Dyanna Jaye

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Dyanna Jaye is a co-founder and the former Organizing Director for Sunrise Movement. She currently studies regional planning at MIT to imagine a Green New Deal for her home in Virginia and, works for PowerLabs to coach social movement leaders to design people-powered campaigns.

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Foreground, woman with drum and microphone, wearing Green New Deal t-shirt. Next to and behind her, people singing. Banner reading "Generation of Fire: California Youth Rising."

Organizing Practice
Environmental Justice
Leadership

Understanding Sunrise, Part 3: Structure and Governance

Dyanna Jaye and William Lawrence

Two Sunrise Movement co-founders probe the structural crisis that hit the group after five impactful years—and envision how to deepen the practice of democracy in organizations to come.

Strategy
Environmental Justice
Climate Emergency

Understanding Sunrise, Part 2: Organizing Methods

William Lawrence and Dyanna Jaye

Sunrise melded mass protest, electoral work, and distributed organizing to great effect, but 2020 upended its plans and forced a reassessment.

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Understanding Sunrise, Part 3: Structure and Governance

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