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ICP’s Dismantling Racial Capitalism series recently hosted Olúfémi Táíwò, author of Elite Capture and Reconsidering Reparations. -
Students at the ICP's Law and Organizing Academy at Borden Estate -
Students take a break at the ICP's Law and Organizing Academy at Borden Estate -
Students take a break at the ICP's Law and Organizing Academy at Borden Estate -
Students at the ICP's Law and Organizing Academy at Borden Estate -
Students at the ICP's Law and Organizing Academy at Borden Estate
The Initiative for Community Power designs and leads courses on social justice, and creates and supports student fellowships to work with organizations, and on academic projects, challenging inequality. We also offer resources about movement lawyering, community organizing, and social change and build and sustain partnerships with social justice organizations and create community among faculty, students and leading social justice practitioners.
Upcoming Course
- Law and Power, a new seminar and externship led by Andrew Friedman, will be offered in Spring 2024 at the Law School through the Pro Bono Scholars Program.
Recent Projects
- As part of our Dismantling Racial Capitalism series, we were honored to host Olúfémi Táíwò, author of Elite Capture and Reconsidering Reparations.
- Advocacy Lab, an overview of and training in how to affect public policy through advocacy campaigns, legislative lobbying, issue branding, coalition building and community organizing, was co-led and co-taught by ICP Director Andrew Friedman and Daniel Coates, senior organizer at the Action Lab, at NYU Wagner.
- The Law and Organizing Academy, which focuses on organizing frameworks in housing justice, workers rights, and decarceration/abolition, hosted more than 40 students and also held a reflection session for its graduates.
- We have launched a first-of-its-kind Law and Community Organizing Lab within NYU Law’s Clinical Program to help advise, coach and support clinical faculty and students to develop and deploy a sophisticated understanding of organizing, social change and campaigning, and to build out a dynamic organizing team to provide capacity to all of NYU’s clinics on all power-building, coalitional and campaigning work.
- With the Initiative's support, more than 40 students from NYU Law and the Wagner School for Public Service volunteered or did field work to support social justice organizations.
- The Initiative helped the 2022-23 Obama Fellows and the Pro Bono Scholars Program at NYU Law explore power-building themes through lectures and conversations.
- The Summer Organizing Training Camp for public policy and college students was held. It included field-based organizing practice with the Hudson Valley-based housing organization, For the Many.