Dmitri Mehlhorn returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his work funding the defense of our democracy through his new project Oakland Corps. I also ask about his recent split with Reid Hoffman.

Fighting for American Democracy with Dmitri Mehlhorn of Oakland Corps

Marshall Ganz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and academia, starting in the civil rights movement, then with The United Farm Workers and at Harvard. His new book is "People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal".


Activist and Author of People, Power, Change, Professor Marshall Ganz

Meena Yi joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as Design Director at the DNC, Creative Director for the Cory Booker campaign and as outgoing Creative Director at The White House.

Design in Politics with Meena Yi

Alex Aronson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and the law and about co-founding Court Accountability, where they are dedicated to combating corrupt abuse of judicial power.

Fighting Corruption in the Courts with Alex Aronson of Court Accountability

Neil Malhotra joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Professor at the Stanford University Business School, his writings on social impact entrepreneurship, business ethics, political polarization and his current study on the political views of small business owners.

Politics, Social Impact Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics with Neil Malhotra

Pantheon Founder Zack Rosen joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Pantheon, a web ops platform, working with California YIMBY to work on the housing crisis and his current role at Abundance Network which he sees as a new source of ideas for the Democratic party.

Making Government Effective as a Model for Democratic Governance with Zack Rosen of Abundance Network

Jerren Chang joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his role at Partners in Democracy, where they're working in Massachusetts to renovate democracy to show how it can be better done.

Renovating Our Democracy with Jerren Chang of Partners in Democracy

Yamani Yansá Hernandez joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the path that led her to her role at Groundswell Fund, which works to strengthen movements for reproductive and social justice.

Funding Reproductive and Social Justice with Yamani Yansá Hernandez of Groundswell

Brynna Quillin and Jaime Lopez join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their experiences running digital organizing on Kamala Harris' presidential campaign.

Digital Organizing for the Harris Campaign with Brynna and Jaime

Martin Hamburger joins The Great Battlefield Podcast to talk about his career in politics and as a ski instructor, throwing clay, blowing glass and founding Hamburger Group Creative, where some of their ads are humorous.


Using Humor in Political Ads with Martin Hamburger

Joshua Tauberer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech and founding GovTrack.us to follow Congress and his plan now to expand that to cover executive orders from the White House.

Improving Visibility into Our Government with Joshua Tauberer of GovTrack.us

Lorelei Kelly joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in working to build a more informed and responsive democracy and founding Georgetown Democracy, Education and Service to continue working on congressional reform.

Modernizing Congress with Lorelei Kelly

Dean Spade joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an activist and professor, his book about mutual aid and his most recent book "Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together".


Love, Activism, and Mutual Aid with Dean Spade

Gareth Gore joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an author and journalist and his latest book "Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church".

Investigating the Right Wing Catholic Cult Opus Dei with Gareth Gore

Catherine Vaughan and Ryder Kessler join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers and founding Abundance New York, where they're bringing abundance ideas to politics to improve the quality of life of New Yorkers.

Abundance Ideas in Politics with With Catherine and Ryder of Abundance New York

Zsuzsanna Szelényi joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in Hungarian politics and her book "Tainted Democracy, Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary".

Lessons for Us in the Rise of Viktor Orbán with Zsuzsanna Szelényi

Jeff Jarvis joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his long career in journalism, media and teaching, authoring 6 books and how he feels the media is doing in this moment in our democracy.

Journalism and the Political Crisis in the US with Jeff Jarvis

Max Borowitz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech entrepreneurship and founding Caucus, which helps campaigns and causes send direct messages through social media to their supporters, donors and voters to raise money and win votes.


Leveraging Social Media DM's for Fundraising with Max Borowitz of Caucus

Seth Johnson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his decades of work at AFSCME and now as a consultant, and what he's been thinking about in this difficult time for our nation.


Data and Analytics in Labor and Progressive Campaigning with Seth Johnson

Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, being a leader at Human Rights Watch, her award winning book "There Are No Dead Here" (about human rights in Columbia) and her role at RepresentUS, where they're working to fight corruption and defend democracy.

Defending Democracy and Fighting Corruption with Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno of RepresentUs

Kate Conway joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in graphic design, building the creative team for the Biden Campaign and the switch to the Harris Campaign.

Running Creative on a Presidential Campaign with Kate Conway

Emma Bloomberg joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her entry into politics through her fathers mayoral campaign, her time at Robin Hood (an anti-poverty organization) and founding Murmuration, a non-profit that works to improve local organizing by providing a software, data and analytics platform.

Tools for Amplifying Civic Engagement with Emma Bloomberg of Murmuration

Sondra Goldschein joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her 20 year career at the ACLU before transitioning to run the Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy, where they advocate for paid family medical leave, lower cost prescription drugs and affordable elder and child care.

Improving the Lives of Working Families with Sondra Goldschein of CFFE

Sol Erdman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career from success on Wall Street to conflict resolution to now starting Grand Bargain Project, which aims to unite Americans through policy change.

A Path Forward to Unite Us All with Sol Erdman of Grand Bargain Project

Marty Santalucia joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, starting his fundraising firm MF Strategies and his recent venture Twig Intelligence, which provides clients with AI based personas to query about politics and related matters.


The Use of AI in Public Opinion Research with Marty Santalucia of Twig

Amanda Litman returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her recent book "When We're in Charge: The Next Generations Guide to Leadership".

Running a Progressive Organization with Amanda Litman of Run for Something

Griff Bohm joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a serial entrepreneur, starting a brewery in Chile, Defeat by Tweet (which was aimed at motivating fundraising against Trump) and co-founding Momentum, a new AI fundraising firm.

An AI Assistant for Fundraisers with Griff Bohm of Momentum

Tom Goldenberg joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about teaching Sanskrit in India, working on tech startups, running for Mayor and founding Victory Waves, where they're building an AI Voter CRM.

Building an AI Voter CRM with Tom Goldenberg of Victory Waves

Tim Gaull joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his work in the LGBTQIA community, running for US Senate and founding Advocacy Atlas, where he's advocating the "church planting" model for establishing Democratic organizations in areas where the party has little presence.

Seeding Democratic Organizations to Improve the Brand with Timothy Gaull of Advocacy Atlas

Leah Bae and Oluwakemi Oso join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding The Higher Ground Institute, where they're working to improve innovation and adoption in progressive political tech.

Improving Political Tech with Oluwakemi Oso & Leah Bae of Higher Ground Institute

Matt Leighninger joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his role at  the Center for Democracy Innovation at The National Civic League, where they work to make democracy more participatory, equitable and productive. 

Working to Improve Democracy with Matt Leighninger of The National Civic League

Amanda Brink joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her role at Empower Project, where they execute large relational organizing programs and provide free software tools and training.


Relational Organizing Programs, Tech, and Training with Amanda Brink of Empower Project

Amanda Coulombe joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss her work as the General Manager of Organizing for NGP VAN and Every Action. She tells us about the importance of marrying technology and organizing, and shares details of her experience serving as the Statewide GOTV Director for both Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Ed Markey. | Episode 262

Marrying Technology and Organizing, with NGP VAN's Amanda Coulombe

CTO Nell Thomas and deputy CTO Kat Atwater join The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss their careers and what they're doing to improve tech at The DNC.

Data, Analytics and Tech at The DNC with Nell Thomas and Kat Atwater

Patrick McHugh joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his career in politics and his current role at Priorities USA and what they're doing to prepare for 2020.

Preparing for 2020 with Patrick McHugh of Priorities USA

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