By Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Gerin and Jamia Wilson
A guide to engaging in effective day-to-day activism and advocacy that uses checklists, guidelines, interviews, and case studies to help you make the changes you want to see in society, culture, business, and government.
If you want to act but don't know what to do next or how to keep going in these high-intensity times, Road Map for Revolutionaries provides the resources needed to help you feel invested in and intrinsic to the American experiment
Monday, September 24th, 6:30PM
INFORUM at Commonwealth Club appearance
Elisa and Carolyn will be interviewed by Guy Kawasaki
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-road-map-for-revolutionaries-tickets-48710453277
Monday, December 3rd, 6:30PM
WEmpowered Holiday Party: Ringing in the New Year with Activism & Advocacy
Cambria Gallery, 1045 Bryant Street
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wempowered-holiday-party-tickets-52919825623
Known as the co-founder and COO of scrappy start-up-turned-global women's media company BlogHer, Inc., Elisa Camahort Page was with BlogHer from its founding through exit and beyond. Camahort Page now focuses on writing, public speaking, and consulting.
As one of BlogHer’s co-founders, Elisa has been honored by Forbes, Fortune, Fast Company, the Anita Borg Institute, the Alliance of Women in Media, and FOLIO, among others. Elisa has delivered keynotes across the globe to audiences numbering in the thousands. A sampling of speaking engagements include TEDx, DLD Women, SXSW, and BlogHer, where she interviewed luminaries such as Martha Stewart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kim Kardashian West, Tig Notaro, Luvvie Ajayi, and Guy Kawasaki.
The co-founder Cannawise.co, a strategic branding firm with expertise in retail product launches, brand development/strategy in the B2B and B2C new cannabis economy.
Carolyn is known for being first to market on concepts that kick off new movements: Anti-Bride (the first alterna-bridal 3 book series), WedTech Summit (the first wedding and technology conference), Green Glam Go (the first green fashion app for Nokia), Cannawise.co, one of the first creative media agencies to address the emerging cannabiz marketplace, and the Sea Shepherd iPhone app, iTunes most popular activist app.
Jamia is many things: An activist. A feminist. A storyteller. A mediamaker. But more than anything, she is a natural-born thought leader.
As Publisher and Executive Director of Feminist Press, Executive Director of Women, Action, & the Media, and former Vice President of Programs at The Women’s Media Center, Jamia has been a powerful force in the social justice movement for more than a decade. Her work and words have appeared in and on several outlets such as The New York Times, New York Magazine, CNN, TED, The Today Show, Elle, Refinery 29, Mic, and The Washington Post.
Jamia helped organize thousands of young people for the million-person March for Women’s Lives, and was an official surrogate for the Women’s March.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
Amy Ziering, Documentarian
Patrisse Cullors, Co-Founder #BlackLivesMatter
Soledad O’Brien, Journalist
Tavi Gevinson, millennial media mogul
Craig Newmark, Founder Craig’s List
Erin Vilardi, executive director of Vote, Run, Lead
Captain Chuck Swift (Ret.), Sea Shepherd
Majora Carter, CEO, Majora Carter Group
Paul Ha, Director, List Visual Arts Center at MIT
Amber Goodwin, founding director Community Justice Reform Coalition
Eli Erick, Director, Trans Student Educational Resources
And many more activists, leaders, and media makers