Sondra Goldschein joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her 20 year career at the ACLU before transitioning to run the Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy, where they advocate for paid family medical leave, lower cost prescription drugs and affordable elder and child care.
Apr 30, 2025•58 min
Emma Bloomberg joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her entry into politics through her fathers mayoral campaign, her time at Robin Hood (an anti-poverty organization) and founding Murmuration, a non-profit that works to improve local organizing by providing a software, data and analytics platform.
Apr 28, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Kate Conway joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in graphic design, building the creative team for the Biden Campaign and the switch to the Harris Campaign.
Apr 25, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, being a leader at Human Rights Watch, her award winning book "There Are No Dead Here" (about human rights in Columbia) and her role at RepresentUS, where they're working to fight corruption and defend democracy.
Apr 23, 2025•57 min
Seth Johnson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his decades of work at AFSCME and now as a consultant, and what he's been thinking about in this difficult time for our nation.
Apr 21, 2025•1 hr
Max Borowitz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech entrepreneurship and founding Caucus, which helps campaigns and causes send direct messages through social media to their supporters, donors and voters to raise money and win votes.
Apr 18, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Jeff Jarvis joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his long career in journalism, media and teaching, authoring 6 books and how he feels the media is doing in this moment in our democracy.
Apr 16, 2025•1 hr 30 min
Zsuzsanna Szelényi joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in Hungarian politics and her book "Tainted Democracy, Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary".
Apr 14, 2025•1 hr 15 min
Catherine Vaughan and Ryder Kessler join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers and founding Abundance New York, where they're bringing abundance ideas to politics to improve the quality of life of New Yorkers.
Apr 11, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Sarah Oates joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a specialist in Russian media and propaganda, being a Professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and her recent book "Seeing Red: Russian Propaganda and American News".
Apr 09, 2025•1 hr
Gareth Gore joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an author and journalist and his latest book "Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church".
Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 12 min
Terry Szuplat joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, as a speechwriter for Obama and his book "Say It Well: Find Your Voice, Speak Your Mind, Inspire Any Audience".
Apr 04, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Dan Gillmor joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in journalism and tech, authoring several books and his latest project, The Cornerstone of Liberty, a newsletter that he publishes curating the best content in this area.
Apr 02, 2025•1 hr 25 min
Macon Phillips joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, being an early employee at Blue State Digital, Director of Digital Strategy at The White House and founding his firm Starling Strategy.
Mar 31, 2025•1 hr 30 min
Dean Spade joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an activist and professor, his book about mutual aid and his most recent book "Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together".
Mar 28, 2025•1 hr 19 min
Cooper Teboe joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and founding Arkenstone, where he works with Silicon Valley on behalf of his clients.
Mar 26, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Daniel Schuman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a government transparency advocate and his role at the American Governance Institute, where they're working to make a more efficient and transparent government.
Mar 24, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Lorelei Kelly joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in working to build a more informed and responsive democracy and founding Georgetown Democracy, Education and Service to continue working on congressional reform.
Mar 21, 2025•57 min
Ben Darr joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a tech entrepreneur, the series of enterprises he's created, including his current one, CredoIQ, which provides intelligence about what is happening politically on TikTok and other social media platforms.
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Joshua Tauberer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech and founding GovTrack.us to follow Congress and his plan now to expand that to cover executive orders from the White House.
Mar 17, 2025•46 min
Roberta Braga joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and founding Digital Democracy Institute for the Americas (DDIA), an organization run by and for Latinos to strengthen democracy online.
Mar 14, 2025•59 min
Martin Hamburger joins The Great Battlefield Podcast to talk about his career in politics and as a ski instructor, throwing clay, blowing glass and founding Hamburger Group Creative, where some of their ads are humorous.
Mar 12, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a historian, author and the Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library.
Mar 10, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Brynna Quillin and Jaime Lopez join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their experiences running digital organizing on Kamala Harris' presidential campaign.
Mar 07, 2025•55 min
Yamani Yansá Hernandez joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the path that led her to her role at Groundswell Fund, which works to strengthen movements for reproductive and social justice.
Mar 05, 2025•51 min
Jerren Chang joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his role at Partners in Democracy, where they're working in Massachusetts to renovate democracy to show how it can be better done.
Mar 03, 2025•57 min
Pantheon Founder Zack Rosen joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Pantheon, a web ops platform, working with California YIMBY to work on the housing crisis and his current role at Abundance Network which he sees as a new source of ideas for the Democratic party.
Feb 28, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Neil Malhotra joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Professor at the Stanford University Business School, his writings on social impact entrepreneurship, business ethics, political polarization and his current study on the political views of small business owners.
Feb 26, 2025•56 min
Claudia Yoli Ferla joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about immigration and her role at MOVE Texas, a nonpartisan, nonprofit, grassroots organization working to build power in underrepresented youth communities through civic engagement, leadership development, and issue advocacy.
Feb 24, 2025•55 min
Alex Aronson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and the law and about co-founding Court Accountability, where they are dedicated to combating corrupt abuse of judicial power.
Feb 21, 2025•1 hr 12 min