# Panel Discussions ## expand\_more ### [**Organized Labor in Today's Economy**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCJvcBhUohs) Harvard Kennedy School March 31st, 2025 A conversation with two of the nation's most effective labor leaders focused on their work, campaigns, organizing, and historic contracts achieved by auto workers and flight attendants. Featuring: \*Shawn Fain President, United Automobile Workers \*Sara Nelson International President, Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO \*Marshall Ganz (Moderator) Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society at Harvard Kennedy School ### [**What Can I Do? Harvard Climate Symposium**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kbGOU6ci18) Harvard Kennedy School May 25th, 2023 Reducing our greenhouse gas emissions will lead to extensive changes in how we live and how we work, how industries are organized, and what governments do. It can seem like a daunting task, but millions of people working in NGOs, companies, and governments are already engaged in making these changes happen. This conversation explored ways that people are making changes happen and ways that each of us can get involved. How are we changing our workforce? How do we help workers and communities that may be affected by the move away from fossil fuels? How can organizations change laws through advocacy? How are cities changing building codes, transportation, and other activities in order to reduce greenhouse gases and mitigate heat, flooding, and other problems?. ### [**Power and accountability in civil society**](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/social-innovation-philanthropy/power-and-accountability-civil) Harvard Kennedy School May 23rd, 2023 HKS faculty discuss the power of funders over the social sector, who gets to determine social value, and how a sector facing the hardest problems can still do such good work. ### [**Organize! Power and Collective Action**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2d82fw19YE) UC BERKELEY SOCIAL SCIENCE MATRIX May 5th, 2022 What can we learn from historical and contemporary cases about building organizations that engage, mobilize, and manage to wield influence on the political process? What kinds of infrastructural choices best support engagement and success in the long run? This panel explored the varied and changing terrain of collective action to reflect on the nature, promises, and pitfalls of associational power in the 21st century. Panelists included: Arisha Hatchthe, the vice president and chief of campaigns at Color Of Change, leading campaigns on civic engagement, voting rights, criminal justice, and corporate and media accountability. Liz McKenna, a postdoctoral scholar at the SNF Agora Institute and P3 Lab at Johns Hopkins University. Hahrie Han, the the Inaugural Director of the SNF Agora Institute, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor of Political Science, and Faculty Director of the P3 Research Lab at Johns Hopkins University. Michelle Oyakwa, assistant professor of sociology at Muskingum University in Ohio. Margaret Levi, the Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Professor of Political Science, and Senior Fellow of the Woods Institute, Stanford University. ### [**Asia Center Seminar Recap: Community Organizing in Japan and China**](http://asiacenter.harvard.edu/news/asia-center-seminar-series-recap-community-organizing-japan-and-china) HARVARD UNIVERSITY ASIA CENTER Nov. 4, 2016 On November 4, the Asia Center presented a seminar, “Community Organizing in Japan and China,” with presentations by Dr. Marshall Ganz, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center; Kanoko Kamata, Executive Director, Community Organizing Japan; and Iris Hu, Leadership Trainer and Coach, Harvard SEED for Social Innovation. ### [**Reinventing Social Democracy? Sanders, Corbyn and Beyond**](https://soundcloud.com/harvard/reinventing-social-democracy-sanders-corbyn-and-beyond-ashcast?in=harvard/sets/ashcast) ASH CENTER FOR DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE AND INNOVATION April 13, 2016 On April 13, 2016, the Ash Center hosted a discussion on the particular challenges facing social democrats —or the millennial inheritors of the social democratic tradition— in the US, UK, and beyond. Panelists included Jesse Littlewood, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and Director of Digital, Common Cause; Quinton Mayne, Assistant Professor of Public Policy; and Kathryn Perera, UK-US Fulbright Scholar, Visiting Fellow and Chief Executive, Movement for Change. The event was moderated by Marshall Ganz, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy. ### [**Leading Change: Leadership, Organizing and Advocacy in Japan, Serbia and Jordan**](https://soundcloud.com/harvard/leading-change-leadership-organizing-and-advocacy-in-japan-serbia-and-jordan?in=harvard/sets/ashcast) ASH CENTER FOR DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE AND INNOVATION Nov. 10, 2015 Panel discussion with Kanoko Kamata, Executive Director, Community Organizing Japan; Ana Babovic, Founder, Serbia on the Move and Nisreen Haj Ahmad, Co-director of Ahel.org ; Moderated by Marshall Ganz ### [**Civil Society in East Asia**](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW7e-2Q2A2UvJBpLHBVvvHk_bOL_VgWTM) HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE March 25, 2014 Roundtable on “Civil Society in East Asia,” with Profs. Marshall Ganz, Gao Bingzhong, Jeong Jong-ho, Kage Rieko, and Elizabeth Perry ### [**The Gettysburg Project: Understanding and Revitalizing Civic Engagement**](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/hauser/news-events/past-events/20131205) HAUSER INSTITUTE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY Dec. 5, 2013 Marshall Ganz and Archon Fung discuss The Gettysburg Project, an effort to develop understandings to reinvigorate meaningful and consequential civic engagement for the 21st century. ### [**We are the 99 Percent’ From Frustration to Occupation**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RGaWWq3RAw) HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL, INSTITUTE OF POLITICS Oct. 13, 2011 Forum Discussion with Todd Gitlin , Ed Rendell , Vanessa Williamson ### [**Israel & Palestine: Embracing Humor; Respecting Humanity**](http://forum.iop.harvard.edu/content/israel-palestine-embracing-humor-respecting-humanity) HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL, INSTITUTE OF POLITICS March 25, 2010 A brief comedic presentation followed by a discussion with HKS students and the Kennedy School’s Marshall Ganz. Event Moderators: Marshall Ganz , Jimmy Tingle Participants: Scott Blakeman , Maysoon Zayid , Wassim Khazmo , Barak Loozon ### [**Q&A with Marshall Ganz and Jeremy Bird – Part 1**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcz7awW9EX8) BERKMAN CENTER Dec. 13, 2008 Q &A with Marshall Ganz and Jeremy Bird on Building Collective Capacity: New Forms of Political Organizing ### [**Q&A with Marshall Ganz and Jeremy Bird – Part 2**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhCoz5hMhTI&feature=relmfu) BERKMAN CENTER Dec. 13, 2008 Q &A with Marshall Ganz and Jeremy Bird on Building Collective Capacity: New Forms of Political Organizing ### [**Q&A with Marshall Ganz and Jeremy Bird – Part 3**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcz7awW9EX8&feature=relmfu) BERKMAN CENTER Dec. 13, 2008 Q &A with Marshall Ganz and Jeremy Bird on Building Collective Capacity: New Forms of Political Organizing ### [**Towards the Politics of Solidarity: Building Multiracial Democracy**](http://forum.iop.harvard.edu/content/towards-politics-solidarity-building-multiracial-democracy) HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL, INSTITUTE OF POLITICS April 4, 2002 Speakers: Mr. Taj James , Ms. Andi Perez , Mr. Gerald Torres. Moderated by Mr. Marshall Ganz ### [**Rebuilding A Civil Society: Is Government the Friend or Enemy?**](http://forum.iop.harvard.edu/content/rebuilding-civil-society-government-friend-or-enemy) HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL, INSTITUTE OF POLITICS April 16, 1996 Event Speakers: Dr. William Galston , Dr. Robert D. Putnam , Mr. Marshall Ganz , Prof. Theda Skocpol Event Moderators: Prof. Joseph S. Nye Jr. ### [**Election ’94 Coverage and Analysis**](http://forum.iop.harvard.edu/content/election-94-coverage-and-analysis) HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL, INSTITUTE OF POLITICS Nov. 8, 1994 Event Speakers: Ms. Lynn Cutler , The Hon. Mickey Edwards , Mr. Michael Gartner , Hon. Nancy Maloley, The Hon. Charles Royer , Mr. Marshall Ganz