Dive into the world of advocacy with The Campaign Strategist. Each episode features in-depth conversations with activists and experts who break down their approaches to planning, executing, and winning campaigns. Learn about the strategies that have shaped policies, changed minds, and mobilized communities. Perfect for anyone looking to amplify their impact and drive meaningful change.
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Pete is a long-time environmental activist and advocate, with three decades of advocacy campaign experience. He has run local, state and national campaigns promoting climate solutions, renewable energy, smart transportation and cleaning up pollution power plants, refineries and more.
Read more about Pete on his LinkedIn page, and read Pete's blog on Medium.
Danielle has 25 years of experience working for environmental nonprofit organizations in various roles such as Executive Director, campaign leader, law and policy expert, and program director. She has worked for grassroots organizations, as well as state, regional, national, and international organizations including the Natural Resources Defense Council, National Parks Conservation Association, American Rivers, the Pembina Institute, and the Waterkeeper Alliance. Danielle has worked on campaigns to protect the climate, advance land protection, conserve forests, and clean air and water.
In 2017, after two decades in the environmental professional space, Danielle launched a professional coaching firm to help mid-career professionals working to make the world a better place.
Michael Podhorzer is the former political director of the AFL-CIO. He founded the Analyst Institute, the Independent Strategic Research Collaborative (ISRC), the Defend Democracy Project, and the Polling Consortium, and helped found America Votes, Working America, For Our Future, and Catalist.
In 2020, Podhorzer played a pivotal organizing role in the effort to prevent Trump from overturning the election results, and his early leadership in evidence-driven politics was documented in the 2013 book The Victory Lab.
He is now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. is the President & CEO of Hip Hop Caucus and host of The Coolest Show podcast. Yearwood founded Hip Hop Caucus in September of 2004. Hip Hop Caucus' goal is to build a powerful and sustainable organization for the culture’s role in the civic process and empowerment of communities impacted first and worst by injustice.
He has been dubbed as a New Green Hero by Rolling Stone,recognized by the Obama White House as a Champion of Change, and he helped launch Think 100%, Hip Hop Caucus’ award-winning climate communications and activism platform.