Inside and Outside Organizing Toward Delivering Progressive Economics
The progressive movement is skilled at mobilizing pressure from the outside—but how is power built inside government, in partnership with movements, to turn popular ideas into lasting policy wins?
This panel brings together former senior officials who advanced progressive priorities in labor, housing, and economic justice across multiple administrations. Drawing on governing experience, they’ll explore how movement-aligned policymakers navigate bureaucracy, political opposition, and institutional constraints to move ideas from demand to implementation.
How progressives deliver matters. Panelists will discuss how organizers, advocates, and government officials can work together to embed durable gains that outlast any single administration.
Organizer
Name: Katie Kirchner
Affiliation: Roosevelt Institute
Inside and Outside Organizing Toward Delivering Progressive Economics
Category
Panel > Governance & Building Power
Description
The progressive movement is skilled at mobilizing pressure from the outside—but how is power built inside government, in partnership with movements, to turn popular ideas into lasting policy wins?
This panel brings together former senior officials who advanced progressive priorities in labor, housing, and economic justice across multiple administrations. Drawing on governing experience, they’ll explore how movement-aligned policymakers navigate bureaucracy, political opposition, and institutional constraints to move ideas from demand to implementation.
How progressives deliver matters. Panelists will discuss how organizers, advocates, and government officials can work together to embed durable gains that outlast any single administration.
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