Send us a text Civic strategist Caitie Whelan's professional mission is to level the playing field of public policy. As she puts it on her website, "If regular folks don’t know how to have a voice in policymaking, lobbyists do. And they are very good at shaping it for their special interests." Caitie's work helping clients climb the learning curve of policy change advocacy made her a great guest for the podcast. As she guides clients along the advocacy learning curve, Catie focuses on three ...
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Send us a text Civic strategist Caitie Whelan's professional mission is to level the playing field of public policy. As she puts it on her website, "If regular folks don’t know how to have a voice in policymaking, lobbyists do. And they are very good at shaping it for their special interests." Caitie's work helping clients climb the learning curve of policy change advocacy made her a great guest for the podcast. As she guides clients along the advocacy learning curve, Catie focuses on three ...
Author Sasha Issenberg on how he chronicled the major social change of same-sex marriage
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Author Sasha Issenberg on how he chronicled the major social change of same-sex marriage
Send us a text This episode's guest is a journalist rather than an advocate, the author of one of the best books focused on advocacy work. Political reporter Sasha Issenberg's The Engagement tells the story of the 25-year fight for same-sex marriage, documenting the various efforts, strategies, course-adjustments, and outcomes from the perspectives of proponents and opponents alike. Sasha says he was drawn to the subject particularly because of the way same-sex marriage burst onto the ...
The Battles We Pick
Send us a text Civic strategist Caitie Whelan's professional mission is to level the playing field of public policy. As she puts it on her website, "If regular folks don’t know how to have a voice in policymaking, lobbyists do. And they are very good at shaping it for their special interests." Caitie's work helping clients climb the learning curve of policy change advocacy made her a great guest for the podcast. As she guides clients along the advocacy learning curve, Catie focuses on three ...
