Ralph welcomes Sarah van Gelder, founder of PeoplesHub and Mark Pertschuk, director of Grassroots Change, two organizations that offer you the skills and expertise on how to make change in your community.
Sarah van Gelder is a founder of a new nonprofit start-up, PeoplesHub, which will be offering online training to local groups around the country who want to make change where they live. Sarah is also YES! Magazine Co-founder and columnist, a public speaker, and the author of a new book, The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000 Mile Journey Through a New America, which is about Sarah’s solo road trip around the United States, seeking out the people who are making change happen.
“I really believe that we need a really radical transformation in this country, but I don’t believe it can be top-down. It has to be bottom-up. It has to be based in our local communities and in people finding for themselves the type of world they want to build.”
Sarah van Gelder, founder of PeoplesHub
Mark Pertschuk is the former President & Executive Director of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights. And in 1995, he co-founded Californians for Responsible Gun Laws to mobilize grassroots support for 40 local gun control ordinances and three statewide gun laws, which is why California has the strongest gun laws in the nation. His latest venture is as the director of Grassroots Change, an organization that connects advocates with the training and tools they need to build and sustain grassroots movements.
“The grassroots work that’s going on is so important. And it in some ways at the moment feels like our last hope for being involved in our own democracy.”
Mark Pertschuk director of Grassroots Change
Grassroots Action!