1. Marshall Ganz was born on March 14,1943 and is the Rita E Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
18 Facts About Marshall Ganz
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Marshall Ganz is credited with devising the successful grassroots organizing model and training for Barack Obama's winning 2008 presidential campaign.
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Marshall Ganz was born into a Jewish family in Bay City, Michigan, in 1943.
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Marshall Ganz's father was a rabbi and his mother a teacher.
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Marshall Ganz left before graduating in 1964 to volunteer for the Freedom Summer project, where he worked in a freedom house in McComb.
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Marshall Ganz helped to organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
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Marshall Ganz stayed on in Mississippi as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Amite County.
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In fall 1965 Marshall Ganz returned to California to work with Cesar Chavez to organize agricultural workers.
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Marshall Ganz worked on campaigns of such unions as the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union, Service Employees International Union, and the Screen Actors Guild.
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Marshall Ganz conducted research on voting, leadership development, and community organizing.
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Marshall Ganz returned to Harvard in 1991 to finish his undergraduate degree in history and government, graduating in 1992.
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Marshall Ganz received a Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government in 1993 and a PhD in sociology in 2000.
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Marshall Ganz became an instructor for the Kennedy School in 1994.
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Marshall Ganz has collaborated with Harvard professors Theda Skocpol on African-American fraternal organizations, and with Lani Guinier for a course on law and social movements.
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Marshall Ganz teaches four courses at Harvard Kennedy School of Government:.
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In contrast to the structural emphasis of the once-dominant resource mobilization and political process schools of social movement analysis, Marshall Ganz emphasizes the subjective agency of social movement participants, whose values, intentions, and narratives constitute the essential material of analysis.
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Marshall Ganz has continued to develop this model in "Camp OFA" for Organizing for America, the successor organization to the Obama campaign, and for "Camp MoveOn," a training program for leaders of MoveOn.
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Marshall Ganz teamed up with Harvard psychology professor Ruth Wageman in an effort to improve the volunteer programs of local chapters.