Marshall Ganz

Marshall Ganz is Rita T. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society at the Harvard Kennedy School. He teaches, researches, and writes on leadership and organizing. His 2009 book Why David Sometimes Win earned the American Political Science Association's Michael J. Harrington Book Award. He works with the Leading Change Network and dozens of other grassroots groups in the United States and around the world to develop critically needed organizing capacity. In 1965, he joined Cesar Chavez to work to unionize California farmworkers, where he spent the next sixteen years. Throughout the 1980s, Ganz led organizing programs in union, community, and electoral campaigns.