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  Civic Engagement, Organizing

  From Textathons to Black Joy: How Color of Change is Re-imagining Organizing

  The idea, says Color of Change's chief of campaigns Arisha Hatch, is to center Black joy and to build face-to-face teams, which now number in the thousands, of people meeting and acting locally (and having fun together).

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  Civic Tech, GovTech

  Code for America at 10: Reflections on a Decade of Tech-Driven Engagement

  On September 1, 2009, Jennifer Pahlka formally founded Code for America (CFA). Over the ensuing decade, the organization has grown to be the largest non-profit in the United States  devoted to improving how government uses technology. CFA currently claims 25,000 members in 85 Brigades across the United States, while internally,...

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  Elections, Social Media

  Op-Ed: It’s Time to Challenge Tech’s Power at the Ballot Box

  [Editor’s note: Three days ago, Adriel Hampton, a California-based activist and civic tech professional, filed papers to run for Governor. He has since garnered headlines everywhere because he said he was running, in part, in order to test Facebook’s recently announced policy of not fact-checking political ads. He told CNN...