These difficult times require us to stay grounded in our values as we navigate political change and uncertainty. It is in this spirit that ChangeLab offers strategic training and services. We can help your organization prepare for an uncertain future shaped by multiple challenges including a rapidly changing economy, anti-democratic movements, political polarization, and a toxic media environment. We help groups think politically about race, class, gender, and power to build pro-democracy strategies and practices based on care, interdependence, and relationships across difference. We are experienced online trainers, having had to meet the uncertainties of COVID and the reality of remote work.
Over the last 12 years, ChangeLab has created various curricula and tools, working closely with a range of organizations. We specialize in topics including Asian American and multiracial movement building, white nationalism and other authoritarian movements, racial capitalism, and political strategy. We provide organizational support and internal political education as well as larger-scale public trainings and workshops at conferences, universities, and community spaces. Our approach is to listen deeply to those seeking our services to understand their goals, and to tailor our materials and teaching style to meet their needs. We create well-researched content and bring grounded politics, humor, dynamism, and a spirit of inquiry to all of our work. Check out what people are saying about our training and capacity-building skills below!
For information on how to access our services, please contact admin@changelabinfo.com.
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Testimonials
I had the pleasure of preparing for a retreat with Soya Jung right when the pandemic hit. She proved to be a brilliant and skilled facilitator, and adapted a three-day in-person retreat to several virtual sessions with speed, grace and flexibility. The virtual retreat was powerful, inspiring and by all metrics a huge success. Participants left with a deeper understanding of the power structures that shape our world and empowered to take on work to change it. I recommend her and ChangeLab highly!
Tallie Ben-Daniel
Research and Education Manager, Jewish Voice for Peace
Soya brought a combination of critical content and interactive exercises to ground my Critical Race Theory students in the current moment as well as in history, while challenging them to see themselves as agents of change. They told me she was the best guest speaker they had heard, and especially appreciated her sharp analysis of white nationalism. Also, as an educator and organizer, I view “A Different Asian American Timeline” as a treasure, a tool that we can all use and adapt in our own trainings to ground ourselves in our group-differentiated relationships within racial capitalism.
Angélica Cházaro
Assistant Professor, University of Washington School of Law
Co-Founder, La Resistencia
ChangeLab brings an incredible combination of movement experience and memory, honesty and organizational skills. From organizational development to facilitation, Soya is always refreshingly strategic and oriented to what will move a group forward towards its goal. Because of her history in movement spaces, she is able to bring a deep understanding of what multiracial organizing really means, which often varies according to context, moment and positionality. I trust Soya completely to handle complicated group dynamics, leadership development, visioning, political education and organizational transition. Finally, Soya’s knowledge and relationships with movement organizations make the difference between theoretic opportunities and real strategy.
Trishala Deb
Senior Program Officer, Reproductive Health and Women’s Rights Collaborative
Soya has a unique combination of skills: she’s both a facilitator and a strategist. Soya can expertly move groups through tough conversations and curate spaces where people generate their boldest and most innovative ideas. She can develop and provide trainings and workshops that are grounded in an oppression analysis and a liberatory framework for a range of audiences. Soya is also a strategist and a visionary who can identify possibilities and points of view, while creating valuable resources, reports and tools. Her work in particular with Asian American community leaders has been groundbreaking and has seeded new ideas and partnerships.
Deepa Iyer
Senior Advisor, Building Movement Project
ChangeLab is doing essential analysis relevant to our present political and ideological conditions, helping us understand how we got here and how we’ll chart our way to another, more liberated time. In concrete terms, ChangeLab equipped our organization with foundational analysis: how we understand racial capitalism, the forces producing reactionary and white nationalist worldviews and organized movements, and how we can compete and carve out a counter center of gravity to out-organize the right and win our people back to a vision of a liberated, antiracist economy that serves working people, not those who profit from our pain. ChangeLab is keeping a pulse on changes in these times with a deep grounding in history. Their work is an essential part of building real resistance to authoritarianism and creating an alternative path forward.
Stina Janssen
Executive Director, FIRELANDS Working People United Trabajadores Unidos
I was so glad to have the opportunity to work with Soya and ChangeLab. At AAPIP’s 2019 National Network Convening, Soya led a thoughtful and illuminating session that introduced the topic of racial capitalism to funders who represent a diverse spectrum of familiarity and comfort levels with this concept. She led us through ChangeLab’s “A Different Asian American Timeline”, a visually engaging interactive online tool that kept the audience continually engaged. As part of the presentation, Soya also organized and moderated a frank discussion on the importance of funding social movements and grassroots organizing. We received great feedback from convening attendees. For example, one attendee remarked that the ChangeLab session on racial capitalism was the most sophisticated, highest level of content that she had seen in any learning space targeted to AAPI funders.
Christen Lee
Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy
When I saw Soya Jung’s and ChangeLab’s online resource, “A Different Asian American Timeline,” I was blown away by its originality and historical comprehensiveness. I have to date not seen any educational toolkit on race, economy, and U.S. society that comes close to this timeline. It’s a game-changer for Asian American community and institutional advocates, and for public knowledge and understanding of what a progressive Asian American politics looks like. Since seeing the timeline, I’ve invited Soya to teach with me in the Public Humanities Institute at the University of Washington. Our course brought together PhD students, curators, social workers, community advocates, and non-profit workers to learn from Soya’s timeline and the new ways of understanding race it allows us to possess. What amazed me was Soya’s facilitation and curricular skills. She devised a training session that engaged equally with the very different knowledges and languages that were in the room. She has that unique gift of being able to connect together the ideas of people with very different stakes in a conversation, revealing for participants a shared project none knew existed between them. Soya’s great talent is her ability as a thinker, trainer, and facilitator to make sure no one is left out or left behind, as a conversation and shared learning experience deepens and progresses. I plan to have Soya’s training on race, capitalism, and the progressive movement a fixed feature of all my public humanities and Asian American syllabi.
Chandan Reddy
Associate Professor, University of Washington
Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
Soya can speak to a group that has a wide range of political views and experiences and bring clear, critical content using powerful, concrete examples that help people get on the same page and have transformative conversations. She is a gifted and generous facilitator who creates a welcoming space for people to try on new ideas and build new connections.
Dean Spade
Associate Professor, Seattle University School of Law, teaching Administrative Law, Poverty Law, Gender and Law, Policing and Imprisonment, and Law and Social Movements
Founder, Silvia Rivera Law Project