Students have always been at the forefront of societal change. Causes like civil rights, peace & justice, and environmental protection all took root on college campuses before influencing the country as a whole. Today's students are putting away the Playstation and continuing in this strong activist tradition. This month we will be joined by three rock star organizers for a training on organizing college students.

Tune in Wednesday September 23rd for our Night School on Campus Organizing.

We will be joined by three of the most talented student organizers around, representing the College Democrats, Power Shift, Greenpeace and Network. These organizers will discuss the strategies and tactics for mobilizing today's college students.

RSVP today to hear how today's college students are making a difference.

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This month's trainers:

BRYAN HAGENY:
Bryan grew up in the fiercely contested swing state of Wisconsin, and is proud of its progressive tradition. While attending the University of Wisconsin he worked for Howard Dean, John Kerry, and Tammy Baldwin. Following Graduation he served in a number of political and activist roles. To this end Bryan worked as an Assistant Director of a large canvassing office in Boston, next as a Lead Recruiter for Power Shift 2007 in DC, and then as a Community Organizer in Pennsylvania. In 2008 Bryan was hired as DFA's Deputy Training Director. In 2008 Bryan took campaign leave from DFA to work as a Field Organizer on Darcy Burner's bid for Congress. Similarly, in 2009 Bryan will be taking campaign leave from DFA to work on Gary West's VA Delegate race.

SHAWN WALTER:
Shawn grew up in Knox, Indiana. While at Indiana University Shawn got involved with the College Democrats where he served as the Outreach Director and President and during his freshman year was elected the Vice-President of the state federation of Indiana College Democrats. During the 2008 elections Shawn worked on Congressman Baron Hill's reelection and the Obama for America campaign where he played a role in the Indiana University College Democrats registration of over 11,000 students.

JESSICA SERRANTE:
Jessica Serrante is 21 years old, and from Bridgewater, New Jersey. She's a Senior Environmental Studies major, Sociology/ Political Science double minor at the University of Vermont (UVM). Jessica got her start with activism her sophmore year at the Powershift 2007 conference and soon after began working on Greenpeace's Kleercut campaign. The following summer she spent her summer of living in San Francisco and training in the Greenpeace Organizing Term on how to develop, organize, and execute a campaign. In 2009 Jessica became the lead organizer of UVM's delegation of students going to the Powershift 2009 conference in Washington D.C, which was the largest delegation in the country bringing 204 students! Currently, she is interning with Greenpeace on a campaign to shut down the dirty and dangerous Vermont Yankee Nuclear plant, as well as preparing her senior thesis on Environmental Organizing.

DAVID GOLEMBOSKI:
David Golemboski is Field Associate for NETWORK, a National Catholic Social Justice Lobby. NETWORK advocates Congress on behalf of progressive causes form a faith-based perspective. As Field Associate, David works to animate and organize the NETWORK membership. David is a graduate of the University of Louisville and Harvard Divinity School. He has worked with various peace and justice groups on numerous campaigns, focusing particularly on war resistance
and immigrant rights, as well as social justice formation within the Catholic church.

Night School is DFA's interactive online training program. Every month Night School brings top campaign experts right to your home at absolutely no cost to you. You can listen live from your computer on Blog Talk Radio at the link provided when you RSVP.

The training will last just over an hour and will be accompanied by a slideshow you can view online or download and print out. Check back here the day of the training to download the slides.

No extra applications are necessary, simply RSVP above and you'll receive an email with all the necessary information. Then join us live on Wednesday September 23rd at 8:30pm EDT for the training.

Don't worry if you can't make it, we'll have a recorded version of the training up immediately after the training is completed.

If you have any specific questions about this training or DFA Night School you can send them to: nightschool@democracyforamerica.com