Michael Strom
Michael Strom is a facilitator, faith leader, and organizer living in the Northwest Bronx, NYC. They first felt the power of organized communities through queer, feminist, and anti-war student organizing and fighting exploitative developers with the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition. In the wake of the housing crisis, Michael helped bring together Organizing for Occupation (O4O) and Occupy Wall Street to blockade evictions and shut down foreclosure proceedings with song.
In 2015, they founded the NYC chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), a national network organizing white people to undermine white supremacy. Currently, Michael is a preacher and Connecting Council Chair at New Day Church, a Bronx-based faith community confronting injustice with the compassion and abundance of God.
Program Director, The Wildfire Project; Connecting Council Chair, New Day Church; Learning Somatic Practitioner, Generative Somatics Practitioners Network.[1]
Wildfire staff
The Wildfire Project staff 2021:
- Joshua Kahn Russell, Executive Director
- Lisa Juachon, Operations Director
- Michael Strom, Program Director
Facilitation Team
The Wildfire Project has a team of 17 experienced facilitators, all of whom are leaders in a wide range of movement sectors and issue areas. Many of these practitioner-facilitators emerged from the organizations we’ve partnered with, and now make up our Leadership Team – which is one way that Wildfire is led by its grassroots base. This team keeps us rooted in many different movement arenas, allowing us to cross-pollinate cutting edge innovation and insights from different social change efforts across the country. We are proud that our team is active in the movements they serve on the ground, and distilling these insights allows us to be uniquely multi-sectoral.
Akua Deirdre Smith, Andrew Smith, BJ Star, Catherine Salonek, Claire Bergren, Ileia J. Burgos, Jonel Edwards, Joshua Kahn Russell, Executive Director , Kirin Kanakkanatt, Lex Barlowe, Lu Aya Nephew, Michael Strom, Sachie Hayakawa, Sam Corbin, Sherika Shaw, Sofia Campos, Yotam Marom.