Doran Schrantz is the founder and project director of the Organizing and Power Lab at the State Power Fund and a research fellow with Civic Power Lab at HKS. Organizing Lab works to support the strength and power of state and local democratic base-building organizations committed to multi-racial, democratic governing power in states. In the past five years, Organizing Lab has partnered with over 200 state-based organizations to strengthen organizer training, organizing practice and long-term strategy. Partnering with Civic Power Lab, Pro-Democracy Campaign and the Democracy and Power Initiative, launched ground-breaking research on the impacts of organizing and its relationship to electoral mobilization called the Civic Power Report. Previously, she was the founding director of ISAIAH and Faith in Minnesota–state-wide, multi-racial, state-wide, grassroots membership organizations. ISAIAH and FiMN have members made up of community-based institutions such as mosques, churches, childcare centers, college campuses and Barbershops/Beautyshops. Most recently, ISAIAH/FiMN was pivotal in setting the stage for and organizing for the “Minnesota Miracle,” the historic 2023 MN state legislative session that has gained national prominence as Governor Tim Walz emerged as the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate in the 2024 Presidential Race. Doran is also Chair of Faith In Minnesota Action PAC, an acting consultant with Community Building Strategies and the 2024 Taconic Fellow with Community Change.'