Press coverage & features
Sep 2026
Nathan Fikadu. “Activism for More, Not Less.” The Daily Campus.
Jun 2026
Elizabeth McKenna. “Protest Doesn’t Scare Trump. Organizing Does.” The Boston Globe.
Feb 2026
Charles Duhigg. “What MAGA Can Teach Democrats About Organizing.” The New Yorker.
Feb 2026
Micah L. Sifry. “When Memory Serves.” The Connector.
Nov 2025
Jen L. Phan, Adelaide L.D. Roger, and Alexa M. Schmitt. “Harvard Researchers Say Strong Campaigns, Effective Anti-Trump Messaging Boosted Democrats in 2025 Elections.” The Harvard Crimson.
Oct 2025
Elizabeth McKenna. “The Left Knows How to Have Huge Protests. The Right Keeps Winning Elections.” The Boston Globe.
Oct 2025
Alana Wise. “No Kings Organizers Project a Massive Turnout for This Weekend’s Protests.” NPR Morning Edition.
Sep 2024
Antonia Hitchens. “Inside the Trump Campaign’s Plan to Win Arizona.” The New Yorker.
Sep 2024
Jim Bildner. “What’s Your Start Agenda?” Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Apr 2024
“McKenna Awarded Andrew Carnegie Fellowship.” Harvard Gazette.
Sep 2023
Nora Delaney. “Liz McKenna: Making Sense of Social Movements and Their Role in Democracies.” Harvard Kennedy School Faculty Focus.
May 2022
“Want to See Real Change in the World? These Seven Books Will Inspire Deeper Change.” World Economic Forum. On Prisms of the People.
Aug 2021
Hahrie Han, Elizabeth McKenna, and Michelle Oyakawa. “Media Depicts Activists as One-Issue Ideologues. The Good Ones are Anything But.” Washington Post, Monkey Cage.
Dec 2021
“SSIR’s 2021 Social Innovation Reading List.” Stanford Social Innovation Review. On Prisms of the People.
Aug 2021
Hahrie Han, Elizabeth McKenna, and Michelle Oyakawa. “Beyond Numbers.” Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Apr 2021
Michelle Oyakawa, Elizabeth McKenna, and Hahrie Han. “Constituency as an Independent Source of Power.” Social Science Research Council.
Feb 2021
Hahrie Han and Elizabeth McKenna. “To Learn About the Democratic Party’s Future, Look to What Latino Organizers Did in Arizona.” The Washington Post.
Jan 2020
Doran Schrantz, Michelle Oyakawa, and Elizabeth McKenna. “Building Political Bases to Make Multiracial Democracy Work.” Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Aug 2020
Matthew Richmond and Elizabeth McKenna. “Revoltas Regionais: Direitização Eleitoral no Brasil e nos EUA.”
Dec 2019
Hahrie Han. “When Does Activism Become Powerful?” The New York Times.
Aug 2019
Joy Cushman. “The Trump Campaign Knows Why Obama Won. Do Democrats?” The New York Times.
Aug 2019
Nicole Sganga. “Trump to Kick Off New Hampshire Campaign With Thursday Visit.” CBS News. On Groundbreakers.
Feb 2018
Elizabeth McKenna. “The Life and Death of Brazil’s New Republic.” Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies.
Nov 2017
Elizabeth McKenna. “Reforma Eleitoral: Mudar Tudo Para Não Mudar Nada.” NEXO.
Jun 2017
Marshall Ganz and Elizabeth McKenna. “The Practice of Social Movement Leadership.” Mobilizing Ideas.
Mar 2015
Andrew Mayersohn. “Learning from Obama’s Campaign.” Boston Review. On Groundbreakers.
Aug 2015
Elizabeth McKenna. “Tottering Toward the Brink: Brazil’s Political Unraveling.” Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies.
Oct 2015
Rebecca Tarlau and Elizabeth McKenna. “The Myth of Unified Unrest in Brazil.” Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies.
Nov 2014
Hahrie Han and Elizabeth McKenna. “Engaging Voters Can Kick Start Community Activism.” Washington Post, Monkey Cage.
Nov 2014
Hahrie Han and Elizabeth McKenna. “Getting Out The Vote: Not All Ground Games Are Alike.” The Conversation.
Jul 2014
Elizabeth McKenna. “Where Are The Protests? The Fitful Giant and Its Futebol.” Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies.