# Marshall Ganz
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marshall ganz (born March 14, 1943) is the Rita T. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Introduced to organizing in Civil Rights Movement, he worked on the staff of the United Farm Workers for sixteen years, became trainer and organizer for political campaigns, unions and nonprofit groups, and returned to Harvard where he earned his PhD in Sociology (2000). He is credited with devising the successful grassroots organizing model and training for Barack Obama’s winning 2008 presidential campaign.
In Our Comfort, We Cannot Get Free with Tiffany Loftin
Tiffany Dena Loftin has been in this work for over two decades — from a TRIO student at UC Santa Cruz organizing against tuition hikes, to leading the United States Student Association, to fighting for student debt cancellation at the NAACP and the Debt Collective. She's a labor organizer, a voting…
Building Worlds, Building Power
What happens when visionary worldbuilding meets movement building? In this rare and unmissable conversation, acclaimed novelist Nnedi Okorafor, whose Africanfuturist fiction reshapes the boundaries of speculative literature, sits down with legendary organizer Marshall Ganz, architect of modern gras…
Part 1: Marshall Ganz People, Power, Change Book Talk & Moments of Redemption with Rasheen
Moments of Redemption and Resilience with Rasheen & Marshall Airs July 1, 2026
Part 1 of this special Table of Redemption series brings Dr. Marshall Ganz—legendary organizer, scholar, and architect of Public Narrative—back into conversation with one of his former students, Rasheen, in a moment th…
Part 2: Marshall Ganz People, Power, Change Book Talk with Rasheen
Episode Description – Part 2
People, Power, Change: A Book Talk with Dr. Marshall Ganz
Airs July 8, 2026
Part 2 offers a focused, richly layered book talk with Dr. Marshall Ganz, guided by Rasheen’s scholarly grounding in Narrative Inquiry and the storytelling methodology she learned directly from …
People, protest, and possibilities
Addressing the threat of nuclear weapons can feel like a big task, but history is full of examples of people coming together to create impactful change: the civil rights movement, women gaining the right to vote, and marriage equality. Mayor Barbara Lee and Professor Marshall Ganz join host Ryann B…
Politics, mobilization, and political force with Marshall Ganz
What happens when we reduce people to mere data points in a world driven by economic values?
In this episode, Marshall Ganz, the Rita T. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society at the Harvard Kennedy School, discusses how health care and other systems risk dehumanizatio…
Building will and change with agency with Pedja Stojicic
Community organizing empowers patients, clinicians, and providers to advocate for necessary reforms.
In this episode, Dr. Pedja Stojicic, Executive Director of People Power Health, discusses the urgent need for change in healthcare and the challenges faced by established organizations. He highlight…
People, Power, Change, by Marshall Ganz
Power is who needs whom more. You shift it by asking the people already around you for a commitment, and asking again once they've kept it
Why This Book Matters
Marshall Ganz went to Mississippi in 1964 to work in the civil rights movement, spent sixteen years organizing farmworkers alongside Cesar…
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