Laura Flynn

Laura Flynn is a writer, organizer, and resource mobilizer living in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Dakota and Ojibwe lands.

Laura began her work in movement politics in Haiti in the 1990s where she was deeply engaged in the movement for democracy and dignity. She is the author of the memoir Swallow the Ocean (Counterpoint Press 2008), and editor of Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, (Common Courage Press, 2000).

Since 2016 her primary work has been organizing donors on behalf of social movements in the US. In 2017, she helped to found the Movement Voter Project, and then served for five years as the Minnesota State Advisor at MVP. She supported Minnesota’s power-building ecosystem of grassroots organizations to grow their size and capacity, strengthen statewide alignment, connect groups across issue silos, and link them to other funders and resources. She is currently a philanthropic advisor to Win the Midwest and also serves on the board of the Solidaire Network.