Creating a Federal Policy Agenda and Local Policy Guide to Sustain a Movement

The Women’s March is a movement-based organization that seeks to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change. The Women’s March enlisted a Capstone team to build an infrastructure for the transition from a primarily mobilization organization to a sustainable movement-building organization with a concrete policy agenda. Tasked with creating an intersectional feminist federal policy agenda and a local policy guide, the team convened over fifty movement leaders from across the country to craft 24 federal policies that will guide the Women’s March objectives over the next two years. The team also conducted a crowdsourcing process to compile a compendium of case studies highlighting the strategies, tactics, and campaigns of local chapters. The team’s deliverables took the form of the 2019 Women’s Agenda and the 2019 Women’s March Local Policy Guide.