about joshua kahn russell

Joshua Kahn Russell is an organizer working to bridge movements for environmental sanity and racial justice. He currently works as Rainforest Action Network’s Grassroots Actions Manager, campaigning to end our addiction to coal and oil. Josh is a strategy and non-violent direct action trainer with the Ruckus Society. He spends much of his time on the road, building and supporting networks of activist groups across the country. In between strategy trainings, he helps develop young grassroots leaders, coordinates actions, helps groups build their capacity, and coordinates activist gatherings.

Joshua currently serves on the steering committee of the Energy Action Coalition, a youth led coalition of over 48 groups spanning the environmental spectrum to build youth power to solve the climate crisis.

In early 2006, Josh was a core organizer in reviving, launching and building the “new” Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a national multi-issue youth & student led group, which in less than a year had grown to over 250 chapters and nearly 3,000 members nationwide.

Joshua has contributed chapters to books such as Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists, The Art of Coexistence, and the forthcoming Less Than Settled: Critical Reflections on Travel and Privilege. He has written internationally distributed zines, including Zen and the Art of Brownie Baking!, and Excuse Me, Can You Please Pass the Privilege?.

Joshua is a regular writer for Znet, WireTap, and It’s Getting Hot In Here, and his articles have appeared in Yes! Magazine, Left Turn Magazine, Peacework Magazine, Upping the Anti, Z Magazine, and Grist Magazine, among others.

His artwork has appeared on the cover of books authored by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, and Noam Chomsky, and in the Celebrate People’s History poster series.

He was a co-founder of the Activist Resource Center and other student groups at Brandeis University, where he graduated in 2006 with degrees in Women’s & Gender Studies and Sociology. At Brandeis he coordinated successful university-wide student strikes with the Brandeis Anti-war Coalition in March of 2003 to protest the invasion of Iraq, and again in May of 2006 on May Day in support of Immigrant Rights.

While at Brandeis, he was awarded a fellowship from the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life; The Elise Boulding Sociology and Social Activism Award; Karpf Peace Award; and Brandeis Class of 1955 Endowment Fund Prize. During that time he has done international solidarity work in Cambodia, Jamaica, and Mexico with groups such as the Womyn’s Agenda for Change and the International Jamaican Council for Human Rights.

Josh Kahn Russell is a member of Bay Rising Affinity Group (BRAG!). He currently lives in Oakland, CA.

12 responses

11 09 2007
cesar

yo josh…i’m designing a few brochures and fliers for ran, and as i was looking for good images i ran across this website which i had not seen before! great work bro. i like being on your team. ;) hope to roll with you soon. peace

16 10 2007
Ishy

Look at the kingman! Keep the fire blazing– I don’t know if that is appropriate Rainforest talk. One Love. Ishy

9 12 2007
beccarast

josh is great!

29 12 2007
Marcelle Cendrars

I would like Josh to get in touch with me to discuss a plan for protest/change which follows a new paradigm…to set up a meeting in person (with me or with one of my colleagues), in confidence. Blessings in solidarity, Marcelle Cendrars, daughter of Blaise Cendrars, at bcendra@yahoo.com. P.S. Anyone reading this who lives in California is invited to respond on the same count too.

4 03 2008
bibomedia

:)

27 04 2008
chika noya

joshie is a cool kid

20 08 2008
on megacamps and imaginal cells « It’s Getting Hot In Here

[...] Joshua Kahn Russell is a trainer and organizer with Rainforest Action Network who currently directs RAN’s Action Tank. [...]

30 09 2008
BallotVox » Blog Archive » First Presidential Debate

[...] two scorecards. Joshua Kahn Russell lives in Oakland, California, but spends a lot of time criss-crossing the country fighting for [...]

2 12 2008
dan bloom

trying to locate Joshua Kahn Russell re Poznan climate talks. need to interview you for news story

danbloom at gmail

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9 02 2009
Jason D.

Hi Josh,

I am going through the internet looking for folks who might be interested in reviewing my new book, “Rhetoric for Radicals: A Handbook for 21st Century Activists.” You can find out more here: http://www.jasondelgandio.com. I’ve looked at your site and think you and your readers would be a great fit for the book. If you’d like to do a review, just email me and I can get you a free copy. Also, your photo looks familiar… any chance you’ve been to NCOR in DC?

Best,
Jason

29 03 2009
Lacey

When we were like 15 I always knew you were going to make some kind of positive difference! But damn look at you FIXING the world! I LOVE IT! YOU ROCK!

6 11 2009
dunk

hi josh, nice quick work on getting todays BCN plenary vid online. ive stuck it out on indymedia ireland twitter and facebook

http://twitter.com/fuspey/status/5486066378
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/94690

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