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This March, we are continuing Grounding in Power: Grasping at the Root in collaboration with the Working Families Party and the Frugal Bookstore. This workshop series will provide participants with an understanding of how power is garnered, harnessed, and enacted. We’ll explore how communities can collectively use their power to strategically move toward a more just and liberated future. Through discussions on movement-building, elections, and governance, participants will gain insight into the strategies used to win and wield power for transformative change.
Who we Are with Yaye Amtyh Osunbunmi Asili: March 12, 2025 | RSVP
Join for Who we Are with Yaye Amtyh Osunbunmi Asili, the Working Families Party Director of Radical Education. This session introduces the Working Families Party (WFP), their theory of change, and how they build power. Yaye will explore the political system, the role of elections, and the function of campaigns within broader movement-building. Participants will gain insight into WFP’s approach to organizing, their definition of a party, and how they use elections as a tool for transformative change. This is the first in a three-part series, with future sessions focusing on campaigns and featuring local WFP elected officials.
Winning Power Through Elections with Georgia Hollister Isman: March 19, 2025 | RSVP
Join Winning Power Through Elections with Georgia Hollister Isman, Senior Advisor for State and Local Governance & New England Regional Director at the Working Families Party (WFP). In this workshop, Georgia will discuss the power WFP seeks and wins through elections, including governing, narrative, organizing, and coalitional power. Participants will challenge common myths about elections and share stories of community leaders achieving surprising victories. Together, we will explore the organizing strategies needed to ensure elections fulfill their promise of making a difference in people's lives. Plenty of time will be reserved for Q&A, including insights into the early stages of building WFP in Massachusetts.
Governing Power with Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler: March 26, 2025 | RSVP
Join us for #UjimaWednesdays with Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, the Working Families Party New England Progressive Governance Director. In this workshop Jivan will explore how WFP has leveraged electoral victories and relationships with progressive elected officials into governing power to deliver tangible policy victories for the multi-racial working class. Together, we’ll talk about the components of effective governing power, how to build a caucus of legislators, and the challenges and opportunities of organizing a group of electors to act together in support of legislative and political priorities in different contexts.
About our Facilitators:
Yaye Amtyh Osunbunmi Asili (Bunmi) is a seasoned trainer, empowerment facilitator, liberatory curriculum designer, and cultural organizer who approaches organizing through a spiritual-political healing lens. With decades of experience, she creates transformative learning spaces that bridge political strategy, cultural grounding, and community organizing.She is also a Mother, Empowerment Alchemist, Freedom Organizer, M.C., Traditional West African Dance Student/Instructor, Public Speaker, Healer, and Business Consultant specializing in supporting infrastructure for goods and services that heal, restore, and elevate.
At WFP, she serves as the National Director of Radical Education, embedding facilitation and training into the party’s organizing strategy to deepen political consciousness and build collective power. Her role at WFP enables her to support transformative education within a national political movement, ensuring that those most impacted by injustice are supported to lead real change.
Georgia Hollister Isman (she/her) is the New England Regional Director for the Working Families Party where she works with labor, community, and activist leaders to build and execute plans for working people--Black, white, and brown--to build power and govern their states. She has advised hundreds of state and local political campaigns across the region. She has led legislative campaigns that win tangible improvements in the lives of working people--including paid sick days and equal pay in Rhode Island. She serves as one of the senior static leaders inside the Working Families Party. She works with states across the country to organize Working Families Champions in elected office as the Senior Advisor on State and Local Governance. She lives in Boston with her husband, daughter, and dog.
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler is the New England Progressive Governance Director for the Working Families Party, where he works with elected officials to turn election wins into governing power for the multi-racial working class and pass legislation on topics like affordable housing and childcare. He works with state representatives and senators, as well as advocates and WFP members, to identify and advance collective legislative priorities. Jivan is also a City Councillor in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he is serving his second term on the Council and works on issues including affordable housing, tenant protections, safe streets, climate and sustainability, and creating transparent and responsive local government.
About #UjimaWednesdays:
The Boston Ujima Project hosts financial and political education workshops every Wednesday where community members come together to co-learn and then later co-create at our member team meetings. Watch all past events on our Youtube, and learn more here.