DEVELOPING PROGRAM INITIATIVES FOR AN INNOVATIVE SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATION

The Action Lab is a young organization that fosters interdisciplinary and cross-movement spaces for learning, gathering, and reflection. Its four anchor initiatives aim to find shared strategies for action, help change-makers build and sharpen social justice skills, understand how arts and culture drive social change, and create resilient healing spaces. The Action Lab engaged a team to further its goal of reconceptualizing relationships to social justice organizing and transformational spaces. Working to shape and actualize the modalities of each initiative, the team built out four resource lists, dialogued with senior program staff, and provided practitioner and speaker suggestions for the lab’s programs. The team’s deliverables to the client included a bibliography of sources and accompanying reflections, a presentation with speaker recommendations, and logistical assistance with future programming.