Sunday, September 13, 2026

Andrew Willis Garcés and Christi Clark

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Andrew Willis Garcés is a trainer with Training for Change’s Organizing Skills Institute, where he hosts the Craft of Campaigns podcast. He founded and led Siembra NC under the Trump Administration, and has worked with dozens of unions and grassroots community organizations over the last two decades as an organizer, strategist, communications consultant and trainer. You can read some of his writing at The Forge, Truthout, Waging Nonviolence, Convergence and In These Times. Christi Clark is co-director and founder of The Organizing Center. She has built strong unions, won policy changes that decriminalized Black and brown high school youth, and led a campaign that won $100 million for affordable housing in Philadelphia. She believes people power is the only way to win and that another world is possible. When she is not nerding-out about organizing, she likes to hike in the woods, ride her bike and build Lego with her kids.

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