Instituto’s Executive Director Shelley Jackson introduces Praxis in Action, a video training series, to teach tangible organizing skills, inspire people to take action, and build stronger connections through knowledge-sharing, skill-building, and storytelling! Arizona’s local leaders, organizers, and changemakers guide us through data, facilitation, art & social change, and fundraising!

Praxis in Action’s data trainer Ephraim Infante shares how data is all around us and for everyone – including how to use data to strengthen your work, prioritize data in your organization, and build an equitable and inclusive data pipeline. Ephraim is an Arizona-based data analyst and a 2021 Instituto Monzón Fellow Alum.

Praxis in Action’s facilitation trainer Luis Ávila shares how to facilitate the best conversation possible like crafting an effective agenda, checking assumptions, creating a space of trust and vulnerability, and allowing for messiness to emerge. Luis is Instituto’s founder and President-Founder of Iconico Campaigns.

Praxis in Action trainers Eunique Yazzie and Melody Lewis share how to be creative collaborators through circular thinking and consensus for any group or organization. Eunique, a 2020 Instituto Harvest Fellow alum, and Melody Lewis are co-founders of Cahokia, an Arizona-based and Indigenous-led socialtech and artspace.

Praxis in Action fundraising trainer Becca Guerra shares how to get to know your audience, identify your unique value add, use data to communicate your impact, and build a budget. Becca is a consultant and the Director of the New American Majority Fund through The Democracy Alliance.

Communications expert Maria Hurtado teaches a two-part series of the basics of working with the media. In Media 101 and Media 102, she teaches how to building a press list, how to persuade the press to attend your event, how to train your spokespeople, and much more!

Una experta en comunicaciones, Maria Hurtado, nos enseña una serie de dos partes de los conceptos básicos de como trabajar con la prensa. ¡En estos entrenamientos, ella nos enseña cómo construir una lista de prensa, cómo persuadir a la prensa para que asista a tu evento, cómo entrenar a tus portavoces, y mucho más!

Instituto Trainer and Marketing and Communications Coordinator Thania Betancourt Alcázar shares how to use easy newsletter content templates, workflow, and tools that will make your email list look forward to your emails.

Instituto's Social Media and Communications Coordinator Trinity Miracle goes over templates and how to create easy and fast Canva graphics.

Instituto trainer and 2021 Monzón Fellow Alum Desiree Perez teaches the basics of building lists in VAN/EveryAction. Learn how to create, narrow, and export lists for your Phone Banks or Canvasses.

Instituto trainer and 2021 Monzón Fellow Alum Desiree Perez teaches activist Codes, survey questions, and tags in EveryAction, doing more hands-on creation. They show how to create your own internal data entry forms to help streamline your data entry.

Instituto trainer and Executive Director Shelley Jackson teaches that organizing is key to building power and creating change in our communities, and everyone can be an organizer!

Instituto trainer and Political Director Ariel Reyes provides an overview of Arizona's legislature, including a breakdown of how bills are passed, and a Q&A with former Arizona State Representative Devin Del Palacio.

Lena Avalos, the Policy and Research Coordinator at Arizona Center for Empowerment, and Karen McLaughlin, the Director of Fiscal Policy for the Arizona Center for Economic Progress teach how Arizona's state budget is funded, what is funded through the budget, and much more

Instituto trainer Emily Nuñez-Eddy and 2021 Monzón Fellow Alum Jenny Guzman cover the basics of the Arizona Legislature (identifying elected officials, key advocacy issues and organizations, and more).

Instituto trainer Emily Nuñez-Eddy and 2020 Harvest Fellow Alum Natalya Brown teach how to sign up to testify in support/opposition of bills, submit digital commentary, demand remote testimony, support community organizations, and more!

Dr. DeShawn Taylor from Desert Star Institute of Family Planning, and Desiree Perez cover everything you need to know about defending access to reproductive health services, protecting access to abortion and gender-affirming services, and how to take action.