Built from scratch, built to last
Train local people. Give them real responsibility. Move resources to the groups already doing the work.
Defending Democracy
Organizing Director, Florida for All. Year-round power to fight authoritarianism, built on Fight, Prove, Win, Enforce; Hold the Line; and Strike Ready. Integrated the Hands Off Our Vote convenings.
Participants
From 105 organizations
Floridians
Power-mapped and ready to mobilize
Grantee Orgs
Election defense and Party at the Polls grants
Counties
Grown from 10, with 85 team leaders
What I built
- Team Leader Development and a 16-member train-the-trainers cohort
- The election defense training and statewide mobilization plan
- The Black Alignment Group, Florida for All's Black constituency
ANGIE NIXON FOR U.S. SENATE
Organizing Director. Organized people against organized money.
Fellowship
A youth leader pipeline that grew from 70 planned fellows to 122, across 16 weeks, 7 regions and 8 tracks.
Field
Faith, labor, HBCU alumni and Divine Nine partners, plus a rural captains pilot in 31 rural counties.
Result
A 56% primary win after being outraised 16 to 1, then a narrow general election finish in a state Trump carried by 13 points.
BURDENS AND BLESSINGS
Founder, The Accidental Activistâ„¢.
$250,000 in ARPA energy-burden funding secured; the GRU utility campaign.
Data center fights that helped win a ban in Escambia and moratoriums in Pasco, Lake and Sarasota.
Know Your Rights toolkits that reached 3,500+ Floridians in 20+ counties.
Organizing against internment sites in the Everglades and at Camp Blanding.
CAMPAIGNS, BALLOTS AND REDISTRICTING
33 Campaigns
Worked on or led 33 candidate campaigns.
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Wins across school board, city commission, county commission, mayoral, judicial, property appraiser, sheriff, Florida House, and U.S. Senate races.
Statewide Ballot Initiatives
2018
Amendment 4: Voting Restoration
2020
Amendment 2: Raising Florida's Minimum Wage
2024
Amendment 4: Limiting Government Interference with Abortion
2026
Redistricting advocacy helped break the Republican supermajority in the Florida Legislature
FIVE PILLARS, ONE METHOD
Build the model. Prove it works. Hand it to leaders. Every initiative carries a status: Built and Led, Seeded for Leaders, or In Development.
Democracy and Elections
- Defending Democracy
- Youth Leader Pipeline
- Black Alignment Group
- Team Leader Development
Education Equity
- Black Parent Support Network, co-founder
- Research with FAU College of Education and Journal of Youth Development
Black Maternal Health
- Mamavist Movement Fellowship, Florida Mentor for 30-fellow cohort
- Black Mama Power Collective
- Wailing Women
Community Safety
- And We Rise Judicial Support Council, co-founder
- Common Purpose (gun violence as public health)
- The Mourning After; Ripple Effect Action Lab; Root and Rise
Climate Justice
- Energy burden and utility fights
- Know Your Rights toolkits
- Data center fights
- Climate equity teach-ins and resilience hubs
THE INTENTIONAL ACTIVIST ACADEMY
Certification Program
12 weeks. Ages 15 and up. Graduates launch community action plans rooted in the seeded initiatives already ready for them to carry.
- Advocacy planning
- Organizing frameworks
- Power mapping
- Pressure tactics
The Pipeline Closes the Loop
Every seeded initiative was built with a next generation of leaders in mind. The Academy is where those leaders enter, train, and take ownership.
READY TO LEAD THIS WORK?
The next chapter belongs to the people trained to carry it. If that is you, the door is open.