Transforming changemakers

(Children’s Defense Fund) – As the first votes are being cast for the 2024 presidential election, many Americans are thinking deeply about their own part in our democracy right now – and many are wondering whether they have any power to make a difference. It’s a question Sam Daley-Harris has been asking for decades, and even at a moment of surging voter cynicism, he keeps arriving at the same resounding answer: yes! Daley-Harris has just released a new edition of his book Reclaiming Our Democracy: Every Citizen’s Guide to Transformational Advocacy, revised and updated for this critical election year. Daley-Harris wants every citizen to feel hopeful and empowered to move beyond what he calls transactional advocacy to the much more powerful transformational advocacy, where you’re trained to do things as an advocate that you thought you couldn’t do. Related Stories Daley-Harris has a long track record of results – he is the founder of Results and the Results Educational Fund, a movement of passionate, committed everyday people using their voices to influence political decisions that will bring an end to poverty. He – along with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus and John Hatch – co-founded the Microcredit Summit Campaign,...