Movement strategy · research · analysis · capacity building

Durable transformative
people power is cultivated

CT-OG supports organizations build power that lasts — assessing landscapes, mapping power, developing the healing narratives, and the transformative organizing strategies and tactics that carry movements across generations.

Our mission

CT-OG supports organizations, forms, and collectives to cultivate the transformative people power and organizing capacity of those most impacted in a manner that compounds across campaigns, crises, and generations for transformative movements.

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What we do

We provide capacity building trainings, transformative strategic accompaniment, strategy development support, deep research, data and evidence support, and support in building movement infrastructure by assessing ecosystems, mapping the networks that hold current arrangements in place, developing healing narratives with movement partners, and building the capacity of organizers and coalitions to read their terrain strategically.

Our current body of work spans four California ecosystems: youth justice transformation, immigrant rights, adult justice transformation, and education justice.

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Working Definition of Transformative Organizing

Transformative organizing is an inter-generational and multi-generational praxis of cultivating durable collective power that simultaneously dismantles systems of exploitation and oppression while transforming the individuals, communities, and relationships engaged in that struggle. Rooted in the recognition that dominant conceptions of power AND political economies must be reimagined and redefined, transformative organizing develops new patterns of relating across differences (Audre Lorde), grounded in healing justice, embodied leadership, and generative movement culture, in such a way that cultivates the conditions for authentic liberation and liberatory cultures of practice, that can also sustain emerging liberatory political economies, not just for some, but for all.

Community oversight

California JJ Data

Every year, California’s counties report how they spend state youth justice funds and what happened to the young people in their systems. This project aims to bring them into one place, extracted, verified, and linked back to each county’s own document, so communities can read what their county told the state.

California JJ Data Community Oversight Project

County reports on California’s youth justice system, made public, comparable, and checkable. It starts with the 2025 JJCPA-YOBG reports: a county-by-county data repository, dashboard, and highlights, with every figure linked to its official source PDF.

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Get in touch with us

To work together or learn how you can donate to CT-OG, please email:

Email contact@transformativeorganizinglineages.org