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<font color="#000000">Please RSVP to</font> <a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank">
<font color="#000000">sts</font></a><a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">@hks.harvard.edu</font></a><font color="#000000"> by 5pm Wednesday, November 13.</font></div>
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<div class="mimepart text html" style="min-height: 1em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><b>Abstract: </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">How
organizations undertake – and resist – change remains highly contested and uncertain; in this talk, I compare the struggles of two large U.S. environmental NGOs to more actively involve their members in organizational activities than they had done in the past.
I specifically examine the use of community engagement organizing – where an organizer identifies, recruits, and develops volunteer leadership within a community to produce change – as a mechanism for democratizing organizational decision-making. In answer
to the question why these NGOs were ultimately unable to meaningfully incorporate community organizing – even as they devoted substantial resources to its adoption – I show that existing organizations relied on a model of professional expertise for their legitimacy
and historical policy successes. As such, they excluded public participants from meaningful roles and as a result, failed to sustain commitments to new structures and practices.</font></span></div>
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<div class="mimepart text html" style="min-height: 1em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><b>Biography: </b></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: medium; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Nate
is a sixth-year PhD candidate in the Program in History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. His dissertation, “Changed Climate: Networking, Professionalization, and Grassroots Organizing in U.S Environmental Organizations," explores the
efforts of established environmental organizations to change their organizational cultures and routine practices to develop grass roots activism for climate change advocacy. Prior to his PhD work, Nate received his A.B. in History and Science at Harvard. He
later worked as a research associate in the areas of science and technology policy at the Science and Technology Policy Institute in Washington, DC.</font></span></div>
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