This comprehensive and engaging training book helps both amateurs and professionals influence democratic process through letters, articles, proposals, and more. It’s a “You-can-do-it” approach combined with strategies to articulate personal vision and frame messages that are truly heard.

Healing as much as teaching, the author uncovers the culture of silence—how gender, race, education, class, and family values work to quiet dissent.

Since the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, Louise Dunlap, PhD, has been training citizen groups as well as university scholars internationally in writing for social change. She is currently a lecturer at Tufts University.