Team Member Training
General Advocacy Training
One of our principal goals at the Advocacy Project is to build an advocacy community, wherein we can all learn from and listen to one another. Advocacy Project members are not exempt from the learning process by any means; on the contrary, we have as much to learn from others as we have to teach. Advocacy is not a lecture, but a conversation — one all voices should be included in. To that end, we require all of our members to engage in general advocacy training. For these training sessions, we invite advocates from a variety of backgrounds, disciplines, and organizations to speak with our membership, sharing both advice and lived experience.
Want to join our conversation and share your lessons in advocacy? Send us an email!
Take a peek (or a listen!) into one of our recent general advocacy training sessions, featuring Micaela Lipman, a PhD student in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo. Micaela spoke to our members about her work as a food justice advocate and social justice organizer.
Other Past Speakers at Our General Advocacy Trainings
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Dr. Richard Kiely
Richard Kiely is a Senior Fellow in the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement at Cornell University. He served as inaugural director of the Center for Community-Engaged Learning and Research (2011-2015) in support of Engaged Cornell. In 2002, Richard received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and in 2005, was recognized nationally as a John Glenn Scholar in Service-Learning for research that developed a transformative service-learning model. Dr. Kiely spoke to our team about how to respectfully engage with, and advocate for, communities different than our own.
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Dr. Caroline Levine
The David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of Humanities at Cornell University, Dr. Caroline Levine wrote the groundbreaking policy proposal that, in 2020, convinced the Cornell Board of Trustees to divest from fossil fuels. Guided by the belief that communication is an integral tool to address the climate crisis, she taught our team how to translate our lived experience with climate change into calls to action for our communities.
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Micaela Lipman
Micaela Lipman is a PhD candidate studying food systems engineering at the University of Buffalo. She has worked in academic and the nonprofit sector to explore creative solutions combining food policy, economic equality, and community organizing. For the past three years, she’s spent her summer supervising the Cornell High Road Fellowship, which sponsors students to advance just economic growth and social change in Buffalo, NY. She joined our team to discuss how best to understand one’s own positionality as as advocate, and how research can advance organizing goals.
