The Transnational NGO Student Group is proud to present: Marshall Ganz Harvard University “People, Power, and Change: Leadership, Organizing, and Democratic Renewal” Marshall Ganz is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. In 1964, a year before graduating from Harvard College, he left to volunteer as a civil rights organizer in Mississippi. He found a “calling” as an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and, in the fall of 1965, joined Cesar Chavez in his effort to unionize California farm workers. During 16 years with the United Farm Workers he gained experience in union, political, and community organizing, became Director of Organizing, and was elected to the national executive board on which he served for 8 years. In 1991, in order to deepen his intellectual understanding of his work, he returned to Harvard College and, after a 28-year "leave of absence," completed his undergraduate degree in history and government. He was awarded an MPA by the Kennedy School in 1993 and completed his PhD in sociology in 2000. Mr. Ganz is one of America’s foremost social movement scholars. As senior lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, he teaches, researches, and writes on leadership, organization, and strategy in social movements, civic associations, and politics. He served as adviser to the 2008 Obama campaign on citizen mobilization approaches. Lunch will be served
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We’re Turning 100!
To mark our centennial in the fall of 2024, the Maxwell School will hold special events and engagement opportunities to celebrate the many ways—across disciplines and borders—our community ever strives to, as the Oath says, “transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.”
Throughout the year leading up to the centennial, engagement opportunities will be held for our diverse, highly accomplished community that now boasts more than 38,500 alumni across the globe.