About Caroline

Caroline Murray is a visionary and results-focused leader with over 35 years of experience on the frontlines as an organizer, strategist, trainer, and social entrepreneur across the movements for social, racial, and economic justice.

Caroline has led numerous local, state, and federal campaigns resulting in many key policy victories of our time, including the Affordable Care Act, the State Children’s Health Insurance Plan, the Refundable Child Tax Credit; desperately needed economic relief including the CARES Act and ARPA; increases in the Minimum Wage and wage and hour protections; securing hundreds of billions in national Affordable Housing investments and Workforce Investment Funds; as well as the ongoing fight for immigrant dignity winning DACA, Temporary Protected Status, and other critical protections.

In addition to delivering real improvements to the lives of everyday people, Caroline has worked to build an ecosystem of powerful movement organizations and trained tens of thousands of grassroots leaders organizing to create a just and equitable future.

She appeared on numerous national networks and local news programs, including NPR, CNN, MSNBC, Good Morning America, Fox News, and she was a regular guest on the O’Reilly Factor.

As founder and 20-year Executive Director of the Alliance to Develop Power (ADP), a multi-racial, low-income people’s organization, Caroline is in the vanguard of the New Economy movement, pioneering a synergistic model that combined the best practices of community organizing, community building, and cooperative economic development. She built a sustainable community-controlled economy valued at over $80 million that stopped capital flight, generated and redistributed community wealth, and built the beloved community.

Caroline served with Van Jones as Rebuild the Dream's first National Organizing Director where she worked with renowned artist Prince to bring attention to growing economic and racial disparities while highlighting innovative solutions to the economic crisis.

Since founding Innovative Organizing, she has worked with an array of movement organizations, leaders, and campaigns seeking to build power and scale their impact.

Notable projects include:

• Securing the investment of millions of ARPA dollars in community priorities, including a local hiring program and eviction defense program in NY

• Designing an organization-wide restructuring and launch of a global faith-climate justice network

• Building a bi-national faith-led program to meet, witness, & accompany thousands of asylum seekers at the US / MX border

• Leading Cynthia Nixon’s historic primary challenge of former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, expanding the electorate by integrating relational outreach with innovative digital communication

• Winning a nationally watched County School Board seat in Leesberg, VA, the hotbed of the culture wars

• Launching the groundbreaking NYC Department of Education Family and Community Outreach Program, successfully recruiting and training tens of thousands of low-income parents as co-decision makers in hundreds of NYC Community Schools

• Leading the People’s Climate March, the largest and most diverse climate mobilization in history

• Training, mentoring, and coaching the next generation of organizers

Caroline lives in Western Massachusetts where she discovered her calling as an organizer in the Anti-Apartheid Movement while studying at UMass Amherst, She is a leader in her community working towards social and economic justice, equity, and sustainability. She is also the proud mother of two daughters who speak truth to power through art and activism.