Thomas Power Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Full time organizer developing and delivering on short and long term organizing plans in all six New England states. Comprehensive use of structured organizing conversations to build relationships with workers and identify and develop worker-leaders to serve on Organizing Committees.-Extensive outreach to unorganized workers including scheduled and unscheduled home and site visits in a variety of settings-Considerable experience with structured organizing conversation to persuade, inoculate, assess, and motivate unorganized workers including during unscheduled visits. Additionally, I would identify work place issues.- Organized collective actions, including wearing a union button or distributing flyers during election campaigns-Trained new organizers, including leading daily brief and debrief sessions

Bogotá, Colombia

● Two-year investigation on relationships between the private industry and illegal armed groups in the context of Colombia’s internal armed conflict● Use of “process-tracing” method, in which I used interviews, the revision of official documents, court rulings, and reports from NGOs● Experience with Process-Tracing Methods: Foundations and Guidelines by Beach y Brun Pederson, Understanding Process Tracing by Collier, Constructing Social Science by Charles Ragin, y the Pedagogy de los Oppressed by Paulo Freire● Carried out 30 interviews with executives of companies, politicians, demobilized paramilitaries, affected communities, and government officials● The final document is a 190-page thesis, approved “commendable” by the National University of Colombia. The thesis explains relationships between companies and illegal armed groups with chapters on international political economy, state capacity, political culture, and corporate structure● Scrutinized the implementation of the National Action Plan of Business and Human Rights and analyzed the relationship between corporate structure and mechanisms of human rights due diligence● Explored the work of Edward Freeman (The State of the Art: Stakeholder Theory), German codetermination, and other alternative corporate structures

Bogotá, Colombia

-Develop relationships with communities from various sectors of Colombian Civil Society.-Carry out protective accompaniment for human rights organizations and workers- Gather and analyze intelligence of the security situation of regions traveled to- Operate in potentially dangerous and highly stressful situations - Work on a multi-cultural team- Write articles and maintain social media outlets to contribute to the communications strategy - Prepare and participate in meetings with Colombian state organisms as well as international diplomatic corps - Experience in consensus decision making - Write detailed reports of all accompaniments and meetings - Commitment to non-violence

Bogotá Colombia

- Taught 20 hours per week for classes of 20-30 students- Recorded and saved all attendance and test scores- Met weekly with academic coordinator for group lesson planning- Designed and administered all tests and quizzes - Build strong relationships with all students from various backgrounds

Argentina

-Taught between 30-35 hours per week for 10 group classes and 6 one-to-one students-Recorded and saved all attendance and test scores-Found the English level of each student and formed groups-Coordinated and developed the timetable for all groups and private classes-Provided personalized feedback and progress reports to each student on a monthly basis as well as end of the year progress reports

Exeter, New Hampshire

-Taught up to 10 private half-hour lessons per week-Worked with students of all ages and abilities-Planned theory, technique, and ear-training lessons-Tailored lessons to student objectives and learning styles-Scheduled all lessons and kept up-to-date attendance and payment roster

Master Of Arts - Ma, Political Science And Government

A 2 year investigation on the Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights

Ba, Music Liberal Studies

Activities and Societies: MUSO, Jazz Band, Jazz Combo,