High-Fiving for Humanity

Listen to how a friendship struck up at the gym grew into a 400-member group — a story of connection becoming organizing.

This episode features Jennifer Clawson, who met a fellow organizer at a women’s gym full of encouragement and high-fives. That friendship led her to co-create a local group, ‘Hope in the Heights,’ that now has more than 400 members — even as she still thinks of herself as ‘humanitarian’ rather than ‘political.’ It’s a story about how small acts of connection can grow into real organizing.