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About the instructor
Tom Tresser is a civic educator and public defender. Tom has been teaching civics for i c stars since 2013. He has been doing public work for over fifty year. His first voter registration campaign was in 1972. In 2008 he was a co-founder of Protect Our Parks, a neighborhood effort to stop the privatization of public space in Chicago. He was a lead organizer for No Games Chicago, an all-volunteer grassroots effort that opposed Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid. With Benjamin Sugar Tom co-founded The CivicLab, a co-working space where activists, educators, coders and designers came to work, collaborate, teach, and build tools for civic engagement. Located in Chicago’s West Loop, the space operated for two eventful years closing on June 30, 2015. He is the lead organizer for the TIF Illumination Project that is investigating and explaining the impacts of Tax Increment Financing districts on a community-by-community basis. Tom is the organizer and editor for Chicago Is Not Broke. Funding the City We Deserve. Between the TIF Project and the Book Project, Tom has done over 225 presentations all over the region. In 2017 Tom launched The POWER Institute with activist and educator Jonathan Peck. The goal of the PI is to train people to win for justice in Chicago. In 2020 Tom was named to the National Advisory Board of the Public Banking Institute. The CivicLab has delivered over 50 training and coaching workshops to the members of the Illinois Access To Justice Coalition. Tom’s book on the No Games Chicago campaign was published by Routledge Press in Septemebr 2024! You can follow Tom’s work and research by subscribing to his “CivicNotes” email newsletter at http://tresser.substack.com.
12 Slides to Introduce Tom
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Watch a short video on the No Games Chicago Campaign
Tom is a super hero – member of the Suicide Squad!