Rogue Campaigning
Build campaigns that feel, move, and disrupt.
6 Steps to harnessing the art and science for winning campaigns.
Campaigns should move people, emotionally, politically, and powerfully. But too often, we’re stuck recycling tired tactics, crafting messages that get ignored, and reacting instead of disrupting.
Rogue Campaigning is a hands-on, imagination-fueled course that will equip you to design powerful campaigns that are creative, strategic, and deeply felt. Whether you're dreaming up your first action or recalibrating after burnout, you'll learn a six step framework that combines the science of strategic advocacy with the art of playful disruption.
This course doesn’t just help you understand how change happens, it helps you make it happen.
Campaigns should move people, emotionally, politically, and powerfully. But too often, we’re stuck recycling tired tactics, crafting messages that get ignored, and reacting instead of disrupting.
Rogue Campaigning is a hands-on, imagination-fueled course that will equip you to design powerful campaigns that are creative, strategic, and deeply felt. Whether you're dreaming up your first action or recalibrating after burnout, you'll learn a six step framework that combines the science of strategic advocacy with the art of playful disruption.
This course doesn’t just help you understand how change happens, it helps you make it happen.
Courses open on 8 October, 12:00 AM GMT.
Be early: Sign up within the first 48 hours of our launch to get the Founding Rogue discount of 15%.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
By the end of this course, you will have:
Practical campaigning skills: You will gain hands-on experience with a range of tools to develop compelling campaigns that achieve your intended outcome. You’ll develop your own campaign prototype throughout the course, tailored to your context, issue, and goals.
Enhanced creativity for more impactful campaigns: Learn how to design bold, innovative, and engaging campaigns that capture public attention and lead to tangible change.
Increased confidence & strategic thinking: Transform into a more critical, adaptive, and forward-thinking changemaker, with the tools to think strategically (and unconventionally) in complex, ever-evolving contexts.
Mastered the art of persuasion: Frame messages that inspire action, make your issue more relatable and compelling, and resonate with different audiences.
Expanded network & collaboration opportunities: Join a community of Rogue Campaigners where activists, creatives, and disruptors come together to share strategies, co-create bold ideas, and refuel through solidarity.
THE MODULES
This isn’t just another campaign playbook.
Rogue Campaigning is built from decades of real-world fights for change—across continents, issues, and political climates.
We kept what works. We cut what doesn’t.
This course is about learning the practical skills needed to build an effective campaign no matter what the issue or context. Synthesising theory from across multiple fields and combining it with experience and practical examples from all over the world this course provides the benefit of multiple methodologies and a global perspective in one place.
It’s all designed to be practical, adaptable, and immediately usable—so you can apply it to your cause, your context, right now.
Here are the modules that you will learn in the course and community:
Step 1: What does winning look like?
Step 2: What do you want?
Step 3: Who can give you what you want?
Step 4: What do they need to hear?
Step 5: How do you make them hear it?
Step 6: How do you know you are winning?
WHAT YOU'LL GET
You get our Course + Community model—training that builds real skills, and a community that keeps them alive.
Learn the Rogue Campaigning Method
A 6-step framework to building your own bold and emotionally resonant campaign including - videos, course materials, tools, theory, case studies, reflections and hands-on exercises.
Learn the Rogue Campaigning Method
A 6-step framework to building your own bold and emotionally resonant campaign including - videos, course materials, tools, theory, case studies, reflections and hands-on exercises.
Your Rogue Map
Your own strategy workbook-meets-scrapbook, a place where your bold ideas, messy sketches, and strategic plans collide. It’s not just about filling in templates it’s about charting your own path to a winning campaign.
Your Rogue Map
Your own strategy workbook-meets-scrapbook, a place where your bold ideas, messy sketches, and strategic plans collide. It’s not just about filling in templates it’s about charting your own path to a winning campaign.
Happy Hour with your Rogue Mentor
You’ll be invited to join Rogue Happy Hours—a casual, creative space with Ishtar and fellow Rogue Campaigners to swap ideas, ask questions, and get unstuck. It’s part strategy jam, part solidarity session, and 100% fuel for your campaign fire.
Happy Hour with your Rogue Mentor
You’ll be invited to join Rogue Happy Hours—a casual, creative space with Ishtar and fellow Rogue Campaigners to swap ideas, ask questions, and get unstuck. It’s part strategy jam, part solidarity session, and 100% fuel for your campaign fire.
Campaigning Gym
Your private training ground where you can flex your strategic muscles, build new skills through live workshops and level up with fresh tools that keep your tactics strong. It’s also a place to hang out with fellow Rogues, swap stories, share wins, and stay campaign-fit together.
Campaigning Gym
Your private training ground where you can flex your strategic muscles, build new skills through live workshops and level up with fresh tools that keep your tactics strong. It’s also a place to hang out with fellow Rogues, swap stories, share wins, and stay campaign-fit together.
Be a Certified Rogue Campaigner
Receive your verified certificate of completion to share with your network when you finish.
Be a Certified Rogue Campaigner
Receive your verified certificate of completion to share with your network when you finish.
Living Curriculum
You don’t just take the course and join the community, you help shape it. This is a living, evolving ecosystem, not a frozen syllabus. Your ideas, feedback, and experiments fuel what comes next because Rogue Campaigning grows with its people.
Living Curriculum
You don’t just take the course and join the community, you help shape it. This is a living, evolving ecosystem, not a frozen syllabus. Your ideas, feedback, and experiments fuel what comes next because Rogue Campaigning grows with its people.
What the Time
Commitment Is
This course is designed to fit into your real life
—without sacrificing depth, creativity, or impact.
6 modules, delivered through 16 bite-sized videos
2-3 hours of preparation and hands-on practice per module
Optional live sessions and community challenges (1–2 hours monthly)
6 modules, delivered through 16 bite-sized videos
2-3 hours of preparation and hands-on practice per module
Optional live sessions and community challenges (1–2 hours monthly)
You can pace it however works for you—whether you dive in over a long weekend or take your time across a few months.
Rogue Campaigning is an active learning journey, you’ll get the most out of it by showing up and steadily building your Rogue Map as you go. There’s no pressure to be perfect, but like any powerful campaign, the more you invest, the more you’ll shift.
Courses open on 8 October, 12:01 AM GMT.
Be early: Sign up within the first 48 hours of our launch to get the Founding Rogue discount of 15%.
Your Rogue Mentor
VOICES FROM
THE ROGUES
“Ishtar is radical, joyful, fun and very experienced. She has lived and breathed the approaches that she teaches, and her fierce and playful spirit is contagious. She has a gift for guiding people into their own creativity. Working with Ishtar is sure to leave you feeling bolder, empowered and inspired. Careful though: she’s likely to release your inner mischief maker, she’s definitely going to change the way you think about change and you certainly won’t get away without laughing.”
Lucas Paulson
Collaboration Lead at Spring Strategies
“Ishtar has an infectious spirit of creativity and a skillfully strategic mind. Working with her is like lighting a match in a room full of wet ideas, suddenly everything catches fire. Her blend of strategic mischief, deep care, and creative rebellion has a way of making impossible things feel inevitable. Somehow she made rebellion feel like an act of deep care. I walked away from every campaign or workshop feeling braver, bolder, and more in love with the work. Seeing examples of creative activism from around the world just solidified that this is the only way to campaign. Be ready to dream and see real impact!”
Ivana Merckel
Senior Atlantic Fellow at Atlantic Institute
“I’ve had the privilege of working closely with Ishtar for many years, through some of the most challenging, creative, and meaningful advocacy efforts of my career. Our collaboration has spanned high-level advocacy, campaign design, policy submissions, and public engagement, often under enormous pressure and in emotionally charged environments. And through all of it, Ishtar has been a steady force. She has a rare ability to move between legal, emotional, and political terrain, without dropping the thread. She brings people together, she helps clarify what matters, and has an incredible gift for making the complex feel human and urgent.”
Stacey-Leigh Manuel
Deputy Director, Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch
“I’m deeply grateful to Ishtar for the incredible support and encouragement she offered the Kenya CSO coalition in developing our advocacy and campaigning skills. Her passion, creativity, and unwavering belief in our potential turned what could have been a daunting learning curve into an exciting, confidence-building journey. Personally, Ishtar didn’t just teach me, she made the process genuinely fun and inspiring, and I’ll always carry that experience with me. I look forward to more learning as comrades in the human rights space in Africa.”
Catherine Mbui
Civic Space Advocate at Article19 East Africa
"It has been 10 years of collaborating on issues that have been close to our collective hearts: sex worker rights, state capture, health xenophobia, GBV, US funding cuts to global health, and others and 10 years of inspiration and benefiting from her wisdom and energy. Working with Ishtar means focusing with laser sharpness on the issue at hand, while acknowledging the heaviness of it, but not letting these emotions immobilise one. She has taught me to creatively use sadness and anger, and to channel those into opportunities for dreaming, fantasy, lightness and subversion. To harness these to craft innovative advocacy strategies, and then to implement these by playing with exuberance and laughing with abandon while making fire under the bums of the status quo.”
Marlise Richter
Activist, Researcher & Tea Connoisseur
“While I was at the European Environmental Bureau in Brussels, we brought Ishtar in to lead an advocacy training for global policymakers campaigning against the EU’s export of banned pesticides. She brought both heart and expertise to that table. Ishtar’s facilitation was unforgettable. She has a rare way with people, combining boldness and courage with deep knowledge and a healthy dose of realism. Vivid, sharp, and grounded, she made a lasting impact. That coalition is still going strong today, thanks in no small part to her spark. Ishtar is an extraordinary facilitator and genuinely fun to work with: brilliant, bold, wildly creative, and deeply strategic. She combines knowledge and charm, insight and humor and sessions with her leave you energized, equipped, and ready to take on the world.”
Andreea-Corina Anca
Senior Communications Specialist at Energy Community
Courses open for purchase
on 8 OCT, 12:00 GMT.
Sign up within the first 48 hours and get a 15% Founding Rogue discount.
The future doesn’t wait. But now, you don’t have to either.
Courses open for purchase
on 8 OCT, 12:00 GMT.
Sign up within the first 48 hours and get a 15% Founding Rogue discount.
The future doesn’t wait. But now, you don’t have to either.
Got questions?
We’ve got answers.
Browse the FAQs, and if you don’t find what you’re looking for, drop us a line at explore@rogueunion.org—we’d love to hear from you.
Rogue Campaigning
Build campaigns that feel, move, and disrupt.
6 Steps to harnessing the art and science for winning campaigns.
Campaigns should move people, emotionally, politically, and powerfully. But too often, we’re stuck recycling tired tactics, crafting messages that get ignored, and reacting instead of disrupting.
Rogue Campaigning is a hands-on, imagination-fueled course that will equip you to design powerful campaigns that are creative, strategic, and deeply felt. Whether you're dreaming up your first action or recalibrating after burnout, you'll learn a six step framework that combines the science of strategic advocacy with the art of playful disruption.
This course doesn’t just help you understand how change happens, it helps you make it happen.
Courses open on 8 October, 12:00 AM GMT.
Be early: Sign up within the first 48 hours of our launch to get the Founding Rogue discount of 15%.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
By the end of this course, you will have:
Practical campaigning skills: You will gain hands-on experience with a range of tools to develop compelling campaigns that achieve your intended outcome. You’ll develop your own campaign prototype throughout the course, tailored to your context, issue, and goals.
Enhanced creativity for more impactful campaigns: Learn how to design bold, innovative, and engaging campaigns that capture public attention and lead to tangible change.
Increased confidence & strategic thinking: Transform into a more critical, adaptive, and forward-thinking changemaker, with the tools to think strategically (and unconventionally) in complex, ever-evolving contexts.
Mastered the art of persuasion: Frame messages that inspire action, make your issue more relatable and compelling, and resonate with different audiences.
Expanded network & collaboration opportunities: Join a community of Rogue Campaigners where activists, creatives, and disruptors come together to share strategies, co-create bold ideas, and refuel through solidarity.
THE MODULES
This isn’t just another campaign playbook.
Rogue Campaigning is built from decades of real-world fights for change—across continents, issues, and political climates.
We kept what works. We cut what doesn’t.
This course is about learning the practical skills needed to build an effective campaign no matter what the issue or context. Synthesising theory from across multiple fields and combining it with experience and practical examples from all over the world this course provides the benefit of multiple methodologies and a global perspective in one place.
It’s all designed to be practical, adaptable, and immediately usable—so you can apply it to your cause, your context, right now.
Here are the modules that you will learn in the course and community:
Step 1: What does winning look like?
Step 2: What do you want?
Step 3: Who can give you what you want?
Step 4: What do they need to hear?
Step 5: How do you make them hear it?
Step 6: How do you know you are winning?
WHAT YOU'LL GET
You get our Course + Community model—training that builds real skills, and a community that keeps them alive.
Learn the Rogue Campaigning Method
A 6-step framework to building your own bold and emotionally resonant campaign including - videos, course materials, tools, theory, case studies, reflections and hands-on exercises.
Your Rogue Map
Your own strategy workbook-meets-scrapbook, a place where your bold ideas, messy sketches, and strategic plans collide. It’s not just about filling in templates it’s about charting your own path to a winning campaign.
Happy Hour with your Rogue Mentor
You’ll be invited to join Rogue Happy Hours—a casual, creative space with Ishtar and fellow Rogue Campaigners to swap ideas, ask questions, and get unstuck. It’s part strategy jam, part solidarity session, and 100% fuel for your campaign fire.
Campaigning Gym
Your private training ground where you can flex your strategic muscles, build new skills through live workshops and level up with fresh tools that keep your tactics strong. It’s also a place to hang out with fellow Rogues, swap stories, share wins, and stay campaign-fit together.
Be a Certified Rogue Campaigner
Receive your verified certificate of completion to share with your network when you finish.
Living Curriculum
You don’t just take the course and join the community, you help shape it. This is a living, evolving ecosystem, not a frozen syllabus. Your ideas, feedback, and experiments fuel what comes next because Rogue Campaigning grows with its people.
What the Time
Commitment Is
This course is designed to fit into your real life
—without sacrificing depth, creativity, or impact.
6 modules, delivered through 16 bite-sized videos
2-3 hours of preparation and hands-on practice per module
Optional live sessions and community challenges (1–2 hours monthly)
You can pace it however works for you—whether you dive in over a long weekend or take your time across a few months.
Rogue Campaigning is an active learning journey, you’ll get the most out of it by showing up and steadily building your Rogue Map as you go. There’s no pressure to be perfect, but like any powerful campaign, the more you invest, the more you’ll shift.
Courses open on 8 October, 12:01 AM GMT.
Be early: Sign up within the first 48 hours of our launch to get the Founding Rogue discount of 15%.
Your Rogue Mentor
VOICES FROM
THE ROGUES
“Ishtar is radical, joyful, fun and very experienced. She has lived and breathed the approaches that she teaches, and her fierce and playful spirit is contagious. She has a gift for guiding people into their own creativity. Working with Ishtar is sure to leave you feeling bolder, empowered and inspired. Careful though: she’s likely to release your inner mischief maker, she’s definitely going to change the way you think about change and you certainly won’t get away without laughing.”
Lucas Paulson
Collaboration Lead at Spring Strategies
“Ishtar has an infectious spirit of creativity and a skillfully strategic mind. Working with her is like lighting a match in a room full of wet ideas, suddenly everything catches fire. Her blend of strategic mischief, deep care, and creative rebellion has a way of making impossible things feel inevitable. Somehow she made rebellion feel like an act of deep care. I walked away from every campaign or workshop feeling braver, bolder, and more in love with the work. Seeing examples of creative activism from around the world just solidified that this is the only way to campaign. Be ready to dream and see real impact!”
Ivana Merckel
Senior Atlantic Fellow at Atlantic Institute
“I’ve had the privilege of working closely with Ishtar for many years, through some of the most challenging, creative, and meaningful advocacy efforts of my career. Our collaboration has spanned high-level advocacy, campaign design, policy submissions, and public engagement, often under enormous pressure and in emotionally charged environments. And through all of it, Ishtar has been a steady force. She has a rare ability to move between legal, emotional, and political terrain, without dropping the thread. She brings people together, she helps clarify what matters, and has an incredible gift for making the complex feel human and urgent.”
Stacey-Leigh Manuel
Deputy Director, Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch
“I’m deeply grateful to Ishtar for the incredible support and encouragement she offered the Kenya CSO coalition in developing our advocacy and campaigning skills. Her passion, creativity, and unwavering belief in our potential turned what could have been a daunting learning curve into an exciting, confidence-building journey. Personally, Ishtar didn’t just teach me, she made the process genuinely fun and inspiring, and I’ll always carry that experience with me. I look forward to more learning as comrades in the human rights space in Africa.”
Catherine Mbui
Civic Space Advocate at Article19 East Africa
"It has been 10 years of collaborating on issues that have been close to our collective hearts: sex worker rights, state capture, health xenophobia, GBV, US funding cuts to global health, and others and 10 years of inspiration and benefiting from her wisdom and energy. Working with Ishtar means focusing with laser sharpness on the issue at hand, while acknowledging the heaviness of it, but not letting these emotions immobilise one. She has taught me to creatively use sadness and anger, and to channel those into opportunities for dreaming, fantasy, lightness and subversion. To harness these to craft innovative advocacy strategies, and then to implement these by playing with exuberance and laughing with abandon while making fire under the bums of the status quo.”
Marlise Richter
Activist, Researcher & Tea Connoisseur
“While I was at the European Environmental Bureau in Brussels, we brought Ishtar in to lead an advocacy training for global policymakers campaigning against the EU’s export of banned pesticides. She brought both heart and expertise to that table. Ishtar’s facilitation was unforgettable. She has a rare way with people, combining boldness and courage with deep knowledge and a healthy dose of realism. Vivid, sharp, and grounded, she made a lasting impact. That coalition is still going strong today, thanks in no small part to her spark. Ishtar is an extraordinary facilitator and genuinely fun to work with: brilliant, bold, wildly creative, and deeply strategic. She combines knowledge and charm, insight and humor and sessions with her leave you energized, equipped, and ready to take on the world.”
Andreea-Corina Anca
Senior Communications Specialist at Energy Community
Courses open for purchase
on 8 OCT, 12:00 GMT.
Sign up within the first 48 hours and get a 15% Founding Rogue discount.
The future doesn’t wait. But now, you don’t have to either.
Got questions?
We’ve got answers.
Browse the FAQs, and if you don’t find what you’re looking for, drop us a line at explore@rogueunion.org—we’d love to hear from you.
Rogue Campaigning
Build campaigns that feel, move, and disrupt.
6 Steps to harnessing the art and science for winning campaigns.
Campaigns should move people, emotionally, politically, and powerfully. But too often, we’re stuck recycling tired tactics, crafting messages that get ignored, and reacting instead of disrupting.
Rogue Campaigning is a hands-on, imagination-fueled course that will equip you to design powerful campaigns that are creative, strategic, and deeply felt. Whether you're dreaming up your first action or recalibrating after burnout, you'll learn a six step framework that combines the science of strategic advocacy with the art of playful disruption.
This course doesn’t just help you understand how change happens, it helps you make it happen.
Courses open on 8 October, 12:00 AM GMT.
Be early: Sign up within the first 48 hours of our launch to get the Founding Rogue discount of 15%.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
By the end of this course, you will have:
Practical campaigning skills: You will gain hands-on experience with a range of tools to develop compelling campaigns that achieve your intended outcome. You’ll develop your own campaign prototype throughout the course, tailored to your context, issue, and goals.
Enhanced creativity for more impactful campaigns: Learn how to design bold, innovative, and engaging campaigns that capture public attention and lead to tangible change.
Increased confidence & strategic thinking: Transform into a more critical, adaptive, and forward-thinking changemaker, with the tools to think strategically (and unconventionally) in complex, ever-evolving contexts.
Mastered the art of persuasion: Frame messages that inspire action, make your issue more relatable and compelling, and resonate with different audiences.
Expanded network & collaboration opportunities: Join a community of Rogue Campaigners where activists, creatives, and disruptors come together to share strategies, co-create bold ideas, and refuel through solidarity.
THE MODULES
This isn’t just another campaign playbook.
Rogue Campaigning is built from decades of real-world fights for change—across continents, issues, and political climates.
We kept what works. We cut what doesn’t.
This course is about learning the practical skills needed to build an effective campaign no matter what the issue or context. Synthesising theory from across multiple fields and combining it with experience and practical examples from all over the world this course provides the benefit of multiple methodologies and a global perspective in one place.
It’s all designed to be practical, adaptable, and immediately usable—so you can apply it to your cause, your context, right now.
Here are the modules that you will learn in the course and community:
Step 1: What does winning look like?
Step 2: What do you want?
Step 3: Who can give you what you want?
Step 4: What do they need to hear?
Step 5: How do you make them hear it?
Step 6: How do you know you are winning?
WHAT YOU'LL GET
You get our Course + Community model—training that builds real skills, and a community that keeps them alive.
Learn the Rogue Campaigning Method
A 6-step framework to building your own bold and emotionally resonant campaign including - videos, course materials, tools, theory, case studies, reflections and hands-on exercises.
Your Rogue Map
Your own strategy workbook-meets-scrapbook, a place where your bold ideas, messy sketches, and strategic plans collide. It’s not just about filling in templates it’s about charting your own path to a winning campaign.
Happy Hour with your Rogue Mentor
You’ll be invited to join Rogue Happy Hours—a casual, creative space with Ishtar and fellow Rogue Campaigners to swap ideas, ask questions, and get unstuck. It’s part strategy jam, part solidarity session, and 100% fuel for your campaign fire.
Campaigning Gym
Your private training ground where you can flex your strategic muscles, build new skills through live workshops and level up with fresh tools that keep your tactics strong. It’s also a place to hang out with fellow Rogues, swap stories, share wins, and stay campaign-fit together.
Be a Certified Rogue Campaigner
Receive your verified certificate of completion to share with your network when you finish.
Living Curriculum
You don’t just take the course and join the community, you help shape it. This is a living, evolving ecosystem, not a frozen syllabus. Your ideas, feedback, and experiments fuel what comes next because Rogue Campaigning grows with its people.
What the Time
Commitment Is
This course is designed to fit into your real life—without sacrificing depth, creativity, or impact.
6 modules, delivered through 16 bite-sized videos
2-3 hours of preparation and hands-on practice per module
Optional live sessions and community challenges (1–2 hours monthly)
You can pace it however works for you—whether you dive in over a long weekend or take your time across a few months.
Rogue Campaigning is an active learning journey, you’ll get the most out of it by showing up and steadily building your Rogue Map as you go. There’s no pressure to be perfect, but like any powerful campaign, the more you invest, the more you’ll shift.
Courses open on 8 October, 12:01 AM GMT.
Be early: Sign up within the first 48 hours of our launch to get the Founding Rogue discount of 15%.
YOUR ROGUE MENTOR
VOICES FROM
THE ROGUES
“Ishtar is radical, joyful, fun and very experienced. She has lived and breathed the approaches that she teaches, and her fierce and playful spirit is contagious. She has a gift for guiding people into their own creativity. Working with Ishtar is sure to leave you feeling bolder, empowered and inspired. Careful though: she’s likely to release your inner mischief maker, she’s definitely going to change the way you think about change and you certainly won’t get away without laughing.”
Lucas Paulson
Collaboration Lead at Spring Strategies
“Ishtar has an infectious spirit of creativity and a skillfully strategic mind. Working with her is like lighting a match in a room full of wet ideas, suddenly everything catches fire. Her blend of strategic mischief, deep care, and creative rebellion has a way of making impossible things feel inevitable. Somehow she made rebellion feel like an act of deep care. I walked away from every campaign or workshop feeling braver, bolder, and more in love with the work. Seeing examples of creative activism from around the world just solidified that this is the only way to campaign. Be ready to dream and see real impact!”
Ivana Merckel
Senior Atlantic Fellow at Atlantic Institute
“I’ve had the privilege of working closely with Ishtar for many years, through some of the most challenging, creative, and meaningful advocacy efforts of my career. Our collaboration has spanned high-level advocacy, campaign design, policy submissions, and public engagement, often under enormous pressure and in emotionally charged environments. And through all of it, Ishtar has been a steady force. She has a rare ability to move between legal, emotional, and political terrain, without dropping the thread. She brings people together, she helps clarify what matters, and has an incredible gift for making the complex feel human and urgent.”
Stacey-Leigh Manuel
Deputy Director, Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch
“I’m deeply grateful to Ishtar for the incredible support and encouragement she offered the Kenya CSO coalition in developing our advocacy and campaigning skills. Her passion, creativity, and unwavering belief in our potential turned what could have been a daunting learning curve into an exciting, confidence-building journey. Personally, Ishtar didn’t just teach me, she made the process genuinely fun and inspiring, and I’ll always carry that experience with me. I look forward to more learning as comrades in the human rights space in Africa.”
Catherine Mbui
Civic Space Advocate at Article19 East Africa
"It has been 10 years of collaborating on issues that have been close to our collective hearts: sex worker rights, state capture, health xenophobia, GBV, US funding cuts to global health, and others and 10 years of inspiration and benefiting from her wisdom and energy. Working with Ishtar means focusing with laser sharpness on the issue at hand, while acknowledging the heaviness of it, but not letting these emotions immobilise one. She has taught me to creatively use sadness and anger, and to channel those into opportunities for dreaming, fantasy, lightness and subversion. To harness these to craft innovative advocacy strategies, and then to implement these by playing with exuberance and laughing with abandon while making fire under the bums of the status quo.”
Marlise Richter
Activist, Researcher & Tea Connoisseur
“While I was at the European Environmental Bureau in Brussels, we brought Ishtar in to lead an advocacy training for global policymakers campaigning against the EU’s export of banned pesticides. She brought both heart and expertise to that table. Ishtar’s facilitation was unforgettable. She has a rare way with people, combining boldness and courage with deep knowledge and a healthy dose of realism. Vivid, sharp, and grounded, she made a lasting impact. That coalition is still going strong today, thanks in no small part to her spark. Ishtar is an extraordinary facilitator and genuinely fun to work with: brilliant, bold, wildly creative, and deeply strategic. She combines knowledge and charm, insight and humor and sessions with her leave you energized, equipped, and ready to take on the world.”
Andreea-Corina Anca
Senior Communications Specialist at Energy Community
Courses open for purchase on
8 OCT, 12:00 GMT.
Sign up within the first 48 hours and get a 15% Founding Rogue discount.
The future doesn’t wait. But now, you don’t have to either.
