Adam Kruggel

Adam Kruggel is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at People’s Action and has more than 24 years of community organizing experience.

About
At People’s Action he helped to build the Rural and Small-Town Organizing Strategy, which has grown into one of the largest progressive rural
organizing efforts in the country.
 
photo of Adam Kruggel

Agenda

Session 9
Oct
19
Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide: Unveiling our interdependence to transform our systems
Rural and urban communities feel worlds apart, yet are profoundly interdependent. From the farms to the corner store, the policing to the prisons, the water source to the tap, the systems we rely on cross the boundaries between rural and urban, especially our man-made boundaries of race, politics, and citizenship. But fear and misinformation have turned these boundaries into barriers, and divided we fall. Embracing our interdependence is crucial for the path towards equitable and sustainable systems of food, water, public safety, energy, public health, and much more. What can we learn from...