Instagram for Organizing: Skills Share

How are online organizers using Instagram to build power online? If you have teen, you know that young people are all over this one. But they aren’t alone. A range of experienced online organizers using Instagram in their work share examples and the best practices they’ve picked up, including:

• Who is using Instagram, and why?
• What is it best for? How does it complement other channels like Facebook and Twitter?
• What are some ways groups are using it in campaigns?
• How to build up your following?
• What’s the minimum time and resources needed to use it effectively?
• Lots more

Organizers sharing their experience:

• Jamiah Adams, former Senior Director of Digital Media at the NAACP
• DeAnne Cuellar, Communications Coordinator, Equality Texas
• Shana DeClercq, Community Engagement Manager, The Story of Stuff Project
• Kathy Plate, Online Communications Director, UltraViolet
• Alexa Tomassi, Social Media Manager, Sandy Hook Promise
• Brian Tierney, Project Manager, Teamsters Union (IBT)
• Kristina Villarini, Digital Engagement Manager, Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN)

Photo credit: "Having more random searches or more police isn’t real safety. As part of Students Deserve (@la_studentsdeserve), we are marching in solidarity with #MarchForOurLives to end all violence, including the school to prison pipeline and the over-policing in schools — especially the discrimination against black and brown students of color." -Sumaiya, high school junior, Zi, college freshman, and Jahlani, high school senior