In this first episode of Who Belongs?, we talk to Gordon Whitman, who is the deputy director of Faith In Action, formerly known as PICO, which is a national network of faith-based organizations working to build civic leaders to uplift communities through work on a broad set of issues. Gordon recently published a book on organizing, called ‘Stand Up!: How to Get Involved, Speak Out, and Win in a World on Fire’. The book, which is available in both English and Spanish, draws from his 25 years of experience as a community organizer in different parts of the country, as well as from a year abroad in Chile during Pinochet dictatorship, where Gordon says he learned the most important things about organizing.

Learn more about Gordon's book here: https://standupbook.org/

To watch a video of a book talk Gordon gave at UC Berkeley visit this page: https://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/gordon-whitman-pico-conversation-john-powell

Listen to more episodes of Who Belongs? on this page: https://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/whobelongs