Zoe Hammer

• Led curriculum redesign to establish new bachelor's and master's degrees in community organizing
• Instructed and evaluated students in classroom in alignment with college mission by incorporating innovative teaching and learning strategies.
• Established connections for students with social justice organizations by organizing guest speaker events, workshops, and networking opportunities.
• Developed relationships with community organizations and connected students with organizing opportunities in U.S. and abroad

• Consulted on various organizer-training and campaign planning work for UAW, The League of Conservation Voters, CHISPA, The New School for Social Research, and Poder.
• Mentored Prescott MA graduate student who salted at the first Starbucks to unionize (Albany, NY), as part of his Master’s Thesis Project
• Coached Prescott MA graduate leader on successful Basta Arpaio campaign, ousting Sheriff Joe Arpaio from office in Maricopa County
• Advised students in a successful campaign to pressure Prescott College President to hire their choice of a faculty member of color despite a hiring freeze
• Supported Prescott students in a successful campaign for a full-ride scholarship for undocumented students against administrative pushback, winning a student fee-levy increase to fund the scholarship with 92%
• Assisted Prescott students who won a sanctuary campus plan protecting students from anti-immigrant state and federal policies and militias
• Helped students who built a leader-rich migrant-justice organization, Keep Prescott Together, later affiliating as a local of Mijente
• Host regular networking events and meetings for alumni organizers to maintain structure of support across campaigns

• Established MA Program in Social Justice & Community Organizing, with impressive track record in producing campaign-winning organizers (see Mentorship below)
• Recruited, trained, evaluated, and supported professional development of team of 16+ faculty
• Conducted academic research, taught courses, and published writing focused on prison abolition and migrant justice, the political economy of globalization, with particular emphasis on migration, neoliberalism, climate justice, and racial capitalism
• Trained, placed, coached, and evaluated short and long-term internships in unions and community organizations across US
• Mentored student clubs such as the Queer Student Union, the Unified Council of the Frantz Fanon Community Strategizing Center, Keep Prescott Together, The Organizing Club, The Walking Comets, and the Comet Voice
• Chaired, served on committees and led efforts to recruit, retain, support, and center historically-excluded communities on faculty
• Developed students’ capacity to conduct meetings, recruit/engage volunteers, build capacity, conduct campaign research, develop leaders, drive campaigns
• Led and implemented team of 50 academics in cross-college process creating pathways, procedures, guidelines, and mileposts for accelerated master’s programs in every degree area

• Built base of 700 active immigrant families leading committees across AZ
• Collaborated to develop regional, statewide, and national coalitions
• Shaped strategy for organizing, organizer training, media and communications, coalition development, and fundraising
• Maintained key relationships through travel to national and regional convenings
• Facilitated development of messaging frames and trained members as media spokespeople
• Pitched and developed relationships with journalists, coordinated press conferences, etc.
• Created and facilitated dual-language courses for organizers, in partnership with translators
• Served on US-Mexico Border and Immigration Taskforce 2009-2011, which played a key role in coordinating responses to SB1070 in 2010
• Wrote Hate or Heroism report (2002) on border vigilante groups’ nationwide networks, leading communications strategy to delegitimize their campaigns of terror in border communities (Stop Hate Campaign)
• Spearheaded BAN’s cooperation with AZ organizations on messaging and strategy in campaign to stop Sensenbrenner Bill HR4437, quadrupling BAN’s membership (2005–2006)

• Coordinated Alternative Border Policies and Practices Campaign, bringing together cross-border constituency to propose alternative guidelines for demilitarized border policy
• Consolidated convening into US-Mexico Border Communities Coalition, which travelled to DC several times to meet with legislators and created a policy document of 130 recommendations for just, humane, and sustainable border practices

Planned and led weeklong tour of US-Mexico border for 11 local, state, and federal elected officials from Colorado, as part of a coordinated educational effort to flip the state’s legislature blue

• Worked with participants of 2003 Critical Resistance 3 Conference to build media and communications strategies for progressive orgs nationwide
• Helped plan and lead the Prison Messaging Working Conference, a messaging retreat to aid prison reform and abolition organizations to develop and coordinate messaging principles

• Led adaptation of Critical Resistance’s California strategy to Arizona context
• Strategized and coordinated multi-racial coalition across urban and rural communities to stop construction of a 4.5k bed immigrant-only federal prison in Arizona CAR-3 Campaign (1999-2001)
• Laid groundwork for statewide capacity to stop future prison construction