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Author: Tessera Strategies

  • Community Organizing for STEM Professionals: A Handbook to Spark Ideas and Collective Action

    Community Organizing for STEM Professionals: A Handbook to Spark Ideas and Collective Action

    The Community Organizing Handbook for STEM Professionals is here. Born from months of collective reflection, reading, and drafting, this free, practical guide offers strategies and worksheets to help you take action; no matter your role, resources, or starting point. Whether you’re working alone or with a team, it’s a toolkit for building momentum, navigating challenges,… Read more

  • Building Resilience Through Collaboration: Repository Crisis Scorecards

    Building Resilience Through Collaboration: Repository Crisis Scorecards

    We’re thrilled to announce that Tessera Strategies is partnering with Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) through an initiative funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: the Repository Crisis Scorecards (RCS) project. This collaboration focuses on understanding and strengthening the resilience of data repositories during periods of disruption (whether caused by natural disasters, cyberattacks, funding challenges, Read more

  • Bringing Community Organizing into STEM: Project Update

    Bringing Community Organizing into STEM: Project Update

    STEM professionals across the country are coming together in this book club to explore community organizing strategies, and uncover what it really takes to build power, connection, and change in their fields. Read more

  • Bringing the Power of Community Organizing to STEM Professionals

    Bringing the Power of Community Organizing to STEM Professionals

    Science doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It thrives in communities—of researchers, educators, policy-makers, and public advocates. But what happens when science itself is under threat? In recent years, STEM professionals have found themselves facing unprecedented political and social challenges, with policies that directly undermine scientific integrity, collaboration, and access. What Can We Do? Read more