Everyday Activism - Neil Thanedar

Idea: Everyone should be an activist at least 1 hour a week.

I want to inspire more people to help solve the World’s Biggest Problems.
- We need the support of millions of people to enact these solutions.
No contribution is too small!
- You can make a big difference by encouraging people to be more ambitious.

Problem: Politics and activism feel so foreign to most people.

That’s what the elite want you to think.
The truth is anyone can become an activist and change minds and laws.
- My personal mission is to inspire independent and idealistic people, especially from underrepresented communities, to take action and run for office.

Solution: Create a community and movement around Everyday Activism.

This is my motivation for creating Utopic Club and Utopic Live.

Anyone can speak truth to power. It only takes one moment to change the world.

***I’ve always loved the long shot of the Tiananmen Square Tank Man protest.***

***He was up against so much more than four tanks.***

Everyday Activism is on my list of solutions to The World’s Biggest Problems.

This idea is a work-in-progress. If you’d like to riff on it, hit me up @neilthanedar on Twitter!

Published by Neil Thanedar

Neil Thanedar is an entrepreneur, investor, scientist, activist, and author. He is currently Executive Director of the Michigan Campaign Finance Network, a nonprofit fighting dark money in politics. He is also the author of Positive Politics, a proven playbook on how to get into politics and do good. Since 2012, Neil has been founder & chairman of Labdoor (YC W15), the independent worldwide alternative to the FDA. He is also an angel investor with his fund Utopic, backing pre-seed biotech startups led by scientist CEOs. He was previously co-founder and president of Avomeen, a product development and testing lab acquired for $30M+ in 2016. He has also served as Executive Director of The Detroit Partnership and Senior Advisor to his father Shri Thanedar in his campaigns for Governor, State House, and US Congress in Michigan. Neil earned his BS (Cellular & Molecular Biology) and BBA (Entrepreneurship) from the University of Michigan in 2010. He was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri where he graduated from MICDS. View more posts

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