and social justice.  Julie has written extensively about the field of racial justice and strategies to support it.  

 


Lisa Russ
Lisa is always thinking about what makes groups and organizations thrive and has been working to learn, teach and provide leadership on helping groups achieve social justice for the last 20 years. Her current passion is in the area of environmental health and justice.



Brenda Salgado

Brenda has experience in environmental health and justice, women's health, youth organizing and social justice nonprofits.  She is inspired by community and movement culture rooted in creativity, spirit and sustainability, and is engaged in youth organizing, ecological justice, health equity, alliance building and movement building projects at MSC.


Anasa Troutman

As an artist, producer and cultural strategist Anasa's work is focused on cultural transformation in conversation and in action. Through her work as a Senior Fellow at MSC, Anasa is building "Art Is Change", a national network of artists and organizers infusing art, culture and creative process in their social impact work.

 
Billy Wimsatt
With background in social entrepreneurship, philanthropic consulting, journalism, hip-hop arts, and political organizing, Billy is Director of Field 3.0, a community dialogue and documentation project on the future of field organizing.

Kristen Zimmerman
Kristen is passionate about the role of narrative and story in movement building. As a trainer, artist, writer, and educator she has over 20 years of experience supporting communities, alliances and movements to use story in their pursuit of social justice and transformation. Kristen’s current focus at MSC is Transformative Movement Building – focusing on how movement builders are integrating creative, body-centered  and contemplative practice to be more transformative and bold in their work.