About Us
RAD is a worker-owned team of radical creatives who help build the power, leadership and capacity of grassroots social movements in the struggle for justice and liberation.
Caroline Rivas
Caroline is a defender for justice and equity, accomplished at connecting practice, research, and policy, driving systemic transformation. She’s based in Los Angeles, CA & Dallas, TX.
Chris Schweidler
Chris is a practitioner of research by and for grassroots-led movements for social justice. Chris is a co-founder of RAD, and she’s based in Joshua Tree, CA.
RAD partners with small and large groups across the globe to co-design tools, develop technology, and conduct essential research grounded in the needs and leadership of communities. We collaborate across a broad range of intersecting issues including:
- health justice
- low-wage worker rights
- immigrant rights
- racial justice
- spatial and housing justice
- environmental justice
- LGBTQ rights
- the struggle against criminalization and mass incarceration
We are a heart-centered coop of life-long learners that came together in 2013 to use our expertise to facilitate community-led change. We come from the fields of public health, public policy, social work, cultural geography, cartography, data analysis, media, and software development. Together, we have decades of experience working across a range of social and economic issues to support social movements with an explicit intersectional analysis.
Our work is people-centered, accessible, curious, actionable, collaborative, and rad.
PEOPLE-CENTERED
We build conscious relationships with our collaborators that result in powerful, culturally-responsive solutions for directly impacted communities.
ACCESSIBLE
We create tools and research that meet people where they’re at and make difficult concepts easy to understand. We’re also just an email or phone call away if you need us!
CURIOUS
We lean into curiosity and embrace learning new tools, frameworks and processes that improve and inspire our work.
ACTIONABLE
We develop research, tools and strategies that advance your movement goals.
COLLABORATIVE
We co-design research, processes, and tools that are grounded in the vision and the needs of communities.
RAD
We believe in the radical idea that none of us are free until we are all free. Plus we’re just really rad!
