This interview is with “America’s Maestro of Organizing”, renowned agent of social change, Marshall Ganz. Marshall’s early work as a Freedom Rider in the 1960s led to his helping Caesar Chavez accelerate the farm worker movement in the 1970s and then ultimately to his groundbreaking work to empower citizens in political campaigns, including the historic 2008 campaign to elect Barak Obama. Hear Marshall’s take on America’s Purpose and how each of us can help advance it through citizen actions in our local neighborhoods and beyond. Building on ancient wisdom and American ideals informed and intertwined with his years of on-the-ground experience, Marshall has a powerful and inspiring message for all of us.
Interviews
The Public Morality Radio Show, WSNC
Byron Williams
2020-03-02
The Public Morality Radio Show is a weekly broadcast on WSNC Radio 90.5 in Winston-Salem, NC.
Faces of Change Podcasts with Marshall Ganz
Leading Change Network
2020-03-01
The legacy of the 2010s
The Harvard Gazette
2019-12-23
Adiós, 2010s. The 2020s are here. But before the clock strikes midnight on the decade, the Gazette asked Harvard experts to weigh in on the biggest events and most important cultural shifts of the past 10 years.
Lessons Learned from a 28 Year Leave of Absence
Harvard Crimson
2019-03-01
The presence of Marshall L. Ganz ’64-’92 at Harvard is largely defined by his time away. Even today, Ganz is flying from Boston to Parkland, Fla. to conduct a workshop about community organizing strategies. This is the sort of work that Ganz has been doing his whole life — a life that has blurred the bounds of people and place, and a life that has centered around active civic engagement and scholarship.
Long Road to Change
BBC Radio 4
2017-04-11
In an age when technology has made organising protest movements easier than ever before, journalist Zoe Williams asks why we aren’t seeing long-term results. She looks back on the global history of activism to discover the pre-conditions needed for concrete change. Marshall Ganz considers whether social media can work with traditional methods of protesting.
Can The Democrats Get Organized? An Interview With Marshall Ganz
Talking Points Memo
2017-02-24
Mantener viva la protesta social: Marshall Ganz
Boston for Ayotzinapa
2014-12-16
Marshall Ganz on Organizing and Mobilization
Harvard Kennedy School
2014-03-26
What’s the Story?
The Drucker Institute
2013-07-12
In this episode of “Drucker on the Dial,” Phalana Tiller talks with Marshall Ganz about the role that stories and storytelling can have in driving behavior change at both the organizational and societal levels.
Marshall Ganz on Making Social Movements Matter
Moyers & Company
2013-05-10
Veteran activist and organizer Marshall Ganz joins Bill to discuss the power of social movements to effect meaningful change.
How People Power Generates Change
Moyers & Company
2013-05-10
Activists Marshall Ganz, Rachel LaForest and Madeline Janis share how organized people can successfully fight organized money.
Q&A on the Moral Urgency of Occupy Wall Street
Matt Bieber
2012-11-05
Analysis of the Occupy Wallstreet Protests
Charlie Rose Show
2011-10-19
Analysis of the Occupy Wall Street Protests with Paul Krugman of ‘The New York Times,’ Jared Bernstein of CNBC, protester Bill Buster & Marshall Ganz of the Kennedy School at Harvard University
Profiles In Leadership: Marshall Ganz
Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Open School for Health Professions
2011-08-19
Marshall Ganz: When did you start thinking of yourself as a leader?
IHI Open School for Health Professions
2011-03-17
This video is part of Profiles in Leadership, a series of interviews with leaders in fields such as health care, community organizing, international development, and homelessness prevention.
A Conversation With Marshall Ganz
Sasha Abramsky
2011-02-03
Occupy as a Movement
The Callie Crossley Show, WGBH Boston
2010-10-24
October 24, 2011 – The Callie Crossley Show on WGBH Radio Boston.
Labor Organizer Marshall Ganz
BarackObama.com
2008-01-29
Interview with Labor Organizer, Marshall Ganz.
Enviros need to get social, says activist-turned-sociologist Marshall Ganz
Gregory Dicum/Grist
2005-12-03
Marshall Ganz: Volver a creer otra vez*
Folios publicacion de discusion analysis
¿Obama hubiera ganado la elección sin el movimiento ciudadano que impulsó su candidatura? ¿Por qué el modelo de la campaña de Obama representó una nueva forma de hacer política? ¿Cuáles son las lecciones que otras democracias deberían aprender de la campaña del primer presidente negro? Éstas son algunas de las preguntas que el libro Obama latino, de Wilbert Torre, a través de una brillante crónica, no carente de juicio crítico, intenta dar respuesta.
Public Speaking
Top ↑2017 Collective Impact Convening
Collective Impact Forum
2017-05-24
Marshall Ganz remarks start at minute 46:00
Organizing for Health: People, Power and Change
Joseph B. Martin Center Amphitheater
2017-04-04
The event, “Organizing for Health: People, Power and Change,” was hosted by the deans of Harvard University’s three health schools—Michelle Williams of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, George Daley of Harvard Medical School, and R. Bruce Donoff of Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
American Muslims Organizing for People, Power, and Change
El-Hibri Foundation
2016-04-22
Public Narrative at CTA State Council of Education
California Teachers Association
2015-10-24
Political activist/organizer Marshall Ganz talks about “Personal Narrative” in respects to organizing…”the story of self, now and us.”
Marshall Ganz on Leadership at the CTA State Council of Education
California Teachers Association
2015-10-24
Political Organizer Marshall Ganz speaks about leadership at the October 2015 CTA State Council of Education.
Marshall Ganz speech at UC Berkeley Sociology Commencement – May 17, 2015
University of California, Berkeley
2015-05-17
Harvard Kennedy School Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Marshall Ganz, addresses students at the UC Berkeley Sociology Department Commencement on May 17, 2015
Elections 2016: American Muslims organizing people, power and change
Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
2015-04-25
Leading Change: Story, Strategy, and Structure – An evening with Marshall Ganz
University of Toronto
2014-12-20
Marshall Ganz addresses the Ontario Nurses’ Association
Ontario Nurses' Association
2014-11-20
Marshall Ganz: Talking About Teaching
Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
2014-10-23
Turning Values into Action
Harvard Kennedy School
2014-05-16
Here is a two hour introduction to public narrative by Prof. Ganz
Reflections on training in leadership, organizing, and advocacy in China and Japan
Harvard-Yenching Institute
2014-03-25
Marshall Ganz Gives A Talk To Occupy Boston
Occupy Boston
2011-10-23
What’s Become of Obama’s Grassroots Political Movement
Cambridge, MA
2011-10-13
Organizing for Health: Lessons from the Obama Campaign
Institue for Healthcare Improvement. Orlando, Fla
2009-12-09
Direct Download (WMV)
Winning from the Ground Up
NDP Convention, Halifax 2009
2009-08-15
Book Celebration For Marshall Ganz Part 2
Sandy Chung
2009-07-28
Book Celebration for Marshall Ganz – Part 1
Sandy Chung
2009-07-28
Book Celebration for Marshall Ganz – “Why David Sometimes Wins” in Los Angeles, CA.
Organizing, Social Movements, and Reform
New Organizing Institute “Boot Camp”, Washington, DC
2009-07-02
Distributed Leadership in the Obama Campaign
Sloan School of Management, MIT Leadership Center
2009-03-19
Mobilizing Citizens for Change: Lessons from Team Obama
New Profit “Gathering of Leaders”, Miami, Fla
2009-03-14
Why Stories Matter
Sojourners Pentecost
2009-02-12
Building Collective Capacity: New Forms of Political Organizing
Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Harvard University
2008-12-13
Panel Discussions
Top ↑Asia Center Seminar Recap: Community Organizing in Japan and China
Harvard University Asia Center
2016-11-04
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
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
2016-04-13
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
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
2015-11-10
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
Harvard-Yenching Institute
2014-03-25
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
Hauser Institute for Civil Society
2013-12-05
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
Harvard Kennedy School, Institute of Politics
2011-10-13
Forum Discussion with Todd Gitlin , Ed Rendell , Vanessa Williamson
Israel & Palestine: Embracing Humor; Respecting Humanity
Harvard Kennedy School, Institute of Politics
2010-03-25
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
Berkman Center
2008-12-13
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
Berkman Center
2008-12-13
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
Berkman Center
2008-12-13
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
Harvard Kennedy School, Institute of Politics
2002-04-19
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?
Harvard Kennedy School, Institute of Politics
1996-04-16
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
Harvard Kennedy School, Institute of Politics
1994-11-08
Event Speakers: Ms. Lynn Cutler , The Hon. Mickey Edwards , Mr. Michael Gartner , Hon. Nancy Maloley, The Hon. Charles Royer , Mr. Marshall Ganz