About

Sally Kohn is a community organizer and political satirist focused on the impact of mass movements in American culture and politics. The Movement Vision Lab is Sally’s grassroots think tank and online hub for visionary social change. Sally is known for being provocative at the same time as inspirational, challenging status quo ideas by articulating bold alternatives in a way that is accessible and appealing.

Sally is also a contributor with the Huffington Post, AlterNet, and Common Dreams . Her op-eds have been published by the Christian Science Monitor, the American Prospect, the Orange County Register and the Tucson Citizen, and Sally is a regular guest on talk radio shows nationwide and the online video news show GritTV. Sally is a frequent speaker at progressive conferences and gatherings on topics of movement building and the need for big picture vision.

Previously, Sally was Senior Campaign Strategist with the Center for Community Change, a 40-year-old hub of grassroots organizations nationwide. Sally served as co-Director of ideas and innovation for the Center, helping lead the pioneering Campaign for Community Values, producing a nationally televised Presidential candidate form in 2008, developing a new media organizing project on health care reform in rural communities and spearheading several other initiatives.

Previously, Sally held a program fellowship at the Ford Foundation, helping to manage more than $15 million in annual grants to social justice organizations nationwide. She was also a strategic advisor to the Social Justice Infrastructure Funders, a private network of 25 top program staff from some of the nation’s most prominent foundations, working to identify a shared strategy and coordinate grantmaking. Before that, Sally served as Executive Director of the Third Wave Foundation, the leading young women’s organization in the country. She was also a distinguished Vaid Fellow at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute, where she published a groundbreaking guidebook for organizing campaigns to win domestic partnership benefits. Sally also worked as a consultant with the Urban Justice Center, publishing a report on the experiences of gay youth in the New York juvenile justice system.

Sally received a joint degree in law and public administration from New York University and was a Root Tilden public service scholar at the New York University School of Law. She received her undergraduate degree from George Washington University in D.C. Sally is originally from Allentown, Pennsylvania, and now resides in Brooklyn, New York, with her partner Sarah Hansen and their daughter Willa.

You can email Sally at sally (at) movementvision.org