The Leadership LAB

Thanks to everyone who came out for our canvass on 7/28!

New piece in the Salt Lake Tribune about the effectiveness of our deep canvassing technique!

Commentary: Fed up with politics? Try having a conversation There is every reason to hate our current state of politics. The people who shout the loudest, the people who name-call, the people who refuse to consider other views, they are the people who often get the most attention.

Thanks to everyone who attended our canvass for racial justice in The OC this weekend! And bon voyage/best wishes to Steph as she embarks on a new adventure in New York! 🎉

Photos from this week’s Wednesday volunteer session! Thanks to everyone who attended and helped prepare for our canvass tomorrow!

Stephanie Lepp just did a great piece on transgender people and how to reduce prejudice against them. It includes several moving profiles and some terrific commentary on the work of the Leadership LAB. Thanks, Steph, for this great piece! Full episode: http://www.reckonings.show/episodes/14

Reckonings #14 || When her daughter became her son (and vice versa) Two mothers struggle to accept their transgender children, offering a hopeful window into how we might overcome transphobia and expand our understanding of gender.

"One by one, opponents of the ordinance — including local attorneys, business leaders, psychologists, social workers, parents and trans youth — picked apart the false, fear-mongering slogan that sunk HERO and has become a rallying cry for opponents of nondiscrimination ordinances."

Congrats to the people of Rockwall on beating back fear!!

Rockwall Resoundingly Rejects Anti-Trans 'Bathroom' Ordinance Monday’s City Council meeting in the conservative Dallas suburb arguably marked a turning point for transgender rights in Texas.

Check out our director, Dave Fleischer, and one of the co-authors of the paper about our impact, David Broockman, on MSNBC's Morning Joe today, talking about the potential wider implications of this deep canvassing work!

Door-to-door canvassing and its impact on voters David Broockman and Dave Fleischer join Morning Joe to discuss how door-to-door canvassing can change voters' views on key issues.

Tune into This American Life, on your local NPR station, this weekend, or to the podcast starting 7pm Central Sunday night, to hear their story about the study that's just been published detailing the impact of our work reducing transphobia, and the rather dramatic story of everything that's happened since their last segment a year ago! It's engrossing stuff!

For Your Reconsideration | This American Life The older and wiser we get, the more bewildering our past decisions can seem. This week, people revisit those decisions — and we revisit a story we aired a year ago with new, fascinating updates about a groundbreaking study that turned out to be false.

How the Michael LaCour Scandal Got A Happy Ending Data falsification was only a temporary roadblock to an important finding that could fight bias against transgender people and other groups.

No, Wait, Short Conversations Really Can Reduce Prejudice A new study redeems a remarkably successful canvassing approach that was rocked by scientific fraud last year.

These scientists can prove it's possible to reduce prejudice Remember the gay marriage study that was faked? The theory's been retested, and the results are very promising.