Joshua Kahn Russell

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Joshua Kahn Russell is a dynamic organizer working to bridge movements for environmental sanity and racial justice. He currently directs Rainforest Action Network's Action Tank - a project to incubate new ways of taking creative, strategic action, with a focus on civil disobedience, and is a trainer with the Ruckus Society. He spends much of his time on the road, building and  supporting networks of activist groups across the country. In between strategy trainings, he helps develop young grassroots leaders, coordinates actions nationally and
internationally, helps groups build their capacity, and coordinates activist gatherings.

Joshua currently serves on the steering committee of the Energy Action Coalition, a youth led coalition of over 48 groups spanning the environmental spectrum to build youth power to solve the climate crisis. Through Energy Action Coalition, hundreds of thousands of young people have gotten mobilized and active to avert ecological catastrophe, create millions of green jobs for the people who need them most, and build a sustainable and just future.

In early 2006, Josh was a core organizer in reviving, launching  and building the "new" Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a national multi-issue youth and student led group, which in less than a year had grown to over 250 chapters and nearly 3,000 members nationwide.

Joshua has contributed chapters to books such as Real
Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, We
Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists, The Art of Coexistence,
and the forthcoming Less Than Settled: Critical
Reflections on Travel and Privilege. He has written
internationally distributed zines, including Zen and
the Art of Brownie Baking!, and Excuse Me, Can You Please Pass the Privilege?.

Joshua is a regular writer for Znet, WireTap Magazine,  and It's Getting Hot In Here, and his articles have appeared in
Yes! Magazine, Left Turn Magazine, Peacework Magazine, Upping the Anti, and Grist Magazine, among others.

His artwork has appeared on the cover of books authored by
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, and Noam
Chomsky, and in the Celebrate People's History poster series.

He was a co-founder of the Activist Resource Center
and other student groups at Brandeis University, where he graduated in 2006 with degrees in Women's & Gender Studies and Sociology. At Brandeis he coordinated successful university-wide student strikes with the Brandeis Anti-war Coalition in March of 2003 to protest the invasion of Iraq, and again in May of 2006 on May Day in support of Immigrant Rights.

While at Brandeis, he was awarded a fellowship from the
International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life; The Elise Boulding Sociology and Social Activism Award; Karpf Peace Award; and Brandeis Class of 1955 Endowment Fund Prize. During that time he has done international solidarity work in Cambodia, Jamaica, and Mexico with  groups such as
the Womyn's Agenda for Change and the International Jamaican  Council for Human Rights.

Josh Kahn Russell is a member of Bay Rising Affinity
Group (BRAG!) and serves on the National Council of the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC).  He currently lives in Oakland, CA.


Joshua Kahn Russell is available to lead the following workshops:

SOCIAL MOVEMENT STRATEGY;

SOCIAL MOVEMENT HISTORY;

CAMPAIGN STRATEGY;
BATTLE OF THE STORY & STORY BASED MEDIA STRATEGY; ORGANIZING 101,102,103;

DIRECT ACTION PLANNING;

INTRO TO NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION;

FACILITATION

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