Connie Razza

Connie Razza is the Executive Director of Future Currents (formerly Social and Economic Justice Leaders Project (SEJ)), a movement utility that provides progressive leaders space to plan along a longer time horizon that they otherwise are able to, to prepare to meet conditions beyond our control, and to practice responding to crisis and opportunity across organizational lines. Before joining SEJ, Connie built the strategic research department and served as chief of campaigns at the Center for Popular Democracy. She also served as the vice president of policy & research at Demos, a senior policy analyst for health issues at the New York City Council, and a union organizer and strategic research campaigner.

Razza has worked for economic and racial justice for nearly a quarter century, as a union activist, organizer, researcher, policy analyst, and strategist. She holds a BA from Georgetown University and an MA and PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Connie has written a number of publications, including for the Economic Policy Institute about planning for the next recession, and for Demos about social exclusion and the interplay between economic disadvantage, democratic disqualification, and social deprivation.