Experiments4Good is a project of Utopian Visions, built by Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, strategist, organizer, and movement builder from Southeast Tennessee. For the full story, head to Utopian Visions.
Experiments4Good is a project of Utopian Visions, built by Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, strategist, organizer, and movement builder from Southeast Tennessee. For the full story, head to Utopian Visions.
The people who do the work of justice are often the last ones to get decent tools. Organizers run campaigns on spreadsheets and group texts. Pastors prepare congregations for civic engagement with whatever they can find online. Trainers build curricula from scratch every single time because no one makes this stuff reusable.
Experiments4Good builds the things I wish existed when I needed them: movement education that's rigorous but not academic, civic tech that's built for organizers instead of extracted from them, and infrastructure that keeps working after the news and funding cycles move on.
Everything here is designed to be used. Picked up, adapted, photocopied, run in a church basement or a union hall. Not admired — used.
Everything here comes from real organizing experience and movement tradition. The people doing the work know what they need. I build from that.
Every toolkit, every platform, every resource is designed for the hands of the people who need it. If it can't be picked up and put to work, it's not done.
The "experiments" in the name is real. Sometimes it's a toolkit. Sometimes it's an app. Sometimes it's a conversation. If there's something our movements need, I'm willing to try building it and see what works.