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Op-Ed Placement
Op-Ed Placement
Op-Ed Placement
Brandon Dew and Jean Hill: How should the Utah Legislature spend billions in ARP funds? Listen to Utahns
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2021/05/18/brandon-dew-jean-hill-how/
Op-Ed Placement
Op-Ed Placement
Op-Ed Placement
Dominique De Biasio: How to spend CCSD's $845 million? Ask teachers, students, and parents
Op-Ed Placement
Op-Ed Placement
Editorial Pitch and Placement
Luna Banuri, Scott B. Hayashi and Samuel L. Spector: In recovery from the pandemic, Utah must rise together https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2021/04/02/commentary-recovery/
Editorial Pitch and Placement
Editorial Pitch and Placement
Feel Inspired, America: "Their nonpartisan effort, VoteEarly2020, is just one of many volunteer-driven projects responsible for the wild success of early voting this year."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/opinion/volunteers-election-2020.html
Op-Ed Placement
Wissam Tekarli: Clark County School District dragging its feet with virus relief money
Op-Ed Placement
Brandon Dew and TJ Ellerbeck: A way to put Utahns back to work while cleaning up our air; Congress should approve funding to cap Utah’s hundreds of orphan oil wells.
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2021/08/13/brandon-dew-tj-ellerbeck/
About Rise Together Strategies
Ari Lipman, Principal
Ari Lipman is a veteran strategist and organizational leader currently serving as the Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer for the Peace Corps.
Over the course of his career, Ari has led teams to enact changes improving the lives of millions of Americans across the country:
- Passage of the 2006 universal health care law in Massachusetts, providing health insurance to over 500,000 Massachusetts residents and providing the template for the national ACA.
- Reform of the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s office, resulting in 4000 fewer “over-charges” against African-American men over the next 4 years.
- Adoption of Medicaid Expansion in Ohio.
- Revision of the Illinois school funding formula, increasing funding to low-income school districts by $700 million annually.
- Implementation of increased anti-racism teacher training and Lakota language and culture instruction in the St. Francis and Todd County school districts in Rosebud, South Dakota.
- Conservation of 30 million acres of critical natural habitat on public lands and reduction of CO2 emissions by 340 million metric tons, equivalent to removing 74 million cars from the road.
As a manager and leader of teams inside large national organizations, he has built out the infrastructure to run simultaneous campaigns that develop thousands of leaders to take action:
- Managing cross-functional teams of lawyers, scientists, lobbyists, communicators, fundraisers, campaigners, and field staff to create integrated organizational strategies at a major national conservation organization.
- Creating and managing a network of 20 organizing alliances working for just education policies in cities and rural communities across America, training and supervising a team of 20 organizers who are engaging over 10,000 citizens in in-person grass-roots action annually and have directed over $3 billion in public resources to educational equity priorities.
- Developing and managing a national organizing workshop that has trained over 2500 organizers to make change in their communities.
- Redesigning an organizing program to prepare 30,000 anti-racist, student centered teacher leaders to run electoral campaigns inside their unions.
Ari graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, and he received a Masters of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. While completing his studies, he directed a small homeless shelter for 23 men and women in Cambridge, MA. Ari is the recipient of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship and the "Unsung Progressive Hero" award from the Institute for America's Future. He has served on the boards of Freedom to Work and Vote Now 2020.
