Introduction

This course equips union leaders, worker organizers, and advocates with tools to craft and share powerful stories that connect climate impacts directly to workers’ lives, livelihoods, and long-term economic security.

Every organizing campaign begins the same way, not with a strategy document or a rally, but with a conversation. Someone shares something true about their life, and someone else says: me too. That moment of recognition is where solidarity begins. It is where movements are built.

This course is about that moment and how to create more of them.

Beverly Ortiz has spent decades organizing workers across industries, sitting at kitchen tables and in break rooms and on job sites, listening to stories and helping people find the power in them. Marcela Pinilla has spent nearly two decades in the investment world learning how to translate those same stories into the language that moves companies and boards to act. Together, they explore why storytelling is one of the most powerful organizing tools we have.

Whether you are new to organizing or have been doing this work for years, this course will help you understand how your story connects to a larger narrative, and how that narrative can drive real change in your workplace, your union, and the systems that shape workers' lives.

Use the navigation to move through each module at your own pace. Each section includes a conversation between Bev and Marcela, key takeaways, and a downloadable resource to help you put what you've learned into practice.