pierce otlhogile-gordon, ph.d.

I ignite the spark in social change communities.

portfolio.

Dr. OG builds
knowledge and
artifacts and
community
for equitable social change.

Across discipline, industry, and geographical borders, he's guided changemakers and changemaker communities reach professional and personal goals of system change.Each resource he's helped to build has synthesized and activated the creative impulse to build a more just, resilient, and communal global community.He deftly navigates the disciplines of innovation practice, evaluation capacity building, systems thinking, international development, speculative futures, and more. He's guided changemakers at community and national scopes across multiple continents, in the for-profit, academic, philanthropic, and non-profit sectors. Across his vast and eclectic professional journey, his work shares one principle:

to orchestrate the spread of agency and creativity across the world.

He holds a M.S. and Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and summa cum laude B.S. degrees from the University of Michigan and Morehouse College.

KNOWLEDGE ARCHITECT.

expanding knowledge oninnovation ecosystems,
liberation pedagogy,
social change capacity building,
network analysis of design,
pluriversal futures,
and more.Click through. See something new.

COMMUNITY WEAVER.

shaping minds onequity skillbuilding,
innovation + liberation,
practical co-design,
complexity evaluation,
systems thinking,
and more.Click through. See something new.

SYSTEM INNOVATOR.

forming artifacts that healorganizational design,
entrepreneurship policy,
indigenous co-design,
mobile makerspaces,
COVID-19 PPE knowledge activation,
and more.Click through. See something new.

"We are a community of possibilities."- Peter Block

in the wild.

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"Pierce is a master facilitator with a keen eye for systems thinking, design justice, and all things equity."- Fiona M., Cybersecurity Expert

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"One of the things that I admire more about Dr. Gordon is his ability to do deep dives into the most complex and complicated data and information, expound thoughtfully with the most strategic thinkers, AND rollup his sleeves and do dirty work with the team..."- Dr. Chris J., Executive | Innovator | Politician

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"Dr. Pierce has the uncanny and uncommon ability to see both the bigger picture and the minute connections in a complex system. This allows him to develop some of the most innovative solutions to complex social problems. "- Dr. Amod Z., Conservation Ecologist

I'm building curated social change education.
where should we start?

Equity Design Library.

If you want a curated library of hundreds of free social change knowledge resources, including:inspiration,
tools,
research,
examples,
community,
and more,click here.

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CURATED SOCIAL CHANGE COACHING.

If you want:a SOCIAL CHANGE LIBRARIAN that will support your changemaker journey,
an VISION BUILDER to support creating and evaluating your strategy, and an
ACCOUNTABILI-BUDDY that keeps your imagination, metrics, and humanity in check on the journey:I can help you make change.

LEARN SOCIAL CHANGE 101.

How to organize your social change education in a sea of information chaos.

If you want:a CLEAR STRATEGIC PLAN for learning any social change topic...
a CURATED VISION for building "knowledge power", and
PRODUCTIVE ESSENTIAL TOOLS to organize your research content:this is the course for you.

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digital bookstore.

These books changed my life.Note: These lead to affiliate links.

As an eternal student compelled by the intersection of liberation and transformation, I've been blessed to teach design, evaluation, international development, and equity across the globe.The core resource that made all of this possible?these books.This canon has offered me direction, solace, critique, concern, inspiration, and questions about how to build a better future.I pray they help you as well.

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Ever heard the phrase,DO YOUR RESEARCH?

Of course you have.Tell me if this sounds like you:"My world is in chaos.
I NEED to to know more about how to change it.
so I want to learn about...*

disability rights or genocide or anti-racism or feminism or environmentalism or prison-industrial complex or surveillance capitalism or worker's rights or healthcare access or wage inequality or reproductive rights or queer rights or climate justice or artificial intelligence or housing crises or educational disparities or refugee rights or global unemployment or local unemployment or political apathy or police brutality or sexual assault or food inequality or work corruption or mental health crisis or economic resilience or minimal economic opportunities or community destruction or cultural genocide or public safety or more...

Everything is available online, right? So why does your learning feel so aimless?

Because these obstacles are ALSO online:

MISINFORMATION and INFINITE SCROLLING and PROPAGANDA and DATA VOIDS and OBFUSCATED VISIONS and the MEDIA CULTURE and $200 DATES and ALT-RIGHT and DISRUPTIVE PATTERNS and JOURNALISTIC DEFUNDING and NARRATIVE WARFARE and more...

we are
disorganized data consumers
in crisis.

It's never been more dangerous - or more necessary - to learn about pressing problems.To incite change, we have to know the scope, scale, and nature of these problems. We have to learn from experts, to figure out what we can actually affect, and figure out how to stay human in the process.But, you're powerless when you can't STRATEGICALLY ORGANIZE your learning.

That's what this course is for.

LEARN SOCIAL CHANGE 101.

ENROLL

Ask yourself:

WHY ARE YOU LEARNING?WHAT ISSUE DO YOU CHOOSE?HOW DO YOU START LEARNING?WHO DO YOU LEARN FROM?WHEN SHOULD YOU LEARN?

Professional learners:
researchers, professors, students, activists, organizers, writers,have made learning into a STRATEGY.Together, we can organize your learning journey, to make sure you can DO SOMETHING about our collective polycrisis, starting with organizing your learning journey.