Marshall Ganz — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Credited with devising the successful grassroots organizing model and training for Barack Obama's winning 2008 presidential campaign.
Founder of the Leading Change Network NGO.
Worked on the staff of the United Farm Workers for sixteen years, serving in roles such as organizer, negotiator, and director of boycotts.
Served as an elected member of the United Farm Workers' national executive board for eight years, from 1973 to 1981.
Earned a PhD in sociology from Harvard University in 2000.
Volunteered for the Freedom Summer project in 1964 and worked as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Biography

Marshall Ganz is the Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He teaches courses including "Public Narrative: Self, Us, Now," "Organizing: People, Power, Change," and "Leadership, Organizing and Action: Leading Change." Ganz is widely recognized for devising the successful grassroots organizing model and training utilized in Barack Obama's winning 2008 presidential campaign.