Who We Are
We’re a team of organizers, strategists, and technologists dedicated to building a liberated multi-racial democracy.
re:power exists to build a critical mass of social justice movements and their leaders who embody the ideology and practice of liberatory organizing, an organizing practice that is pro-Black and grounded in community, collective action, and abundance.
Our Vision
We’re excited to build a liberated multi-racial democracy, free from the oppressive systems of white supremacy and patriarchy.
Our vision upholds the idea that a multiracial democracy is the “north star” towards which the coalition we call our Progressive Movement should be striving, and it names our conviction that such a democracy is premised on liberation from white supremacy and patriarchy.
What We Do
We work towards our vision by offering training and strategic support to leaders and organizations across the progressive ecosystem with base building as the cornerstone of sustainable organizing and power building.
Our work is meant to help individuals and organizations strengthen strategy, develop skills in a community of practice, and foster the resilience required to view our work with the lens of a long-arc of progress.
Grassroots Organizing
Our Movement Building programs support grassroots, issue-based organizers and organizations through trainings on story, structure, and strategy.
Movement Technology
Our Movement Technology trainings are democratizing the use of digital and data strategies, practices, and tools to organize and build power online and offline.
Electoral Justice
In this program we are skilling up organizers, policymakers, and candidates to utilize civic engagement as a tool that builds political power during and beyond election cycles, including trainings on the role of state courts as key decision makers.
Governance
Our governance programs supports newly elected officials through the Progressive Governance Academy to build power with peers and local movement actors, while also strengthening their skills in governance for a lifelong career in public leadership.
Women of Color Leadership
Our new Women of Color Leadership programs are creating a robust pipeline of our future leaders by covering skills development, relationship building, and fostering resilience.
Upcoming Events & Trainings
Intermediate Digital Organizing
Women of Color Leadership Development Cohort
Ballot Measure Organizing
Power Mapping Workshop
Our Political Principles
Our path to building a multi-racial democracy starts with strengthening the power of organizers, electeds, and organizations to lead a mass movement for systemic change. We embrace five core political principles to sharpen our strategy and guide us toward our shared vision:
1: Lead with relational organizing
Building deep, trusting relationships is at the heart of organizing. Relational organizing isn’t just a tactic; it’s the long-term strategy to create lasting solidarity and collective power. It means investing in people through constant recruitment, relationship-building, leadership development, and shared spaces for connection.
2: Build and strengthen our collective base of support
Collective power is our greatest tool for dismantling oppressive systems. Strong organizations have sustained, leaderful membership bodies with structured leadership teams and clear pathways for engagement. By developing deep bases of membership, we create belonging, inspire commitment, and build the power to challenge unjust systems.
3: Shift the narrative and culture of power
We must challenge and redefine power as collective and democratic—not about individual control. Shifting the culture and narrative of power isn’t just about who holds power—it’s about how we understand, define, use, and distribute power in all its forms. We must contest for power at all levels of government.
4: Work alongside other organizations to build strong movement coalitions
Movements are bigger than individual organizations. Building strong coalitions rooted in trust, shared values, and clear goals strengthens our collective power and impact.
5: Prioritize care and resiliency to model the liberation we seek
Sustainable movements require healthy, resilient leaders—our movements are only as healthy as the people leading them. Care and well-being must be woven into our movement spaces to avoid burnout, deepen trust, and create long-term sustainability.
Where We’ve Been
Since 2003, we’re proud to have supported over 100,000 candidates, elected officials, campaign managers, and community organizers from across the country through training, coaching, facilitation, campaigning, and capacity building.
We started off as Wellstone Action and now—as re:power, we’ve transformed into what we believe the movement needs: a Pro-Black organization centering women of color and trans and gender-expansive people of color that is focused on fortifying our organizations and leaders for the big battles that lie ahead of us.
Since 2019, Karundi Williams, our first Black woman Executive Director, has been leading our small but powerful organization to success. Over the last four years, we have deepened our commitment to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) organizers through an intentional focus on BIPOC, especially women of color and trans and gender expansive people of color. In 2022, we finalized a new strategic vision and direction which we are now actively working to implement over the next five years.
Since 2019,
we’ve had
273
Trainings
9256
People trained
69%
Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color attendees
61%
Women attendees
43%
LGBTQIA+ attendees
14%
Youth attendees
