Whirlwind Institute

The Whirlwind Institute is a social change strategy center directed by Mark and Paul Engler. We provide articles, analysis, and research on critical issues facing progressive movements in the United States and internationally.

We are movement strategists, theorists, and practitioners who have been writing about organizing and progressive politics for more than two decades. We believe that today we need bigger, more coordinated social movements than ever. We formed the Whirlwind Institute to help seed new movements, grow existing ones, and create conditions in which different campaigns and organizations can work together. We aim to offer resources that assist participants in drawing best practices from movement history, avoiding the mistakes of the past, and operating at greater levels of scale and ambition.