Power Analysis

Workshop Description:

Karla Zombro of California Calls and Katie Miles of the UC Berkeley Labor Center will walk you through the power analysis framework and process. Power Analysis is a visual and interactive tool that is used to understand power relationships in the communities where we live or places where we work, in order to shift power and WIN. The 8-step process facilitates a collective analysis of power dynamics, including who holds power; who is positioned to influence decision-makers; who is most impacted by the decisions, and who has potential power but is being left out of the decision-making process. By investigating these dynamics through the Power Analysis Tool, we can further develop strategies and tactics for winning campaigns and building long-term grassroots power.

Workshop Leaders:

Karla Zombro serves as Movement Training Director, leading California Calls’ effort to accelerate learning in order to expand movement leadership, alignment, and power. She previously led Statewide Narrative/Communications and voter engagement strategies with the Million Voters Project, which have contributed the largest Get Out the Vote programs in California in every election cycle since its founding in 2015. Karla is a longtime community and labor organizer and the former Field Director for California Calls, since its founding in 2009. Before CA Calls, Karla held a variety of Organizing roles at SCOPE/AGENDA in Los Angeles and was a Lead Organizer at SEIU USWW (Justice for Janitors, Si Senor!) from 1994 to 1999. A first-generation college student, Karla earned her BA at UCLA.

Katie Miles is a Senior Trainer with the UC Berkeley Labor Center, where she leads organizing workshops including Skills to Win and Power & Participation in Negotiations. She is a labor organizer with years of on-the-ground organizing experience building supermajority structures, developing leaders, striking, leading big and open bargaining, and organizing non-traditional workplaces. She has coordinated labor-community campaigns with a focus on grassroots, member-led analysis and outreach.