Deepak Pateriya
Deepak Pateriya is the partner of Pronita Gupta. He is is Managing Director of Community Change Action, and Executive Director of Community Change Voters PAC.
Deepak has been a progressive organizer, campaigner, educator, and alliance builder for over 25 years, having worked in community organizing, the labor movement, and electoral politics. At Community Change Action (CCA), one of his accomplishments has been the development of a powerful year-round grassroots electoral program in partnership with dozens of local community groups nationwide. In the 2017-18 cycle, Deepak co-founded Win Justice — the electoral collaboration of CCA, SEIU, Planned Parenthood Votes, and Color of Change PAC — which ran a combined total of $50 million of independent expenditure voter program over the 2018 and 2020 election cycles. Prior to Community Change Action, Deepak worked in the labor movement for a decade with the Service Employees International Union and the United Food and Commercial Workers, organizing and campaigning with workers in the janitorial, health care and retail industries. He learned most of what he knows about community organizing and building electoral power working for the community organization AGENDA (now called SCOPE) in Los Angeles from 1995-2003.[1]
Career
- Former Organizing at United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
- Worked at Strategic Concepts in Organizing & Policy Education (SCOPE)
Minnesota Values Project
Pause, breathe, and lean into some hopeful lessons: Join Convergence and The Forge for a conversation with movement organizers and elected leaders from the Minnesota Values Project (MVP). When Minnesota’s historic legislative session wrapped up in May, reporters around the country were stunned by the number of progressive victories: paid family leave, expanded voting rights, greater healthcare access, criminal justice reforms, and more. Was this a “Minnesota Miracle?” The panelists demystify these victories, walking us through their decade-long efforts to build governing power by developing relationships of trust and accountability, strengthening infrastructure, supporting grassroots organizing, and aligning around a shared agenda.
Tune in to hear from:
- Representative Liz Olson, Minnesota House of Representatives, District 08A, co-founder, MVP
- Liz Xiong, Communications Director and Political Coordinator for Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) Minnesota
- Minister JaNae' Bates, Communications Director for Faith in Minnesota
- Senator Erin Murphy, Minnesota Senate, District 64, current chair, MVP
The conversation is moderated by Deepak Pateriya, a long-time community and labor organizer and contributor to both Convergence and The Forge.
DSA Organizing Institute
Over fifty people attended the 1993 Democratic Socialists of America Organizing Institute, which was held at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey during the weekend of June 25-27. The centerpiece of the weekend was an intensive series of training sessions, led by Steve Max, Deepak Pateriya, and Christine Riddiough, for DSA activists and organizers. These training sessions, which were based on the organizing methods developed by the Midwest Academy, helped build DSA local and national leaders' skills in developing political strategy, recruiting activists into DSA, and working in coalitions.
The Institute's training sessions were framed by two plenary discussions about DSA's mission. On Friday evening, DSA Honorary Chair Barbara Ehrenreich and DSA Vice Chairs Steve Max and Frances Fox Piven discussed the contemporary political climate and the most effective roles for a democratic socialist organization. On Sunday morning, National Political Committee member Jack Clark, DSA Youth Organizer Ginny Coughlin, and DSA National Director Michael Lighty spoke more concretely about how DSA can work to become a highly visible organization projecting a compelling political vision.[2]
National Leading From the Inside Out Alum
Deepak Pateriya, Campaign Director, Chief of Staff, Center for Community Change, was a 2013 Rockwood Leadership Institute National Leading From the Inside Out Alum.[3]