Join us on May 5 at 4pm for a "Matrix on Point" panel discussion on organizing, power, and collective action. What can we learn from historical and contemporary cases about building organizations that engage, mobilize and manage to wield influence on the political process? What kinds of infrastructural choices best support engagement and success in the long run? Our panelists will explore the varied and changing terrain of collective action to reflect on the nature, promises and pitfalls of associational power in the 21st century.

The panel will feature Arisha Hatch, vice president and chief of campaigns at Color Of Change, leading campaigns on civic engagement, voting rights, criminal justice, and corporate and media accountability; Liz McKenna, a postdoctoral scholar at the SNF Agora Institute and P3 Lab at Johns Hopkins University; Hahrie Han, the Inaugural Director of the SNF Agora Institute, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor of Political Science, and Faculty Director of the P3 Research Lab at Johns Hopkins University; Michelle Oyakawa, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Muskingum University, in Ohio; Margaret Levi, the Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Professor of Political Science, and Senior Fellow of the Woods Institute, Stanford University; and Marshall Ganz, the Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing and Civil Society at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. The panel will be moderated by Lisa García Bedolla, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division and a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley.