Phase 2 Consulting built a business around a Washington truth: policy may be written in official rooms, but permission is earned far beyond them.
For nearly four decades, MPAC has worked a two-room strategy: influence the rules in Washington, then influence the stories in Hollywood. The bet is that representation needs both policy and plot.
A shared press list is a small thing. ReThink Media has built a nonprofit around the larger idea behind it: movements get further when they share the machinery of being heard.
Rise is a civil rights nonprofit that teaches ordinary people how to write and pass their own laws. Founded in 2014 by Amanda Nguyen after her own experience with a broken rape-kit system, Rise wrote and passed the federal Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act unanimously through Congress, then scaled the model into state laws, a landmark UN resolution, and Rise Justice Labs - an accelerator that trains survivors and allies to turn personal pain into passed legislation.