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Feed Drop: Dear Rad Ops on Multi-Entity Infrastructure

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We are off until the new calendar year. In the meantime we hope you enjoy a sampling of episodes from our network of podcasts!

In this episode, Sha Grogan-Brown talks with guest Le Tim Ly, Chief Operating Officer of Center for Empowered Politics, about how multi-entity infrastructure can improve the resilience of organizations.

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Episode Guests

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Le Tim Ly

Le Tim Ly is the Chief Operating Officer of the Center for Empowered Politics (CEP). Le supports the organization’s expansive programmatic work, organizational development, strategic planning, and finance and operations. Le has spent the last 25 years working for racial, environmental and economic justice with grassroots community organizations including Youth United for Community Action (YUCA), the Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action (PILA) and the Chinese Progressive Association in San Francisco.

About the Host

Cayden Mak
Cayden Mak

Cayden Mak is the publisher at Convergence Magazine and the host of Block & Build: Roadmaps for the Left.

Prior to Convergence, Cayden spent nearly a decade in various roles at 18 Million Rising, including five years as Executive Director and two as Chief Technology Officer, developing the organization inside and out into the digital-first anchor of national progressive Asian American organizing. His other movement work has included organizing for community-designed affordable housing with the Save E. 12th Coalition, co-founding Youngist, a youth media collective, organizing graduate research assistants for a labor union, and helping coordinate tracks and network gatherings at the Allied Media Conference. He serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for the Kairos Fellowship.

Cohosts

Sha Grogan-Brown

Sha Grogan-Brown is an anti-racist white queer transman and rad dad. Sha has worked to strengthen movements for social justice since the late ’90s, and is dedicated to increasing the effectiveness and self-sustaining capacity of grassroots organizations. For many years he identified as a plumber and then an architect for the movement, ensuring systems and structures for successful organizing.

Sha recently joined the founding team of The Patients Union as the Chief of Member Engagement and Services. Sha worked with Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) from 2001–2008, was the Grassroots Fundraising Coordinator for the U.S. Social Forum 2010, and worked at Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ) from 2010-2025. Sha currently is Project Co-Director of Rad Ops, and serves on the boards of GGJ Action Fund, Justice Funders and CISPES. In the past he has served on the boards of Grassroots International, Resource Generation and Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT), and was the Art Editor for the second edition of Trans Bodies Trans Selves: A Resource Guide for the Transgender Community (aff).

In his free time Sha bikes around the city, paints, draws, writes, reads gay romance or YA sci-fi novels, and spends time eating yummy foods with his partner and 10 year old kid.