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Robin Katcher
Senior Consultant
Robin Katcher is a national leader in strengthening organizations on the front lines of change. Her deep experience in social justice movements – as an organizer, trainer, educator, legislative advocate, and Board member – informs her rigorous approach to building powerful organizations.
Robin joined MAG in 1999 and has consulted with scores of social justice organizations across the country. She is driven by an intense interest in the ways that activist organizations can harness their energy to create major change. "Through this work, I've been able to experience the power of an organization that knows what it wants to accomplish and which is committed to the array of strategies it will take to make that happen. I see organizational development consulting as a tool for creating social justice."
Robin consults with individual organizations, provides leadership coaching, and has also led customized capacity-building programs for networks of organizations. Groups that she has assisted include: the American Civil Liberties Union, Alliance for Children and Families , Hope House, U.S. Human Rights Network, Equality Maryland, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Citizen Action Wisconsin, the National Network of Abortion Funds, and Land Trust Alliance. She is Lead Author of the MAG publications Boards Matter and Advancing Your Cause Through the People You Manage.
Before joining MAG, Robin held a variety of leadership positions across a range of social justice issues, including Legislative Director at the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and Trainer in a Gill Foundation program providing board development and fundraising workshops for LGBTQ community organizations. She has served as a Founding Board Member for Jews United for Justice, Board Member of Bet Mishpachah (a synagogue serving the LGBTQ community), volunteer sex health educator for Whitman-Walker Clinic, and community ally of HERE Local 27 , the DC parking lot attendants union.
Sidebar links: Boards Matter (Robin Lead Author), NNAF success story (when available), affiliate networks service area, others?
Robin joined MAG in 1999 and has consulted with scores of social justice organizations across the country. She is driven by an intense interest in the ways that activist organizations can harness their energy to create major change. "Through this work, I've been able to experience the power of an organization that knows what it wants to accomplish and which is committed to the array of strategies it will take to make that happen. I see organizational development consulting as a tool for creating social justice."
Robin consults with individual organizations, provides leadership coaching, and has also led customized capacity-building programs for networks of organizations. Groups that she has assisted include: the American Civil Liberties Union, Alliance for Children and Families , Hope House, U.S. Human Rights Network, Equality Maryland, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Citizen Action Wisconsin, the National Network of Abortion Funds, and Land Trust Alliance. She is Lead Author of the MAG publications Boards Matter and Advancing Your Cause Through the People You Manage.
Before joining MAG, Robin held a variety of leadership positions across a range of social justice issues, including Legislative Director at the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and Trainer in a Gill Foundation program providing board development and fundraising workshops for LGBTQ community organizations. She has served as a Founding Board Member for Jews United for Justice, Board Member of Bet Mishpachah (a synagogue serving the LGBTQ community), volunteer sex health educator for Whitman-Walker Clinic, and community ally of HERE Local 27 , the DC parking lot attendants union.
Sidebar links: Boards Matter (Robin Lead Author), NNAF success story (when available), affiliate networks service area, others?