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Brian Fullman

Lead Organizer
ISAIAH

Brian Fullman is married with five young adult children, currently resides in Blaine, Mn and one of the five lead organizers for ISAIAH/FIMN. He specifically leads the work for the Barbershops & Black Congregation Cooperative of ISAIAH/FIMN. BBCC is a coalition of Black barbers, beauticians, owners and Black Churches  in Minnesota who are advancing a more just Minnesota for their communities.

Brian is a registered master barber with the state of Minnesota and has been for 19yrs. Prior to becoming an organizer he managed and co-owned barbershops in Brooklyn Park (a first ring suburb of Minneapolis.)His love and passion for people in conjunction with his faith has put him on a path of liberation.

As staff with ISAIAH in 2017 he created an initiative using the barbershops and churches to galvanize & cultivate community leaders with the mission of building sustainable  black Independent political power in the state of Minnesota. The sole mission is to invite disenfranchised communities to agency and public life. Brian is a firm believer that if you powerfully invite marginalized community members  to use their voices, we can truly begin the work of  dismantling the very systems that drive oppression of disenfranchised communities on a daily basis. In a nutshell, Brian’s vision is to position BBCC to be the apparatus for poc communities to acquire agency, build sustainable power by way of grassroot organizing for the state of Minnesota.

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We know from political science that individuals do not make decisions about their democratic participation in isolation but in community with their families, neighbors, and values-based institutions. These are “political homes”—spaces of belonging and powerbuilding in their communities. In this session, we will hear from researchers and organizers about how they have come together to develop learning agendas to understand “political and social homes” and their role as containers for collective action. Over the next year, the DPI community will embark on a multi-state, multi-researcher project that examines how participants in organizing groups define a “political home” and what they seek when joining one. The research will also explore the meaning and value associated with the idea of a “political home” among unaffiliated potential members and how organizations can meet the interests of those seeking a political home.

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