Elianne Farhat
Elianne Farhat is a Minnesota activist. Works at TakeAction Minnesota. Former Fair Workweek Initiative Campaign Director at Center for Popular Democracy.
Her work has included organizing New American voters in Chicago, electing Minnesota’s first progressive governor in more than 20 years, and advancing strategic campaigns securing historic policy wins for millions of working families. Elianne is the first in her Lebanese father’s family to be born in the United States and is of Lakota (Standing Rock) descent on her mother’s side. She serves on the board of People's Action and was a recipient of the Joan Growe Award for Distinguished Commitment to Expanding Access to Democracy and Justice.
State Power Caucus Team, 2024
- Margie Del Castillo - EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Casey Jong - CAUCUS COORDINATOR
Leadership Team
- Margie Del Castillo, Executive Director State Power Caucus
- Andrea Mercado, Executive Director, Florida Rising
- Mary Le Nguyen, Executive Director Washington Community Action Network
- Jon Liss, Executive Director New Virginia Majority
- Elianne Farhat, Executive Director TakeAction Minnesota[1]
Backing Nelsie Yang
Elianne Farhat (left, in gray) joins a TakeAction Minnesota phone bank for Nelsie Yang, who won election to the St. Paul City Council in 2019. Yang, a TakeAction Minnesota member, became the youngest person and first Hmong American to serve on the council.[2]
2020 elections: Taking Stock
Organizing Upgrade November 25 2020.
Some of the best electoral organizers are coming together to take stock of the 2020 US elections and chart the path forward. Join hosts Harmony Goldberg and Ana Maria Archila as they talk to our all-star guests about the tactics that defeated Trump, as well as the strategy for building a progressive majority and governing power around the country.
Featuring guests Andrea Mercado of The New Florida Majority, Anthony Thigpenn of California Calls, Maurice Mitchell of Working Families Party, Burt Lauderdale of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, and Elianne Farhat of TakeAction Minnesota.
"Bigger the Bigger "We"
Liberation Road plans to go live. August 12 2020.
The sprint to November 2020 is underway. The question that remains for left organizers is, who will we bring in to our growing coalition organized around racial justice and radical economic democracy? The overlapping political and economic crises of our time have opened the door to growing far beyond our normal base of support. How will we take advantage of this opening to build power not only in 2020 but well beyond the general election? What groups of people and organizations will included in this new bloc?
In this episode of OrgUp's This Is Not A Drill, hosts Adam Gold and Rishi Awatramani talk with Andrea Mercado, Jessica Byrd, Tomas Garduno, and Elianne Farhat about the new social bloc (aka 'the Bigger We') needed to win left political power.
Erin Murphy connection
Elianne Farhat, Mary Kunesh-Podein, Erin Murphy.