PeoplesHub

Get Connected: Build Power

Who is PeoplesHub?

A national network of trainers, advisors, and visionaries.

Elandria Williams

Elandria Williams is the Executive Director at PeoplesHub. She also provides development support to cooperatives, mostly in the Southern United States, and is a co-editor of Beautiful Solutions

Jardana Peacock

Writer and spiritual activist – PeoplesHub Director of Development and Communication

Nico Amador

Nico Amador joined PeoplesHub in 2019 with over fifteen years’ experience as a community organizer, activist trainer, and movement worker. Between 2008-2015, he served as the Director for Training for Change.

Joe Tolbert

Joe T. is a minister, scholar, writer and cultural organizer whose work is at the intersections of art, culture, spirituality and social justice.

Dustin Gibson

Co-founder of Disability Advocates for Rights and Transition, and Peer Support Trainer with Disability Link. PeoplesHub Access, Disability and Language Justice Coordinator.

Hafidha Acuay

Hafidha is passionate about lifelong learning, nature, and the social solidarity economy. PeoplesHub Program Coordinator: Tech Support Leads and Trainer Development.

Hope Ghazala

Hope (pronoun: name only) is a queer, Muslim, Egypt-o-Rican, who continuously devotes Hopeself to gender, ethnic and racial equity – PeoplesHub Community Offerings Coordinator

Jeanne Rewa

Experiential trainer, facilitator, and organizer trained by Training for Change – PeoplesHub Trainer

Niria Alicia

Niria Alicia is a Xicana climate justice organizer, educator and storyteller dedicated to protecting the sacredness of Mother Earth and the dignity of historically oppressed peoples. She is honored to be in service to social transformation as a Thriving Groups Coordinator with the PeoplesHub team!

Dante Garcia

Seattle artist, designer, organizer – PeoplesHub Trainer and Steering Committee Member

Halima Cassells

Detroit-based artist, community advocate – PeoplesHub Trainer

Jess Grady-Benson

Organizer, artist and PeoplesHub Trainer

Linda Stout

Founder and Executive Director of Spirit in Action – PeoplesHub Trainer

Marcia Lee

Co-founder of Healing by Choice and Taproot Sanctuary in Detroit – PeoplesHubTrainer

Matt Guynn

Organizer with On Earth Peace, Training for Change – PeoplesHub Trainer

Rachel Berliner Plattus

She is Co-Creator of Beautiful Solutions, a graphic artist, a street medic, and a trainer with PeoplesHub.

Medea Benjamin

Founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange

Siko Bouterse

Co-founder and coordinator of Whose Knowledge? and former Director of Community Resources at the Wikimedia Foundation

Adrienne Maree Brown

Author of Emergent Strategy, facilitator, pleasure activist, coach, healer, and doula

Melissa Rosario

Puerto Rico-based facilitator, researcher and healing justice practitioner – PeoplesHub trainer

Mary Joyce

Impact Design Director at Harmony Labs and Founder & Principal at Do Big Good Consulting

Adela Nieves

Founder of Homemade Healing, a neighborhood wellness center in Southwest Detroit, co-founder of Healing by Choice – PeoplesHub Trainer

Mateo Nube

Co-founder of Movement Generation: Justice & Ecology Project

Starhawk

Author, activist, and co-founder of Alliance of Community Trainers

Akaya Windwood

President of Rockwood Institute

Peter Block

Consultant and author of “Community: The Structure of Belonging”

Heather Booth

Founder of the Midwest Academy

Puanani Burgess

Native Hawaiian trainer, consultant and poet

LeeAnn Hall

Co-director of People’s Action

Ma. Teresa “Mayté” Penman

Director of Resident Engagement for Southwest Solutions, Detroit

Meet the People at PeoplesHub

How does it work?

As a group

Choose the training that offers your group the strategy, ideas, vision, and skills you need — or take the whole series. Our training team will work closely with you to address the issues you most want to take on.

On your own

Check out PeoplesHub workshops and sign up on your own or with a friend! Get skills, inspiration, and tools you can use where you are.

Get empowered

Apply vision, ideas, tools and strategies from your PeoplesHub experience to the place where your heart lives. Gain the power and connections to get good things done.

Core Trainings

Connect online as a group

Dreaming & Scheming: Group Vision and Purpose

Tap into your creativity. Find your shared vision. Take this interactive training to get clear on your purpose and how together you’ll make change where you live.

Make It Real, Part A: Turn Dreams into Strategies

Who has power in your community? What power do you already have? Select from proven strategies to make your vision a reality.

Make it Real, Part B: Objectives, Tactics, and Timelines

Build on your vision, strategies, and community knowledge to create a plan. You’ll come out of this training with the tactics, timelines, and next steps to make it happen.

Leaderful Groups

Share the work, encourage new people to join your group, and avoid burnout. Value the many styles of leadership and build friendships, and your group will be stronger and more resilient.

Glorious Meetings & Decision-Making

Imagine meetings that leave you energized, focused, and connected. Build trust. Incorporate anti-racist and anti-oppression processes. Share decision making.

Living Into Conflict

Conflict is inevitable, but you can learn tools that make conflict safe. Explore how different cultures manage conflict. Reduce triggers, and build understanding and resilience.

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PeoplesHub Offerings

Registration is open!
If you don’t see the offering you’re interested in, let us know and we’ll notify you when it opens.

Decolonizing Yoga: A 2-Part Series

Dr. Sheena Sood

Decolonizing Yoga: A 2-Part Series

Dr. Sheena Sood

A contemplation on how coloniality, white supremacy, and structural oppression show up in our practice, consumption, and circulation of yoga.

August 20th from 4-6pm PDT/ 6-8pm CDT/ 7-9pm EDT

August 27th from 4-6pm PDT/ 6-8pm CDT/ 7-9pm EDT

Becoming Transformation: Activist Theology for Our Times

Joe Tolbert Jr. and Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

Becoming Transformation: Activist Theology for Our Times

Joe Tolbert Jr. and Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

Will I join in the work of transformation, or will I rest on the sidelines of complacency?

July 21st from 4-5:30pm PDT/ 6-7:30pm CDT/ 7-8:30pm EDT

Community Care Clinic for Parents, Families, Caregivers

Halima Cassells, Janvieve Williams Comrie, Marcia Lee, & Betty Jeanne Rueters-Ward

Community Care Clinic for Parents, Families, Caregivers

Halima Cassells, Janvieve Williams Comrie, Marcia Lee, & Betty Jeanne Rueters-Ward

Harvest lessons from this moment and explore ways to carry forward as parents and caregivers.

June 23rd, 30th and July 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th

From 12-1:30pm PDT/ 2-3:30pm CDT/ 3-4:30pm EDT

Raising Antiracist Kids: Challenges & Possibilities for White Parents

Rebekah Gienapp

Raising Antiracist Kids: Challenges & Possibilities for White Parents

Rebekah Gienapp

Explore how white families can engage in antiracism.

July 23rd from 4-6pm PDT/ 6-8pm CDT/ 7-9pm EDT

August 6th from 4-6pm PDT/ 6-8pm CDT/ 7-9pm EDT

Crip Camp After Party

PeoplesHub trainers

Crip Camp After Party

PeoplesHub trainers

Crip Camp Virtual parties

July 12th from 3:45-4:30pm PDT/ 5:45-6:30pm CDT/ 6:45-7:30pm EDT

BIPOC Herbal Restoration for the Revolution

Asha Kuziwa

BIPOC Herbal Restoration for the Revolution

Asha Kuziwa

Tune into your body and cultivate a self care practice with the support of plant allies.

July 14th from 2-4pm PDT/ 4-6pm CDT/ 5-7pm EDT

July 21st from 2-4pm PDT/ 4-6pm CDT/ 5-7pm EDT

The Power of Online Spaces

Marcia Lee, Hafidha Acuay, & Dustin Gibson

The Power of Online Spaces

Marcia Lee, Hafidha Acuay, & Dustin Gibson

How to bring popular education methodology online.

July 27th from 1-3pm PDT/ 3-5pm CDT/ 4-6pm EDT

August 11th from 12-2pm PDT/ 2-4pm CDT/ 3-5pm EDT

August 25th from 12-2pm PDT/ 2-4pm CDT/ 3-5pm EDT

Community Care Clinic for Disabled and Chronically Ill Movement Folks

Dustin Gibson

Community Care Clinic for Disabled and Chronically Ill Movement Folks

Dustin Gibson

A community care peer support space aimed at expanding possibilities around how we live and work as disabled and chronically ill people.

July 13th from 12-2pm PDT/ 2-4pm CDT/ 3-5pm EDT

July 28th from 4-6pm PDT/ 6-8pm CDT/ 7-9pm EDT

August 10th from 12-2pm PDT/ 2-4pm CDT/ 3-5pm EDT

August 25th from 4-6pm PDT/ 6-8pm CDT/ 7-9pm EDT

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"Our goal is to create a beloved community..."

— Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"In this moment of upheaval, the PeoplesHub will provide new activists with the political grounding and skills to advance our movement for justice."

— LeeAnn Hall,
co-director, People’s Action

“We need a way to nationally weave these quiet revolutionary efforts together and build all of our capacities to reclaim our humanity and our democracy. PeoplesHub has the intention, the talent and the will to do this.”

- Peter Block, consultant and author of
Community: The Structure of Belonging

“The current schisms and divides in the country are a deep sickness, and PeoplesHub is medicine for what is ailing us.”

— Akaya Windwood, President of Rockwood Institute

“This is an extraordinary time. So many want to take action, make a difference and be effective. This training can provide support, community, and strategic direction for how to have impact.”

— Heather Booth, founder of the Midwest Academy

“At the core of great movements is ALOHA (love); it is important that we remember and practice this as we develop the PeoplesHub.”

- Puanani Burgess, Native Hawaiian
trainer, consultant, and poet

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