Doran Schrantz
Doran is the Executive Director of ISAIAH and Faith in Minnesota, state-wide, multi-racial, membership organization comprised of community-based institutions such as mosques, churches, childcare centers and barbershops/beautyshops. Ms. Schrantz has been at the center of ISAIAH’s development from a small, more locally focused organization to an organization considered one of the most powerful voices in the state around issues of racial and economic justice. Faith in Minnesota is a c4 and, in a few short years, has become a force for political organizing. In 2020, FiMN led a predominantly volunteer that reached out to over 1 million Minnesotans and expanded Muslim/Black participation in some regions of the state by 11-15%. Doran is also a leader, with other state-based colleagues, of various initiatives to promote and build people-powered organizing, state power and multi-racial democracy across the Midwest region. Doran co-led the Midwest Race-Class Narrative project to ground narrative and political messaging in state-based organizing organizations and to develop communications, digital and messaging capacity in states, a training and development program to build a pipeline of skilled organizers and senior organizers in Midwestern states and hosting a Midwest partnership with DPI and P3 Labs to build the practices and methodologies for tracking and evaluating power-building through organizing. Doran is also a co-founder of the State Revenue Alliance, a partnership of 80 state-based policy, organizing and labor unions to ground a multi-state strategy for a break-through on progressive revenue and the emergent care economy.