Gwen Snyder (pronouns: she/her) is a Philadelphia movement strategist. She served as the executive director of the direct action economic justice coalition Philadelphia Jobs with Justice from 2009 to 2017 and as director of organizing at POWER, a Philadelphia interfaith coalition combatting white supremacy and structural racism, from 2017 to 2018. She has served as a consultant to a number of nonprofit and political groups, and now focuses on researching, writing about, and organizing to combat far right extremism and white supremacist groups.
"Every effective direct action campaign aims not only to achieve its external goal, but to give its constituents a sense of their own power," says guest columnist Gwen Snyder.